Anord Mpina brought smiles to the Mponela United sponsor Jean Kalirani who sat on the VIP stands when he scored an equalizer for his side to force Blantyre United to a 1-1 draw in the TNM Super League match played on Sunday infront of an average crowd at Kamuzu Stadium. Blantyre United were first to […]
There was drama at Parliament on Thursday when parliamentarian for Dowa Central Dr. Jean Kalilani walked into the chamber donning a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) scarf, contrary to parliamentary regulations. The development caused an uproar from Members of Parliament who proposed that the Dowa Central lawmaker should be thrown out of the august House. Reacting […]
Lilongwe Chief Resident Magistrate Ruth Chinangwa has adjourned to May 15 when it is expected to give direction on the charge of perjury involving Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) president Peter Mutharika, former Cabinet ministers Goodall Gondwe, Jean Kalirani and interdicted Chief Secretary to Government Bright Msaka. The court is expected to rule on defence lawyers arguments […]
Dr Jean Kalirani has been elected secretary-general at the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) convention currently being held at Comesa Hall in Blantyre city. Kalilani won the race for secretary general with 600 votes after beating Ted Kalebe (255 votes), Bintony Kutsaira (345 votes) and Allan Chiyembekeza (136 votes). Nicholas Dausi (1 106 votes) floored his […]
Interim leader of Malawi opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Peter Mutharika said he will go all the way to seek nomination from his party officials at the forthcoming convention and if elected, he will run for presidency in 2014, saying he will not be intimidated with arrests or any tactics to derail his campaign. Speaking […]
The bed-snatching saga at Mponela Rural Hospital benefiting Mzimba, which is Vice-President and Health Minister Khumbo Kachali’s home district resurrected in National Assembly when opposition Democratic Progress Party( DPP) lawmaker Jean Kalirani asked Kachali to furnish the House with a report n what happened. The transfer of beds from Dowa to Mzimba triggered controversy when […]
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has attacked Joyce Banda’s administration, seven months after being in power, arguing it has failed to run the country properly. DPP in its six page statement made available to Nyasa Times –at a news conference addressed by party acting President Peter Mutharika, vice president Jean Klairani, George Chaponda, and Kondwani Nakhumwa -highlighted […]
The opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has accused the ruling People’s Party (PP) of poaching its members by luring them with promises of riches. Addressing the media on Wednesday, DPP vice president Dr Jean Kalirani said the governing party is recruiting DPP members with offers of positions in government and business opportunities. “PP is poaching […]
It is not strange that the Women Caucus of Parliament decided to jump into the Mponela beds saga without proper information and when they got it, they decided to play politics and pretend everything was not normal as it was. Dr. Jean Kalirani, knows that she played politics, as a former Minister of Health she […]
Malawi Police Service are said to have completed their investigations over the alleged coup attempt by former six cabinet ministers who attempted to stop President Joyce Banda from taking office after the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika on April 5, 2012. The six who addressed a controversial news conference at night on April 5 2012 to […]
Members of the Women Caucus who abandoned a workshop despite being paid full allowances risks being arrested on Friday morning after they agreed to stage a demonstration to present petitions without Police permission. Members of the Committee arrived at National Assembly building around 4pm from Mangochi where they stopped a SADC meeting and opted to […]
DPP Vice President Jean Kalirani and Direrctor of Women Patricia Kaliati lack moral grounds to be voice of Central Region over the Mponela beds saga, Reverend Mphatso Gama of Pentecoast Assemblies in Mponela has said. The clergy said the revelations that Kalirani abused office as Health Minister to oversupply her constituency hospital with beds over […]
Malawi Government has defied a 24-hour ultimatum given by the infuriated Women Parliamentary Caucus to return 25 children patients’ beds allegedly snatched by the Minister of Health, Khumbo Kachali, from Mponela Rural Hospital in Dowa and Kachali on Thursday paid a surprise visit to the facility. Kachali, who is also the country’s vice president, held […]
Information gathered from the Ministry of Health by Nyasa Times has revealed that DPP anointed presidential candidate Peter Mutharika moved close to 100 beds early this year to Chisoka Health Centre in his constituency which led to dire shortage of beds at Kamuzu Central Hospital. A highly placed sources in the technical equipment department said Mutharika’s […]
Women Parliamentary Caucus members have strongly demanded Minister of Health Khumbo Kachali, who is also the country’s Vice-President, to return back the hospital beds from Mponela Hospital where they were snatched to be given to Mzimba for political campaign purposes. Chairperson of the female lawmakers Cecilia Chazama said the beds should be returned to the […]
Malawi Vice President Khumbo Kachali has come under fire from people of Mponela, Dowa, for allegedly ordering the transfer of some beds from the hospital to Mzimba where he is leading the ruling PP campaign for parliamentary by-elections. But Kachali (also Health Minister), through his spokesman Kondwani Munthali, denied any role in the saga, accusing […]
Two former female cabinet ministers and now senior members of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Patricia Kaliati and Dr Jean Kalirani on Sunday went to town blasting President Joyce Banda’s first 100 days in office, saying she is “hopeless”. The two told a rally in the capital Lilongwe which was addressed by DPP leader […]
A Malawian living in South Africa has revealed how the country’s officials including those working at the embassy in Pretoria deserted the body of late President Bingu wa Mutharika as the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) were repatriating the remains to Malawi. President Joyce Banda had earlier announced that she had sent Malawi’s Minister […]