Times Media Group ( formerly Blantyre Newspapers Limited) management has approved cutting the number of staff it employs— as part of a massive cost-cutting drive to save the media giant from corporate oblivion. The media giant which boasts of chain of companies including five titles namely; The Daily Times, Malawi News, Business Times, The Sunday Times, Weekend […]
As Malawi governing Peoples Party (PP) commemorated its first anniversary in office on April 7, Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Peter Mwanza, and his counterpart, Enock Chihana, of Youth and Sports, have been rated as the worst performers in the President Joyce Banda’s administration. This is according to a 2013 cabinet assessment […]
In June 1993 Malawians voted in a referendum that gave them an opportunity to choose between continuing with one party state or adopt a multiparty democracy in which 64.69 per cent of Malawians chose the latter. This outcome paved way for presidential and parliamentary elections in May 1994 which Bakili Muluzi won, ending Hastings Kamuzu Banda’s 31 years […]
Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL) Times Media Group, the oldest print media house in Malawi has banned all its female employees from wearing trousers or mini skits while at work. BNL are publishers of the Malawi News, Daily Times, Sunday Times, Weekend Times and Sunday Times newspaper titles. According to the order by the company’s managing […]
Malawi’s oldest print media giant BP&P Times Group has re-engaged the services of its former editor Frederick Ndala Jnr currently an employee of rival Nation Publications Limited (NPL), Nyasa Times can reveal. The company, which has five publications namely, The Daily Times, Malawi News, The Sunday Times, Weekend Times and Financial Times, has over the past months been hit by […]
Malawi’s media giant Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL) has suspended its Editor for The Sunday Times Idriss Ali Nassah after suspecting him that he is a source for online publication Nyasa Times. Nassah is accused of being a source to a Nyasa Times exclusive story that we reported two weeks ago that BNL’s parent company Blantyre […]
Blantyre Printing & Publishing (BP&P) Chairman Francis Pelekamoyo has refused to fire his Managing Director Leonnard Chikadya despite the board of director’s resolution to terminate his service. The BP&P board which include the late Kamuzu Banda’s relatives Ken Kandodo and Jane Dzanjalimodzi resolved at their meeting two weeks ago to fire Chikadya after noticing that the company is heading […]
Things are all not rosy for Malawi’s media giant, Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL) or the Times Group as the company is set to lose its key staff. The company is headed to lose three of its editors and a bureau chief due to fear of ‘job insecurity’ and ‘lack of incentives’ for its workers. Arnold […]
It does not rain but it pours for the country’s media giant Blantyre Print & Packaging (BP&P) Times. Latest information in our possession reveal that the company’s management has approved cutting the number of staff it employs. The company inside sources told Nyasa Times that management has undertaken “a detailed review of its organisational structure” and that […]
Malawi’s printing and publishing giant, Blantyre Printing and Publishing (BP&P) has played down report that it has lost a cool K60 million to a ‘middleman’ who was going to help them purchase a state of the art printing machine in Italy. Nyasa Times reported on Wednesday that Managing Director Leonnard Chikadya and Dr Tikhala Chibwana, […]
Malawi’s printing and publishing giant, Blantyre Printing and Publishing (BP&P) has lost a cool K60 million to a ‘middleman’ who was going to help them purchase a state of the art printing machine in Italy. The story is a case of “more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much […]
Malawi’s media giant, Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL) or the Times Group, has taken a bold step to reshuffle positions to a youthful crop amidst fears of retrenchment. Media group of companies which has sacked head of Times Courier, Stella Hara , is now being led by long serving Brian Ligomeka, as the Managing Editor. Old timer Limbani […]
A reporter for The Sunday Times newspaper, Clement Chinoko, was no Monday detained by Malawi Police Service for questioning because of a story that falsely reported that two women had held an engagement becoming the country’s first ‘lesbian couple’ to do so in public. Police said they were questioning Chinoko for “publishing false news with intent […]
Association of Business Journalists (ABJ) a professional body for Business, economic and financial journalists has hailed the practitioners in Malawi for developing the sector to greater heights and also thanked owners of media houses for heavily investing in business news departments. ABJ’s National Coordinator Thomas Chafunya was speaking in Lilongwe during the opening of one […]
The controversy surrounding two Blantyre based women who were reported to have held a traditional engagement has taken a new twist as the alleged couple has instructed their lawyer to drag Malawi’s giant media house Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL) to court demanding a whooping K50 million in damages for publishing what they call a ‘defamatory’ […]
The inaugural Talk Show Host of the Year in the 2012 Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa) Media Awards on Saturday went to Pilirani Phiri, who hosts Tiuzeni Zoona on Zodiak radio beating another favourite Brian Banda who anchors Straight Talk on Capital Radio. Ironically, Pilirani and Brian were sitting on the same table and […]
National Bank of Malawi has saved the country’soldest print media house, Blantyre Print and Publishing (BP&P) from imminent closure by giving the company a loan of K129 million which Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) demanded. The company publishes four newspapers which are Daily Times (the country’s oldest daily), Malawi News (the country’s oldest weekly), The Sunday […]
New US Ambassador to Malawi Jeanine Jackson embarked o n a tour to the country’s leading print media houses, the Nation Publications Limited (NPL) and Blantyre Newspapers Limited (Times Group) at Ginnery Corner in Blantyre. The visit was part of a programme to familiarise herself with the press in Malawi. One of NPL’s titles, Weekend […]