A strike by medical workers under the Christian Health Association of Malawi (CHAM) has started manifesting its nasty stint with a woman delivering without any medical help at Mlanda Health Centre in Ntcheu Friday. Tiyamike Haswell, 21, ended her nine months of sweet pain without a midwife at her side. “When we arrived they told us […]
Malawi Police in Dedza Monday morning shot dead two armed robbers for trying to hijack a car and third suspect is battling for his life at Dedza District Hospital. According to Nyasa Times sources, the syndicate involves some police officers. Dedza Police publicist Edward Kabango confirmed the development saying they opened fire because the criminals were not complying with […]
Malawi Police said they have arrested six people for an attempt to swindle traditional leaders in Rumphi district. The suspects were arrested on Thursday after senior group village head Brian Mkoweka,65, of Mhango village, sub T/A Chisovya in Rumphi reported to Police that they had been to Rumphi and asked the chief to pay K45 000 after […]
Blantyre-based business woman, Patricia Mwase has sued National Bank of Malawi (NBM) and its Chief Executive Officer (CEO), George Partridge for illegally divulging confidential information to the public and to members of Bankers Association of Malawi (BAM) which led to loss of business. Mwase, Director for licenced Credit Referencing Bureau (CRB) Credit Data Limited, has […]
The former Ministry of finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo will not evade justice in theft and money laundering case, his lawyer has contended after the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) has turned down his application to travel to South Africa for medical aid. Mphwiyo applied to the bureau to be allowed to travel to South Africa […]
Cashgate convict Maxwell Namata will face trial on new charges together with his wife Alice Namata and Robert Nantchito, the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) has said. Namata was convicted and currently is serving a prison sentence of eight years after being found guilty of money laundering and theft in relation to the plunder of public […]
The Chitipa Magistrate Court has sentenced two men Moses Msukwa, 20, and Flackson Masebo, 19, to 32 years imprisonment with hard labour each for torching four houses whose owners they suspected are witches. According to prosecutor Blackson Sichali the two torched the houses of Esther Mushani and Mayinala Mwenechanya and two others – both in the […]
Malawi veteran journalists Edward Chitsulo, 56 who was Managing Editor for the Nation Publications Limited (NPL).died on Sunday, 15th March 2015 at Blantyre Adventist Hospital. Chitsulo was also a columnist in the Weekend Nation under ‘Raw Stuff’, one of the pioneers of newspaper publishing during the transition period when he, alongside another journalist Grey Mang’anda, […]
Malawian famous prophet Shepherd Bushiri, who is also president of African Christian Coalition for Israel Ltd (AFRICCI), has challenged Malawi government and the country’s private sector to submit project proposals to AFRICC for possible funding. In an interview on his departure to South Africa via Kamuzu International Airport on Saturday, Bushiri expressed a keen interest […]
One of the private practice lawyers in Malawi, Wapona Kita has asked parliament not to interfere in the plans by the executive arm of government to sell the state-owned Malawi Savings Bank (MSB) saying government erred by consulting the parliament on the matter. Kita told a local radio that government was not supposed to consult […]
Drug Fight Malawi Executive Director, Nelson Zakeyo has once again sent his organization’s call on Government to move with speed on the policy to regulate alcohol consumption in the country. In an intervoew, Zakeyo reiterated that they are worried that Government is not very active in making sure that issues such as packaging of sachet […]
Malawi’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has clarified on reports that some diplomats on recall are resisting to return to Malawi using all sorts of excuses, saying “financial constraints” are the main reason why most Malawian diplomats on recall have not yet returned to Malawi. It was reported that some diplomats, particularly outgoing […]
The High Court in Blantyre has declined to discharge the order for the judicial review and the order of stay that was granted to Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) Commissioner of Customs and Excise Shadrick Namalomba who was suspended for alleged misconduct. Kamoto in a letter to MRA staff notifying them of Namalomba’s suspension said the […]
Barely few days after the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights condemned violent attacks against people with albinism in Malawi, an 11-year-old albino boy escaped possible death when some unknown criminals attempted to abduct him in the eastern region district of Balaka. According to Balaka police publicist Sub Inspector Joseph Sauka, the incident happened at […]
Blantyre-based businessman, Richard Chaponda has dragged to court FDH Bank for breaching loan contract and the High Court has since reinstated an injunction that was vacated last month restraining the commercial bank from confiscating and selling property used as surety in the loan deal amounting to K224.3 million. On Thursday (12th March, 2015) Justice Rowland Mbvundula reinstated […]
State prosecutors have initiated the process of exploring the legal grounds to discharge the businessperson Osward Lutepo implicated to have had a hand in the plot to shoot budget director Paul Mphwiyo, following the key witness withdrawing his sworn affidavit in court. According to court documents sourced by Nyasa Times, an affidavit sworn in by […]
A38 year old woman in Ntchisi appeared in court on Wednesday for defiling a 14 year old boy, who told the court that he could not tell his parents about the ordeal and the sexually transmitted disease he got from her because he felt good during the encounter. The woman, Gloria Chunga, who denied the charges, is a […]
A brawl has ensued between Mzuzu Police and a family in Lusangazi, Nkhata Bay – on the outskirts of Mzuzu City – following mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of a baby who was born alive but was thirty minutes later found dead with a mutilated body. Family members of Brenda Banda – mother to the […]