“We are happy that we are going to sort things out as a family.” The family of the late Transport and Public Works Minister and Malawi Congress Party First vice President, Mohammed Sidik Mia has resolved to settle the wrangles over the contested deceased estate amicably and out of court, Nyasa Times has established. The […]
“The current health post is too small compared to the huge population we have.” It’s all smiles across the miles for the people of Therere area in Chikwawa Nkombedzi Constituency as their legislator, Abida Mia’s promise of a good health facility is now taking shape, courtesy of the people of Japan through the Japanese Embassy […]
At least 2000 households affected by hunger in Chikwawa Nkombedzi Constituency have benefitted from the maize flour donation, which their Member of Parliament (MP) Abida Mia, who is also Deputy Minister of Lands, distributed this week. Mia reached out to the affected families at Group Village Headman Msomo and Group Village Headman Saopa, both under […]
When President Lazarus Chakwera was recently celebrating the fruits of the Affordable Input Programme , it was admitted that the crop yields in the Shire Valley Agriculture Development Area (ADD) won’t be as bumper as in most parts of the country due to the irregular rainfall pattern that the ADD received this year. As one […]
Member of Parliament for Chikwawa Nkombedzi Constituency who is also the Deputy Minister of Lands, Abida Sidik Mia, on Tuesday, presided over a groundbreaking ceremony of Therere Health Clinic. The project will be funded to the tune of $90,000, a grant the Member of Parliament, secured from the Japanese Embassy. In her remarks, Mia said […]
Abida Mia who is also Deputy Minister of lands has expressed surprise with lack of some crucial social facilities in Nsanje North constituency such as a health facility, a good road network and boreholes a development which she said signifies failure on the part of previous MPs for the area. Mia said it is surprising […]
Deputy Minister of Lands Abida Mia has given concerned parties involved in the grabbing of public land at Staff Development Institute (SDI) in Blantyre to meet and resolve the contentious matter within 14 days. Mia called for a stakeholders meeting after touring the encroached land last week where she expressed dissatisfaction over the scale at […]
Deputy Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development Abida Mia on Friday visited Staff Development Institute (SDI) at Mpemba in Blantyre to follow up on reports that the land meant for the college expansion had been dubiously sold to private developers. The land is located close to SDI and was previously under the jurisdiction of […]
Deputy Minister of Lands Abida Sidik Mia has handed over the school block through Nsanje District Council to the Ministry of Education, at Matundu Community Day Secondary School (CDSS) in Nsanje South constituency. During the handover ceremony, Mia said she decided to embark on the project after Chief Chimombo made a request to her. “In […]
Member of Parliament for Chikwawa Nkombedzi Constituency, who is also deputy minister of lands, Abida Sidik Mia, has secured a $90 000 grant from Japanese Embassy to construct a modern health clinic in the catchment area of group village headman Therere in her constituency. The signing ceremony of the grant took place this week at […]
Over 45 000 needy people who cannot afford to buy face masks will in the next few days receive re-usable face masks, courtesy of the Mia family. The donation includes 50 sewing machines, 100 rolls of cloth and other materials for sewing of masks. The Mia family through Elias Karim MP, who is nephew to […]
The grieving Mia family on Tuesday donated food rations to 400 Covid-19 frontline health workers in memory of Sidik Mia, former Minister of Transport and Public Works who died of coronavirus a few weeks ago. Mia was also a powerful figure in the ruling Malawi Congress Party (MCP) where he was vice president. The donation at […]
Grieving deputy minister Abida Mia is set to make hundreds of thousands masks to be donated to Malawians across the country for fighting the ravaging Covid-19 pandemic. Mia, who is currently mourning her husband, Mohamed Sidik Mia, who until his death was Minister of Transport and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) first deputy president and succumbed […]
Deputy Minister of Lands Abida Mia has donated a big Brahman bull that has been processed into over 400kgs of beef to be used to prepare meals to Covid-19 frontline healthcare workers in various treatment units of the Southern Region. Mia, Member of Parliament for Chikwawa Nkombedzi, donated the bull through S&A Cold Storage in […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) second vice president Harry Mkandawire travelled from his base in Mzuzu to Chikwawa to condole the family of the party’s first vice president Sidik Mia following his death. Mkandawire’s trip to Chikwawa came amid accusations that no top party official or government official attended the funeral and burial ceremony of the […]
Deputy Minister of Lands Abida Mia, who is also legislator for Chikwawa Nkombezi Constituency spoke out in mourning Wednesday following the death of her husband Mohammed Sidik Mia who was minister of Transport and the governing Malawi Congress Party (MCP) vice-president from Covid-19. Speaking to Nyasa Times “through tears,” Abida – comforted by messages of condolence led by […]
Deputy Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development Abida Mia has said following investigations it has been established that there was no suspicious dealing in disposing of the contentious public land issue in Mpemba, Blantyre, which was reported to have been dubiously acquired by some government officers and other private developers for residential purposes. Mia said the […]
Malawi Police in Chikwawa have intercepted two trucks carrying 913 bags of assorted fertiliser suspected to be for the Agricultural Input Programme (AIP) and deputy minister of lands Abida Mia, member of Parliament for Chikwawa Nkombezi in whose area the fertiliser is reported to have been loaded asked police not to release the trucks and […]