President Peter Mutharika has relieved his Press Secretary, Gerald Viola, of his duties at State House. Viola himself confirmed that he has been posted to Ministry of Information as Technical Advisor replacing his predecessor at State House Fredrick Ndala. Ndala has since been posted to Ministry of Trade and Industry to help champion the ‘Buy […]
National Association of Nurses and Midwives has asked the government to speed up payment of salaries for public health workers, saying the delay is infringement of the rights of the workers. National Association of Nurses and Midwives (NONM) executive director Harriet Bwanali said the delay in paying salaries to the public health workers will affect […]
The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group President, Akinwumi Adesina, is expected to visit Malawi from Tuesday, giving hope he might be bringing positive answers for President Peter Mutharika on budgetary support. The Bank says Adesina will among key engagements, hold high-level discussions with Malawi President Peter Mutharika. The President’s visit comes a few weeks after […]
Local business traders in the capital city Lilongwe has grabbed land belonging to an Asian businessman in Malangalanga which is to be shared among them. According to the ‘land grab ‘group spokesperson, Fredrick Malata, they are going to share the land to develop it and build their shops Malata said they decided to grab the land […]
South African based controversial Paseka Motsoeneng, a self-styled ‘prophet Mboro’ has incensed many Christians with hi blasphemous comments on Sunday that his “visit in heaven” he found Jesus Christ has a “young, hot” wife. Reports claim that in the first church service which he gave Sunday, the Prophet described heaven to his followers. Talking about his […]
Malawi Police and graft busting body, the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) say they are awaiting government instructions to act on the infamous Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development cashgate. Police headquarters spokesman Nicholas Gondwa said the law enforcers cannot affect arrest on the 74 officials without a formal complaint. “The office of the auditor […]
It has emerged that some non-Catholics were behind the plot to have a fight at Likuni Parish in the Capital City Lilongwe with ulterior motive to dent the influential church’s image after its scathing pastoral letter recently, Nyasa Times understands. The plot to have the fight was hatched by some regime thugs who promised some […]
Catholics at Likuni Parish in Lilongwe on Sunday put aside Bibles and Jesus crosses to exchange blows over disagreement of a parish priest. Lilongwe Police Station publicist Kingsly Dandaula confirmed the police rushed to the parish to pacify the place. He said there were no injuries after the violence. Reports indicate that some members of […]
Firebrand nurses activist Dorothy Ngoma is pleading with the government to take back 339 nurses it fired after the High Court of Malawi told a nurses organisation and government go back to mediation. Ngoma, executive director of National Organisation of Nurses in Malawi (NONM) said since the mediation was completed, the government is delaying in […]
Reports of mob justice are refusing to die in the country with a recent incident about unknown man beaten to death in Balaka district after he was found in a house with an intention to steal. The incident happened at Nailuwa village in the area of Senior Chief Nsamala in the district. Detective Sub Inspector Felix Kamkwamba, says the deceased […]
Malawi Police in commercial capital Blantyre have arrested two men, Nelson Samu and Elia Banda over theft by trick offences. They were going about in the commercial capital telling people that they have fish powder and they were masquerading as church officials from Hope Ministries along Chiradzulu road. The law enforcers arrested these suspects on […]
Controversial South African ‘prophet’ Mboro has noted that Malawians find his name amusing – apparently in Chichewa, Malawi’s lingua franca, it means a man’s private part. Taking it on Facebook, the leader and founder of the Incredible Happenings Ministries in Johannesburg, who has now claimed that he went to heaven over the Easter weekend and […]
Office of the Auditor General says it has finalised a report on the ministry of health scam which saw staff stealing millions of money meant for a US funded project. Spokesman for the office Lawrence Chinkhuta said the report and recommendations have since been sent to the ministry for action against the 60 members of […]
Police in Balaka are keeping in custody a Zambian national suspected to have stolen money amounting to K300,000.00 from an Airtel Money Agent in Mangochi district. The law enforcers identified the suspect as Derrick Thole aged 32 and was arrested on Friday. According to In-charge of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) at Balaka Police Station Assistant […]
Public health workers across the country are going through severe financial problems as they have not been paid their March salaries, second day into another month. The ministry of Health employees normally get their monthly salary on the 25th of every month. Unconfirmed reports say the salary delay is due to a government cheque for […]
It has emerged that prison wardens brutally assaulted two inmates that escaped from Chichiri prison in January to the point that one dies and the other was on the brink of death and needed urgent medical attention. An amateur video taken from a mobile phone seen by Nyasa Times shows prison warders with attacking Madison […]
Minister of Energy Bright Msaka has moved in swiftly to assure thousands of workers at the state power utility company, Escom that no one will lose a job following the imminent restructuring programme. Msaka said the restructuring of the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) includes the splitting of the sole power utility into two, […]
Officials from courts are being familiarised on electronic case management system, bring a new era in the largely conservative British justice system. Judiciary spokesman Mlenga Mvula said Friday the European Union has pumped in K1 billion in the system. “This will improve the way we manage our case files as they will now be kept […]