Dan Lufani, popularly known as Dan Lu has released a music video from his hit single ‘lozani zanu’. The video was posted on YouTube and various media outlets earlier this week and it features President Prof. Peter Mutharika’s speech. The music video is mainly focused on various development projects led by the Democratic Progressive Party […]
State vice-president Saulos Chilima said the newly established political grouping, United Transformation Movement (UTM) will be going to an elective conference soon to elect leaders that will represent the movement in 2019 elections. “We will be going to an elective conference soon so that we people identify leaders that will represent them in 2019 elections,” […]
Malawi’s immediate past president Joyce Banda says it is possible to create one million jobs in the country within a year but said the problem is that there are many pessimists in Malawi. Speaking in a special program on her Ufulu Radio, Banda said it does not matter what type of jobs would be created but […]
Veteran politician and incumbent legislator for Lilongwe Mapuyu South, Joseph Njobvuyalema, on Thursday became the first big casualty of main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) to lose in the ongoing primary elections to identify candidates to represent the party in the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections. Njobvuyalema lost the primary elections to youth activist Edward […]
A non-government organization, BwaloLikule Network has taken it upon itself to civil educate people on the need for clean, issue based campaign ahead of the 2019 polls, saying hate speeches breed political violence. Trustee of the network Andrew Kaponya said the NGO is very concerned with the increasing hate speeches, insults and political castigations by […]
Malawi’s immediate past president Joyce Banda has thrown her weight behind vice president Saulos Chilima’s suggestion to give more powers to the offce of the vice president to make it more authoritative. In an interview with Ufulu Radio, Banda said sitting presidents have taken advantage of the ambiguous law in the Constitution to make it […]
Centre for Multiparty Democracy (CMD), a platform of all political parties in the country say they have no powers to force the parties provide monitors in the ongoing voter registration exercise. Kandi Padambo, board member of CMD said this after Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chair Jane Ansah recently expressed concern that political parties were shunning […]
The fifth phase of voter registration exercise started on a positive note in Mulanje despite fears that some Mozambicans would try to register as voters to get Malawi’s national citizen identification (ID) cards. However, launching the fifth phase of the voter registration exercise on Sunday, MEC chairperson Jane Ansah said each voter registration centre has […]
Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Kondwani Nankhumwa who is also Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) vice-president for the South, embarked on a ‘register-to-vote’ tour of some southern region areas, urging Malawians to vote in order to be truly part of the country’s social, economic and political process. “When you are registered as a voter, you […]
Voters in Mulanje have expressed excitement by the innovative approaches in the civic and voter education campaign initiatives being used by the Center for Development Communications (CDC) as part of the voter education excise for the fifth phase of the voter registration excise which started on September 2, in Neno, Phalombe, Luchenza Municipality, Thyolo and […]
The multi-religious grouping Public Affairs Committee (PAC has organised national inter-denominational prayers for the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections) but the organisation is yet to set a day. Speaking in an interview Wednesday PAC Chief Executive Director Robert Phiri said the religious body is set to host a national day of prayers in October with the date […]
Ntcheu central leguslator Reverend Malison Ndau says he will not contest during the 2019 parliamentary elections, saying he wants to help a woman win the seat in solidarity with the 50:50 campaign. Ndau, a former Minister of Information in the Peter Mutharika 20-member cabinet has surprised many with his decision, as he has only been […]
United States of America, Silicon Valley based aerospace engineer and space scientist, Dr Cedrick Ngalande has announced in an exclusive interview with Nyasa Times that he would contest the country’s presidency as an independent candidate. Ngalande told Nyasa Times that had decided to run for the 21 May 2019 poll after observing that the people’s aspirations […]
Main opposition, the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has singled out the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) for the escalating political violence in the country. MCP spokesperson Maurice Munthali said the DPP-led government has completely failed to control political violence, saying the utterances of President Peter Mutharika is also fueling the violence. “The word uttered by […]
Poll managers, the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has called on the opposition to provide monitors for the ongoing voter registration exercise to give the exercise credibility. MEC chairperson Jane Ansah said this on Monday in Thyolo where she visited four centres at the start of phase five of the registration exercise where she found ruling […]
The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has expressed worries with its aspiring candidates in Chikwawa who are abandoning the party’s grassroots structures while campaigning to represent the party as Members of Parliament and Ward Councillors in the upcoming elections. Deputy constituency governor for DPP in Chikwawa Nkombedzi Constituency Patrick Muliya expressed concern as aspirants in […]
Pollster, the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has ruled out reducing the hiked nomination fees for the 2019 tripartite elections, saying the adjustment was in line with the high cost of goods and services. MEC chairperson Jane Ansah said the cost of goods and services in 2014 cannot be the same in 2019. MEC has raised […]
At a rally in Blantyre, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Vice President for the South, KondwaniNakhumwa told the crowd, gathered at Bangwe ‘desert’ ground, that the 2019 DPP Manifesto is being written by President Peter Mutharika and will be ready soon. In other words, Nankhumwa had nothing to say on DPP’s plans and vision for Malawi […]