Northern region district of Rumphi has produced two top positions in the President Peter Mutharika’s new Cabinet. Rumphi North Constituency MP, Jappie Mahngo has been maintained as Transport and Public Works in the Cabinet shake up released by the office of the Secretary to the Government Monday afternoon. Mhango is also ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) […]
Fired Health Minister Dr. Peter Kumpalume in a brutal shake-up of Cabinet by President Peter Mutharika on Monday has left him “disappointed”. Mutharika sacked Kumpalume, who is member of parliament for Blantyre Rural West, for an undisclosed reasons. Kumpalume regarded as one of the competent person in Mutharika’s top team was too gutted to comment […]
Member of Parliament for Phalombe North, Anna Kachikho has made a shock return as a Minister as President Peter Mutharika carried out a reshuffle of his Cabinet. President Mutharika appointed her to the position of Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development , replacing Atupele Muluzi who has become the new Minister of Health taking over from sacked […]
Chitipa Central MP Clement Mukumbwa (Democratic Progressive Party –DPP) has said he surprised but delighted that President Peter Mutharika has hired him into his lean cabinet. Mukumbwa is the new entrant in Cabinet as Deputy Minister of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare. Another new entrant is Ntcheu North East MP Everton Chimulirenji AS Deputy Minister of […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika has made changes to his lean Cabinet in a surprise reshuffle to ensure service delivery and has fired the perceived most compentent minister, Henry Kumpalume who has been replaced by Atupele Muluzi as new minister of health. Another causualty is Deputy Minister of Defence Vincent Ghambi, M.P who has been dropped. […]
Leader of People’s Party (PP) in Parliament and the party’s acting president Uladi Mussa has condemned Cabinet ministers who are consistently absent from the House and stifling parliamentary business, saying the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lacks seriousness in issues of national importance. Mussa said absence of ministers hurts business in Parliament. On Thursday -which was a Private Member’s Day […]
Malawians woke up to some surprising news last Wednesday. Mulanje West MP Patricia Kaliati, popularly known as Akweni, was relieved of her post as minister of Civic Education and Community Development and immediately replaced by Blantyre North legislator Cecilia Chazama. From a gender perspective it was a like for like change, but the two ladies […]
Performances are not always what we would like them or expect them to be, but simply put; our ministers have lost the plot. They lack common sense and consistency. Their actions have betrayed them; they make Malawians believe that they live in Paris, not Malawi. They have chosen not to listen to people’s problems, qualifying […]
Industry, Trade and Tourism minister Joseph Mwanamvekha has emerged overall star performer in the annual Sunday Times cabinet assessment, beating his boss President Peter Mutharika by two marks. Mwanamvekha got seven marks out of 10 in the cabinet assessment unveiled on Sunday. The newspaper cites the Buy Malawi strategy, investment foras, the Malawi Trade Portal […]
One of the titles for Malawi newspaper giant, Times Media, the Sunday Times has made a comprehensive assessment of President Peter Mutharika and his cabinet with most of the public officers getting below average marks. Mutharika scored an average mark of five, so too the vice president Saulos Chilima. The average five mark score, the […]
“Most politicians think they get unfair treatment from the media, in part because any coverage that does not communicate their full grandeur — their incisive mind, their sparkling personality, their unimpeachable integrity — must be unfair.” (Paul Waldman, The Week Magazine, 16 August,2016) Why have I chosen a Paul Waldman quote? Let us take a […]
A high level feud has appeared in President Peter Mutharika’s 20 member cabinet as one of the cash-rich ministers is accused of paying money to reporters to write negative stories against others. A source in the cabinet said a cash-rich cabinet minister deposited K1 million into a journalist’s bank account. “He deposited the money into […]
Opposition Salima north west lawmaker Jessie Kabwila on Wednesday asked that searches be done in houses of cabinet ministers for stashes of money. Kabwila, an opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) legislator, said some cabinet ministers are keeping huge sums of money in their homes when the majority of Malawians are suffering. Her remarks follow the […]
Fired Minister of Information and communication Technology, Reverend Malison Ndau says he has no regress in his remarks that he expects President Peter Mutharika assents to the Access to Information (ATI) Bill passed by Parliament and gets gazetted into, comment that has been widely thought to be behind his shock axing. The passing of the Bill came after […]
President Peter Mutharika has fired Malison Ndau from cabinet and relieved him of his duties as Minister of Information, Communication and Technology, State House has announced. The President has replaced Ndau with state spy chief Nicholous Dausi who has moved as Director of notorious National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) to become official government spokeman. Although the statement […]
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