Mo Sidik Mia and Abida Mia has become the first husband and wife to sit in the Tonse Alliance government Cabinet as the country in previous administrations had couples serving in Cabinet. President Lazarus Chakwera appointed the Mia couple in his Cabinet on Wednesday night. Sidik Mia, the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) first deputy president, […]
One of the key financiers of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and former Blantyre Kabula Member of Parliament (MP) Rashid ‘Rashy’ Gaffar has made it into the Tonse Alliance government with his appointment in Cabinet. Gaffer, who just before voting in the fresh presidential elections made a deal with State House through his Rashy Motors to sell two […]
Owner of Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS) Gospel Kazako has been appointed by President Lazarus Chakwera as Minister of Information and becomes the new government’s spokesperson. Chakwera Wednesday named a 31-member full Cabinet, which comprises 23 full ministers and 8 Deputy Ministers. In a statement released by Chief Secretary to the Government, Zangazanga Chikhosi, the full […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has appointed four women in the 23-member Cabinet team and 7 deputies in his bid of increasing representation of women in politics. Chakwera has named his Cabinet and increasing women representation he has demonstrated his commitment to ethos of gender equality and attendant obligations on affirmative action which this country requires for […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) first deputy president Sidik Mia has been appointed Minister of Transport and Public Works while secretary general Elsenhower Mkaka is Foreign Affairs and Micheal Usi the UTM vice president is Tourism, Culture and Wildlife minister as President Lazarus Chakwera named his first full cabinet. Chakwera gave key roles to leading Tonse […]
Prime Lazarus Chakwera has said he has put to a“ battery of scrutiny” the picks of ministers in cabinet positions before naming his full government team after winning the presidential election last month. Chakwera in a briefing released on Wednesday said the ministers he has picked together with vice-president Saulos Chilima would be a “well-balanced […]
Leader of Youth Decide Campaign, Charles Kajoloweka, has called on the new administration led by President Lazarus Chakwera to appoint a youth affairs minister of 35 years or below to better co-ordinate youth policies and services for young people. At a news conference held in Mzuzu, Kajoloweka said President Chakwera should include capable youth at […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has said he has together with his deputy Saulos Chilima made “great progress in the formulation of Cabinet” and will announce the names of full cabinet officials before his inauguration on July 6 during the Malawi Independence Day. Chakwera is Malawi’s sixth president after winning the historic election held last week, the […]
President Dr Lazarus Chakwera has said he would appoint a full “lean” cabinet – which will have no less than 40 percent of women – as he works towards putting together a functional government to rebuild the country’s comatose economy left by his predecessor Peter Mutharika. The new Malawi leader made the announcement Monday afternoon […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has announced a partial Cabinet that, give it a second look, stirs a mixed feeling of hope and anxiety. You have to be hopeful to see the energetic and workaholic Vice president Saulos Chilima back to head Public Sector Reforms where, after making great strides, he left a gap his contemporaries failed […]
Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera on Monday started releasing names of Cabinet minister in dribs and drabs in which he has appointed private practice lawyer Dr Chikosa Silungwe as the new Attorney General replacing Kalekeni Kaphale. According to a statement from Office of President and Cabinet, Chakwera has made his vice president, Saulos Chilima, minister responsible […]
New Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera has named a new government on Monday in which former Nico Holdings managing director Felix Mlusu will assume the role of finance minister, the government said in a statement. Mlusu is a financial executive who served as managing director of the Malawi Stock Exchange (MSE)-listed conglomerate Nico for 41 years. […]
Women Legal Resources Centre (WOLREC) is demanding that the next Head of State that would be voted in after Tuesday’s fresh presidential election should implement to the book that there is equal representation of women in the cabinet as well as other national positions of influence. Executive Director Maggie Kathewera Banda said this on the […]
Newly appointed Presidential Taskforce on Coronavirus has suspended the special allowance for Cabinet ministers and members of parliament which has caused an uproar. The taskforce chair ministry of Disaster Preparedness and Public Events’ principal secretary said the K450 000 per day for Cabinet ministers and K350 000 per day for members of parliament has been […]
Government has denied reports that the dissolved Special Cabinet Committee on Coronavirus has been drawing huge allowances for the cause, saying they are to be paid their official rate. This comes barely days after the social media was awash with reports that cabinet ministers in the Committee receive up to K450 000 as their risk […]
Peter Mutharika. President of Malawi, Minister of Defence Commander-in-chief of the Armed and Police forces. Saulos Chilima. Vice President of Malawi. Francis Kasaila. Minister of Agriculture and Food Security. Dr. William Susuwele-Banda. Minister of Education, Science and Technology. Joseph Mwanamvekha. Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development. Kondwani Nankhumwa. Minister of Foreign Affairs and International […]
Some people in the country have always wondered why government has, strongly and repeatedly, resisted every call for an all-inclusive approach in managing novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. Well, this is it. The revelations that ministers and selected members of Parliamentary Health Committees will, each, be pocketing a hefty K450 000 and K350 000 respectively is […]
Cabinet ministers are drawing allowances for coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic assignments, it has been revealed after government spokesman had denied the matter but an internal communication at Capital Hill has revealed the taxpayers are financing travel allowances for the ministers and their travel party. “May controlling officers submit this morning [Monday] to the Ministry of Disaster […]