Malawi’s Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Ben Malunga Phiri, has reiterated the need for Malawi to bank on greater collaboration with its development partners in transforming rural livelihoods. He was speaking during a bilateral meeting with the President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Dr. Álvario Lario on the sidelines of […]
Malawi’s Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Dr Ben Malunga Phiri, has said the country must invest in value addition if farmers are to fully benefit from their produce, as government broke ground on a modern market facility in Lilongwe’s Area 1. Phiri presided over the ceremony on Thursday, part of a nationwide initiative […]
A Malawian cabinet minister has accused the opposition of shameless hypocrisy over a stalled fertiliser factory project — insisting the party has no right to point fingers when it sat on the problem for years while in power. Local Government Minister Dr Ben Malunga Phiri let rip at the former ruling Malawi Congress Party (MCP) […]
Local Government and Rural Development Minister Ben Phiri came under sustained and bruising attack in Parliament on Tuesday as legislators across the political divide accused the government of dragging its feet on the rollout of the K1.145 trillion Constituency Development Fund (CDF), leaving development projects stalled and communities increasingly frustrated. What was expected to be […]
Malawi has paid tribute to the Indian diaspora’s decades-long contribution to the country’s economic and social development, with a senior government minister using the occasion to call for a more serious and strategic partnership between the two nations. The gathering in Blantyre on Friday evening, held under the theme “Bridging Nations: Celebrating the Indian Diaspora’s […]
NEARLY 700 jobs are on the table as the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development kicks off a major recruitment blitz for council officers across the country. Local Government Minister Ben Phiri is driving the push, saying the hiring spree is directly tied to the revamped K5 billion Constituency Development Fund (CDF) — President […]
Two former senior cabinet ministers who are serving parliamentarians in the deposed Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Professor Peter Mutharika led administration, Ben Phiri and Joseph Mwanamveka have been arrested. Highly placed Police sources at National Police Headquarters, Area 30 in Lilongwe have confirmed to have arrested former minister of Finance Joseph Mwanamveka and former Local […]
Democratic Progressive Party law maker for Thyolo Central, Ben Phiri has distanced himself from a poster circulating on social media claiming that he would contest for the party’s presidency at the yet to be announced convention. Phiri, who resigned as DPP director of elections after the party lost the country’s presidency to Tonse Alliance, said […]
Main opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Thyolo Central Member of Parliament Ben Phiri has commended President Lazarus Chakwera for launching the National Clean-up Day on Wednesday, which will be observed on the second Friday of every month. Phiri, who graced the launch at Chinsapo Ground in Likuni, Lilongwe said he hopes the clean-up campaign will jolt authorities into […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Thyolo Central Member of Parliament Ben Phiri has tipped the Lazarus Chakwera administration to ensure that funding to district councils remain timely and prompt. Phiri, a former minister of local government and rural development himself, gave the advice in parliament on Thursday. He was giving a response on behalf of DPP on […]
Malawi Police Service (MPS) Inspector General (IG), George Kainja officially opened a police unit at Khonjeni in Thyolo on Sunday, which was initiated by the area’s Member of Parliament and constructed through Constituency Development Fund. Kainja commended Phiri, the Thyolo Central Constituency MP for Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), saying for a long time Police had […]
The erstwhile ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has fired its Secretary General Grezelder Jeffrey after she declined to resign from her position as instructed by the party president Peter Mutharika. Jeffrey ruffled the feathers of Mutharika when she said the former president should retire as she and other leaders in the party are calling for […]
Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) says Malawians are anxiously awaiting implementation of some of the policies that President Lazarus Chakwera and his Tonse Alliance made during campaign. DPP says the longer it takes to carry out some of the pledged the greater the likelihood of people losing faith that the policies they endorsed at the […]
Malawi Police Service, Fiscal and Fraud Section, on Thursday in Lilongwe arrested former powerful minister in the Peter Mutharika administration, Ben Phiri in connection with investigation of fraud and money laundering, Nyasa Times understands. Ben Phiri was being questioned in Lilongwe over sale of land and other bootleg deals. National Police spokesperson James Kadadzera said […]
Former minister in the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) regime, Mr Ben Phiri is being earmarked for arrest over bootleg deals involving land as seven people suspected of conspiracy to defeat justice have been arrested. Some civil society organisations including Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) have written Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) and Malawi Police Service’s Fiscal […]
Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development Charles Kalemba has confirmed that Minister Ben Phiri has bid farewell to staff members at the ministry. Kalemba however could not define whether Phiri’s farewell can be considered as resignation since he has not officially written a formal communication. But when contacted, Phiri told […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) director of elections, Ben Phiri, says his party which is in an electoral alliance with United Democratic Front (UDF) is certain of winning the fresh presidential election in a free and transparent manner because they have the right strategies to convert crowds into voters for President Peter Mutharika. In an interview […]
Ben Phiri, who is Minister of Local Government and Rural Development and governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) director of elections, has said the ruling party with its alliance partner United Democratic Front (UDF) is ready for fresh presidential elections slated for June 23. Phiri said in Parliament that while DPP-UDF alliance is ready to secure […]