Some concerned Malawians want to lobby lawmakers to bring a motion in parliament demanding that President Bingu wa Mutharika appear in public or make a video link speech to assure Malawians that he is fit and well. If the president does not return this weekend from Hong Kong, a group of MPs led by UDF’s […]
It is oftentimes said that modern governments live and die on their economic records. And as presidents retire to their homes after a job well – or poorly – done, they are judged by the economic performance of their regimes. In fact, we get interested to review governments’ economic performance even before such governments expire. […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika was forced to refute recent reports that he was “missing” and rumours circulating that he was critically ill and had died. Ruling DPP vice president Yunus Mussa and spokesman Hetherwick Ntaba organised a news conference in Lilongwe on Monday to prove that the President was alive. Mussa telephoned Mutharika in […]
Mzuzu Government Secondary School head teacher Deus Gondwe has been posted to Enukweni Community Day Secondary school for refusing to implicate Head of Episcopal Conferece of Malawi, His Grace Bishop Joseph Zuza in a pregnancy plot. Gondwe is said to be receiving death threats for his honest refusal to implicate his bishop that he was […]
Presidential spokesman Hetherwick Ntaba has dismissed assertions that President Bingu wa Mutharika’s application to the Constitutional Court to have Vice-President Joyce Banda removed could fail because Allan Z Ntata who lodged the application has no licence to practice as a lawyer. Malawi Law Society (MLS) honorary secretary Jabbar Alide said the implication of having a […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika is said to have been angered with reports circulating that suggest he is in bad health and rumoured dead in others. Mutharika has been “missing” since October 30 after attending Commonwealth summit in Australia and government claims he is on an“annual leave”. But his brother and heir apparent, Professor Peter Mutharika (PM) […]
A spokesman for Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika has denied that the Head of State is ill, after reports and speculations were rife that he was hospitalized in China. Dr Hetherwick Ntaba told the private-owned Zodiak Broadcasting Station on Saturday that President Mutharika is on “holiday” and in “good health” somewhere in the world. Ntaba […]
State vice president Joyce Banda has accused president Bingu wa Mutharika of harbouring ulterior motives against her personally other than genuinely seeking court’s on the constructive resignation case. Banda is quoted in Malawi News of November 12, 2011 as having sworn in her affidavit that sections 79 and 84 of the Constitution of Malawi have […]
Some law experts are persuading members of parliament that when the House resumes sitting on November 14, they should declare President Bingu wa Mutharika ‘missing’, since nobody has been able to give concise position of his health or his exact location. Presidential spokesman Hetherwick Ntaba said Mutharika is on a holiday “somewhere” in the world […]
It is Kafkaesque! Recently the Malawi Government explained it was ‘reversing’ its deportations of former British High Commissioner Fergus Cochrane-Dyet, and that of new Zambian President Michael Sata. Sata was deported in 2007, before he became President of Zambia, when he entered Malawi to visit ex-President Bakili Muluzi. Government does not explain why it removed […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has been praised for the recent decisions that he has been making with a motive to bring back the southern African country from the brink of total collapse or take the Zimbabwe way. Mutharika has in the last few months come under heavy attack from diplomats, international organizations and Malawians […]
Federation for Disability Organisation in Malawi (Fedoma) (Fedoma) is yet to receive K11 million President Bingu Wa Mutharika pledged during a big walk in 2009 to raise money for the construction of the association’s office complex. Mutharika joined Fedoma on Sunday 29th March 2009 in a vigorous big walk in Blantyre to raise not less […]
President Bingu wa Mutharika seem to believe that the economic miracle he has achieved is real and all Malawians must acknowledge this feat. He once said that those who beg to differ are only displaying their ignorance. With all due, respect and honestly speaking, the current economic crisis in Malawi is a direct opposite of […]
Malawi’s Vice President Joyce Banda will face impeachment in parliament as leader of the House, George Chaponda has acknowledged that government has indeed mooted the idea to complete impeachment procedures. Earlier reports indicated government has so far drafted procedures in the Standing Orders on how to remove a sitting President or Vice President. It was […]
Cracks have emerged in President Bingu wa Mutharika’s cabinet over recent fuel price hike which threatens to weaken the governing DPP, Nyasa Times can exclusively reveal. Government on Tuesday hiked the price of petrol from K290 per litre to K380, diesel jumped by 38 percent at K360 per litre, citing escalating cost of importing and […]
Firebrand politician and former minister Brown Mpinganjira has criticised President Bingu wa Mutharika for taking holiday when the country is in the middle of the economic crisis. President Mutharika left the country last month Australia where he attended the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting but proceeded to holiday, the exact location which government is not […]
There is nothing to laugh, smile and rejoice about DPP’s victory in May 2009 – more than two years down the line. Seriously! It is time this government rolled up its sleeves and started working for the good of all Malawians – otherwise they are leading us on a path to nowhere. All I can […]
Malawi’s parliament has started paving the way to impeach Vice President Joyce Banda and has so far drafted procedures in the Standing Orders on how to remove a sitting President or Vice President. The draft procedures contained in a 170 paged document has since been presented to the Legal Affairs Committee of Parliament Parliament meets […]