Malawi’s giant and oldest media group, the Times Group has retrenched 20 members of staff, including television star Geoffrey Kapusa famously known as ‘Mr Splash’ as the company swims in stormy financial waters. The revenue collectors, the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) has been closing down the company due to unremitted tax of a staggering K1 […]
Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) Director of Programmes Albert Mungomo has been fired from his job after being found guilty of theft and forgery, Nyasa Times understands. The MBC Board made their unanimous decision at their meeting held in Mangochi after a disciplinary committee of the same Board found him guilty on all charges. The MBC […]
Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) Director of Programmes Albert Mungomo has been summoned by the MBC Board of Directors to appear before its internal disciplinary committee over theft of MK 235,000 Nyasa Times understands. Mungomo confirmed that he had been called to a meeting on Tuesday 9 November, 2016 at Victoria Hotel but when asked about the […]
In a dramatic twist of fate, Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) radio personality Gloria Banda -who is also wife to MBC Director of Programs Albert Mungomo – has been fired as an employee of the axpayer-funded media house for misconduct effective 22nd March 2016, Nyasa Times can reveal. The decision follows a unanimous decision of a […]
High Court judge Kenyatta Nyirenda on Sunday granted broadcaster Albert Mungomo an injunction stopping taxpayer-funded Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) from effecting a demotion on him from the post of director of programmes. MBC demoted Mungomo last week as first reported by Nyasa Times and reverted him to his previous position as chief training officer (CTO) […]
The once upon a time untouchable man at the State broadcaster, Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC ) Albert Mungomo is out of MBC executive management, Nyasa Times can reveal. The MBC Board of Directors made the decision at its extra-ordinary meeting held on the 16th of November, 2015 in Blantyre. According to a member of the […]
Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) Director of Programmes Albert Mungomo is reportedly distributing a series of anonymous letters attacking MBC Director General Aubrey Sumbuleta, President Peter Mutharika and his aide, Ben Phiri among others. This week messages have gone viral on email and Whatsapp message sharing platform chronicling wide allegation against Sumbuleta ranging from abuse of […]
The board of Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) has approved ormer spokesman of Malawi Electoral Commission (Mec) Aubrey Sumbuleta to be director general of MBC. Sumbuleta has been acting in the post since Benson Tembo was removed and deployed to Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra). The board has also approved Albert Mungomo as director of programmes […]
The propensity by former State House press officer Albert Mungomo and his wife Gloria Banda to turn public broadcaster Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) into a ‘bedroom’ affair has irked fellow staffers who claim the behaviour is making them work in fear. Mungomo who is MBC’s Director of Programmes is said to have been making unilateral […]
In a bid to stamp his authority the new Deputy Director General at Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) Aubrey Sumbuleta has brought in several changes at the public broadcaster by among several others putting several measures to control what is aired on both public radio and television. Soon after President Peter Mutharika came into power MBC promised to […]
Witch-hunting continues at Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) as political influences have made some reporters and broadcasters, to be deployed to other departments and others removed from daily news bulletin reading roaster on suspicions that they are not control freaks for ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). The affected employees have since threatened to take up the […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda has made a complete reshuffle of presidential aides team at State House purging loyalists of the late leader Bingu wa Mutharika but government will have to pay some of them millions for terminating their contracts . Fired so far include Presidential aides on Religious Affairs Rev, Billy Gama, on Women Affairs […]
Press Officer for Malawi’s late President Bingu Wa Mutharika, Albert Mungomo is on a collision with parents of late wife, Elizabeth Mungomo due to his inappropriate behavior, Nyasa Times understands. Mungomo’s departed wife died last week, Friday, after collapsing at the couple’s official residence within the confines of Mtunthama State Lodge in the administrative capital, […]
Wife to press officer for late Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika’s Albert Mungomo has died following a suspected fatal heart attack. Mungomo’s wife, Elizabeth, died suddenly Friday morning after collapsing at the couple’s residence within the Mtunthama State Lodge compound in the city of Lilongwe. A source within State House said Elizabeth was pronounced dead […]
SPECIAL COMMENTARY: The Press Release from the State House signed by Albert Mungomo in his capacity as the State House Press Officer at Sanjika Palace, Blantyre on March 8, 2012 might have as well read: I, President Bingu wa Mutharika, by the powers vested me by Malawians through a land-slide victory on May 19, 2009 […]
The Regional Secretariat of Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa) on Friday reacted to accusations by Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika that the media is causing anarchy in the country by insulting him. The media watchdog, said in a statement, obtained by Nyasa Times that it notes, “with profound distress”, the growing intolerance of media […]
Malawi’s State House has issued a warning to all media houses in the country to stop referring to the Head of State with names like ‘Big Kahuna’ or ‘Moya’, warning that it will ‘deal’ with journalists who continue doing that. In a statement issued Friday by presidential press officer, Albert Mungomo, the State House said […]
By Wanga Gwede, Nyasa Times President Bingu wa Mutharika wants former presidential press officer Chikumbutso Mtumodzi to return to the State House and resume his former position replacing Albert Mungomo, Nyasa Times understands. Ironically Mungomo replaced Mutharika’s longest serving and effective Press Officer Mtumodzi, who is currently the deputy principal secretary in the Ministry of […]