Controversy has hit Karonga District Council in the north of Malawi as irate workers on Thursday brutally booted out the District Commissioner (DC) Rosemary Moyo and other two officials for their failure to perform their duties in the district. Hundreds of workers who stormed the DC’s office threatened mob justice if the three officials will […]
Malawi nurses have warned they will take industrial action government to rescind its decision to allow over 300 new cadres of nurses and doctors to start practicing to save lives in hospitals of the country. government has withdrawn the redeployment list and offer letters of employment to newly recruited nurse midwives, technicians and nursing officers […]
Suspected shooter of former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo, Macdonald Kumwembe, on Wednesday entered his defence in the case, denying shooting the former budget director, saying as a trained solider he could not have missed Mphwiyo at the range he was during the shooting. Kumwembe, a former Malawi Defence Force soldier, was found with a […]
A 44-year-old primary school teacher is under police custody at Balaka Police Station for allegedly defiling his standard 3 pupil. The suspect Bartholomew Ignacio teaches at Mpilisi Full Primary School. Balaka police spokesperson Inspector Joseph Sauka says the incident came to light after an 11-year-old victim revealed to her mother that the suspect had been […]
Malawians are anxiously waiting for the results of feasibity study that is to determine whether Shire river is navigable or not with Mozambique saying giving faint hopes of adopting the report. Transport ministers from Mozambique, Zambia and Malawi are currently meeting in Lilongwe to discuss a report on the navigability of Shire in a closed […]
Judge Michael Mtambo has revoked lawyer Ralph Kasambara’s bail on conspiracy charges and ordered that the former justice minister should be remanded to prison immediately. Mtambo sitting at High Court in Lilongwe ordered revocation of bail angered by Kasambara application for the judge to rescue himself from the case of shooting former budget director Paul […]
Malawi government’s pay cheque meant for High Court and Supreme Court of Appeal Judges’ fuel for their official vehicles, as stipulated in their contracts, has been ‘referred back to the drawer’ because there’s no sufficient money the state coffers, Nyasa Times has learnt. This development has angered the judiciary and comes hot on heels as […]
Severe malnutrition has killed 45 under-five children in Chikwawa district in the Lower Shire as statistics also indicate that various public facilities there admitted 4, 137 children from January to June this year. Chikwawa Health office spokesperson Settie Piriminta confirmed and attributed the high cases of malnutrition to acute food shortage and delays by parents […]
Government has moved in swiftly to stabilise the price of maize which has hit K7, 000 per 50 kg bag in some markets. President Peter Mutharika announced on Monday during his National Address on Food Security at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe that Admarc depots would now be stocked with maize as way of making the […]
Unknown criminals have gang raped wife of the watchman after stealing cash and property in millions in Mangochi. The ruthless gang also stole a car as a get way vehicle and abandoned it at the tarmac road junction from the lodge. Guests at the Nkhudzi Bay Lodge were in for a rude awakening when the gang with pistols […]
The sentencing phase has started for former chief tourism officer Leonard Karonga convicted on his own guilty plea to three counts of money laundering related to cashgate scandal with Judge Fiona Mwale asking the defence and State to make mitigation submission. When the case came before Lilongwe High Court judge Mwale for mention, the judge […]
The Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) has arrested eight Value Added Tax (VAT) business operators for non-issuance of and failure to retain fiscal receipts. The offences are contrary to Section 46 of the VAT Act (Cap. 42:01) and regulation 28 (2) of the Value Added Tax Electronic Fiscal Devices Regulations, 2015, respectively. The arrested eight Blantyre […]
After being labelled fake and a fraudster following a video that he claims was tempered with showing him performing a miracle of capturing in the spirit with an iPad, Prophet Shepherd Bushiri has pulled yet another ‘ miracle’ in which he showed a mobile phone captured video to his congregation which showed him walking in […]
Tobacco Control Commission (TCC) has commended key tobacco buyer Japan Tobacco International (JTI) for investing K52 million towards rehabilitating a link road in the Kanengo industrial area. TCC Chief Executive Officer Bruce Munthali said Monday during commissioning of the road that JTI has demonstrated commitment to the country’s tobacco industry through investment in the road which is […]
A 24-year-old woman, Gladys Phiri, is currently in police custody for allegedly dumping her new born baby boy in a pit latrine in Chilomoni Township, Blantyre. Phiri an employee of Western Union gave birth to the baby in the wee hours of September 18th, 2015 and allegedly dumped it in the toilet to conceal birth […]
Government has said is committed to working with the media in the social economic development of the country, assuring that the Communications Bill 2015 and Access to Information Bill will see the “doors of Parliament the soonest”. Minister of Information, Tourism and Culture, Japie Mhango made the assurance when he officially opened a day-long Annual […]
The 2015-2016 academic year commenced on September 7th brought miseries “onto” the family of Kanjuchi as their 20 year old boy Joseph, committed suicide in a puzzling circumstance. Lilongwe police publicist Kingsly Dandaula told -Lilongwe News Agency (Lina) that the form three student at Nsaru Community Day Secondary School-CDSS hanged himself, after his parents declined […]
Malawi Vice President Saulos Chilima was laid to rest Monday in his village south of the capital, following a funeral where President Lazarus Chakwera called for an independent probe into his death in a plane crash. Chilima and nine other people died in the plane crash last week in Malawi’s northern region of Mzimba. The […]