Some new envoys who on Thursday presented their letters of credence to President Peter Mutharika signaling the start of their mission in the country, had a busy day Friday meeting various ministers. Minister of Health and Population Hon Jappie Mhango MP has an audience with New Ambassadors to Malawi from Israel, Australia and Canada respectively […]
Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Ben Phiri has advised Salima District Council to put in place waste management strategies. The minister said this on Friday in Salima when he visited one of the district’s dumping sites following a picture of garbage from Kamuzu Road which went viral on social media on Thursday afternoon. […]
The submissions by first petitioner Saulos Chilima to the Constitutional Court challenging the re-election of President Peter Mutharika in May, says Mutharika’s two witnesses who testified in Court – Ben Phiri and Bob Chimkango – helped to prove claims of irregularities and electoral fraud. Chilima was UTM Party’s candidate in the May 21 presidential election, […]
Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Benson Malunga Phiri has issued a stern warning to Mayors, Council Chairpersons and their deputies to desist from land grabbing. The minister issued the warning at Golden Peacock Hotel in Lilongwe during a three day training of Mayors, council chairpersons and their deputies on management of council operations […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential hopeful Lazarus Chakwera’s lawyer Mordecai Msisha – senior counsel – has said President Peter Mutharika’s first and key witness Ben Phiri’s testimony was full of distortion. Msisha made the remarks in an interview after he finished cross-examining Phiri, who was Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) director of election during May 21 polls. […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera’s lawyer Mordecai Msisha on Monday morning dug holes into a key witness to President Peter Mutharika, who is first respondent in the presidential election case, Ben Phiri’s testimony, as he commenced his cross-examination. Msisha started his cross-examination by inquiring if Phiri discussed anything to do on various irregularities that […]
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is mobilising supporters particularly the youth cadets to invade the Constitutional Court in Lilongwe starting this Monday when its director of elections Ben Malunga Phiri, a key witness to President Peter Mutharika, who is first respondent in the presidential election case, will continue to be cross-examined. In a message to […]
Back to the Constitutional Court on Friday, few interesting things happened. They are noteworthy… Firstly, any competent lawyer as well as any ordinary reasonable person will agree that, in a court of law, there is more to what goes into the mind of a judge to sway him or her this way or that, than […]
Ben Malunga Phiri, a key witness to President Peter Mutharika, who is first respondent in the presidential election case, approach in which he admitted electoral flaws in May 21 elections, followed the pattern set by lawyer Sam Tembenu on Thursday when he told the court in his brief statement that despite some immaterial irregularities, Mutharika won the […]
Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Ben Malunga Phiri has been quizzed of his qualifications in the Constitutional Court where he is the first witness of President Peter Mutharika, the first respondent in the presidential election results nullification petition. Phiri, a long-time top aide of Mutharika, who is also Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) director […]
Landmark elections case has adjourned on high intense mood as lawyer for President Peter Mutharika swiftly came to the rescue of the president’s first witness Ben Phiri over his academic qualifications. This was after the first petitioner Dr Saulos Chilima’s lawyer Dr Chikosa Silungwe asked Phiri where he obtained his PhD degree and explain his […]
President Peter Mutharika’s first witness Ben Phiri in the presidential elections nullification petition case underway in the High Court of Malawi sitting as the Constitutional Court in Lilongwe has confirmed that there were irregularities during the May 21 elections. Phiri, the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development who is also governing Democratic Progressive Party […]
The Constitutional Court has said its projection to conclude hearing the disputed May 21 presidential election results on December 6 is set to be set and the five-panel judges would deliver the much-awaited judgement within 45 days from the date. Chairman of the five-member panel of Judges, Healey Potani, said the court case which started […]
In four years time, the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) will have no choice but to choose a new person as its presidential candidate because President Peter Mutharika will have successfully completed his constitutional two terms of office. As is always the case during times like these, there are names that are being thrown in […]
Malawi government has said it wants to encourage men to have vasectomies in a bid to stem the landlocked country’s growing population and persuades the development partners to channel their financial resources towards promotion of Vasectomy. A vasectomy is often irreversible as it is a surgical procedure for male sterilisation or permanent contraception. During the […]
Government has introduced a constituency bursary scheme which will allow needy students access the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) for their school fees. Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Ben Phiri has signed the decree. This follows the increasing number of needy students in the country who lack school fees following the decision by the […]
Minister of Local government and Rural Development Ben Phiri has lived up to his promise of introducing employee of the month award by giving out the K100 000 award to an outstanding member of staff. He gave out the award on Friday to the ministry’s chief planning officer Flemmings Nyirenda. Nyirenda received a portrait and […]
Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Ben Phiri has expressed concern over chieftaincy wrangles, saying the disagreements deprive people of their right to development in affected areas. Phiri was speaking Wednesday at Maganga in Nkhata Bay when he presided over the elevation of Group Village Head Siyalimba to Sub Traditional Authority Siyalimba. “There are […]