Published: September 30, 2009
I’m preparing to go home –Wa Mutharika |
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Malawi President Ngwazi Dr Bingu wa Mutharika has once again ruled out any possibility of changing the country’s constitution to allow him seek a third-term in office when his mandate ends in 2014. Wa Mutharika says he is ready to vacate State House when his term expires but that he will first work to improve [...]
Published: September 30, 2009
DPP gurus, govt officials abuse Chinese scholarships |
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China has sent 24 Malawians to Beijing on scholarships to study for diverse degrees but the majority are children of top civil servants and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) politicians including President Bingu wa Mutharika’s grandchild. Nyasa Times has established that scholarships have gone to one of Mutharika’s grandchild, Orama Lipenga child to Ken Lipenga; DPP [...]
Published: September 30, 2009
Malawi Queens in flying start at tri-nations championship |
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The Africa’s top ranked team, Malawi, issued a stern warning to other teams participating in the Tri-Nations Netball Championship after clobbering Lesotho 77-22 at the National Stadium on Tuesday. The match started off with highflying Malawi sending a series of shock waves to their opponents who were just smarting from their opening game defeat. The [...]
Published: September 30, 2009
Malawi leader 'thrilled' with the boy who harnessed the wind |
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President Bingu wa Mutharika has said he is aware of the moving tale of a Malawian who used scraps to build a windmill to power his family and elevate the lives and spirits of those in his community. William Kamkwamba, at the age of 14 built an electricity-producing windmill from spare parts and scrap working [...]
Published: September 30, 2009
Gospel preaching the word of God through hip-hop music |
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Gospel music has become a commanding genre on the market as well as many households in Malawi. We have seen numerous secular artists turning into ‘born-again’ Christian musicians spreading the word of God through the Christian-type of music that now has a very good audience throughout the country. Most of the artists doing spiritual music [...]
Published: September 30, 2009
Capital FM review its programs, moves to Umoyo |
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One of the pioneers of private radio broadcasting in Malawi, Capital FM has moved its media house to Umoyo House along Victoria Avenue in the commercial city of Blantyre and has also reviews some of its programs. Nyasa Times visited the new broadcasting house which has three studios compared to two the radio had at [...]
Published: September 29, 2009
Bingu acknowledges Muluzi role in championing Malawi democracy |
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Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika says multi-party democracy ushered in the country through the historic 1993 referendum which ended one-party dictatorship of Life President Kamuzu Banda is now well-established. Mutharika told AllAfrica.Com interview acknowledged the contributions his predecessor Bakili Muluzi who ruled Malawi from 1994 to 2004 made towards the attainment of democracy. “My immediate [...]
Published: September 29, 2009
Police detain 2 people as probe into Chafukira's death continues |
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A magistrates’ court in the Malawi capital, Lilongwe, Tuesday allowed the continued detention of two people who were allegedly in the company of Ishmael Chafulira, the youthful protege-turned-bitter critic of main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president John Tembo, at the time of his mysterious death in South Africa last Monday. A police investogator Nector [...]
Published: September 29, 2009
The Ntcheu accident |
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It took about two three hours to clear the road to allow other vehicles to proceed to Lilongwe or Blantyre after a terrible accident last Sunday afternoon near the Total Filling Station at Ntcheu Boma when two trucks and a small van clashed head on, killing two people in the process. Truck Reg. No BK [...]
Published: September 29, 2009
Surplus crop, but we are starving – Farmers |
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In a country where maize crop surplus fills the national storehouses to capacity, farmers Ida and Montfort Salijeni and their four children have turned to wild tubers for food. The Salijeni family’s misfortune is that they grew a crop – cotton – that failed to sell. And they are not the only farming family struggling [...]
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