Malawi Police have arrested a 19 year old Joseph Andiwochi and is under custody in Machinga for allegedly kidnapping a two year old albino girl in the district. His two accomplices Kamanga Likhutu, and Sinoya Likhutu, who kidnapped the minor at her home, at Muluku village, Sub Traditional Authority Mchinguza in the district, are still […]
Malawi Agriculture and Food Security Minister Allan Chiyembekeza has said government needs at least e US $16m to distribute seed and other farm inputs in the flood affected areas several thousands of hectares of crop fields were washed away. Government wants to use the money to distribute seed for early maturing food crop and other […]
Bishops of the influential Catholic Church in Malawi will from Tuesday 10 March embark on solidarity visits to flood victims in various parts of the country, acting Secretary General of the Episcopal Conference (ECM) of Malawi, Fr. Emmanuel Chimombo ha said. Fr. Chimombo said the Bishops, led by the ECM Chairman, Archbishop Thomas Luke Msusa […]
Members of the revenue collection department at the Lilongwe City Council (LCC) are walking heads down following damning revelations that they have been siphoning the council’s money through scrupulously schemed escapades. Nyasa Times has established that millions of kwacha at the council have vanished and authorities cannot explain. The revelation comes after Nyasa Times busted another corruption scandal […]
Police in Kanengo are keeping in custody 6 suspected criminals who were arrested in a sweeping exercise conducted in Area 50 following a series of armed robberies in surrounding areas. Lilongwe Police publicist, Kingsley Dandaula, told Malawi News Agency (Mana) that the 6, whose ages range from 16 to 34, were apprehended in an exercise […]
Mzuzu preacher Bentry Canaan Chawinga has asked Malawians to be wary of attention – seeking prophets and their patronising prophecies of doom. Canaan, who Saturday held national emergency prayers for country, has branded as false the rest of the country’s prophets saying they don’t give direction and guidance in their prophecies. Malawi, believed to be a God-fearing […]
Britain has said the issue of compensation families of people who died during the March 3, 1959 struggle for this country’s independence does not arise, the United Kingdom (UK) High Commissioner to Malawi, Michael Nevin, has said. Nevin comments comes after a Malawi legal expert Ralph Mhone has asked Malawi government press for compensation from […]
Malawi Police in the capital Lilongwe say they have arrested a senior commander of the criminal gang called ‘11 Bongos’. The notorious youth criminal group has carried out banditry and anti-social attack in Area 36 of Lilongwe. Lilongwe Police Public Relations Officer Kingsley Dandaula has said t the arrested commander is identified as ‘Amoni’ and […]
The Moravian Church in Malawi, a Pentecostal church, has rolled out a K4.8 million project purported to assist survivors of floods that have rocked most parts of the country. The church, on Saturday, donated relief items worth hundreds of thousand kwacha including flour, salt, cooking oil and beans to flood victims in Zindi Village, Traditional Authority […]
A probe into questionable sale of houses on auction is underway at the Lilongwe District Council Malawi’s capital after reports unraveled that 18 middle class and aristocratic houses were sold for less than K20 million, Nyasa Times has learnt. A battalion of incumbent and ex-officials at the council were reportedly some of the beneficiaries, a situation which […]
A woman in Liwonde, Eliza Jambo locked herself in a house for four days singing, dancing and speaking in tongues with her four children and a grandchild while naked, Malawi News Agency has learnt. The noise forced neighbours and relatives to break into the house, but were shocked with how Jambo was making her supplication […]
Businessperson and Cashgate suspect Osward Lutepo has been as been ordered to undergo a mental examination to determine if he is medically fit for trial in the various charges he is facing which include theft, money laundering and conspiracy to commit murder. According to the ruling sourced by Nyasa Times, Justice Redson Kapindu made the order in the High Court in […]
Officials from the Northern Region Water Board (NRWB) Monday this week shunned a meeting where Mzuzu based Youth Watch Society inaugurated the Kalondolondo programme assessment of delivery of water services. “I personally delivered the invitation letter to their offices and they assured us that they will attend. I am also surprised why they are not […]
Malawi former president, Joyce Banda, on Wednesday attended a luncheon in Tennessee in celebration of International Women’s Day and the power of investing in girls and women to drive change. The luncheon highlighted the progress the world has made in the 20 years since the historic UN conference on women in Beijing and the need […]
The First Lady Gertrude Mutharika on Friday led women in the country in commemorating Womens World Day of Prayers with a call for women in Malawi to relentlessly pray against challenges facing women and the country. Speaking at St Louis Catholic Parish in Balaka, the First Lady said it is important for women to always […]
Malawi’s former First Lady Callista Mutharika has urged women to be more prayerful and should shoulder responsibility of protecting and advancing the interest of fellow women in the country. The former First Lady said this when she graced this year’s women’s national day of prayer at Bangwe CCAP Church in Blantyre on Friday. She said it […]
Circle for Integrated Community Development (CICOD) a local organization has secured a Euro 10,000 grant from a German donor, Sign of Hope, intended to nourish 1,350 vulnerable people in 270 households that support elderly people, orphans and the sick in Chikwawa district’s Traditional Authority Lundu’s area. The two week intervention, also targets female headed and child headed […]
Malawi’s Minister of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare Patricia Kaliati, has ordered police to close Mamas Shabin beer drinking joint in Ntcheu for commercial sex promotion amongst girls. Press reports show Malawi young girls are selling their bodies at Mamas Shabin operated by Rebecca Bakuwa, at the heart of Ntcheu Township, behind the district’s […]