After bragging for his wealth and posh cars, South Africa based Pastor Hastings Salanje has once again stunned the public with his claims that Apostle Enesia Chitheka’s illness is a punishment from God. Chitheka of the Chitheka family musical label is battling with kidney failure and struggling to foot medical bills at one of the […]
Pornographic materials about Malawian women circulating are going viral on social media platforms as of late, with reports emerging that the many are in “corporate prostitution” and others joining the sex trade especially Malawians in Ireland and Britain. Last week, a video went viral of a Malawian woman based in Ireland, who filmed helself in […]
Muslim Association of Malawi (MAM) with funding from a Kuwait business person will be giving out Sharia-compliant interest free loans to the youths. Sharia has no jurisdiction in Malawi and the loans will in no way pave for compliance of the Islamic loans but only putting their faith in practise. According to the Islamic faith, […]
A 62-year-old village headman in Malawi’s eastern district of Balaka has been ordered to pay a fine of K85, 000 or in default serve a 12-months jail term with hard labour for killing a dog and maliciously damaging crops and windscreen of a vehicle belonging to one of his subjects. Police Prosecutor Sergeant Yohane Chaomba […]
Malawi government is being pressed to scrap a planned tax on internet data traffic and and phone text messages (SMS). The opposition and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) asked government to drop its plans, warning that increasing the cost of web usage would be retrogressive for the developing nation. Minister of Information Kondwani Nankhumwa has also reportedly cautioned Finance Minister Goodall […]
Christ Fellowship Centre For All (CFCFA) general overseer Apostle Mc Hellings Kayala has said it is “unfortunate” that the country’s pastors are “defiling” the name of God by “stealing” from people in his name. Kayala said most of them were becoming sheer “daylight robbers” stealing from innocent people. He said in reaction to Nyasa Times […]
A 35-years-old man is in police custody for allegedly defiling a 9-year-old school girl in Phalombe district. John Msangwe a guard at Thuchila Estate is said to have sexually assaulted the girl on Thursday morning after he promised to buy her bread and sugarcane. ”The girl was sent back from school for being late and on her […]
Malawi President Aurther Peter Mutharika (APM), leader of opposition Lazarus Chakwera and Chewa influential king, Kalonga Gawa Undi, on Saturday attended the wedding of the youthful Senior Chief Chadza at his Msozi Traditional Headquarters, located 19 Kilometers south of the capital Lilongwe. Mutharika was seen several times relaxes and smiling alongside First Lady and a hoard […]
The Jiya-Vannie Diabetic Foundation (JDF), a local non- governmental organization (NGO) advocating for the fight against diabetes in the country, says its efforts are being hampered by limited financial resources. The NGO has, therefore, appealed for assistance from well-wishers. JDF Executive Director, Ruth Walker Jiyani, said although the NGO has been in existence for two […]
Youth and Society (YAS) executive director Charles Kajoloweka has revealed a lot of foul play is taking place at the Viphya Plantation (Chikangawa Forest) – shared between the districts of Nkhata Bay and Mzimba – involving the illegal sale of trees, and has since called for an ‘audit’ into the dealings at the plantation so […]
Police in Lilongwe, in the early hours of Thursday, impounded a Mazda saloon vehicle which was carrying four slaughtered cows. Kingsley Dandaula, Lilongwe Police Publicist, said they were tipped by well-wishers that the car was carrying carcasses of cattle suspected to be stolen from Njewa Area. “After we got the tip from the public, we […]
Minister of Health, Dr Jean Kalilani has said government with the help of UN agencies will prioritise the campaign to help end Obstetric fistula, a devastating and frequent outcome of prolonged or unattended labour, and give dignity to Malawi women. Kalilani urged mothers to quickly go for treatment whenever caught in the condition. The minister […]
Mathias Songolo of Mzimba has no kind words for Mzuzu-based self-styled Pastor Zebron who he says took from him K27 000 as “payment for anointing water” to cure his “cancer illness” but which only managed to get him “worse.” Pastor Zebron who runs God’s Will Church of All Nations in the increasingly becoming “religious” city […]
As investigations into the theft of nine computers at the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) are still in progress, some employers are suspected to have connived with the security guards to steal the gadgets from the tax collecting body’s auditing department. Four watchmen were arrested in connection with the theft eight desktop computers, one laptop, seven […]
Police in Blantyre have arrested a 28 year-old woman for being found with five bags of cannabis sativa, locally known as chamba. The woman, identified as Ellen Kunyenga Million and hails from Likoswe village, Traditional Authority (T/A) Likoswe in Chiradzulu district, was arrested on Wednesday at her house in Machinjiri Area 10 in Blantyre. The law enforcers […]
Bicycle taxi (kabanza) operators in Mzuzu City have heaped blame on the Malawi Police Service (MPS) in the region for rekindling unemployment following an ongoing operation whose aim is let out bicycles in Mzuzu’s central business district. Several operators who talked to Nyasa Times on Thursday said police were taking too long before “releasing” their bicycles. “They […]
Over 250 Lilongwe residents with various dental complications have been operated on by specialists from Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) free of charge- courtesy of the Rotary Club of Lilongwe which sponsored a dental camp at the government referral hospital from Monday to Friday last week. According to president of Rotary Club Sophie Kalinde, the Rotarians sponsored the […]
Former Justice Minister Ralph Kasambara , who is one of those answering charges of money laundering involving more than K5 billion and other charges surrounding Malawi’s cashgate scandal, had demanded that special state prosecutor Kamudoni Nyasulu not to continue handling the case but now Nyasulu has applied to High Court in Lilongwe to disqualify Kasambara. […]