Malawi business tycoon Leston Mulli has been dominating social media talk after being involved in a row with a Times Group reporter as an audio of his foul-mouthing rant in the interview has been leaked. In the audio circulating on messenger sharing platforms like fire in the dry bush, the reporter Adam Phiri asked Mulli […]
UNICEF has tipped Malawi and other southern African countries to be prepared for the strongest El Nino since 40 years ago, saying it is likely to cause extreme flooding and severe drought. The warming comes barely days after leader of opposition in parliament Lazarus Chakwera asked the government to start preparing for the El Nino […]
The Enlightened Christian Gathering Church of Malawi charismatic prophet ‘Major 1’ Shepherd Bushiri has been in the headlines in South Africa on Wednesday after The Sowetan newspaper carried a front-page story that the church was investigated by the country’s CRL commission over reports that its Pretoria based church charges congregants R5 000 (about K200,000). The […]
Members of Parliament from the north speaking in the 193 strong National Assembly have accused the government of sidelining the north in development activities. Mzimba South West MP Harry Mkandawire demanded answers from the government why the multi billion kwacha massive Chinese developments are not allocated in the northern region. He accused the Peter Mutharika […]
Graft busting body, the Anti Corruprion Bureau (ACB) has hired the services of experienced prosecuting lawyer Kamudoni Nyasulu to help with cashgate cases. ACB’s Egritta Ndala confirmed the former Director of public prosecutions has signed a one year contract with the ACB. Kamudoni could not be reached for comment but he has prosecuted some of […]
Principal Secretary (PS) in the Office of the Vice President responsible for Public Sector Reforms Management Nwazi Mnthambala has said Government has mostly concentrated on the engagement of the supply and not on the demand side of communication since the Public Sector Reforms Agenda was launched in February 2015. The PS made the remarks on […]
Outspoken Mzimba West MP Harry Mkandawire systematically hijacked debate on the State of the Nation Address to demand an explanation on reports that the First Deputy Speaker Esther Mcheka-Chilenje and Second Deputy Speaker Clement Chiwaya allegedly fleeced government huge sums of money in dubious house allowance claims. The unsuspecting second deputy speaker Chiwaya gave a […]
Malawi police Commissioner Wilson Matinga died on Monday evening after a short illness, it has been confirmed. Matinga was until his death a Commissioner for the Eastern Region. National police Publicist, Rhoda Manjolo told Nyasa Times Commissioner Matinga had collapsed during a meeting on Monday afternoon and was pronounced dead at Malosa Hospital where he was rushed to. ”He […]
Chief Commissioner Prisons in Malawi Kennedy Nkhoma has been relieved of his duties with immediate effect, Nyasa Times has learnt. According to highly placed sources from the Home Affairs and Internal Security Ministry, Nkhoma, ex-husband to second deputy Speaker of Parliament Esther Mcheka Chilenje, Monday late afternoon received an instruction from authorities that he must stop acting […]
Opposition People’s Party (PP) has said in parliament that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government is failing to persuade the Western donors to resume their budgetary support to the country and tipped government on the need to kickstart fresh negotiations than flap his hands in despair as public health and education sectors continue to collapse. […]
A Malawi College of Accountancy lecturer, Dr. Auxius Kazombo Mwale was on Sunday arrested by Fiscal and Fraud Police Unit (FFU) in Lilongwe in for allegedly being in cashgate scandal. National Fiscal and Fraud Police deputy head, Senior Superintendent Gerald Kachiwanda could not deny or confirm the arrest when contacted. ”Just know that there are many […]
The list of those arrested in Cashgate crimes so far reads like a roll-call of high-profile people as former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo and three other suspected Auzius Kazombo Mwale, Clemence Mmadzi and Roosevelt Ndovi charged with seven counts. The four are jointly being accused of defrauding about K2.4 billion in 2013 […]
Lilongwe City officials are now back to work in earnest ensuring cleanliness in the capital city just a week after Minister of Local government Kondwani Nankhumwa blasted them for unhygienic standards and lack of revenue innovations. A check on some places where the minister expressed concern over poor sanitation like at Lilongwe bus depot, cleaners […]
Malawi’s major central hospital, Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe has suspended its laboratory services just weeks after it closed down its x-ray operations, a sign that health services in this impoverished nation are collapsing. A memo seen by Nyasa Times from Hospital director Jonathan Nkhoma to members of staff says all patients seeking lab services […]
Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) has been given a green light by Treasury to probe Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) after a special investigative audit of MEC has been declared conclusive that found that there was gross financial mismanagement and flouting of procurement and recruitment procedures under the leadership of chief elections officer Willie Kalonga between July […]
Conservative clerics in Malawi are asking government not to compromise its anti-gay stand, saying they should not be lured by international support to give equal rights to gays under the law. Malawi government requested $388 888 (about K221 million) from Global Fund for HIV and Aids interventions targeting 40 000 men who have sex with […]
Malawi government has said it is progressing well on human rights issues, according to state of the human rights in the country presented by Chief State Advocate, Pacharo Kayira at 57th ordinary session of the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights held in Banjul, Gambia. State parties to the African Charter on human and […]
Police in Chitipa have arrested a 53 old man on suspicion that he stole medical drugs from public hospital worth K900 000, just days after the US envoy to Malawi threatened her country would stop its malaria drug aid package unless theft is curbed. Police said they were tipped by well wishers that Joel Msiska […]