The seven young Malawians, who set off yesterday for the 362kms charity from the Capital City Lilongwe to Blantyre to raise funds to buy 11 different medical equipment from India for the High Dependency Unit of Kamuzu Central Hospital’s paediatric ward, have covered 60kms. The group, Wanangwa Msutu, Duwa Mvula, Milca Mphepo, Tiyanjane Kapalamula, Ruth […]
Lilongwe High Court has Tuesday sentenced cashgate convict Angella Katengeza to five years imprisonment over the role in the K105.9 million (about $157 000) laundered from the government coffers. Katengeza was charged alongside former assistant director of tourism, Leonard Kalonga, for conspiring to use the former’s Faith Construction Company to defraud government. High Court judge […]
Mzuzu residents are up in arms accusing their local leaders of not being transparent of the K7.7 million donation President Peter Mutharika made for flood victims in the city. Residents at Kachololo camp in Chibabvi say their councillor Gabriel Mwaungulu is refusing to give them the money so that they could start construction of their […]
Machinga boma is likely to move next year from its current site near Likwenu to Liwonde some 20 kilometres away following the commencement of the construction of offices of the district commissioners offices and other related offices at the township. District Commissioner for Machinga, Reginard Chavula confirmed the commencement of the K598 million office block […]
Gospel artist cum preacher MacDonald Mlaka Maliro has obtained a protection order at the Blantyre Magistrates Court against his former wife Ellina Tamara Kumilamba who has persistently been harassing him despite divorcing each other 15 years ago. Maliro and Kumilamba divorced each other after 15 years of marriage in 2001 and have two children Juannita […]
Villagers in Kaombe Village in Mchinji were on Saturday night alarmed to see 12 people from Democratic Republic of Congo loitering around and the language barrier forced the suspicious villagers to report them to Mchinji Police Station. Mchinji Immigration office spokesperson Andida Mando said the 12 included seven children and five adults. “The asylum seekers […]
Government has said that there is need to accept that the country has not done a good job and require to do better on issues of disaster risk management and that it needs serious stock-taking and re-strategizing. Malawi’s Vice President Dr Saulos Chilima made the remarks Monday at Crossroads Hotel in Lilongwe during the official […]
Workers at Phalombe District Council have closed their offices and barricaded the entry with dustbins and branches of trees as they demanded a three month salary which they had not been paid. Officials from the council were forced to stay in their homes as the angry direct workers for the council caused commotion. Apart from […]
Civil Servants Trade Union (CSTU) officials are demanding reasons behind the delay of civil servants pay cheque this month, saying the reasons advanced by government are trivial and does not hold water. The demand for the answers by the union officials come at a time when speculation is rife that the government is broke and […]
President Peter Mutharika has said he is sending Inspector General of Police Lexter Kachama and his entourage to Tanzania and Rwanda to learn how the two countries dealt with the killings of people with albinism. Mutharika said this on Sunday when he attended a church service at St Mark Anglican Church in Mzuzu and later […]
President Peter Mutharika has conceded response for relief food has been slow and too little saying the government has only raised US$63 million out of the needed US$300 million. Mutharika declared Malawi a state of disaster following prolonged drought in the south and prolonged flood causing rains in the north because of El Nino powered […]
Malawi Police in Mzuzu have arrested a hospital worker at Mzuzu Central Hospital and are upbeat they will catch a “big fish” on theft of drugs at the referral hospital following the arrest of a laboratory assistant who was found with cartons of medical drugs and diagnostic equipment which he was sending to Lilongwe. Peter […]
Lilongwe North East MP Maxwell Thyolera (MCP) has accused the ruling Democratic Progress Party (DPP) government of being selective in tackling corruption, saying the regime is mafia led. Thyolera made the remarks in parliament that DPP government” just employ lip service” and no tangible action is being done to tackle corruption. “We heard that we had a […]
United Democratic Front (UDF) Member of Parliament for Mangochi Lutende, Francis William Biliati has asked government to consider constructing an international airport in the lakeshore tourism resort district of Mangochi. Biliati said Mangochi is one of the districts in the country which attracts a lot of tourists. “I have noted in the State-of-the-Nation Address that Kamuzu […]
Former state vice president and now member of parliament for Mzimba South West, Khumbo Kachali was ruled out of order in the House for making insinuations. Kachali congratulated Leader of the House, George Chaponda for being appointed Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development and thanked the President Peter Mutharika “for removing” him from the […]
Religious leaders must always act in accordance to their Godly duty if they are going to manage to end moral corruption in the country, says President Arthur Peter Mutharika. Speaking on Saturday at Mzuzu State Lodge when he met religious leaders from the Northern Region, the President reminded the men in collar why God chose them at […]
Officials from government workers union, Civil Servants Trade Union are up in arms against the government for awarding them a 15 per cent salary increase describing it as too little. Civil Servants Trade Union (CSTU) secretary general Madalitso Njolomole said this is the least they expected from the government after a series and intensive meetings […]
Malawi Police in Ntcheu have arrested three people in connection with the recent killing of a 38 year old person with albinism in Ntcheu. Ntcheu police spokesperson Gift Matewere has confirmed of the arrest of Jussab Saiton from Ntcheu, Joe Mkwaira from Ntcheu and Francisco Katsitsi from Dedza. ‘I received a tip from the public […]