Tag archives: Bob Chimkango

Malawi Housing Corporation backs PR conference, hails role of strategic communications

By Nyasa Times News Desk

The Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC) on Wednesday sponsored the opening cocktail reception for the 2026 Public Relations Society of Malawi (PRSM) Annual General Meeting, reaffirming its commitment to strategic communication, transparency, and sustainable urban development across the country. Speaking during the opening ceremony, MHC Chief Executive Officer Mr. Bob Chimkango highlighted the natural alignment between […]

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Malawi Housing Corporation roars back to profit under Chimkango

By Nyasa Times News Desk

Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC), the state-owned property and housing body, has returned to profitability in the first quarter of the 2026/2027 financial year, in what management is presenting as a significant milestone in the institution’s long-running financial recovery. On the corporation’s operational performance measure, the result marks MHC’s first profitable quarter since 2019, according to […]

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Property owners back MHC’s plan to overhaul Malangalanga quarters

By Nyasa Times News Desk

Property owners in Lilongwe’s Area 1, Malangalanga, have given unanimous backing to a redevelopment plan put forward by the Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC), the state’s statutory property landlord, marking a significant step for the state-run agency’s urban renewal ambitions. The endorsement followed a stakeholder meeting on August 9 at the Simama Hotel in Lilongwe, attended […]

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MHC to redevelop Lilongwe’s Malangalanga into commercial hub

By Nyasa Times News Desk

The Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC) has unveiled plans to redevelop the Malangalanga area of Lilongwe into a modern commercial hub, as part of efforts to reshape the city’s urban landscape. Speaking to stakeholders during an engagement meeting on Friday, MHC chief executive Bob Chimkango said the redeveloped area would become a centre for business, economic […]

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DPP Cadets abuse Malawi government facilities in sinister meetings

By Nyasa Times Reporter

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) cadets encrypted into numerous parastatals as gratitude for their loyalty to the ousted government took the word daring to a new level when they hosted a sinister meeting using government  facilities in Blantyre. Nyasa Times  can reveal that a meeting was held on Independence day 6 July 2020 at Malawi […]

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DPP witnesses Ben Phiri, Chimkango helped prove poll irregularities – UTM submissions 

By Nyasa Times Reporter

The submissions by first petitioner Saulos Chilima to the Constitutional Court challenging the re-election of President Peter Mutharika in May, says Mutharika’s two witnesses who testified in Court – Ben Phiri and Bob Chimkango – helped to prove claims of irregularities and electoral fraud. Chilima was UTM Party’s candidate in the May 21 presidential election, […]

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Theu punches holes in Chimkango’s testimony: MCP satisfied with first petitioner lawyer’s cross examination

By Nyasa Times Reporter

UTM  Party president Dr Saulos Chilima’s lawyer Bright Theu on Wednesday rounded off cross examining Bob Chimkango, the second witness for President Peter Mutharika who is the first respondent in the case by virtue of being the declared winner of the presidential race in the disputed May 21 Tripartite Elections, by picking holes in his […]

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Theu takes on Bob Chimkango in Malawi poll case: Mutharika’s witness goofing around

By Nyasa Times Reporter

UTM Party president Dr Saulos Chilima’s lawyer Bright Theu on Tuesday took on Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) President Peter Mutharika’s second witness Bob Chimkango in the ongoing electoral case in cross examination which centered on his involvement in active politics while serving as a public servant. Through cross examination, Chimkango confirmed that he started working […]

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Ben Phiri, Chimkango to testify for Mutharika: Court insists Dec 6 deadline for Malawi poll case

By Nyasa Times Reporter

The Constitutional Court has said its projection to conclude  hearing the disputed May 21 presidential election results on December 6 is set to be set and the five-panel judges would deliver  the much-awaited judgement within 45 days from the date. Chairman of the five-member panel of Judges, Healey Potani, said the court case which started […]

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Court dismisses judicial review on UTM registration: Lawyer Bob Chimkango ‘frivolous’ application thrown out

By Nyasa Times Reporter

High Court has rebuffed an application by  private practice lawyer Bob Chimkango seeking judicial review  for the registrar of political parties to put aside the court’s earlier order to register the UTM as a political party. Chimkango, a known sympathiser of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) filed the  ex-part  application for judicial review  purportedly […]

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BT City employees tussle with lawyer Chimkango over fees

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Blantyre-based lawyer Bob Chimkango is in a fight with 26 Blantyre City Council employees who accuse him of duping them after being paid K35, 000 as fees when he represented them in a house-buying quest from their employer. According to ducuments in Nyasa Times possession, the employees sought legal help from Chimkango in 2011 in their quest to buy houses from the […]

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Court stops MBC merger, staff redeployment

By Nyasa Times Reporter

High Court has granted an injunction to employees of the state broadcaster, the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), stopping the merger of the television and radio stations, retrenching and redeploying staff to other government departments until the judicial review. The order was granted by Justice Rowland Bvundula in Blantyre on Tuesday. “It is ordered  that leave […]

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