Over 3000 merchants of Lilongwe market which was razed down by fire last week, have started erecting stalls. Market secretary Daniel Kamala said all the temporary stalls will be made of buirnt bricks and cement to avoid another fire and keep the beauty of the city. “We had a meeting with the Lilongwe City Assembly […]
About 5000 merchants whose merchandise were gutted i a raging fire on Sunday morning, are on Monday standing in ashes, in what used to be their stalls as head count to identify real victims start. Secretary for the market Daniel Kamala said the head count follows a succesful meeting the merchants had with cabinet ministers, […]
Local government and rural development minister Kondwani Nankhimwa on Friday had no kind words for officials at Lilongwe City Council and suggested heads might roll after they came to fight fire at a market two hours late. Nankhumwa, known for calling a spade a spade in his approach, expressed concern that the council fire brigade […]
Police fired teargas Friday to disperse rowdy street vendors in the Malawi capital, Lilongwe, as trouble erupted following fire that has gutted the main market, burning billions of money in merchandise in the early morning inferno. The roads leading to the Old Town were closed in the morning as vendors protested angrily over the late […]
Fire has gutted Lilongwe central market, in the capital city, destroying goods worth millions of kwachas. Eye-witnesses said the fire occurred on Friday dawn but city council’s fire extinguishers came hours later in the morning after most of the merchandise had already been lost in the inferno. By standers booed at the fire fighters for coming late […]
A man who was installing a dish in one of Lilongwe`s residential areas on Thursday fell from the roof and died on the way to Kamuzu Central Hospital. Lilongwe Police Public Relations Officer Inspector Kingsley Dandaula confirmed the death of a man only identified as Kondwani Tonga, who was trying to install a dish on […]
Lack of security at Magwero Primary School in Lilongwe is forcing teachers to commute from far residential areas; a development which is affecting learning at the school. The isolated school, located about 15 kilometres from Lilongwe along M1 Road, near Malawi Institute of Management (MIM) has, for the past four years, experienced an exodus of […]
Malawi Police in Lilongwe have arrested 50 car wash operators for what council officials say is for operating from illegal premises. Lilongwe City Council publicist Tamara Chafunya said the operators were given a month long notice to vacate the premises they are operating from but decided to ignore the warnings. “We were in newspapers, on […]
A girl child has died in the capital Lilongwe after she mistakenly drank a poisonous chemical which his father bought to deal with a termite problem at his garden. Nyasa Times has learnt that Dr. Masauko Kumwenda of Area 25 Sector 3, who works at the Ministry of Agriculture headquarters, on the fourteenth of this month […]
Malawi Police on Friday night shot dead two suspected robbers in Area 36 Lilongwe, during a hunt-down for robbers who broke into Transcom Company premises and stole computers worth millions. Kanengo Police spokesperson, Sub. Inspector Esther Mkwanda, confirmed the incident and disclosed that they also had two suspects in custody while one suspect escaped during […]
Officials at Lilongwe District Health Office say they are alarmed and overwhelmed with the number of sexually transmitted diseases which has hit 9000 in the last four months. Richard Mvula, spokesperson for Lilongwe DHO said most of the people suffering from gonorhoea and syphilis are aged from 19 to 25 from Chinsapo, Areas 24 and […]
Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development Atupele Muluzi has condemned land grabbing in the capital city Lilongwe from Asian business people by a group of local business traders. A group f traders over the weekend grabbed land belonging to an Asian businessman in Malangalanga and shared it among themselves. But Muluzi in an interview […]
World renowned fast food outlet Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), with a presence in over 80 countries, will open its doors in Lilongwe at 9am on Thursday 25th February, 2016 at Lilongwe City Mall, three years after opening the first ever shop in Malawi at Blantyre. Principal Operator of the KFC franchise in Malawi, Hamza Tayub […]
A 14 year-old Burundi national on Sunday (10th January, 2015) was found hanging from a roof of a house at Falls Estate location in Lilongwe. Lilongwe Police Station Public Relations Officer (PRO) Inspector Kingsley Dandaula said the Police have identified the deceased as Cynthia Nibyabandi who until her death was staying with her parents at […]
A young man in his thirties, Wednesday afternoon, escaped the wrath of a mob when he was caught by an angry crowd removing a rear mirror of a car whose owner parked at Action Hardware, close to Mahomed Arcade in the heart of Lilongwe City, Old Town. The incident, witnessed by this reporter, started as a simple […]
Vandals and torrential rains have brought down the main power lines that supply electricity from Nkula Falls to Lilongwe, worsening electricity woes in the country. Escom transmission manager Alfred Kaponda said over K600 million is needed to bring the situation back to normal. This is in addition to daily electricity woes that has seen Escom […]
Just as Christmas season is fast approaching, Lilongwe has a state of art 800 seater Sana Mega Food Court opened ready to serve people during this season when families and individuals always long for a place to enjoy quality good time and meals. Constructed adjacent to Sana Mega Shopping Center, the food court that has […]
A fight between two young men over a K100 debt resulted into a tragedy in Lilongwe on Thursday as they both lost their lives. The incident took place in Area 49 at a place commonly known as Pa Zebra, along the Kaunda Road. Police have confirmed the incident and they have identified the two as […]