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 […]
In an effort to provide reformed immigration services, the Malawi Immigration Department will roll out the Passport Issuance registration process system in six sites as a pilot phase in Mangoch, Salima, Mzimba, Mzuzu, Lilongwe and Blantyre. The system will be rolled out in collaboration with the Malawi Posts Cooperation with support from the Malawi Communications […]
Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust has committed 7.3 million British Sterling Pounds (5.1 Billion Kwacha) to Malawi Government for a trachoma elimination campaign, to be rolled out soon. The project was launched in Malawi in October 2014. Ministry of Health spokesperson, Adrian Chikumbe told Lilongwe News Agency, the campaign whose ultimate objective he said was […]
Opposition lawmaker, Kamlepo Kalua of Rumphi East (People’s Party –PP) has expressed concern that Malawi Police officers do not get danger allowance that would cover them when they execute their duties. Speaking in parliament, Kalua asked the Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security, Atupele Muluzi, to consider incentivising the cops with risk allowances. “Looking […]
Malawi’s parliament passed a 2015/16 National Budget to the tune of K930 billion (US$2.1 billion) on Thursday despite fears that the opposition will derail the approving the appropriation bill. The budget was passed unanimously and quickly as government jubiliaated after fears that the opposition would delay the budget’s passage as a strategy to force the Speaker […]
Malawi government has announced plans to construct a new maximum prison at Chitedze in Lilongwe after concerns of overcrowding in prisons and degrading conditions. Rumphi East MP, Kamlepo Kalua (People’s Party -PP) asked Minister of Finance Goodall Gondwe and Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security Atupele Muluzi why there has been no allocation of […]
Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Samuel Tembenu has said there is no law that prevents lawyers from self-representing in criminal cases. Tembenu said in parliament after Lilongwe Central MP Lobin Lowe of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) raised the issue if behaviour of some lawyers, “who are suspects and, under the laws of Malawi, are able to […]
Amid a cacophony of “Yes Sirs” Malawi’s top Cop Lexten Kachama has ordered his charges to wage a vicious battle against criminals until the last Cop in the service is dead. The Inspector General said this during an interface meeting the Malawi Police Service had with the Business Community in Mzuzu at Mphatso Motel on […]
The Balaka Second Grade Magistrate Court in eastern Malawi has sentenced a 38-year-old man to 6 years imprisonment with hard labour for wounding and chopping off his wife’s finger . Police Prosecutor Inspector Isaac Mponela told the court that the suspect Ajida Idrissa 38,wounded and chopped off his wife’s fingers during the night of June […]
The civil society leaders are calling for swift action in form of comprehensive forensic audit into payments amounting to K577 billion (US$1.3 billion) that are shown in bank statements, but cannot be traced in Capital Hill’s cashbook, according to preliminary findings by Pricewaterhouse Coopers. PwC examination of public finances from January 1 2009 to December […]
Member of Parliament for Rumphi East, Kamlepo Kalua (People’s Party) send parliament into a laughter mode when he said “a mortuary and an ambulance is the same and they marry.” His comments came when he told Minister of Health Jean Kalilani that an ambulance in his constituency was withdrawn. But when MPs laughed at his […]
Businessperson Ali Kaka Chinemba has denied the murder charge in which he is accused of killing 20 year-old Davie Kadzuwa Banda with a pump gun in Manja Township, Blantyre last year. Ali Kaka,35, appeared before High Court judge Dorothy Nyakaunda-Kamanga and entered a plea of “not guilty.” The losing contestant in the Blantyre City South […]
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)Advisory Services who were working on methodologies on the reconstruction of the cashbook in the wake of audit query for the K92 billion (US$204.4 million) mismanaged under the watch of the first Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration led by former president the late Bingu wa Mutharika, have recommended comprehensive forensic audit. In the 52-paged […]
Bishop Peter Musikuwa of Chikwawa Diocese has called on various individuals, companies, government and other well wishers to offer their support to the church as it is to mark its 50 years this year. Musikuwa made the remarks at the bishop’s house in Chikwawa when he organized a press conference in order to brief members […]