Deputy Minister of Local Government Halima Daud has advised Lilongwe City Council to demolish a sculpture on the Parliament Building round about in Lilongwe which is christened by Malawians on social media as “Chijachi’ as they fail to make sense of the substandard quality. The deputy minister said she toured some facilities in the city […]
As Area 18 cemetery in Lilongwe is facing unprecedented demand for burials mainly due to Covid-19 related deaths, Lilongwe City Council had pleaded for a help of excavators to be used in digging graves in advance. The Council says their manual based grave digging can no longer cope despite increasing number of staff at the […]
The surge of Covid-19 deaths is causing delay to bury dead bodies at Lilongwe Area 18 cemetery because the city’s council has been using manual practices to do so. The council has since been moved to augment the manual practices with mechanized equipment to speed up the burial processes. Chief Executive Officer for Lilongwe City […]
Lilongwe City Councillors said they smiled back home after getting better “brown envelopes” with cash handouts from President Lazarus Chakwera than compared with their Blantyre counterparts when they had an interface meeting with the head of state at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe. Chakweara’s meeting with 27 councilllors was the third presidential meeting with councils, after […]
One of the up-market clubs in the capital city Lilongwe , Epic Lounge has been ordered to close operations over noise pollution. The Lilongwe City Council (LCC) public relations officer Tamara Chafunya confirmed that the Area 47 Epic Lounge has been closed following complaints of incessant noise pollution from residents around the place. She said […]
National Local Government Finance Committee (NLGFC) has trained Lilongwe District Counci staff to use a new system in the Mthandizi Public Works Project to help track how much work the beneficiaries have covered and pay them equivalently. Speaking on Tuesday during the training, the committee’s monitoring and evaluation officer, Benjamin Kayala said the Mthandizi live […]
Lilongwe City Council (LCC) has hailed the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace of the Archdiocese of Lilongwe (CCJP) for facilitating the building of effective communication and coordination between the council and its residents. LCC Development Strategy Manager, Gift Kasamira, disclosed that the enhanced effective communication and coordination has helped create a platform where the council and residents can […]
Lilongwe city council workers on Monday engaged an extra gear in their strike to demand 20 o’er cent pay hike by staging violent protests. The workers blocked the Reserve Bank of Malawi to parliament road with stones, tree logs and burning vehicle tyres. The workers have been staging the strike for a week now, paralysing […]
The Lilongwe City centre has now become an eyesore with overgrown bushes that have turned the once beautiful centre into a jungle. The problem has been further compounded by the decision by Lilongwe City Council workers to stage a sit in to force management to give them a ten percent pay hike. A visit to […]
Officials at Lilongwe city council say the council is losing K1.8 million in revenue through market fees because of the ongoing strike by council workers. The strike, which entered two day on Wednesday has also crippled important services which include cleaning and refuse collection. The workers are demanding a 20 percent salary hike, saying this […]
Staff at Lilongwe City Council (LCC) have gone on strike to force management hike their pay. The workers said they were promised that they would start receiving the new salary January end but there are no indications that they would get the new pay this month end. According to Lilongwe City Council Public Relations Officer, Tamara […]
The Lilongwe City Council chief executive officer, John Chome, has urged various stakeholders to come up with concerted and well-coordinated measures in response to the raging floods in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe. The country has, for the past few days, been receiving unprecedented rainfall patterns, in some cases lasting for two or more hours of continuous […]
The Lilongwe City Council has Saturday morning demolished the warehouses businessmen constructed next to Livimbo Schools in Area 2 in Lilongwe. The demolition exercise started from 7am, according to Ishmael Wadi who is the lawyer representing businessman Irfan Patel. Patel is being accused of encroaching the schools’ land. The businessman denies the accusation, claiming he […]
Lilongwe City Council (LCC) has embarked on a plan to establish a recreation park at Area 18 in Lilongwe dubbed ‘Area 18 Valley Park’ where people, including the youth will be able to host different activities such as wedding ceremonies and sports games among others. Speaking on the sidelines of a ground-breaking ceremony for the […]
Lilongwe City Council (LCC) has started enforcing its laws on city rates by sealing properties of people that have not been paying dating back to three years ago. According to LCC, the problem of not paying city rates cuts across industrial, residential and commercial areas hence the arrears have amounted to K 9 Billion in the […]
Lilongwe city council on Tuesday demolished shop foundation structures after accusing the owners of illegally grabbing the land next to Cross Roads Hotel. Under the protection of heavy police presence, the council officials brought in machinery to demolish the foundations where some residents wanted to construct shops. It is said some ruling Democratic Progressive Party […]
Business owners in Lilongwe owe the city council K9 billion in arrears due to nonpayment of city rates some of which date back to more than five years. Lilongwe City Mayor, Juliana Kaduya revealed bemoaned that the city council is failing to fulfill expectations of city residents, including business owners, due to inadequate resources. Kaduya […]
Lilongwe City Council (LCC) has commended Chinsapo Township residents in Lilongwe for teaming up to clean their surroundings during the sanitation and hygiene week which started on Monday to Friday last week. Councilor for Ngwenya Ward, Joe Katalama hailed the residents Friday in Lilongwe at the close of the sanitation week. “The intention for the […]