Nigeria government prides itself to run a transparent administration and top officials have refused to be party to the secrecy Malawi government is attaching to the mysterious trip of President Bingu wa Mutharika. Nyasa Times has received confirmation form Nigeria government that indeed President Mutharika visited Nigeria’s leader Goodluck Jonathan last Tuesday in Abuja. Nigeria […]
Did my minister Patricia Kaliati just accuse the State House in Abuja, Nigeria of doctoring a picture to give the false impression that President Bingu wa Mutharika was in the West African country? Is that the respect you give to a country from which you are seeking help of some sort? You just got to […]
Malawi’s Minister of Energy, Goodall Gondwe, has said President Bingu wa Mutharika has prior knowledge of the plot to overthrow his governmnet on the 14th of March. Commentators have however described Gondwe’s statement as “ totally groundless” allegation meant to sew panick in the civil society, opposition and the growing band of critics ahead of stakeholders […]
Director of State Residences, Edward Sawerengera has joined the bandwagon of liars in President Bingu wa Mutharika’s government with his spin that Mutharika did not go to Nigeria but was in the commercial city of Blantyre. Speaking on state controlled Malawi Broadcasting Corporation, Sawerengera said Mutharika landed at the cargo zone at Kamuzu International Airport […]
‘Nation-states fail because they are convulsed by internal violence and can no longer deliver positive political goods to their inhabitants. Their governments lose legitimacy…` – Failed States, Collapsed States, Weak States: Causes and Indicators by Robert Irwin Rotberg Malawi’s unending woes are the stuff that hopelessness, anarchy and failed states are made of. In the election […]
Plans by President Bingu wa Mutharika to have his brother, Peter, inherit power in 2014, will face a battle from a band of opposition politicians who will go flat out to fight “dynastyisation” of presidency, veteran opposition politician Gwanda Chakuamba has said. Chakuamba, president of New Republican Party (NRP), says he has come out of […]
President Bingu wa Mutharika’s ruthless regime of intimidation continues in a country where he has stifled all forms of democratic engagement and human rights as he has now ordered the re-arrest of his former Attorney General Ralph Kasambara, some lawyers and judges. According to Nyasa Times sources, Mutharika has directred the state-run corruption-busting body Anti Corruption […]
The People’s Party (PP) of State Vice President Joyce Banda has refuted insinuations by some individuals in Nsanje that the VP cheated flood victims allegedly for not dispatching relief items after recording names of the would-be beneficiaries. The governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) mouthpiece, Sky News of Friday, March 2, 2012, reported that the VP […]
Malawi’s flashy Minister of Information and Civic Education Patricia Kaliati has alleged the photograph that appeared on the Nigerian State House official website showing that country’s leader Goodluck Jonathan welcoming his Malawian counterpart Bingu wa Mutharika in Abuja was doctored. President Mutharika silently sneaked out of the country on Tuesday morning without announcing his destination […]
Whatever the truth is about the apparition that was captured on camera in Abuja, Nigeria on Tuesday; both Malawi government spokespersons Hetherwick Ntaba and Patricia Kaliati are either in the dark or giving us baloney. Further, Kaliati was willing to swear on her cabinet post that President Bingu wa Mutharika was here in Malawi on […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika is back home from West African nation Nigeria where he was on an announced state visit. Mutharika’s visit was kept under wraps, state and independent media were not informed of the trip. But Nyasa Times on Tuesday exclusively revealed that Mutharika has sneaked out. The President was also spotted in […]
President Bingu wa Mutharika has on several occasions denied that he is a dictator. He says that people call him a dictator just because he is a disciplinarian. Whether this is true, it is up to Malawians to judge. What anyone should know is that if there is anything that Malawians know better is to […]
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First Lady Callista Mutharika did not accompany President Bingu wa Mutharika when he secretly sneaked out of the country on Tuesday to Nigeria, as she was attending a funeral in Thyolo, Nyasa Times learnt. Mutharika left Malawi early morning on Tuesday around 6.45 am, a trip which was not announced only to be exclusively reported […]
The opposition People’s Party (PP)of State Vice President Joyce Banda has asked President Bingu wa Mutharika to call for a referendum, saying his DPP led government has become dysfunctional in the wake of continuing judiciary shut down. Malawi’s judicial support workers have been on strike since January 9, 2012 demanding improved conditions of service. Government […]
A disclaimer first – I have a PhD in Astronautical (Aerospace) Engineering. I am an expert in space environments and spacecraft interactions. I do not intend to knock education; I like education. I think education is very important, especially for our developing country. My brother who is a chartered accountant once attended a seminar organized […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika is not happy with the maladministration by Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) Director General Bright Malopa has moved in to stop the merger of the two state broadcasters, Television Malawi and the radio MBC, Nyasa Times understands. Malopa and his second in command, Director of News and Programmes Chimwemwe Banda had […]
Malawian President Bingu Wa Mutharika ‘sneaked’ out of the country to unknown destination in a dramatic manner, raising speculation around the 78-year-old’s health. Mutharika flew out of Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) at morning around 6.45 am today aboard his French made Falcon 900 presidential jet in what eye witnesses said was a ‘dramatic and emergency’ […]