Information minister Jappie Mhango has told district health officers to change their mindset and be innovative by growing maize to feed patients. Mhango said this in Chitipa when he donated 100 bags of maize and 10 bags of beans at the district hospital donated by the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Mhango said it is […]
Mangochi Catholic Diocese Bishop Montfort Stima has hailed the multi-million Millennium Challenge Account Malawi supported environmental management project being implemented in the district, saying it would go a long way in mitigating the global problem of climate change. Stima was speaking on Saturday when the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace briefed him on the […]
Life is becoming tougher by the day for ordinary Malawians in the face of escalating prices of essential goods and services and economics have urged the Peter Mutharika administration to deal with the rising cost of living. According to figures from National Statistical Office (NSO), the Malawi’s inflation —the rate at which prices of goods […]
CCAP Livingstonia Synod general secretary Levi Nyondo has threatened the church would exhume the body of heroine and historic figure Rose Chibambo if government does not build her a mausoleum within a year. Rev. Nyondo said this during the burial ceremony of Chibambo at a new Heroes Acre in Mzuzu. He said the church was […]
Officials from Thyolo district council have been accused of putting ghost workers on a public works programme that has drained government coffers up to K5 million. Council chairman John Orima confirmed there is a financial report that is detailing how council officials, councillors and some traditional leaders swindled the government of K5 million. He said […]
Archbishop Thomas Msusa has officially commenced the Jubilee of Mercy, a Catholic holy year, calling those who pass through the newly-opened Holy Door to rediscover God’s mercy and experience the mystery of his love. On a cloudy and showering Saturday in Blantyre, Archbishop Msusa voice echoed in the atrium of Limbe Cathedral: “Open the gates […]
Malawi Vice President Saulos Chilima was a centre of attraction on Saturday in Mzuzu when he spoke in fluent Tumbuka, a local dialect in most of the districts in the north, during the funeral service of political icon Rose Chibambo at Mzuzu heroes’ acre. Chilima, who was representing President Peter Mutharika, first spoke in English […]
Ntcheu West MP Mwayi Kamuyambeni on Saturday morning appeared before Ntcheu police to answer questions on allegations that he was involved in the smuggling of 50 maize from an Admarc depot in the district. Ntcheu police spokesperson Gift Matewere confirmed Kamuyambeni was summoned at the police station at 8 am on Saturday but refused to […]
Billionaire Prophet Shepherd Bushiri has ruled out making major investments in Malawi saying there is fear of uncertainty. He could not directly say political or economic uncertainty but pointed out that Malawi was simply not a right destination for his investments. “It has to do with the insurance of your property. We heard of how […]
Malawi Police in Ntcheu have arrested a sales clerk and a watchman for Smallholder Farmers Fertiliser Revolving Fund of Malawi (SFFRM) in connection with the theft of K22.7 million cash from the shop. Ntcheu police spokesperson Gift Matewere identified the clerk as Soya Chimenya and the watchman as Charles Laison. Matewere said thugs broke into the shop […]
Police at Balaka in eastern Malawi are hunting for unknown criminals who have tampered with the albino grave in the district. Balaka Police Publicist Joseph Sauka said the incident happened during the night of 14th and 15th January 2016 at Mwawa Village in the area of Traditional Authority Amidu in the same district. Sauka said […]
Barely twelve months after passengers travelling on Lake Malawi struggled to board or off load goods at Nkhata Bay jetty due to its collapse last year, the jetty on Friday night sunk again due to strong north easterly winds that blew. The jetty was constructed in 1957, and many observers argue that it has outlived […]
Hundreds of people from all walks of life joined the Catholic Diocese of Karonga in a solemn mass Friday to commemorate the first anniversary since the death of Bishop Mukasa Zuza – former Bishop of Mzuzu, where the Diocese’s Bishop Martin Mtumbuka described Catholic Church critics as ignorant of the Church’s doctrines and hailed Bishop Zuza as […]
The government of Tanzania has deported 12 Malawians – most of them youths under the age of 30 – who are since being detained in a removal detention camp while waiting for deportation, Malawi government officials have confirmed. The deportation comes a few days after Lilongwe wrote Dodoma protesting the latter’s newly published map that […]
Some Malawians say President Peter Mutharika’s declaration that no Malawian will not die of hunger is mere political rhetoric and have since asked him to walk the talk. A snap survey in central region by Nyasa Times indicate that most Admarc depots are closed for a week now because they had run out of the […]
Police in Mulanje district have intercepted four bags of cannabis sativa (Chamba)weighing 50kgs each, and arrested two suspects in the process. Police have arrested Joe Macheso, 39, of Mkanda village, T/A Kadewere, Chiradzulu district and 24-year-old Josephy Majawa of Mwamadi village, T/A Chikumbu in Mulanje. Mulanje police Public Relations Officer, Gresham Ngwira said the two […]
Malawi government Chief Secretary George Mkondiwa on Thursday morning contradicted former maid to lawyer Ralph Kasambara, Jessie Mussa, during his testimony in court in the ongoing attempted murder case of former Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo. The former housemaid was also on record in her last year testimony that she saw on 13th September 2013 the man who was later […]
Lilongwe High Court Judge Michael Ntambo said on Thursday that he expects the trial of the on going attempted murder case of former Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo to be concluded during the next court session, which will be from January 27-29 2016. Lawyer and former Minister of Justice Ralph Kasambala , businessman Pika Manondo and Macdonald Kumwembe are […]