Dedza District Council has suspended two senior officers from its Finance Department for alleged misuse of council funds The officials are chief accountant, Davie Chimtengo and accountant Angel Namaluweso. Speaking to journalists on Tuesday, District Commissioner for Dedza Paul Kalilombe said the suspension has been made to pave way for investigations. He said Dedza has […]
Lilongwe city council has sounded a Save Our Souls (SOS) on waste management, saying the capital city is overwhelmed with the waste its one million residents generate every-day. The council’s chief executive officer John Chome said this when the ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs donated three waste kips and waste bins worth K10 […]
Unknown people in Chitipa have ended the life of a 42 year old, Freight Kabaghe, over allegations that he stole a chicken. Chitipa police publicist, Gladwell Simwaka, said the deceased on the night of June 2 sneaked out his house immediately his family had retired to bed. “He was found the following morning hacked and […]
Lilongwe City Council has sealed off TNM offices near Crossroads in the Capital City for unpaid licence. Tapiwa Mkandawire, Lilongwe City Council business officer said TNM owes the council K20 million. “They have been operating without a business licence for the past five years. This is against the council by-laws,” said Mkandawire. She said the […]
A business guru has said the current political impasse over the highly contested results of the May 21 2019 Tripartite Election – presidential race – has hit hard the small and medium enterprises. President of Indigenous Business Association of Malawi (Ibam) Mike Mlombwa said the political impasse has slowed down businesses, negatively impacting on small […]
Dynamic Leaders and Gatekeepers Forum (DLGF) has emphasized on the need for leaders to take responsibility by reflecting on issues that they can do as leaders in order to shape the political and socio-economic landscape of the country in a faith perspective that is based on Biblical principles. The meeting which drew leaders of various […]
Malawi police in Mzimba have arrested a suspect in the poisoning of sweet beer during an unveiling of a tombstone which led to one death and left 28 others battling for their lives. The police say Alufeyo Kamanga of Masonga Kamanga village was arrested on suspicion that he poisoned Mrs Efrida Theu and 28 others. […]
A group of men claiming to be senior loans and grants officers at the Higher Education Students’ Loans and Grants Board (HESLGB) gone flat out collecting money from parents of the needy students in the name of processing fees, Nyasa Times has established. The bogus HESLGB officials are demanding K100, 000 for the forms of the […]
In commemorating Father’s Day on Sunday, NBS Bank’s male staff members who are fathers on their own right, have committed themselves to donate MK1 million to an orphanage. NBS Bank’s Chief Executive Officer Kwanele Ngwenya said they came up with this initiative because every child has a right to a father. “We have decided to […]
An employee of Standard Bank, Blantyre Branch, Yohane Makowa Banda and his girlfriend, Sibongile Beni have been sentenced to seven and five years Imprisonment with Hard Labour (IHL) respectively over theft and money laundering. Public Relations Officer of Blantyre Police Station, Sub Inspector, Augustus Nkhwazi said Banda was working with Standard Bank as a teller […]
A partnership of several institutions in the United Kingdom and Malawi is working to launch the first Malawi Stroke Unit, which is expected to start offering service by December 2019. A fundraising event was held in London on June 13 2019, to raise funds for the equipment and to establish a multi-specialty training program for the […]
Student teachers at Kasungu Teachers College have gone on indefinite strike to force management improve on hygiene sanitation and poor diet. The teacher students are also demanding an unpaid two-month allowance which they are entitled to after practical teaching. Students Union president Emmanuel Shumba said there is no good sanitation at the college as toilets […]
A marauding hyena in Kasungu has attacked three family members, seriously wounding a 47-year-old father. Kasungu police spokesperson Harry Namwaza said the incident happened on Friday morning around 1am when the 47-year-old Genesis Banda heard from his bedroom that his pigs were struggling with something in their kraal. Namwaza said Banda woke up to see […]
Fearing persecution after being outed as gay, Aniz Mitha fled Malawi leaving behind his well-off Muslim family and four-year-old son, he headed for South Africa, where he became a sex worker to survive. Fearing persecution after being outed as gay, Aniz Mitha fled Malawi. Leaving behind his well-off Muslim family and four-year-old son, he headed […]
Nkhotakota district council has forced four senior officials, including the director of finance and accountant, go on forced leave over a K1.8 million ‘stationary-gate’. Sources at the council said the four took the money from social cash transfer vote. “They wrote a cheque which was duly signed on the pretext that they wanted to buy […]
Association of People with Albinism (Apam) has asked government to consider factor in a budgetary vote for people with albinism. Apam board chairperson Grace Massa said people with albinism should have the national budgetary vote as is the case with HIV or TB diseases. She said this on Thursday during a new conference in Lilongwe […]
A family of a Malawi Defence Force (MDF) soldier who was killed in 2015 in the Republic of Congo has faulted the MDF for delays in giving out compensation to the family. Daughter to the slain soldier Anne Mayao said the family has been reminding MDF since their father, Dyson Mayao was killed for compensation […]
Beneficiaries of international remittance facilitated by Mukuru can now redeem their vouchers conveniently and cost effectively from any TNM Mpamba agent following the launch of joint service by TNM and Mukuru. Mpamba is the mobile money service for TNM Plc, listed on the Malawi Stock Exchange. Speaking at a joint launch of the service, Head […]