New Justice Minister and Attorney General Ralph Kasambara has fired the first warning shot to members of the infamous ‘Midnight Six’ that orchestrated a failed “constitutional coup d’état” following the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika, saying they will have to face the law. Going head-to-head with Brian Banda on Capital FM flagship interview programme […]
Judging from the apologies floating around and the clemency thereto, it appears that the history of multiparty Malawi will forever be punctuated by apologies made by people who, one way or another, abused power and public trust given to them by Malawians when they ought to have known and done better. The genesis of apologies: […]
President Joyce Banda’s new 23-member cabinet with 9 deputies has seen many ministers in the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) which was under the late president Bingu wa Mutharika kicked out. Casualties include the late president’s brother Peter who was Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and anointed heir together with his deputy Kondwani Nankhuma. […]
The cost of the state funeral for former president Bingu wa Mutharika has already exceeded the K150 million budget, chairman of the funeral’s main organising committee Henry Mussa has disclosed. As of Saturday, the budget was running on a deficit of K92 million and still counting. Mussa, who is also the Minister of Local Government, […]
Local government minister Henry Mussa has conceded that plotting a constitutional coup after the death of president Bingu wa Mutharika was the most “stupid” thing by the Cabinet Minister and and begged for forgiveness from Malawians. Mussa is one of a group of cabinet ministers nicknamed the ”Mid night six” who held a late night news […]
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Sunday jetted in Malawi for the burial of his closest ally the late Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika on Monday. Mutharika died of heart attack on April 5 at the age of 78. Chairman of the ministerial committee on the funeral, Henry Mussa, indicated Mugabe was “too grieved” with the […]
Malawi Government has produced funeral cloth for the late president Bingu wa Mutharika and K21 million (about $125 748) has been spent on it. Tax payers’ money has helped government to produce 50 000 metres of the cloth which is distributed to political parties, churches, family members and women civil servants who used to dance […]
Malawi Government says four foreign heads of state and government have so far confirmed their attendance during the burial of late President Bingu wa Mutharika. The remains of Malawi’s departed leader will be interred with full military honours on April 23 at what would have been his retirement home from 2014, Ndata Farm in his […]
As the public viewing of the body of Malawi’s former President Bingu wa Mutharika starts today, Monday, government is yet to receive the five million litres of fuel “donated” by the Zambian President, Michael Sata. President Sata’s government announced last week it would donate the five million litres fuel to help facilitate funeral arrangements for […]
Late president Bingu wa Mutharika’s funeral will cost Malawians K150 million down from the budgeted K400 million. Chairperson of the funeral’s main organizing committee, who is also Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Henry Mussa, said yesterday when he released the funeral programme. Mussa said Mutharika’s remains will arrive this Saturday through Kamuzu International […]
There has been a minor shake up in the Local Government and Rural Development ministry where four district commissioners and one chief executive officer, amongst others, have been listed for transfers. A circular, REF. NO. C 61/02/08/VOLII and dated 30 January 2012, which Nyasa Times has seen, a number of senior officers who fall under […]
Malawi’s Local Government and Rural Development Minister Henry Mussa admitted Tuesday that its grain marketor, ADMARC, has no maize to sell the poor populace. His confession comes a few days after Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation Kingsley Namakhwa publicly told the nation ADMARC was stocking enough of the staple grain to feed the nation […]
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 […]
Malawi government owes chiefs K38 million in arrears of honoraria because it failed to pay most of them through the newly introduced bank system. Government has admitted it goofed to force chiefs get their monthly honoraria through the banks when most of them live in rural areas where there are no banks and that others […]