Irate maize traders on Monday stormed National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA) premises in Lilongwe, closing down offices to force Mulli Brothers Limited, a private company contracted by the government to buy maize on behalf of the state silos, to buy their maize at recommended prices. The traders were also questioning how Mulli Brothers Limited, a […]
A fierce social and political commentator has hailed United Democratic Front (UDF) president Atupele Muluzi for his initiative of going around the country distributing food items to people and sensitising them about the novel coronavirus pandemic. Muluzi, who is also Minister of Energy in President Peter Mutharika’s Cabinet, has been to Central Region last week on […]
An Agriculture Production Survey for Mchinji shows the district will register a nine (9) per cent increase in maize yield as compared to last farming season. Mchinji District Crop Protection Officer, Ralph Linno has attributed the increase to good rains and government efforts in controlling Fall Army Worms (FAW) attacks which were rampant last in […]
South Africa-based Malawian prophet Shepherd Bushiri has no kind words against some Malawi political leaders who always politicises his maize projects. In a scathing Instagram and Facebook post made this week, Bushiri has challenged Malawi political leaders that: “The people of Malawi cannot go to bed on politics. The wonderful people of Malawi do not eat […]
It was all scenes of joy in Thyolo as Enlightened Christian Gathering’s leader Prophet Shepherd Bushiri cheap maize hit the district on Monday with markets opening at Number 1 Trading Centre and Khonjeni. Thyolo became the 7th district to benefit from #BushiriCheapMaize after Ntcheu, Salima, Mzimba, Phalombe, Balaka and Thyolo districts. Tens of thousands, as […]
Even with bags on their heads, people in Balaka went home shocked with Prophet Shephered Bushiri’s generosity of selling them maize at a ridiculously low price. Some even went home confessing that if it wasn’t for Bushiri’s cheap maize in their area, they could have languished with hunger. In random interviews with Nyasa Times, several […]
Prophet Shepherd Bushiri has accepted a request by Balaka-based musician and politician Lucius Banda to have cheap maize sold in the district. Initially, Balaka District was not considered in an exercise initiated by Enlightened Christian Gathering’s leader Prophet Bushiri. This was despite the fact that Banda was the first to write Prophet Bushiri, in October […]
Tens of thousands parked Migowi Trading Centre in Phalombe District to have their share of Prophet Shepherd Bushiri’s affordable maize on Monday. Scenes of chaos graced the exercise as thousands couldn’t hold to the wait for their turn. As the day slipped thousands continued to troop in and the selling point, at Migowi Trading Centre, […]
Malawi’s maize production will increase by 8.8% in the 2020 crop season as much-needed rainfall helps to raise yields, its agriculture ministry said on Thursday. The small southern African nation, among the poorest in the world, is heavily dependent on agriculture. The sector employs nearly 80% of the population and accounts for two thirds of […]
Prophet Shepherd Bushiri’s cheap maize sales has invaded Salima and reports shows thousands of people turning up to buy the staple. According to Bushiri’s spokesperson Ephraim Nyondo, on Tuesday people started gathering as early as 2am to have a share of the affordable maize. “The reception is shockingly amazing but we expected it. We knew when […]
The frenzy of Prophet Shepherd Bushiri’s cheap maize sales hasn’t spared the academia. In a rare Facebook post, Dr Sunduzwayo Madise, Dean of Law at Chancellor College of the University of Malawi, has come in praise of Prophet Bushiri’s cheap maize, saying it will go a long way to help starving local Malawians. He wrote: […]
Group Village Head Mtuwa in Mangochi says he cannot afford a smile and sleep—thanks to Prophet Shepherd Bushiri’s cheap maize being sold in his area. Mtuwa said his entire village was reeling from acute shortage of the staple, with the little on market being sold at K23 000 per 50Kg. He was speaking on Saturday […]
South Africa-based Malawian prophet Shepherd Bushiri’S cheap maize continue to shake the country with the latest being Mangochi district where hundreds are walking home smiling, singing praise of the Enlightened Christina Gathering (ECG) church leader. Bushiri, who also heads the Shepherd Bushiri Investments (SBI), is selling the maize at K5 000 per 50 kilogramme (kg) […]
Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development Minister, Kondwani Nankhumwa, has conceded that the maize storage facilities does not have enough stocks, falling short with about 197,000 metric tones of the recommended minimum stocks. Nankhumwa said this when he was presenting the ministerial statement on the national food security situation in Parliament on Friday. He said the […]
Malawi Police in Ntcheu have reportedly refused to provide security and manage hundreds of people scrambling to purchase cheap maize that Prophet Shepherd Bushiri has started selling in the district since Wednesday this week. Bushiri’s spokesperson, Ephraim Nyondo has confirmed the development ; adding they have temporarily suspended the sale as they explore to engage […]
It is 17:40HRS in Ntcheu district in the Central Region of the Southern African country, Malawi. This is where Prophet Shepherd Bushiri, Leader of the Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) Church has on Wednesday begun selling cheap maize to save close to two million poor Malawians facing severe hunger. Though it is getting dark, people from […]
South Africa-based Malawian prophet Shepherd Bushiri has a made a shocking revelation, saying he will, this week, start selling maize at K5000 per 50 kg across the country. Maize prices have skyrocketed to K20 000. In his public address monitored on Times TV, he said: “I will be selling the 50KG bag at K5000. I understand […]
Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development has adjusted uowards the maize buying price from K250 to K310 per Kilogram (Kg). The ministry’s Principal Secretary (PS( Gray Nyandule-Phiri said ina statemened made available to Nyasa Times that the move it to to encourage private entities who are keeping maize stocks to sell it to the […]