Clients from various banks around Lilongwe Old Town who opted for anonymity, said month ends are always a hassle for them to cash their money such as salaries, allowances and various payments such as credits and rentals due to “Temporarily out of Service” Auto Teller Machines (ATM) and long lines inside and outside the banks. […]
In Malawi, cocaine has always been a mystery drug, priced out of the common man’s reach. We grow a lot of marijuana in this country, which makes it very cheap to sustain a marijuana addiction than a cocaine addiction. I always thought cocaine has little importance in our society, until a routine cocaine dealer let […]
Samuel Jickson, whose wife was killed by unidentified dogs in Lilongwe on February 17, describes her death is the most tragic experience he will live to remember. Jickson, 38, clarified that the deceased, Mwatitha Jickson, 26, met her death as she was going to a nearby under-five clinic to get their third born child vaccinated. […]
About five dogs Tuesday morning attacked and killed a woman in Lilongwe’s T/A Njewa area and left a four-month-old baby she had strapped on her back seriously wounded. Sources said the incident happened in the wee hours when the woman (identity yet to be established) was on her way to work in her maize field […]
Lilongwe Areas including 24, 25, 49, Senti, Mgona, and Area 18 were last Valentines night shook by heavy rains that started around 11pm. Some left the comfort of their houses to seek shelter in outside kitchen. Others kept awake throughout, wondering what would happen next. Residents kept communication through cellphone calls and social media, especially […]
Young, rich and famous that’s what Nigerian multi-award winning music sensational Davido is. He arrived in Malawi on Thursday afternoon and already caused huge euphoria in the capital Lilongwe where hundreds of his music followers traced and followed him to wherever he went for public outing. The Skelewu wonderboy was out again Friday to Chimutu Primary School in […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president and leader of the opposition Lazarous Chakwera visited affected people in Kauma Township in Lilongwe after a ferocious storm wreaked havoc and affected some 1 100 families during a downpour soon after midnight on Friday. Chakwera also comforted the family that lost a 10-year-old girl Shakila Banda through electrocution by a […]
From worries that rain may not come this year now to worries brought about by disasters caused by the same much anticipated rain, this is the situation at Group Village Headman Senda and surrounding villages in Traditional Authority Kalumbu, in Lilongwe, where over 50 houses have been destroyed. “It was Saturday afternoon when rain started […]
The failure of rain to come on time in most parts of the central region and the general economic hardship the country is experiencing have impacted hard on the people in the region with the capital Lilongwe experiencing very slow economic activity compared to other past years during the same Christmas period. The sentiments were […]
The Vice President Saulos Chilima on Tuesday inspected the new government Office Block being constructed at Capital Hill in Lilongwe. Chilima observed that it has taken a long time for the offices to be completed to enable other government Ministries that are renting from private owners to occupy it. “It has really taken a long […]
Malawi Police at Area 3 uinit in the Capital Lilongwe are keeping in custody an 11-year-old boy (name withheld on ethical grounds) for killing 12-year-old boy in Chisapo area in the capital. Lilongwe police spokesperson Kingsly Dandaula says the suspect killed the decease after the two quarrelled and exchanged blows over unpaid fritters sold by […]
A Burundian National is in Police custody in Lilongwe after being arrested in connection with the murder of a Malawian over the debt of K800 in which he is a suspect. Lilongwe Police Publicist Kingsley Dandaula confirmed to Nyasa Times on the arrest, saying the suspect Froudard Ngedzayo has been charged with murder. The murder […]
Police in Lilongwe have arrested five people on allegations that they murdered a 26 year old woman Faith Chembezi of Nyozo Village in Traditional Authority Kabudula in Lilongwe who was working as a nurse at Nkhoma Mission Hospital in the district. Lilongwe Police Publicist Kingsley Dandaula said the deceased met her fate on August 31 […]
Mayor for Lilongwe City Willie Chapondera has disclosed that the City Council has come up with new plans on the rehabilitation of the Lilongwe Community Centre. Chapondera said a committee that has been set aside to discus on the matter is yet to meet next week to discuss on the new plans. “Previously our plan […]
Running battles ensued between police and angry residents of Lilongwe Area 23 over a burglary suspect who the mob wanted to be torched but law enforces used tear gas to prevent the vigilante justice The mob caught a suspect who had broke into a house and wanted to steal. But Police fired tear gas and […]
A man’s body has been found along the Lilongwe river bank. The man, who is believed to have been in his 30s, was discovered on Tuesday after some people spotted him and called the police. The cause of the death was not yet known. Business was temporarily disturbed following the multitude of people who flocked […]
Property worth millions of Kwacha is estimated to have been lost when the Lilongwe Tsoka flea market, went up in flames Tuesday evening. Stalls and property were reduced to ashes. The cause of the fire is not yet known. Police said they are investigating the matter. “We are investigating the cause of the fire.” said […]
All is set for the Lilongwe Carlsberg Street Party which will take place on FridayFriday sunset to Saturday morning along the Independence Drive. Carlsberg Malawi Communications Officer Towera Pilling said the street part has been organised to celebrate 50 years of independence. “Carlsberg has been in Malawi since 1968, 4 years after our countries […]