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 […]
Government has lifted restrictions on local livestock slaughters which were imposed due to foot and mouth disease outbreaks in Chitipa and Mzimba. Secretary for Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development Gray Nyandule Phiri says this follows good progress made after successful monitoring the disease control measures employed in the affected districts. “The ongoing surveillance indicates that […]
Three of Malawi’s greatest music prodigies, the legendary Vita Chirwa of Kalimba band, hip-hop godfather Gamba wa Suit Phyzix aka Captain Bae and multi-award winning RnB singing sensation, silky-voiced Kell Kay currently on tour in the UK will this weekend invade Manchester for a triple album launch jamboree. In what is billed to be one of […]
Malawi netball export to England, Joyce Mvula on Saturday helped her Manchester Thunder be crowned English Netball Super League champions after defeating defending champions Wasps in a tight and highly contentious match by 57-52 baskets. This was the first time for Thunder to win the title since 2014. They trailed 17-12 in first quarter before […]
Malawian martial artist serving in the British Military Yamikani Guba is representing the country at the World Taekwondo Championship which is underway at Manchester, United Kingdom. Guba is representing Malawi in the heavyweight category. He is the only Malawian athlete after Vester Banda and Joseph Phiri Junior could not make it after after failing to secure […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Diaspora Wing over the weekend raised money through a gala dinner event held in Birmingham to help the party allocate election monitors in all the polling stations at the May 21 Tripartite Election. According to the spokesman of MCP Diaspora Wing, Chalo Mvula , the Birmingham event was to cement the […]
The joint Diaspora wings of UTM Party on Friday April 5 2019 officially handed over a newly purchased vehicle to party officials in Malawi as a fulfillment of a pledge made in December last year to replace two vehicles torched in arson attacks by political rivals in the wake of the party’s launch at St […]
South Africa-based money transfer company, Mukuru, has raised its Sports Tournament and Choral Festival sponsorship to Malawi Mission in South Africa from K26 million to K50 million. This was announced Friday in Sandton, Johannesburg, during the official cheque presentation ceremony of the sponsorship. Mukuru’s chief executive officer Andre Freirra said his company has always enjoyed […]
A Malawian former student nurse Arthur Liwembe, 33, has been hitting headlines in Ireland press after he took a bag of the Marijuana drug to a Police [garda] station of his own accord to complain that it was “not of good quality”. Liwembe, with an address at an asylum-seekers’ reception centre, was immediately arrested. When […]