Malawi President Joyce Banda has appointed commissioners to probe late president Bingu wa Mutharika’s death in office and alleged attempts to keep her from taking his place, Office of President and Cabinet (OPC) has announced. A statement from OPC signed by chief secretary Bright Msaka says the commission will be chaired by retired Supreme Court […]
Changing the Malawian flag in 2010 by the late president Bingu wa Mutharika and his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) stung the tax payers a staggering K2.6 billion, Nyasa Times has learnt. Malawians cried foul over the flag change saying they were not consulted. But delivering her pledge President Joyce Banda ensured lawmakers voted to restore […]
President Joyce Banda’s government has successfully presented to Parliament a bill for the independence national flag to be reinstated to replace the current one which has since passed. Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Ralph Kasambara presented the Protected Flags, Emblems and Names Amendment Bill in the august House and was supported by members and passed with […]
Malawi’s late president Bingu wa Mutharika’s widow Callista suspects her husband had sexual plans with some of the women that met him before he suffered cardiac arrest on April 5. Up to now, Callista is failing to come to terms with what happened for her husband to die but she has some suspicious developments that […]
Late president Bingu wa Mutharika’s most trusted aide Ken Zikhale Ng’oma has quit the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) where he was National Campaign Director. Zikhale told Nyasa Times that the former governing party he helped to found has now lost direction. ” I have done a lot of thinking and soul searching and its clear to […]
Leader of the former governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in parliament, George Chaponda, on Tuesday decided to give President Joyce Banda a few lessons on governance when he responded to the State of the Nation address. Chaponda lamented that President Banda has shown that her government “has no respect for good governance” is the manner […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) says it wants Nigerian church leader TB Joshua questioned following a fulfilment of his “prophetic” announcement on the sudden death of late president Bingu wa Mutharika. Mutharika died in a sudden cardiac failure on April 5 exactly two months before this date in which TB Joshua said an old African president would die […]
Malawi’s former minister Dr George Chaponda, who is opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) leader in parliament , has faulted President Joyce Band and her government for the poor implementation of the Kwacha currency devaluation. Chaponda, who has served as minister in various portfolios for the past eight years, said in the House on Tuesday that […]
Malawi’s Chief Justice Lovemore Munlo has categorically denied any involvement in an alleged plot to thwart President Mrs. Joyce Banda’s ascendancy to the throne following the death of Bingu wa Mutharika in April. The accusations of Munlo’s involvement took a new twist a few weeks ago when President Banda was quoted by a UK based […]
Several comments made about the departed president by a number of Africans from various countries, and a few non-Africans, seem to paint a picture of a man Malawians do not seem to recognise. He has been called a visionary leader, a Pan Africanist, and an anti-imperialist, among many other colourful adjectives. Is that the man […]
Tapiwa Mutharika, daughter of the late president Bingu wa Mutharika, is clinging to Malawi government guest house in South Africa despite government writing her to vacate. Investigations reveal that Tapiwa went to South Africa and lived at government house where top government officials stay when they go to the rainbow nation with a patient or […]
President Mrs. Joyce Banda may not have explicitly mentioned the alleged ‘Midnight Six’ who were involved in a scheme to subvert the constitutional order on the filling of the vacancy created after the death of former president Bingu wa Mutharika, but she has assured Malawians through parliament that government has set up an inquiry to investigate the […]
Former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) continue to play its trump card – tribal politics – by peddling claims that President Joyce Banda is targeting members of Mulhako Wa Alhomwe group for victimisation. This follows the sacking of top officials in government who were loyalists of the late president Bingu wa Mutharika and all belong […]
Malawi President Mrs. Joyce Banda is this Saturday expected to arrive in neighbouring Maputo, Mozambique where topping the list of agenda is repairing of bilateral ties that came to grind halt during the eight year misrule of late president Bingu wa Mutharika. Government officials are tight lipped on the trip but according to information monitored […]
Former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has dismissed rumours rip-roaring like fire in the dry bush that former State Vice President Dr Justin Malewezi would be made its presidential candidate with Peter Mutharika as running-mate for 2014 elections. The social networking site Facebook has been abuzz with the rumour that Malewezi would be drafted in […]
Outspoken Rev Maxwell Mezuwa Banda of Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) has warned Christians against what he called “worshipping individuals.” He said this on Sunday at St Andrews CCAP in his sermon broadcast on Transworld Radio which he said was to touch on contemporary events. Preaching from Colossians chapter 1 and Psalm 105, Banda said that the Christians and the Church belong to […]
Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) 2014 standard bearer Peter Mutharika at the weekend held talks with his party’s legislators from the eastern and southern regions, Nyasa Times can reveal. The meeting according to impeccable senior party source took place at late Bingu wa Mutharika’s fortified bastion Ndata estate also known as Malawi’s ‘White House.’ Among the topical […]
Malawi has devalued its Kwacha currency as part of its battle to tackle its troubled economy. The official exchange rate announced by Reserve Bank of Malawi on Monday showed that one US dollar now buys 247.50 Malawi Kwacha on the official market, having previously earned 168 Malawi Kwacha. “At K250 per dollar the exchange rate […]