Marriage is more than sex just as singing is more than making noise but you can’t sing if you can’t make noise and you can’t be married if you can’t have sex. Malawi religious leaders have backed the legal provision of the Marriage, Divorce and Family Relations Bill which provides grounds for annulling a marriage, […]
Human rights activist Gift Trapence of the Centre for Development of People (Cedep) has appealed to President Peter Mutharika not to rush in assenting to e Marriage, Divorce and Family Relations Bill, into law, saying the bill has all good intentions only that it has been spoiled by some discriminatory aspects. He cited the discriminatory […]
Group Village Headman-GVH Msumbi under Traditional Authority Nankumba in Mangochi has declared that his people will not leave their native land to pave way for the construction of a Five Star Hotel along the shores of Monkey – Bay. Speaking on Wednesday at Monkey-Bay Resource Centre Hall during a meeting the District Commissioner for Mangochi […]
In what can be describe as a bizarre situation, Malawi Supreme Court Justice Lovemore Chikopa was personally involved in a struggle with Malawi police junior officers in Blantyre Thursday night over custody of a laptop belonging to Malawi Broadcasting Corporation. Chikopa drove to the police station in the company of MBC employee George Pahuwa apparently […]
The Blantyre Police is keeping in custody a man who they are yet to give out his particulars, for allegedly being found conducting in a manner that showed that he is a practicing doctor at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital. An eye witness revealed that the man was caught Sunday in the Children (Orthopedic) Ward at the referral […]
A 38 year-old Henry Mbewe of Pelenje village, Traditional Authority Nkalo in Chiladzulu district has been handed 12 years in jail for defiling a 3-year-old girl by a First Grade Magistrate court in Karonga. Mbewe was found guilty of committing the offence with the minor , who is his step daughter in Malema village in the […]
At least 17 Malosa secondary School students in eastern district of Zomba were on Saturday involved in a car accident. The accident happened 500metres after Chingale turn off in Machinga. They were rushed to St Lukes Hospital at Malosa in the former capital where 13 students were treated as outpatients and one student was referred […]
After Nyasa Times reported that Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) boss Ralph Kamoto h suspended commissioner for exports Shadrec Namalomba for facilitating to clear nine trucks belonging to ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmaker Noel Masangwi of round wood from Chikangawa meant for export, it has been revealed that the DPP heavyweight silenced MRA officials from […]
Malawi young girls are selling their bodies in shebeens to earn money and Minister of Gender Patricia Kaliati has since said her ministry would investigate the matter and ensure that the perpetrator faces the law. Some teens as young as 16 openly admit to prostituting themselves to “sugar daddies” for cash. The shocking revelation follows […]
Minister of Information Kondwani Nankhumwa has confirmed that US$13, 871.969 will be spent in upgrading the Consolidated ICT regulatory management systems (Cirms) machine otherwise known as the ‘spy machine’. The controversial machine was bought from US firm Agilis International at a whopping price of US$6.9 million four years ago. Nankhumwa told a news conference in […]
The Anti-corruption Bureau (ACB) on Friday arrested Tapiwa Ruth Ng’oma who was working as an Accountant at the Accountant General’s Department for allegedely dafrauding government. Ng’oma has been arrested on suspicion of defrauding government about K9, 179,620.00 through the systematic scheme dubbed Cashgate. This is second arrest the Bureau has made this month in relation to Cashgate. […]
The Magistrates Court in Mchinji district has convicted and slapped with jail sentence a Ministry of Agriculture officer and village headman who were found guilty of indulging in corrupt practices. The two, Elijah Kabotolo Agricultural Extension Development Officer (AEDO) and Paul Walaza (village headman Kayesa) were arrested by Anti-corruption Bureau (ACB) for creating a ghost […]
Businessperson Angela Katengeza, who owns Faith Construction, has told Lilongwe High Court that former deputy director in the Ministry of Tourism, Leonard Kalonga approached her to use the construction certificates of her company, to get jobs within the Ministry of Tourism. The two were found with a case to answer by High Court in Lilongwe […]
The Malawi Communications regulatory Authority (Macra) board is divided over the software upgrade of the Consolidated ICT regulatory management systems (Cirms) machine otherwise known as the ‘spy machine’ which will cost US$13, 871.969. The controversial machine was bought from US firm Agilis International at a whopping price of US$6.9 million four years ago. During a […]
Opposition Malawi Congress Party lawmakers on Thursday led a crusade to block the move by government sale the State-owned Malawi Savings Bank (MSB). The Public Private Partnerships Commission (PPPC) requested strategic investors to buy a controlling stake in MSB in which the government owns 100 percent of its shares. But the government’s divestiture agency did […]
Kelson Gani who was arrested in connection to the shooting of former budget director Paul Mphwiyo is taking legal action against the former Director of Public Prosecution Bruno Kalemba for false imprisonment, Nyasa Times has learnt. At the time of arrest in 2013 Gani was serving as a Police Officer of the rank of Sergeant […]
The root of the oil exploration mess that is causing Lilongwe serious headaches can be traced to corruption and incompetence displayed by two Malawians and a certain UAE Arab, we can reveal. Few months after Peter Mutharika ascended to the Malawi Presidency, his government issued a moratorium which is basically a delay or a suspension […]
Bruno Chareyron, a French nuclear physicist, has warned that people working and living around the Kayerekela Uranium Mine in Karonga are at high risk of contracting radioactive related diseases within the shortest period. Chareyron said Wednesday at the Karonga district chamber that the radiation emissions at the mine, owned by Australia’s Paladin Africa Limited (PAL), were abnormal. […]