Minister of Transport and Public Works Sidik Mia on Tuesday rushed to check on Chapananga Bridge across Mwanza River in Chikwawa after social media rumours were rife that heavy rains had washed it away. However, the minister found that the bridge is intact, it has not been washed away contrary to social media rumours. The […]
Minister of Transport and Public Works Mohammed Sidik Mia visited the Njakwa-Livingstonia Road in Rumphi construction site and has assured the communities that the administration of President Lazarus Chakwera will ensure the long-neglected road should be completed within a year with October 2021 as a deadline after decades of lies and broken promises by past regimes. […]
A contractor working on the Dedza-Kasumbu Road has lodged complaints about alleged harassment of workers by road users who refuse to use diversions that have been created to facilitate the project. Briefing Dedza District Council Public Works Committee members who toured the project, Sempha Investment Site agent Musatero Nkhonzi said some road users threaten their […]
Some concerned community members in Chikwawa district marched to the district council offices to deliver a petition on a number of shortfalls in the district, one of them being poor road network. The organizers of the demonstrations calling themselves ‘Citizens from Chikwawa’ delivered the petition to the council’s Chief Administrative Officer, Leonard Mchombo who received it […]
Member of Parliament for Blantyre North, Francis Phiso has asked Minister of Transport Sidik Mia to name the Area 18 interchange after immediate former president Peter Mutharika. Phiso, a member of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), argued that he K7.6 billion Area 18 Traffic Interchange in Lilongwe was project initiated and championed by Mutharika. […]
The K7.6 billion Area 18 Traffic Interchange in Lilongwe has opened Monday morning for motorists’ use with mixed traffic experiences as some motorists found it easy to maneuver through the interchange sideway loops, others struggled with the same. A woman found at the interchange said people are struggling to switch from one lane to another. […]
Barely a year after assuring Malawians that he will develop the country to levels of Singapore; President Peter Mutharika has backtracked and now says he will develop Malawi to levels of United States of America. Speaking on Wednesday in Lilongwe, Mutharika—who returned to Lilongwe after a three-month absence—promised the people of the capital city that […]
Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Ben Phiri on Wednesday laid a foundation stone at the site of the K430 million Goliati Market in Thyolo which will be constructed with support from KfW of Germany. In his speech after the ground breaking ceremony, Phiri said government is committed to providing a conducive environment for […]
Chitipa District Council, through Agricultural Sector Wide Approach – Support Project (ASWAP-SP) ll has rehabilitated most of its crucial roads that connect farmers to rural markets. Through the project, which is supported by World Bank, the council has rehabilitated over 10 rural roads covering 96.4 Kilometers. The roads link most popular village markets of Kapirinkhonde, […]
Minister of Transport and Public Works Ralph Jooma has launched a K40 million construction work of Kanjoka Bridge at Humba Village in Senior Chief Kanduku Maseko in Mwanza District. In an interview at ground breaking ceremony ,Jooma said that government realizes the significance of roads and bridges in communities. “Good roads and bridges are very […]
Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation minister and governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) vice-president (responsible for the South) Kondwani Nankhumwa and Minister of Transport and Public Works Ralph Jooma attended a ceremonial launch of construction project for the Chonde-Mkando tarmac road at Chonde in Senior Chief Nthiramanja area in Mulanje Southwest constituency on Tuesday, May 5, […]
Solutions on how the country can transform it’s infrastructural landscape through Private,Public,Partnership arrangement are expected to dominate discussions at the High Level International Conference which the Public Private Partnership Commission (PPPC) has organised beginning from next week Monday in Lilongwe. Addressing members of the media in Blantyre ahead of the conference on Monday which is […]
Nankhaka Bridge on Nankhaka River that flooded a week and half ago due to heavy rains in Lilongwe is a small bridge, but very important because apart from serving people to and from Areas 25,49 and 47 that work in Kanengo, the bridge is very essential in transporting fuel to the fuel reserves at Kanengo. […]
After our Alcoholics Anonymous meetings on Wednesday, commonly referred to as AA amongst alcoholics whose chief aim is to manage their alcohol abuse, we decided to have our lunch just by the Karonga-Chitipa bus terminus afraid that we would miss our bus. Actually, we have been in the uranium town of Karonga for about a […]
Member of parliament for Dowa South, Gladwell Kachikungu Chimdzeka (Malawi Congress Party – MCP) has asked government to prioritise tarmaking the Nambum- Dzenza road saying it is a rich agricultural area. Chimdzeka said in an interview that the road once tarmacked a lot of agricultural produce could easily find their way into Lilongwe hence will help […]
Governments of Japan and Malawi have signed a K527.8 million grant agreement to enable the latter embark on an exercise aimed to improve the outlook of main roads in the Lilongwe City. The signing of the grant agreement took place at the Ministry of Finance Offices at the Capital Hill in Lilongwe on Wednesday. Under […]
Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Joseph Mwanamvekha says it finally ensure the Northern Region’s largest airfield will be constructed as it will spend about K500 million as initial amount for the construction of new Mzuzu Airport. Government is serious about relocating Mzuzu Airport to their remote setting in the northern side of the […]
The construction of the 29 kilometres access road to the border town of Marka from Nsanje Boma is now underway as well as the Limbe/Marka railway rehabilitation works and the area’s Senior Chief Malemia says once completed, these development projects shall improve their economic lives. The Chief said this at the installation of Steven Ngabu […]