Chief whip for United Democratic Front (UDF) Lilina Patel has backed President Peter Mutharika claims that he is fulfilling his electoral promises, saying indeed one year in power the President is delivering. Commenting on Mutharika’s State of the Nation Address in parliament, Patel whose UDF party is in “parliamentary coalition” with ruling Democratic Progressive Party […]
On May 06 2015, the leader of MCP and opposition, Lazarus Chakwera, gave a response speech to President Peter Mutharika’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) of May 05 2015. The President’s SONA marked the opening of the 2015/2016 budget session. In his speech, the Leader of Opposition did tackle a number of areas of […]
Minister of Youth and Sports Development Grace Chiumia has said government would not name the state-of-the-art stadium currently under construction in Lilongwe has after immediate past president Joyce Banda but will be called Bingu National Stadium in honour of former president the late Bingu wa Mutharika who initiated the project. In his official response to […]
It does not rain but pour for President Peter Mutharika who after being described as an “Executive babysitter” by Leader of Opposition in Parliament Lazarus Chakwera, leader of People’s Party (PP) in Parliament Uladi Mussa also trashed Mutharika. In his official response to the State of the Nation Address in Parliament in Lilongwe, Mussa claimed […]
Leader of Opposition Lazarus Chakwera, who is also president of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Dr Lazarus Chakwera, has asked government to explain the intention of selling state-owned Malawi Savings Banks (MSB) without following proper and set down procedures. Chakwera was responding to the National Address which Malawi President Peter Mutharika delivered in Parliament on Tuesday […]
Malawi’s Leader of the Opposition, Lazarous Chakwera, was on a charm offensive on Wednesday in parliament during his response to President Peter Mutharika state of the nation address, saying it was empty rhetoric. Chakwera, who is also Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president, did not hold back in his verbal attack on President Mutharika, saying he was […]
Social and political commentators in Malawi have described President Peter Mutharika’s State of Nation Address (SONA) delivered in Parliament on Tuesday as wanting and lacking a clear practical strategies to address the current economic hardships affecting the country. In his address that marked the official opening of a nine weeks long Budget Meeting of Parliament […]
Government is expected to be taken to task over the controversial sale of state-owned Malawi Savings Bank (MSB) with the Legal Affairs Committee of Parliament has saying it report to the House will spell out its resolution . Dowa West Member of Parliament (MP) Alexander Kusamba-Dzonzi (Malawi Congress Party – MCP) in the previous sitting […]
Malawi’s parliament is expected to reconvene next week Tuesday for a budget session, its Speaker Richard Msowoya has said. The Minister of Finance, Goodall Gondwe, a former official at the International Monetary Fund, who is credited with helping fuel an economic boom during the early years of late Bingu wa Mutharika’s leadership, will present the […]