Cavalry Family Church founder and president Apostle Dr Madilitso Mbewe’s vehicle a Toyota Prado VX was burnt to ashes on Wednesday afternoon at his home in Manja in Malawi’s commercial city of Blantyre. The incident happened just after his wife, who was driving it, arrived home and had just parked the car registration number NU […]
Six African countries, including Malawi and Mozambique, have been ranked among the 10 worst places to grow old, on the third annual Global AgeWatch Index from charity Age International. The Global AgeWatch Index measures the quality of life of older people across the four categories of income security, including pensions and the poverty rate; health […]
Police in the Malawi northern border district, Karonga, Tuesday rescued the two suspects of albino abductions from an angry mob. after the First Magistrate Chakaka Nyirenda adjourned the case. Fishani Mtambo aged 33 from Mukwavi Village in the area of Traditional Authority Mwenewenya in Chitipa and Wamisi Kawumba 32 of Cheyama Village in the Traditional […]
Businessperson Angela Katengeza, who was co-charged with a former assistant director of tourism at Ministry of Tourism, Leonard Kalonga in the K105.9 million money laundering case on Tuesday told High Court judge Fiona Mwale in Lilongwe that she did not benefit from the cashgate money, contrary to Kalonga’s court submission. Kalonga told the court that […]
Malawi police in Limbe in the commercial city of Blantyre are keeping in custody two men who kidnapped a 33-year-old man and attempted to sell him at K5 million. The two suspects namely Nowa Madson, 20, and Maxwell Mitawa, 23, kidnapped Patrick Julio and wanted to sell him to Amitofo Care Centre in Limbe – a […]
A 39-year-old Nigerian, Efeoma Emmanumara has been arrested at Kamuzu International Airport after being found in possession of US$26,150(approximately K15, 467,250.00) without supporting documents. Malawi Police arrested Emmanumara when he was about to leave the country through Ethiopian Airline. National police Publicist, Rhoda Manjolo told Nyasa Times that the money was discovered in Emmanumara’s bag […]
Kasungu Police Station and Gundani in Kasungu District, on Monday became centres of attraction on Monday as hundreds of people flocked to the places to see an alleged witchcraft plane. The ‘plane’ is alleged to have ‘crashed’ in Gundani area, in front of a house of one Liness Kaulungo. According to people close to the […]
As Malawi government is assuring investors of maximum security, a business person in Mchinji was shot dead weekend by armed robbers in continued security lapse in the country. According to Izex Chimala of Mikundi trading centre, the robbers went to Sulamoyo Salimu who was popularly known as Muna 1 at around 11pm and demanded cash but the […]
The State wants to confscicate the property and other assets belonging to imprisoned ‘chief cashgater’ Oswald Lutepo, Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) deputy director Reyneck Matemba has confirmed. Matemba said they will seek a determination from High Court on pecuniary penalties to be meted out on Lutepo. The jailed businessperson-cum-politician risks losing assets of his companies, among […]
Malawi’s former president Joyce Banda has been urged to return home and clear herself on the allegations cashgate convicts have been making , to link her as one of the beneficiaries of the ill-gotten wealth, the Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and Centre for the Development of People (Cedep) have said. Banda is […]
The Principal Secretary for Local Government and Rural Development Chris Kang’ombe has expressed disappointment over the decision issued by the Karonga district council to stop demolishing the illegal constructed shops surrounding the district bus deport as per local government law , saying the act contributes to the increase of ‘cashgate’ scandals in the country. On […]
Mzimba North district social welfare office has blamed parents for failing to provide necessary care for their children, a situation that has forced scores of them to indulge in business at night in the streets of Mzuzu City. Child night vending has become a common sight in Mzuzu City, leaving many concerned residents wondering whether […]
Convicted cashgate businessman Osward Lutepo has expressed his unreserved bitterness over his lengthy custodial sentence unleashed on him, accusing State prosecutors of using him , saying they were only desperate to represent to the world that government was making progress when in fact they want to victimise a few individuals. Lutepo has also not spared […]
Judge Redson Kapindu has been hailed for delivering justice to Malawian taxpayer for handing a hefty jail sentence to Oswald Lutepo, a major figure in the “Cashgate” scandal, which led to several donor countries cutting their contributions to one of the poorest nation in the world. In an editorial in one of the titles of Malawi’s […]
President Peter Mutharika has backed out on homosexuality referendum, saying he is not going to call for a national vote to harsh anti-gay laws but that he only expressed “an opinion” in his capacity as President of Malawi regarding the issues. Responding to a question on same-sex marriages during a Talk to the President programme […]
Police in Nkhotakota arrested four men for illegally found in possession of Indian hemp locally known as Chamba. Among the suspect’s were Felix Maulidi (35) and January Jafali Phiri (30) who are co-accused of found with 26 bags of the illicit drug loaded in 90 and 50 kilograms sacks. Nkhotakota police station criminal investigation officer […]
Judge Redson Kapindu of the High Court registry in Zomba on Friday dismissed claims by cashgate convict Oswald Lutepo‘s mitigation that he is too unwell to walk amidst reports, he is fit and well in closed doors. Lutepo attended court for sentencing in a wheelchair and has been using it since December last year. His according […]
Malawi Police have arrested three men believed to have been impersonating police officers, attacking and stealing valuables from people at Sunnyside Park in the business central district, Blantyre. The suspects, identified as Charles Labana, Gerald James and Moses Kachingwe, were also found in possession of a Malawi Police camouflage uniform, two handcuffs, panga knives and […]