Global Metals and Mining, the company that will run the Kanyika Niobium Mining Project in Mzimba district has described its self as “in an extremely cash rich position, being debt free and with an excess of Australian Dollars of 44 million at the bank”. Once operational the mining project is expected to rack in US$170 […]
Civo United defender Emmanuel Zoya has made a dramatic u turn on his plans to join Police side Blue Eagles after taking a huge amount of thought. The Eagles, who are struggling in the TNM Super League despite boasting of stars in their side,are in a serious hunt for players to beef up their squad. […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika’s administration has refused to submit a written report on its human rights record to the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee. According to a statement form Geneva obtained by Nyasa Times, the Committee will review its record with a government delegation travelling from Malawi headed by the Attorney General. The […]
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Tuesday said it arrested assistant general manager of Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC) , Floyd Mondiwa , in relation to a multi-million kwacha housing scam which also involves President Bingu wa Mutharika’s brother, Peter. The arrest of Mondiwa has been confirmed by ACB spokeswoman Egritta Ndala in a statement obtained by Nyasa […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika who is the Chancellor of the University of Malawi (Unima), has directed that Chancellor College -the main constituent college of Unima -be opened and that the four lecturers who were fired for being at the centre of an academic freedom wrangle that has paralysed the university, should be reinstated. Mutharika […]
Malawi national women football champions DD Sunshine tumbled in their last game in Zambia on Monday where they were invited to be part of that country’s Independence Day celebrations. The team started well on Saturday in their first game beating Red Arrows 4 – 2 at the Olympic stadium before humiliating Green Eagles 8 – […]
A civil servant in Malawi earning about $300 a month was arrested after authorities found $2.4 million in his bank accounts, the Anti-Corruption Bureau said Tuesday. Richard Kapinga, a 42-year-old government accounts officer, had the money in two bank accounts between September 5 and 22, 2011, the bureau said. The ACB said it suspected the […]
A Lilongwe based media expert has warned that Joy Television broadcasting from Zambia will be dangerous to President Bingu Wa Mutharika and his administration than leaving the TV station to broadcast in Malawi. His comments follow an announcement that newly elected Zambian President Micheal Sata has given a green light to Joy Television, which has […]
Malawi National Statistical Office (NSO) through its monthly inflation rate report has veiled the real hardship that consumers are currently encountering in the country. Data from the NSO shows that the rate at which goods prices are progressing on the market, inflation, has only increased by 0.1 percent. In its statement issued this week, NSO […]
In the Straight Talk programme, Capital Radio’s Brian Banda asked President Bingu wa Mutharika’s spokesperson, Dr Hetherwick Ntaba, why the President had not acted on some of the straightforward issues raised in the July 20th petition, such as the K1.4 million monthly salary to the First Lady Mrs Callista Mutharika for charity work and, secondly, […]
If this article does pump sense into government journalist Mzati Nkolokosa, the “has been” news analyst, it is not because common sense is not common, rather it is because he is too obsessed with bootlicking so much so that he has forgotten where he threw his thinking cap and takes everything that comes from Capitol […]
Alhomwe Nophiya! (Lhomwes have arrived). Mulhako wa Alhomwe plans to open Lhomwe schools in all the districts across the country, according to the groups’ public relations officer, Hastings Maloya. Maloya told Zodiak Broadcasting Services that the Lhomwe schools will be opened country wide “so that all people have opportunities of learning the Lhomwe language.” He […]
Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Yunus Mussa, is facing charges of assault after a taxi driver claims that he was ‘slapped’ by Mussa. According to a report on Maravi Post, Mussa who is also vice president of ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) slapped Christopher Kamera when he honked his car horn after a […]
It never rains but pours for Malawi which is suffering from continued forex and resources supplies, as this time the World Bank statistics have shown that country’s rate to doing business is on the lower side. The World Bank’s investment arm, International Finance Corporation (IFC) annually produced the ‘Doing Business’ report which analyses regulations affecting […]
Muslim Association of Malawi (MAM) has announced the postponement of this year’s annual Islamic preaching convention popularly known as Ijtima after Muslims reportedly got annoyed that President Bingu wa Mutharika wanted to use his funding to “corrupt” them. The three- day gathering was scheduled to take place from 28th -30 October at Njamba Freedom Park in […]
Malawi’s envoys to the Big Brother Amplified reality show DJ Lomwe (Tendani Namate) and Felica Ngoma have been in Kenya on an invitation from that country’s BBA envoy Millicent Mugadi to attend Jigger bug eradication charity event. Felicia tweeting from Nairobi said on Saturday said apart from reuniting with former housemates, they took part in […]
Griffin Salima, President of the Polytechnic Academic Staff Committee on Welfare (PASCOW) delivered a powerful moving speech this morning during the memorial service the college organised to remember the three students it has lost this last year. The students who were being remembered are Justice Mwafulirwa (Education Business Studies, died 1st April), Madalitso Kaunda (Environmental […]
Malawi’s Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) director, Alexius Nampota, is using fuel from the black market, despite the available wherewithal from government, which is affecting the anti-corruption engines from firing into the speed necessary to overtake the menace in the country. The anti-corruption vehicle is misfiring at the rate that the entire mechanical set up inside […]