A new World Bank report on higher education has warned low- and middle-income countries to resist the temptation to establish world-class universities … before educating their own citizens to high tertiary standards. The report titled: “The Road to Academic Excellence: The Making of World-Class Research Universities” charts the experiences of 11 leading public and private […]
The World Bank funded Malawi’s Local Development Fund (LDF) has released to City and Local Councils in Malawi MK660 million for the implementation of the 2011/12 Public Works Programme. The Public Works Programme is intended in part to transfer cash to poor households in country to help them redeem the subsidised farm inputs in order […]
As the second round of the elite TNM Super League is scheduled to kickoff on Saturday, new Big Bullets coach Edington Ng’onamo has vowed to collect maximum three points against Embangweni United. The People’s Team have challenged the new mentor to win five consecutive games. Ng’onamo’s first assignment is on Sunday against Embangweni United at […]
Police say a fourth year Humanities student at Chancellor College (Chanco) of the University of Malawi had drowned in Lake Malawi on Saturday while trying to swim. Police spokesman for Salima, Gift Chitowe, identified the deceased as Peter Kandikole Mpando. Chitowe said Mpando, who hailed from Mpando village, Traditional Authority Mpando in Ntcheu dostrict, was outing […]
Malawi’s actress Angella Ching’amba has a starred in an upcoming movie ‘Duped’ to be released soon in the United Kingdom. In the movie, Ching’amba who is the former Nazikambe theatre group member and acted a role as Lady Macbeth in one of William Shakespeare’s most revered play, Macbeth, but was fondly known on the […]
Traditional Chiefs have been urged to stand up against state-sponsored abuse where among other things, they are paraded on the state-owned Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) television and radio to sing praises for the Bingu wa Mutharika’s regime and denigrate the state vice president Joyce Banda. Speaking when she addressed her People’s Party (PP) public rally […]
A UN special envoy from the Office of Secretary General, Under Secretary General Sahle-Work Zewde, has for over 10 days been waiting to meet Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika to discuss the on-going impasse between government and the civil society. Ms Zewde was sent into the country by UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon to […]
Two opposition political parties have become part of the Alliance for Democracy (Aford) and will formaly form what has been christened as the Aford Grand Alliance. According to a statement made available to Nyasa Times, the political parties are the Malawi Democratic Party (MDP) of Kamlepo Kalua and the National Unity Party (NUP) of Harry […]
A 19-year-old Malawian inmate last week left prison authorities, police and fellow convicts scratching their heads after escaping from Mikuyu Prison in Zomba district in a mysterious manner. Mac Donald Mwansambo, from Menye village, TA Mkhumba in Phalombe district, was serving his 35 years jail term after the Phalombe Magistrate Court found him guilty of […]
Munyaradzi Chidzonga, the Zimbabwean housemate in Big Brother Africa All Stars, has urged Malawian girls to take modelling seriously as a career. The ‘Diamond boy’ was speaking this during this year’s Miss Blantyre beauty contest at Shire Highlands Hotel in the commercial city on Saturday. Chidzonga, who was the guest of honour during the function, […]
A leading human rights activist in Malawi, Reverend MacDonald Sembereka, has expressed doubt over the level of independence of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the death of 19 people killed in cold blood during the July 20 nationwide demonstrations. “This is long overdue. It is a welcome development if it is not going to […]
Robert Chasowa’s death has provoked an enormous outburst of public indignation and protest in the country. Malawians cannot afford yet another dark era where the country slides back to the one party state and is governed with impunity and hence all Malawians of good will and intentions should demand an impartial Commission of Inquiry (CoI) […]
Paladin general manager at Kayelekera Uranium Mine in Karonga, Jimmie Wilde, will be abdicating from office this month end, a development which has excited workers at mine who have accused him of being a hardcore racist. Sources said Paladin board was not happy with his management style whereby he did not accommodate dissenting views especially […]
A new law on child adoption in Malawi is proposing to ban gays and lesbians from adopting children. The law will also not allow individuals found to have unsound mind and former convicted criminals to adopt Malawian children. The proposals were unveiled by Malawi’s special Law Commission chairperson Judge Esmie Chombo in the capital Lilongwe […]
British government on Monday reacted to Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika remarks that he did not expel Britain High Commissioner Fergus Cochrane-Dyet. Mutharika on BBC Have Your Say programme aired last Thursday claimed Her Majesty’s envoy “was never declared persona non grata” despite giving him removal orders from the country. British Foreign Secretary, William Hague, said […]
Struggling TNM Super League giants Bullets FC have appointed coach instructor Eddington Ng’onamo as new coach replacing Lloyd Nkhwazi. Over the weekend, the ‘people’s team’ conducted interviews where Ng’onamo saw off the challenge of Gerald Phiri for the post in an attempt to restore the team’s lost glory. Bullets are currently languishing at unfamiliar 12th […]
The Football Association of Malawi FAM has conceded that Flames failure to qualify for the 2012 African cup of nations finals will negatively affect the sale of the team’s replica jerseys launched last month. The tem drew 2 – 2 away to Chad to give Tunisia a place at the finals in a game that […]
The Malawi women football fraternity has been mourning the untimely death of Blantyre Zero coach Mphatso Kumwenda. Nicknamed Morinho, the admirable women football coach succumbed to pneumonia on Sunday afternoon at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre after complaining for a few days. “He started complaining last week while at a football match, he was […]