Police in Balaka have arrested 28-year-old Pakistan national, Naveed Khan, for allegedly stealing $44 000 (around K23 million) from a Mozambican businessperson. Balaka Police spokesperson Joseph Sauka confirmed the arrest in a statement. Sauka said the suspect was asked by the businessperson, Haroona Kamara, 35, to help him convert his money into local currency. Kamara […]
Another suspect involved in the K46.4million armed robbery which occurred at Kanengo Petroda Filling Station that claimed life of a police officer and injured another has died while receiving treatment at Kamuzu central hospital in Lilongwe, hours after being shot by police in Nkhotakota. The deceased is suspected to be among the armed thugs who […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) on Wednesday rebuffed President Peter Mutharika’s invitation which was extended Members of Parliament to the State House banquet, citing economic challenges which the country is going through as reason to go make merry. Addressing a news conference at the party headquarters in Lilongwe, MCP publicity secretary Dr Jessie Kabwira said the MCP MPs […]
The Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal has sparked a “constitutional crisis” by their decision to grant 11 United Democratic Front (UDF) members of Parliament (MPs) an injunction pending judicial review in a case where they sought redress on Speaker Richard Msowoya’s impending decision on their status based on Section 65 of the Constitution. Member of […]
Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Goodall Gondwe has apologised to civil servants after salary delays left them without their wages. Affected with the delay include judiciary staff, teachers, nurses, prison wardens, and a range of other civil servants. “I must apologise for the delay,” said Gondwe in parliament after being pressured by opposition […]
For five days and counting, the official websites of the Malawi Government and official Malawi News Agency (Mana) Online Websites have been down due to hacking. Chikondi Chimala, an official in the Government Information and Communications Unit (Gicu) under the Ministry of Information, Tourism and Culture, said on Tuesday the hacking suspects are believed to […]
FDH Financial Holdings Limited chief executive officer Thom Mpinganjira has fended off talk that the company has completed the process of buying wholly State-owned Malawi Savings Bank (MSB). Mpinganjira said on Thursday that the process is continuing. He rejected reports which went viral on news websites and social media on Wednesday that government secretly proceeded to sale […]
Rumphi East MP Kamlepo Kalua (People’s Party-PP)took government to task in parliament on on Tuesday June 30, 2015 to speed up the process to pay civil servants their June salary. The civil servants expect to receive their salaries by the 27 day of every month, but mostly they are paid late. Treasury said this month’s […]
There has been mixed reactions to this year’s Independence Day, with analysts and social commentators giving different views on K300 million budget for independence celebrations scheduled to take place at the Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre on 6 July 2015. Most people interviewed by Nyasa Times and also those commenting on Capital FM radio’s Newstalk phone-in […]
Civil servants will have to hold on a little for government to process their June salary but treasury has promised that the salaries would be processed this week. The civil servants expect to receive their salaries by the 27 day of every month, but mostly they are paid late. This time around, the workers will […]
Deployed Principal Secretary of Information, Tourism and Culture Ms Chimwemwe Banda is clinging to her office and continues to work in that capacity outside the country 10 days after she was removed, Nyasa Times can reveal. As a consequence, operations in the ministry have almost grounded since the new PS Justin Saidi cannot access his […]
Malawi’s Grain Traders and Processors Association has faulted the government for importing maize from Tanznaia and Zambia instead of asking private traders to supply it. The country looking to Tanzania and Zambia for the purchase of 70,000 and 30,000 metric tons of maize, respectively, as the country faces the looming specter of hunger. But president […]
Malawi government has denounced as incorrect a recent Country Report on Human Rights Practices published by the US State Department last week which accused Malawi on human rights abuse as evidenced by, among many cases, government’s failure to bring to justice police officers who were charged with manslaughter in July 2011 anti-government demonstration and on […]
It ‘s now done deal, prosecution has sealed a deal with Cashgate convict Oswald Lutepo, to testify against former president Joyce Banda and implicate in the K24 billion plunder of the public resources in return get amnesty. Lutepo recently changed his plea to guilty in the K4 billion fraud and money laundering charges and was […]
Malawi has launched an investigation into the root cause of a recent spate of murders of albinos, a senior official said Saturday, as the country marked international albinism awareness day. There was a need to educate citizens to “change their mindset (and understand) that albinos do not have any magical powers”, Isaac Katopola, deputy secretary […]
Four people are confirmed dead while 13 others are seriously injured after two vehicles collided in Balaka district Saturday morning; Balaka Police spokesperson sub-inspector Joseph Sauka confirmed the accident. The accident involved a Blantyre-bound Toyota Hiace minibus registration number BS 167 and Hotel Victoria Nissan Caravan registration number CZ 5835 collided at Chitale in the […]
Blantyre Magistrates Court has convicted Feng Shaohong, a Chinese national, co-owner of ABC Shop in Blantyre for failing to issue and retain an Electronic Fiscal Devices (EFDs) receipt. According to a Steve Kapoloma, Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) Deputy Director of Corporate Affairs, Shaohong in February this year failed to issue and retain a fiscal receipt after selling assorted […]
Four young Malawian entrepreneurs will attend the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) to be held in Nairobi, Kenya from July 25-26, 2015. Samson Fiado, a year three student at the Malawi Polytechnic will attend as a finalist in “Global innovation Through Science and Technology-GIST Tech-I Competition” whose awards will take place during GES. The other three […]