Malawi Police Services have busted into a ghost credit lending institution, which has been swindling residennts in Kabula townships thousands of. Both Police and Member of Parliament for the area Felix Njawala confirmed to Nyasa Times in separate interviews while disclosing that currently owners of the institution, African Relief Rock are on the run. The […]
Malawi police are investigating the death of a man who was found hanging in a tree on Tuesday at squatter township of Kachere along the Blantyre- Zomba road. The body was found by children who were playing around the place, police said. Police were informed immediately after detecting the body which was found hanging from […]
Some people from Blantyre Malabada constituency are calling for resignation of their parliamentarian Aaron Sangala, accusing him of among others failing to develop the area and abusing Constituency Development Funds(CDF). In a letter dated 19 July 2012 addressed to the Democratic Progressive Party MP, the people have given a 14 day ultimatum to the former […]
Police in Blantyre have arrested 40 suspects and seized assorted items following a sweeping exercise they conducted recently in townships of Manase and Chilomoni. Assistant Public Relations Officer for Blantyre Police, Sergeant Lameck Thembachako said the exercise was done a day before independence celebrations. He said the exercise was aimed at following up different cases […]
The meeting between parents and teachers at Namalimwe primary school in Blantyre ended in a deadlock on Sunday afternoon after parents for pupils who learn at the school categorically refused a 100 percent increase on school fund proposed by the teachers. According to the teachers, the annual school fund among other uses helps in meeting […]
The magistrates court in Blantyre on Tuesday gave bail to three brothers who were arrested for assaulting a woman named Judith Kapichi on infidelity allegations. The three, Gift, Moses and Anderson Kukhola from Mleso village T/A Somba in Blantyre were arrested on June 26 this year a day after assaulting Kapichi on allegations that she […]
Since handing over the presidency to the late Bingu wa Mutharika, former president Bakili Muluzi has not enjoyed airtime at the state broadcaster except for wrong reasons but now under President Joyce Banda the station gave Muluzi a rare interview. In the interview aired on news bulletin, Muluzi who is going o South Africa on […]
A body of an indentified person trapped in a sewer line has been found in a complete decomposed state at Manase Sewage plant in Blantyre, police and Blantyre City Council authorities have confirmed. An officer at the sewerage treatment plant told Nyasa Times that for some three weeks they have been experiencing a low flow […]
Traffic related deaths in roads of Malawi’s commercial capital Blantyre have gone up by over 44 percent in the first quarter of the year, Police figures have shown. Malawi police service while confirming the development attributed soaring in figures of road deaths to alcohol abuse and over speeding on the part of road users. According […]
Two students of the Malawi Polytechnic were reportedly killed on Thursday when they were on their way to the campus at the road traffic lights as a lorry belonging to a construction company hit two university students . The students reacted by going to rampage to smash the truck and set it ablaze. They road […]
Malawi’s late president, Bingu wa Mutharika’s funeral on Monday had seen condom sales in the city of Blantyre hit the roof suggesting that many people who travelled to the burial ceremony engaged themselves in extra-marital safe sexual escapades, Nyasa Times can exclusively report. According to reports reaching Nyasa Times condom sales rocketed sky-high in Blantyre […]
There was drama at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Blantyre on Sunday when a minibus driver, in a real Hollywood movie, dropped a ‘dead’ man at the emergency ward before speeding off. The incident occurred just before lunch hour in full view of patients, guardians, visitors and hospital workers who stood helpless as if […]
Police in the commercial city of Malawi, Blantyre are still hunting for a woman, who was abducted on Tuesday, April 3 around 5pm on the junction to Blantyre Water Board alongside the Makata Road. According Southern Region police spokesperson Nicolas Gondwa, the woman was abducted by five unknown men and that by Wednesday there was […]
A 27-year-old Blantyre man is languishing at Chichiri Prison after he ‘unintentionally’ killed his wife of two years last week, police has confirmed. Records at Blantyre Police show that Henderson Limited of Malekwete village, TA Chikumbu in Mulanje district killed his wife, Mercy Amosi, 23, after he beat her with a rod for delaying to […]
Ruling Democratic Progressive Party which boasted of massive support from Blantyre City is now losing ground at least from Ndirande Malabada Constituency. Evidence for the loss was first shown on Sunday when President Bingu wa Mutharika was presiding over the anti corruption bureau function in Blantyre. Only one truck but without many people ferried a […]
February 14 is a date the world celebrates love and affection between intimate companions. Malawians are no exception as they also take time to observe this particular day annually. As this year’s Valentine’s Day fast approaches, a Blantyre-based firm, Freed Marketing Consultancy, is organizing a special event where loved ones will celebrate the romantic day […]
There was mad dash at most fuel stations in Blantyre Friday as police embarked on an unnamed operation descending on every person carrying jerry cans (zigubu) after some people booed President Bingu wa Mutharika when he was coming from Ndata in Thyolo going to Sanjika Palace. Malawians are unhappy with the economic woes in the […]
Three unidentified thugs have brutally murdered a 23-year-old man and in the process gang raped his girlfriend at a park in Blantyre. Police say the two lovebirds met their fate around after 5.00pm Tuesday as they were chatting at Sunnyside Park in the city. The deceased has been identified as Victor Kokoma of Machinjiri Township […]