Malawian researcher in law, anti-corruption, political governance and also a barrister of the middle temple Z. Allan Ntata will have his corruption and governance public lecture at Pacific hotel, city centre in Malawi’s capital Lilongwe on 18th August 2015 aired live on Dziko Radio. According to a report on Malawi Newsnow, Ntata will during the event […]
Malawi government is scalling down on patient meals as food budgets fall, health figures reveal meals in public hospitals from three a day to one a day. Hospitals affected include Bwaila District Hospital in Lilongwe where admitted patients have been told that they will be having one meal a day from the normal three meals The […]
Reverend Chimesya Phiri is not new to sexual controversy that threatens his vocation. The Prison Chaplain for Blantyre Synod of the CCAP, has now broken the moral and spiritual code after impregnation of his own teen daughter who has since given birth, Nyasa Times understands. The daughter, Eliza, fell pregnant last year while she was […]
Ward Councilor for Lilongwe Chigoneka ward, Dr Desmond Bikoko on Saturday launched ‘Chotsa Zinyalala Campaign’ in his area, saying he will dedicate his time in clearing rubbish from streets. Launching the campaign, Bikoko said time has come for everyone to assist in making the Lilongwe a better place to live by eradicate littering. During the campaign, Bikoko […]
International NGOs have singled out Malawi among the 15 member SADC countries as the only country that has fulfilled commitments contained in the Maputo declaration that require countries to allocate at least 10 per cent of their national budget towards agriculture and rural development. “Of the above budget, an estimated half is allocated towards purchasing […]
A 57-year-old man is under police custody at Balaka police station in eastern Malawi for allegedly defiling his 15-year-old step daughter. Balaka police spokesperson sub-inspector Joseph Sauka says the victim told the police that the suspect, Mark Chafachaona, had been defiling her on several occasions reaching the extent of impregnating her. “She said after noting […]
A 47-year-old man has died in Chikwawa district after taking medicinal concoction to quit alcohol, police have confirmed. Police, meanwhile, have arrested traditional doctor, Flora Diston for alleged murder after giving Kenasoni Salabeni a lethal concoction that eventually killed him. National police Public Relations Officer, Rhoda Manjolo told Nyasa Times that Diston will be charged […]
Malawi Police Service in Mzimba are keeping in custody Madaliso Kumwenda aged 20 from Traditional Authority Chindi in the district for allegedly shooting and subsequently killing John Nyirenda with no apparent reasons. Nyirenda, aged 69 was from Kadudu in the same district. Mzimba Police Public relations officer, Gabriel Chiona has confirmed with Nyasa Times about the […]
Child trafficker Mateyu Sali Kuchepa, 40, who was convicted by Blantyre Magistrate Court has been sentenced to two years imprisonment for each of the nine counts of child trafficking which he was answering. Senior resident magistrate Viva Nyimba ruled that Kuchepa will serve the sentence concurrently because the offences were committed as part of the […]
Minister of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare Patricia Kaliati on Wednesday evening stole the show when she was guest of honour during the launch of the Gender Equality and HIV/AIDS Policy by the Farmers Union of Malawi (FUM). The minister made a speech for about 45 minutes, making most people in the Capital Hotel’s Marquee tired […]
Over 2.8 million people, out of the total projected population of 16.3 million, are food insecure and will not meet their annual food requirement during the 2015/16 consumption period, the Ministry of Finance has said. The affected households are in the districts of Chitipa, Karonga, Mzimba and Rumphi in the north; Dedza, Dowa, Kasungu, Lilongwe, […]
University students and riot police clashed in Malawi’s commercial capital Blantyre on Wednesday following a protest demanding allowances and loans. Students at Polytechnic, a constituent college of the University of Malawi are demanding allowances and students loans but the cash-strapped government has not paid them . As the students went into the streets to stage […]
President Peter Mutharika has said the government has identified a serious investor in the struggling power sector but could not confirm reports that ESCOM was being privatised. “Several investors are coming to invest in the power sector. Soon we will be signing the memorandum of understanding,” Mutharika said. His comments come amid calls for the […]
The remains of distinguished career civil servant Bright Mangulama, who until his death was the national chairperson for Mulhako Wa Alhomwe, will be laid to rest on Thursday in his home village in Traditional Authority (T/A) Nkalo’s area in Chiradzulu district. Mangulama died on Monday after collapsing at his house at Green Corner inBlantyre. He was pronounced […]
A 24-year-old Pakistan national, Muhammad Jawad, has been arrested at Chileka Airport in Blantyre after being found in possession of US$270,000 (approximately K143, 100,000) without supporting documents. Police arrested businessman Jawad owner of Pick and Shop in Limbe as he was trying to leave the country for Dubai. National police Public Relations Officer, Rhoda Manjolo […]
There is more competition among non-governmental organisations in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) region than accountability and this has deterred the NGOs from pushing a common agenda for the more than 277 million people they purport to represent. For 11 years now, the Civil Society Forum, which the SADC Council of NGOs and its […]
The Consumers Association of Malawi (CAMA) has hit at Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) over the current blackout situation in the country, arguing the situation has become much worse under Peter Mutharika’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) era than it was under Joyce Banda’s Peoples Party (PP) administration. Under the two-year era of Joyce Banda, […]
Lilongwe City Council has been embroiled into an ‘allowance gate’ where directors and other senior managers are sharing to themselves illegal allowances without doing anything. Nyasa Times has a list of all members of staff who dully signed against their names while the auditors had no proof that they went to the activity mentioned for […]