The High court in Blantyre has given bail to two murder suspects of teenager Harrison Mukhova junior last year in Blantyre. The two, Lovemore Liwambano and Mike Chiwaula through their lawyer applied for bail to the court after they were arrested and denied the bail by the Midima magistrate court last week. The suspects were arrested together […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika met new President of neighbouring Zambia, Edgar Lungu in Addis Abbaba on Thursday during the African Union Heads of State Summit. Lungu was inaugurated last week after being elected as Zambia’s sixth Head of State. The Malawi leader did not attend the inauguration in Lusaka. The Zambian leader and Malawi’s President […]
A national symposium of Catholic communicators set out to explore pathways in new media to build unity in Malawi and to connect people to the faith in the small southern African nation. Held under the patronage of the Malawian bishops’ communication department, the communications secretaries from the nation’s eight dioceses met with Catholic journalists in […]
It never rains but pours for some Malawi Civil Servants whose fight for better perks is perennial due to the ‘peanuts’ given to them as wages, had a rude awakening seeing their salaries deducted of loans they never took. Confirming about a suspected conman, Lilongwe Police Station Deputy Spokesperson Kingsley Dandaula, has said that so […]
The floods that have claimed lives and destroyed property of many Malawians have not spared the country’s education sector as hundreds of schools and thousands of learners are reportedly affected by the havoc. While the government, various partners and organizations are moving in with assorted relief items to affected people the education calendar is feared […]
Lilongwe High Court Judge Justice Michael Mtambo on Wednesday adjourned a case which lawyer Ralph Kasambara, Pika Manondo, Robert Kadzuwa and Macdonald Kumwembe are charged with attempted murder case and conspiracy to commit murder on former Ministry of Finance Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo to February 17 and the case will run for three days up to February 19. […]
Lawyer representing , businessman Osward Lutepo in a case which he is answering charges of attempted murder, Osward Mtupila on Wednesday told the High Court in Lilongwe that his client is currently suffering from ‘anxiety disorder’ and is not fit and well to stand trial. Last year, the court granted the prosecution permission to add Lutepo […]
Lilongwe Magistrate Court has sentenced Malawi Congress Party (MCP) former deputy director of youth Wyson Zinyemba Soko to seven years imprisonment for theft and money laundering for his involvement in the ongoing financial scandal dubbed “Cashgate” that saw millions of dollars looted from the impoverished country’s government. Senior resident magistrate Patrick Chirwa sentenced Soko to […]
Former Malawi Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo, whose shooting on 13 September 2013 led to the unravelling of the systematic looting of millions of government money dubbed ‘cashgate’, on Wednesday returned to High Court in Lilongwe where he has been testifying in his attempted murder case. Mphwiyo was testifying in cross examination by lawyer and former […]
Three children all aged 4 have died in Balaka district after drowned in a stream few meters from their parent’s houses. Police say the children met their fate on Tuesday when they went to bath at Ngolonyombe stream near their houses without the knowledge of their parents. “The children, two of them from one family and the two other […]
Immigration Department of the Ministry of Home Affairs in Malawi has suspended issuance of passport due to the fact that the office does not have passport books as its printing is affected with lack of resources, Nyasa Times understands. Passport seekers who have been queuing at the Immigration offices in Blantyre and Lilongwe have been […]
The Blantyre Magistrate Court has adjourned the case involving the first bogus doctor to be nabbed, Dr. Wongani Akuzike Kandulu, to February 2, 2015 for sentencing. The quack doctor’s real name is Wongani Kumbukani Horace Kandulu, and was arrested in October last year at the referral Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) where he posed as a Medical […]
Minister of Transport and public works Francis Kasaira on Tuesday launched a road safety programme in schools at the ceremony which took place at Mchesi Primary school in Lilongwe. The project is aimed at reducing occurrence of road accidents among school going children. Kasaira said it is unfortunate that majority of traffic crashes involve school going […]
The World Bank Youth Network-Malawi (WBYN- Malawi) in collaboration with the Administration of Zomba Maximum Security Prison on Sunday organized a Career Guidance to assist the qualified prisoners in courses’application for University of Malawi admission. As part of the program, the WBYN members encouraged the prisoners to apply for University Admission, Supported the prisoners in the choices […]
Malawian President Peter Mutharika will on Wednesday January 28; leave the country for Ethiopia where he is scheduled to attend the 24th Ordinary African Union (AU) Assembly. The meeting is scheduled for January 30 to 31, 2015 in Addis Ababa. A statement from State House Press House office says the plane carrying President Mutharika will […]
Malawi’s former Police boss who is currently the country’s State House Chief of Staff Peter Mukhito faces arrest for disobeying a court order restraining the State House from proceeding with plans to redeploy more than 20 of its household staff to other government departments. Mukhito faces the arrest along several others that include Director of […]
Self acclaimed medical doctor John Ben Kamanga has been handed a six year-jail term by the Blantyre Magistrate Court after observing that Kamanga, whose real profession is shoe vending, needed a custodial sentence because his offense endangered human life. The Form 2 drop out hit headlines last November when he was arrested at Queen Elizabeth […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping has pledged his government disaster relief assistance to Malawi over severe flood disasters that have killed at least 200 in the country. “China stands ready to assist Malawi in disaster relief,” Xi said in a message sent a to Malawian President Peter Mutharika. “I believe that the Malawian people will overcome […]