By JOHN SAKALA Turkey’s largest privately-owned investment bank Aktif Bank, to explore opportunities in the banking and financial sector aimed at facilitating trade between the two countries. Aktif Bank Financial Institutions Marketing Manager, Utku Arik said a deligation is expected to be in Zambia today. Mr Arik said during the visit, the delegation is expected […]
Dr Claude Kabemba African civil society organisations that monitor extractive industries have tended to focus their work on the financial bottom line of mining companies, in an approach that has become known as ‘follow the money.’ The work has been on illicit financial flows, on revenue transparency, and on open contracts. This work, while critical […]
The Zambia Under-23 Egypt 2019 Africa Cup of Nations campaign is firmly in progress with Assistant coach Bilton Musonda signalling that he will summon seven foreign based players for the March 20 first leg encounter away to Malawi. Musonda told FAZfootball.com at Nkoloma Stadium that the technical bench will summon all the eligible and competitive players for […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE Lusaka Magistrate Court has granted a K3, 000 cash bail to National Democratic Congress (NDC) leader Chishimba Kambwili. This is in a case where Kambwili was seen in a video which went viral, of an Indian nation who was seen driving a compactor. Kambwili’s bail conditions is K3, 000 with two working […]
All eyes will be on the Chelsea team sheet at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday to see whether the fall-out from Maurizio Sarri’s astonishing row with Kepa Arrizabalaga drags on into the crucial London derby against Tottenham Hotspur. Chelsea boss Sarri was furious when Blues goalkeeper Kepa refused to be substituted after needing treatment in the […]
A Zambian court has ordered the liquidation of a company owned by Israeli diamond billionaire Lev Leviev as the fight with his local partner in an emerald mine rages on. The Zambian High Court placed Frango Finance Ltd., which owns half of Gemcanton Investments Holdings, in compulsory liquidation after receiving a petition on Feb. 18, […]
Zambia has reduced hydropower production at the Kariba Dam because of rapidly declining water levels at the world’s biggest man-made reservoir that straddles the border with Zimbabwe, the energy minister said. “We have noted the poor water situation for the Zambezi system necessitating reduction in generation at Kariba,” Matthew Nkhuwa said, without providing further details. […]
Asante Kotoko’s Burkinabe striker Yacouba Songné has emerged as a transfer target for Zambian clubs Zesco United and Nkana after he impressed the two sides in CAF Confederation Cup action against them. Songné 27, shares the same agent with former Zesco United defender Ben Adama Banh who currently turns out for Nkana. It is said […]
Alice Nachilembe
The Independent Observer
