Government has transferred the District Commissioner for Mchinji Rosemary Navicha after strong protests and boycott of payment of market fees by traders. People in Mchinji accuse Navicha of nepotism, corruption and abuse of office. Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development officials says Navicha has been transferred to Machinga but it is yet known the […]
Mchinji District Council is struggling to provide essential public services as traders are refusing to pay market fees for two months now in order to force the district commissioner and her cronies out of office. Irate people closed the offices of the District Commissioner Mary Navacha and others for two days to force them out […]
Malawi Police arrest of two butcher men at Walani Trading Centre in Mchinji for disregarding a meat sales ban triggered running battles on Tuesday between the law enforcers and vendors. The government effected the ban on sale of meat and restricted movement of animals following traces of foot and mouth disease two months ago. Officer-in-charge […]
Malawi Police in Mchinji have arrested a 23-year-old man for demolishing two tombs at a graveyard after the relations of the dead failed to pay for coffins which they had taken on debt to bury their loved ones. Mchinji police spokesperson Kaitano Lubriano has said Robert Phiri went to a graveyard to demolish the tombs. […]
Malawi Police in Mchinji have arrested two election monitors for attempting to vote twice at different centres. Police spokesperson in the district Lubriano Kaitano said the two poll monitors are for the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and main opposition, the Malawi Congress Party (MCP). “It is an offence, under the electoral laws to vte […]
President Peter Mutharika says government will construct seven secondary schools in Mchinji. Mutharika said this at Matutu trading center in Mchinji east constituency during a whistle stop campaign tour over the weekend. He said government –with support of the World Bank – will construct 250 secondary schools across the country and seven will be in […]
President Peter Mutharika has said government will transform Mchinji District bordering with Zambia into a municipality with complete new infrastructure once re-elected on May 21 2019. Speaking at Mchinji boma on Sunday, when he conducted a whistle stop campaign tour, Mutharika said the district will have infrastructure such as a modern market, stadium, and hotels […]
Thousands of people gathered at Mavwere headquarters in Mchinji Saturday, to bid farewell to Traditional Authority Mavwere who died on Tuesday. T/A Mavwere born Kenvas Folosi Chikungu succumbed to lung and kidney failure at St Gabriel Namitondo Hospital in Namitete, Lilongwe. In his eulogy, Minister of Justice, Samuel Tembenu who represented President Arthur Peter Mutharika […]
Friends of Mchinji (FoM), a grouping of people with who come from the district donated various cleaning materials and cheered the patients with groceries at Ludzi Mission Hospital, in the district. FoM President Prince Mlongoti said the grouping decided to as one way of reaching out to the communities on different aspects, having a clean […]
Construction workers at a teachers training in Mchinji marched to Mchinji district hospital mortuary to get a dead body of a colleague who died Wednesday and dump it at the offices of their bosses. This follows the refusal by SR Nicholas, the contractors, to refuse to offer transport to take the body to his home, […]
The grouping of Chancellor College Students who come from Mchinji District called Chanco friends of Mchinji on Friday 1 February, visited Kochilira Community Day Secondary School in the district to encourage young boys and girls to be focused in their studies. The group which is aimed at contributing to the development of Mchinji district as […]
Malawi Police Services in Mchinji have arrested a 21-year-old man on suspicion of having sex with a goat and charged him with bestiality. Police spokesperson in Mchinji Lubrino Kaitano said Kennedy Kambani was spotted by the owner of the flock of his goats which were grazing in a piece of land. “The owner of the goats, […]
A 14 year old boy who suffered a broken urinary tract after falling from a tree four years ago returned home Tuesday after undergoing a successful operation in India. The fate of the boy, Collings Banda from Nyamawende Village in Traditional Authority Zulu came to limelight after press reports on the boy’s predicament. Soon after […]
Malawi Police in Mchinji on Tuesday arrested a 15 year old boy (name withheld) for allegedly murdering his biological mother. Public Relations Officer (PRO) for Mchinji Police, Inspector Kaitano Lubrino said the incident happened on November 13, 2018. He said the young man came home and started damaging plastic pails which the deceased was using […]
A 54-year-old woman has committed suicide in Mchinji by drinking pesticides after she was apparently not amused with a fine of a chicken which her village headman imposed on her. The chief helped her get a new 2018 Farm Input Subsidy Program (FISP) coupons after misplacing the initial one she received suring distribution. Mchinji Police […]
There has been a sudden increase of road fatality in the country where blood is shed and lives lost with the latest being 12 people reportedly to have been killed on Tuesday in an auto-crash involving two vehicles on Kamwendo-Lilongwe road, an official at Mchinji District Hospital and 11 of the deceased were buried at […]
Mchinji District Council has embarked on a relief maize distribution exercise to 3 181 households facing food shortage in the district. Government, through the Department of Disaster Management Affairs (Dodma), launched the distribution exercise on September 26 2018 following a bad 2017/18 farming season in which many parts of the country experienced prolonged dry spells […]
Bush fire suspected to be caused by mice hunters has razed down property worth over K15 million belonging to Kwidu Lodge a tourism site in Mchinji on Tuesday September 18 2018, Malawi police have confirmed. According to lodge owner, human rights activist Charles Kasambala the harmful bush fire caught one of the rooms at the […]