Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom), the distributor of electricity, has affected a ban against advertising title of the giant news organisation Times Group deemed critical of government. Times Group publishes the Daily Times, Malawi News, Sunday Times, broadcast on Times Radio and Times TV. The media giant has been critical to Escom and its “comrade in crime” […]
President Peter Mutharika has denied that he ordered the closure of media giant Times Group through the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA), saying he does not interfere with the work of the revenue collectors. Mutharika was speaking on State-controlled Malaiw Broadcasting Corporation (MBC). He, however, accused the Chief Executive Officer of the Group, Leonard Chikadya, of […]
The Managing Director of Times Group took to Facebook to defend his company’s decision to retrench nearly 70 employees saying that during “the past five years since 2010, Times Group has recorded the best financial returns for shareholders and this sound financial performance was the basis for major investments in TV and radio broadcasting” Times […]
Malawi media giant, Times Group, has announced retrenchment of over 60 employess due to economic hardships the country is facing impacting on the private sector. The high-flying media house with interests in three national newspapers, national television station, national radio station, commercial print house, publishing house, courier service and an advertising agency, confirmed on Friday […]
Managing Director of Times Group Leonard Chakadya has confessed that the death of seasoned journalist and celebrated columnist Ralph Tenthani would affect sales of one its publications, The Sunday Times. Chikadya made the remarks at College Medicine Mortuary when scores of people paid their last respects to the fallen media hero. Tenthani died in a car accident […]
Malawi media giant Times Group has appointed former Nation Publications Limited editor George Kasakula as Editor-in-Chief. Kasakula crossed the floor recently and took over the Editorship of Times Group flagship newspaper Malawi News apart from helping at the newly launched Times TV. But Times Group CEO Leonard Chikadya told an internal conference of the media […]
Printing media giant BP&P said yesterday it fired its weekly Malawi News Editor Limbani Moya after being advised by the country’s top most private hospital Mwaiwathu, which declared him unfit to continue working as a journalist, lawyer for BP&P Innocent Kalua confirmed to Nyasa Times. “Around the year 2012, the applicant, Mr. Limbani Moya was […]
Malawi’s leading media institution, Times Group on Friday snubbed Friends of Limbani Golf Tournament which was organised in support of its former editor Limbani Moya, who worked for the institution close to 20 years.The company through its Chief Executive Officer Leonard Chikadya also cancelled a K100, 000 contribution towards an initiative. Chikadya is said to have been […]
Malawi’s leading media group Blantyre Printing and Publishing (Times Group) Chief Executive Leonard Chikadya on Monday cancelled a K100, 000 cheque; a contribution towards an initiative to raise funds for one of its fired editors Limbani Moya who is battling with chronic kidney failure disease and needs a kidney transplant in India. An accountant at […]
Blantyre Printing and Publishing (BP&P) the oldest print media house in Malawi, is at it again with the Malawi Revenue Authority(MRA) as the tax body is demanding K493 million accumulated through non payment of taxes. BP&P has several companies including Blantyre Newspapers Limited (or BNL Times Group) which publishes The Daily Times, Malawi News and The Sunday Times. […]
Longest serving and most esteemed journalists Limbani Moya, Felix Mponda, Jack McBrams and Akwete Sande have been fired from Times Media Group in what the company calls restructuring and re-organising process. Moya was editor for Malawi News while Mponda deputy editor for the Sunday Times and Sande was a sub editor. McBrams was editor for […]
Times Media Group ( formerly Blantyre Newspapers Limited) management has approved cutting the number of staff it employs— as part of a massive cost-cutting drive to save the media giant from corporate oblivion. The media giant which boasts of chain of companies including five titles namely; The Daily Times, Malawi News, Business Times, The Sunday Times, Weekend […]
In June 1993 Malawians voted in a referendum that gave them an opportunity to choose between continuing with one party state or adopt a multiparty democracy in which 64.69 per cent of Malawians chose the latter. This outcome paved way for presidential and parliamentary elections in May 1994 which Bakili Muluzi won, ending Hastings Kamuzu Banda’s 31 years […]
Malawi’s media giant Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL) has suspended its Editor for The Sunday Times Idriss Ali Nassah after suspecting him that he is a source for online publication Nyasa Times. Nassah is accused of being a source to a Nyasa Times exclusive story that we reported two weeks ago that BNL’s parent company Blantyre […]
Blantyre Printing & Publishing (BP&P) Chairman Francis Pelekamoyo has refused to fire his Managing Director Leonnard Chikadya despite the board of director’s resolution to terminate his service. The BP&P board which include the late Kamuzu Banda’s relatives Ken Kandodo and Jane Dzanjalimodzi resolved at their meeting two weeks ago to fire Chikadya after noticing that the company is heading […]
It does not rain but it pours for the country’s media giant Blantyre Print & Packaging (BP&P) Times. Latest information in our possession reveal that the company’s management has approved cutting the number of staff it employs. The company inside sources told Nyasa Times that management has undertaken “a detailed review of its organisational structure” and that […]
Malawi’s printing and publishing giant, Blantyre Printing and Publishing (BP&P) has played down report that it has lost a cool K60 million to a ‘middleman’ who was going to help them purchase a state of the art printing machine in Italy. Nyasa Times reported on Wednesday that Managing Director Leonnard Chikadya and Dr Tikhala Chibwana, […]
Malawi’s printing and publishing giant, Blantyre Printing and Publishing (BP&P) has lost a cool K60 million to a ‘middleman’ who was going to help them purchase a state of the art printing machine in Italy. The story is a case of “more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much […]