Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on HIV and AIDS, Rabson Shawa, has urged Malawians to stop having multiple concurrent partners to “ensure that we have an HIV free generation.” Shaba said on Thursday in parliament that multiple and concurrent sexual partnerships are a leading source of new HIV infections in the country. “We need to encourage each […]
In what would be best described as an attempt to quell bias reporting that has infested Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL) sports desks in the recent past, the management has banned its sports editors Pilirani Kachinziri and Dancan Mlanjira from editing stories on Football Association of Malawi’s (FAM) elections. FAM is on December 17 expected to […]
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) says it has pressed corruption charge to a senior reporter of the Friday ‘Scandal Sheet’ newspaper Weekend Times. Ngwira was arrested by ACB together with police Tuesday morning at the paper’s offices for alleged extortion of money from a senior official of Story Workshop. ACB senior public relations officer, Egrita Ndala, said in […]
Malawi’s Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) and police officers on Tuesday morning arrested a journalist who works for a newspaper that publishes scandals involving public figures, Kandani Ngwira, alleged extortion of money from a senior official of Story Workshop. Ngwira works for the Weekly Times, a newspaper that the Malawian government tried to ban in November of last […]
Malawi is part of an innovative project that matches two newspaper groups in Malawi with two newspaper groups in Zimbabwe for a series of exchanges including newspaper study tours, job shadowing and collaboration on business projects. According to a report on Biz Community, the Malawi-Zimbabwe Executive Twinning Programme under World Association of Newspapers and News […]
Blantyre Printing and Publishing (BP&P) was nearly closed by tax collecting body Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) on Friday last week for failing to pay tax arrears amounting to almost K120 million but was saved by an injunction at the High Court. MRA were ready to pounce on BP&P, which also own Blantyre newspapers Limited (BNL) which publishes four newspapers, […]
An opinion poll survey conducted by Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL) to find out the popular candidate in the former ruling United Democratic Front (UDF), indicates Atupele Muluzi, the 33 year-old son of former President Bakili Muluzi emerged winner. However, the media house which promised to publish results of the opinion survey in its Sunday Times […]
A dark cloud has fallen on Malawi’s oldest newspaper’s newsroom, Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL), after management laid off eight journalists , who were given their retrenchment letters last week Tuesday and reports are rife that more heads will roll. BNL, a subsidiary of Blantyre Print and Publishing (BP & P), publishes four newspapers which are […]
Blantyre Print and Publishing managing director Leonard Chikadya has challenged internal auditors to play their rightful advisory roles in organisations and consider themselves as drivers of business sustainability in addition to their usual role of protecting corporate resources. “As accountants and auditors either in leadership or as advisers, we have a responsibility to bring sanity […]
Malawi’s leading newspaper publishing company, Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL), is today [Tuesday] expected to fire 44 employees according to sources there. Sources say the company is firing the employees because of tax imposed on newspapers and shortage of foreign currency. “Our fingers are crossed. We are just waiting for the fate. We are told that we […]