Late president Bingu wa Mutharika’s funeral will cost Malawians K150 million down from the budgeted K400 million. Chairperson of the funeral’s main organizing committee, who is also Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Henry Mussa, said yesterday when he released the funeral programme. Mussa said Mutharika’s remains will arrive this Saturday through Kamuzu International […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda has called on the newly sworn in Minister of Information and Civic Education, Moses Kunkuyu, to respect Malawians and say the truth at all times than worship her – the way former ruling DPP hand clappers was doing to late president Bingu wa Mutharika. President Banda was speaking at Capital Hill […]
A visit to the Malawi’s Presidential Palace the New State House in Lilongwe confirmed fears that DPP officials and senior government officials who were closely working with President Bingu wa Mutharika and eating from the same plate with him have indeed deserted the fallen head of state. Nyasa Times reporters found the State House quiet […]
Malawi’s most revered musician Lucius Banda popularly known as Soldier has paid a moving and heart-rending homage to former President Bingu wa Mutharika pleading with Malawians to cast aside their political divide in mourning the country’s fallen third democratically elected head of state. In the song, Lucius Banda mourns the death of the president as […]
Bingu wa Mutharika, resting in peace, was a man of contrasting personality. He oozed with passion and love for Malawi; his bemoaning of poverty amidst vast wealth of natural resources and the declaration that Malawi and Africa is not poor but her people, was a phenomenal paradigm shift that added impetus to the progressive agenda […]
Former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) members are reportedly shunning a vigil underway at State House in Lilongwe in respect of late president Bingu wa Mutharika Mutharika’s brother Peter and former first lady Callista and other family members have been deserted and are being consoled by Catholic women, from a church Mutharika used to patronise. […]
The body of late president Bingu wa Mutharika will arrive back home in Malawi on Saturday April 14 at the Kamuzu International Airport, according to government. Mutharika was taken to South Africa on April 5 clinically dead after he suffered a fatal heart attack and had to be embalmed there. Chairperson of the committee to […]
Malawi’s former president Bakili Muluzi says he strongly believes that the new Head of State Joyce Banda popularly known as JB, would within a short period of time address most of the problems which the country has been facing during the Mutharika administration. In an exclusive interview monitored on Radio Islam Muluzi said president Banda […]
Head of the Catholic Church in Malawi, Bishop Joseph Mukasa Zuza is expected to say the requiem mass for late President Bingu wa Mutharika, church sources have disclosed. “By virtue of being Head of the Catholic Church in Malawi, Bishop Zuza is expected to lead the funeral mass for Mutharika unless otherwise,” a source said. […]
State controlled Malawi Broadcasting Corporation Television is so obsessed with the late President Bingu wa Mutharika that it carried his name in the 8pm news bulletin instead of Her Excellency Joyce Banda. One of the news bullets running down the screen as news reader Frank Kapesa read the bulletin read, “President Mutharika determined to restore […]
President Joyce Banda has said all politicians, including Members of Parliament (MPs) from other parties wishing to join her People’s Party (PP) should go consult the party’s Secretary General and not her or the state broadcaster, MBC. Speaking at a press briefing on Tuesday at her official Area 12 Residence in Lilongwe, Banda said she […]
Fired head of the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation, Bright Malopa, has disclosed that he had suspicions all along that late president Bingu Mutharika was dead man walking and that he needed medical attention for life-threatening disease. President Joyce Banda on Tuesday fired Malopa who was a Mutharika ally and used state media to campaign against Banda […]
Chancellor College political scientist Blessings Chinsinga and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Secretary-general Wakuda Kamanga have described as opportunists DPP cabinet ministers and parliamentarians who are defecting to the now ruling People’s Party of President Joyce Ntila Banda en masse. Just two days after taking over the country’s leadership over40 cabinet ministers and members of parliament […]
The first order of business in this article is to congratulate Her Excellency President Joyce Banda on her ascension to the highest public office in the Republic of Malawi, the Presidency, on April 8th., 2012. She thus becomes the first woman in Southern Africa; and the second woman in Africa as a whole, to do […]
Malawi’s new Head of State Joyce Banda on Monday called for a meeting of her People’s Party (PP) National Executive Committee (NEC) at her official Area 12 Residence in Lilongwe with a call to the members and all Malawians to dignify the late President Bingu wa Mutharika ahead of his burial soon. The late Mutharika […]
Newly nominated acting President of Malawi’s former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Peter Mutharika has congratulated President Joyce Banda for ascending to the country’s highest office. President Banda was sworn in as Malawi’s president on Saturday following the death of former President Bingu wa Mutharika on Thursday at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe after suffering […]
I hate to say it! But the truth is that Malawians have since the days of British imperial masters been desperate people, always hoping for the bright future but with no shining prospects. In our state of despair, we have found ourselves – unknowingly I suppose – trapped by moral inconsistency and contradictions in our […]
Nigerian Prophet TB Joshua revealed on Sunday that late president of Malawi Bingu Wa Mutharika knew that his prophecy of the death of and of elderly African Head of State was talking about him. Speaking during a Sunday service broadcasted live on his Emmanuel Television, TB Joshua also displayed the letter written by President Mutharika […]