President Peter Mutharika on Tuesday inaugurated the new K22 billion Mzuzu-Nkhata Bay road which the government has since christened Arthur Peter Mutharika (APM) Highway. Speaking at Masamba Community ground at Mpamba Trading Centre in Traditional Authority (TA) Timbiri in the district, Mutharika hailed the contractor Strabag International for constructing this road he described as “magnificent”. […]
Overwhelmed by demands for bridges in rural areas by Members of Parliament (MPs), the Ministry of Transport and Public Works is implementing a Special Bridges Program aimed at constructing rural bridges to mitigate challenges communities are facing in terms of connectivity of the rural feeder roads. Nyasa Times understands that the construction of rural bridges […]
President Peter Mutharika has assured Malawians that government would continue constructing good roads in the country as one way of improving access to social services. Speaking on Sunday at Chipusile School in Ntcheu where he presided over a ground breaking ceremony of the 135 kilometres Tsangano – Neno – Mwanza road. After laying a foundation […]
President Peter Mutharika has again hit back at critics who accuses him of rolling up his sleeves and taken to laying foundation stones , saying all infrastructure development projects his administration had launched will materialise. “I know that there is a growing campaign out there that we’re just laying foundation stones for construction of roads […]
Economic think tank, Malawi Economic Justice Network (MEJN) says President Peter Mutharika’s relaunch of the construction of Zomba-Lirangwe-Chingale road is a waste of public money. Mutharika on Thursday relaunched the road which former president Joyce Banda launched in 2014. Mejn executive director Dalitso Kubalasa said the government should be careful with how to spend money […]
President Peter Mutharika is set to re-launch the construction of Lirangwe-Chingale turnoff road on Thursday, the same road which former president Joyce Banda launched in 2014. According to the program released by Chief Secretary to the government Lloyd Muhara, the President will launch the program at Linjidzi Primary School at TA Lundu in Blantyre. Former […]
The government of Malawi, almost done with the roads it is currently constructing or repairing, will embark on construction of more new roads, perhaps, the beginning of the fulfillment of the ambitious National Transport Master Plan (NTMP) to be implemented from 2017–2037. According to Minister of Transport and Public Works Jappie Mhango, the new roads […]
Road infrastructure is a critical component of development. It facilitates mobility of people and easy transportation of goods from one place to another. For more than two decades government through the Roads Authority has been engaging various contractors to maintain or construct roads both in the rural and urban areas. However, the country is losing […]
President Peter Mutharika says government is rolling out arevolutionary infrastructure development with a National Transport Master Plan (NTMP) aimed at guiding the development of the transport sector in roads, ships and airports to be implemented up to the year 2037. In his State of the Nation Address during the opening of the Third Meeting of the […]
Minister of Transport and Public Works, Jappie Mhango has assured people in the area of Traditional Authority (TA) Mwamlowe in Rumphi that plans are at advanced stage for the commencement of the construction of the Chiweta-Mlowe Road. He gave the assurance Wednesday when he addressed a meeting at Mlowe Primary School in the area of […]
The Ministry of Transport and Public Works last week started upgrading the long-awaited Tsangano -Neno-Mwanza road in Ntcheu from earth to bitumen. The upgrading of the road which is being done by the Engineers department of the Malawi Defence Force (MDF) started on April, 3, 2018 and so far 5 kilometres of the road from […]
Roads Authority (RA) has assured people of Karonga District that the Karonga-Songwe Border Road currently being rehabilitated by a Chinese contractor Zhejiang Communications Construction Company Limited (ZCCC) will be of high quality. RA Public Relations Officer, Portia Kajanga made the assurance Friday in Karonga during a public awareness campaign on different issues such as security, […]
President Peter Mutharika has hit at his critics who say he is busy with ground breaking ceremonies for development programs when the actual projects are failing to take off. Speaking for the first time after Livingstonia Synod moderator Levi Nyondo accused Mutharika of concentrating on ground breaking ceremonies instead of ensuring that the projects take off, Mutharika said his critics […]
President Peter Mutharika has hit back at critics who accuses him of rolling up his sleeves and taken to laying foundation stones to hoodwink Malawians into voting him into office again, saying all infrastructure development projects his administration had launched will materialise. Mutharika , speaking at Bingu International Conference Centre (BICC) in Lilongwe on Thursday when he launched a […]
President Professor Peter Mutharika on Thursday launched a revolutionary infrastructure development with a National Transport Master Plan (NTMP) aimed at guiding the development of the transport sector in roads, ships and airports to be implemented from 2017 – 2037. Mutharika said a robust transport network is key to the development of Malawi and said his government will […]
Minister of Transport and Public Works Jappie Mhango has said President Peter Mutharika is expected to launch the National Transport Master Plan (NTMP) on Thusaday in Lilongwe. Mhango told a news conference on Wednesday that the masterplan is geared toward transforming the country’s transport sector in the next 20 years. He said President Mutharika is […]
Local Government and Rural Development Minister, Kondwani Nankhumwa has laid a foundation stone for the construction of a school block at Khunguni Primary School in Traditional Authority Chikumbu in the district and warned that government will not hesitate to blacklist building contractors who would not deliver good quality projects. Nankhumwa stressed that incompetence would not […]
Minister of Transport and Public Works, Jappie Mhango, has launched the construction of K211 million Thondwe – Mkumba Bridge in Zomba Chisi where mobility of people and goods was compromised at the expense of socio-economic development. Speaking during the launch this week in Zomba, Mhango said it was government’s obligation to ensure provision of infrastructural […]