There was drama Friday afternoon when an enforcement team from the Blantyre City Council (BCC) uprooted well decorated celebration structures erected in major roundabouts by Muslims. Moslems in the commercial city had put up the makeshift Islamic structures in all the major roundabouts like Clock Tower, Stadium (Chichiri) and Midima as part of celebrations to […]
Amid an outcry of lack of financial prudence, nepotism, and inefficiency by Blantyre City Council (BCC), management has swallowed its pride and invited the city’s citizenry to scrutinize its budget skeletons before it formulates the council’s 2012/13 financial year budget. The council invited a number of city residents on Wednesday morning to hear their views […]
Blantyre City Council (BCC) members of the trade union committee had a rude awakening on Monday when fellow employees “demonized” them for their ineffectual handling of the salary increment, among several outstanding issues. Upon returning from a presidential directed two-week holiday for civil servants on Monday, January 9, the trade unionists organised a meeting for […]
Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Henry Mussa last Friday surprised guests to the commissioning of Christmas and New Year decoration lights by Blantyre City Council (BCC) when he vanished into thin air seconds after power went off. The development came just a day after the minister cancelled the same ceremony at the eleventh […]
Blantyre City Council (BCC) Thursday postponed at the eleventh hour the annual city lighting up ceremony in order to please Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Henry Mussa. The council played second fiddle to Lilongwe City Council (LCC) which managed to meet the schedule as the capital took Christmas mood closer to the residents […]
Muslims in Malawi are strongly accusing the country’s state president Bingu wa Mutharika as the one wholly responsible for the failure of this year’s Islamic annual gathering known by an Arabic word, Ijtima. Information reaching Nyasa Times indicates that the National organizing committee for the gathering had planned to hold the Ijtima early September but […]
Mulhako wa a Lhomwe (MWA), a grouping of Lhomwe speaking people found in southern Malawi has established itself a base at the Blantyre City Council (BCC) where almost the entire management team constitutes of Lhomwe people, Nyasa Times can reveal. Management team of BCC is made up of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and all […]
The Blantyre City Council (BCC) has finally dragged to court operations manager for Madison Holdings Limited, a company the Council outsourced for traffic management services in the city’s Central Business District (CBD). The development comes after Nyasa Times exposed the Council that it is clinging to a company which fraudulently printed traffic management tickets bearing […]
Employees are at the Blantyre City Council (BCC) are set to down their tools starting on Sunday, December 4, Nyasa Times can reveal. For the past three weeks the workers have been strategizing on how to reach to every BCC employee at every work station and successfully stage the strike after efforts to have their […]
Police in Blantyre have arrested an employee of Blantyre City Council for allegedly raping a student last Friday afternoon. The suspect, a Mr. Bello, raped the form three student near Quarry Dam at Soche in Blantyre. Police say the girl had gone to the dam to appreciate the work of nature when she met the […]
Blantyre City Council (BCC) has suspended its Assistant Director of Administration Services (ADAS) Mpopo Gilevulo to pave way for smooth investigations following revelations by Nyasa Times that he connived with the Director of Financial Services (DFS) to deduct personal loans from some junior employees on his behalf. Nyasa Times investigations revealed two weeks ago that […]