By Thom Chiumia, Nyasa Times Comedian Rowan Atkinson escaped death Wednesday night after crashing with his McLaren F1 sports car. The 56-year-old British actor is famed across the globe for his roles playing clumsy TV character Mr Bean and Johnny English in the eponymous spoof spy film franchise. According to UK’s The Sun newspaper, Mr […]
By Thom Chiumia, Nyasa Times President Bingu wa Mutharika will install son to late Inkosi Ya Makosi Gomani 4, schoolboy Prince Mswati Gomani to the throne of Ngoni leader on October 5, Nyasa Times has learnt. Inkosi Ya Makosi Gomani is the paramount chief for all Ngoni people from the central region district of Ntcheu […]
By Charles Kufa, Nyasa Times Before being fired as governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) secretary-general on Sunday, Bintony Kutsaira had chaired a meeting last Friday at Civic Offices in Lilongwe where it was agreed that the Malawi Police and the Army were too soft on the anti-government demonstrators on July 20, 2011 and that here was […]
By Thom Chiumia, Nyasa Times Malawi’s estranged Vice-President Joyce Banda, who was Foreign Affairs Minister when the country switched diplomatic relations from Taiwan after 41 years to Mainland China in December 2007, said Beijing has put its marking the country in terms of infrastructure development. A memorandum of understanding covering industry, trade and investment was […]
By Jeremy Kadewere, Nyasa Times Two Malawian players, Joel Chipofya and Chikondi Likwemba have signed a six months contract with a Zimbabwean cash-rich premiership newboys FC Platinum. Likwemba and Chipofya were playing for a South African lower side FC AK before joining the Zimbabwean top out-fit. In a Facebook interview with Nyasa Times, from Harare, […]
By Charles Mkula, Newstime Africa Civil Society groups in Malawi Thursday made fresh appeals for genuine dialogue to discuss the way forward to address the socio-economic and political governance problems facing the southern African nation before they take the citizens back into the streets on August 17. Speaking at press conference in Lilongwe, Civil Society […]
By Nyasa Times Reporter Malawi’s finalist in the Big Brother Amplified reality television show Tendai ‘Lomwe’ Namate who missed the $200 000 (about K30.4 million) prize money with only three places has expressed appreciation to Malawians for the support he got during the show. “I would like to express my appreciation to Malawians who supported […]
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has sent a team to Malawi to meet with the country’s political leaders after deadly anti-government riots last month, an official said Thursday. “We are concerned about what is happening in Malawi. Lives have been lost and we hope that all parties involved will soon solve their differences,” SADC […]
By CSI Lilongwe , CSI Lilongwe is a retired civil servant The party has been and gone. We are left with the stale stench of stale beer, broken chairs and, worse, death and destruction. We have done the analysis; asked the questions; searched our souls – what is left of them. And by the way, there […]
By Thom Chiumia, Nyasa Times Malawi Vice President Joyce Banda has sued a ruling DPP sponsored propaganda newspaper, Eye Witness, for defamation. The paper has been writing articles of disparagement against the Vice President. Recently, it published a story claiming Banda was plotting to overthrow government. Banda described the report as “serious allegation.” “Anybody who […]
The billboard has no militant language, graphic pictures or cleverly obscure message just a group of neatly dressed Malawian activists politely urging respect for sexual minorities. But the sign along a busy road in the small African nation is a historic step after last year’s explosive jailing and pardon of a couple who held the […]
By Thom Chiumia, Nyasa Times Malawi’s Vice President Joyce Banda (JB) says President Bingu wa Mutharika made a pledge that he was going to handover the presidency to her when he nominated her as running mate in 2009 elections. Banda told Capital Radio that she was “hesitant” at first to accept the nomination of vice […]
By Thom Chiumia, Nyasa Times Malawi’s vice president Joyce Banda has trashed claims by President Bingu wa Mutharika and has said she and not the President, established the National Association of Business Women (NABW), a grassroots organisation that distributes soft loans to small-scale businesswomen. Mutharika claimed in May this year at a public rally in […]
By Green Muheya, Nyasa Times Civil society organisations in Malawi have attacked First Lady Callista Mutharika following her Tuesday comments that NGOs should “go to hell” for promoting homosexuality and disturbing peace in the country. The eight organisations – Human Rights Consultative Committee (HRCC), T Malawi Congress of Trade Union (MCTU), Catholic Commission for Justice […]
By Collins Mtika, NyasaTimes The High Court sitting in Karonga acquitted 18 murder suspects because the state either did not offer evidence or the evidence provided failed to establish a prima facie case against the accused. In one such case where Muchinga Kilende and nine others were accused of causing the death of Matthias Simkonda […]
By Andrew Nyayah, NyasaTimes A new line-up of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) national governing council clearly shows that the party has done away with its legal department which was headed by Henry Duncan Phoya (HDP) and deputised by Philip Banda. Phoya, who was a member of the Legal Affairs Committee of parliament, was fired […]
By Lusubilo Sichali, Nyasa Times Despite the 2010/11 Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP) review faulting the manner in which tenders of the supply and delivery of fertilizer were offered by government, the 2011/12 procurement process is almost a repeat of the previous scenario. Last year, the FISP review observed that some of the bidders were […]
By Alfred Tikwenje, Nyasa Times An HIV positive sex attacker, who defiled seven girls one after another on the same day, has been convicted for a lengthy period of 21 years by the Lilongwe Chief Resident Magistrate Court. Paul Bingala, 36, sexually attacked the girl aged between six and eleven on 11th July in Lilongwe. […]