Bishop Medram Chirwa, the Fountain of Victory Church leader on remand over the death of bank employee Tathokoza Salimu, says he has nothing to fear because he did not commit the crime. There are moments when public scrutiny arrives long before the facts. In such cases, the burden borne by those accused can be profound, […]
The criminal case surrounding Bishop Medram Chirwa has entered a new phase, but for the prominent Lilongwe cleric and his church, the legal proceedings are only part of a deepening challenge. Chirwa, a Bishop of the Fountain of Victory Church, remains in custody after a magistrates’ court ruled that it lacks jurisdiction to hear a […]
A 21-year-old man has been arrested after allegedly killing his father during a heated family dispute over his plans to marry a cousin he had reportedly impregnated. Police in Mchinji say Gerald Moffat is accused of fatally attacking his father, Moffat Majamu Banda, 42, after the older man opposed the proposed marriage and ordered his […]
Fountain Nation founder Apostle Joseph Ziba has defended arrested Bishop Medram Chirwa, saying the church knows of no evidence that conclusively links him to the alleged murder of Tathokoza Salimu. In an executive memo dated 9 October 2026, Apostle Ziba set out the church’s position on the bishop’s arrest. Police arrested Bishop Chirwa at National […]
A Malawian church leader arrested in connection with the death of a bank employee has been remanded in custody after a magistrates’ court ruled that it lacks the power to hear the case. Bishop Medram Chirwa, of the Fountain of Victory Church in Lilongwe, appeared before Mkukula First Grade Magistrate Court over the death of […]
The arrest of a senior church leader in connection with the shocking murder of an FDH Bank employee has plunged Fountain of Victory Church International into the centre of a storm, with furious social media users branding the ministry a “cult” and alleging dark secrets lurk behind its walls. Police in Dowa have arrested Bishop […]
Police say call logs place Fountain of Victory pastor with FDH employee Tathokoza Salimu on the day she died A Lilongwe church leader has been arrested in connection with the alleged murder of a young FDH Bank employee whose body was found slumped in a car beside a rural road. Police in Dowa have detained […]
A COLD-BLOODED killer who brutally butchered a 35-year-old farmer with an axe and buried his body in a shallow pit has been jailed for life. Fombe Nyamatchilenga launched a violent attack on innocent Moses Semu before callously hiding his remains in a hole. Alarm bells rang when Mr Semu’s cattle returned home alone from grazing […]
Chilling new details have emerged in the murder trial of Agnes Katengeza, after police told the High Court that a painstaking trail of stolen electronic devices — including her iPhone — ultimately led investigators to her own family. Detective Sub-Inspector Penjani Ng’ambi told the court in Lilongwe how officers used the International Mobile Equipment Identity […]
An FDH Bank employee found dead inside her own car has been confirmed to have died from a devastating gunshot wound to the neck, according to a harrowing postmortem report that has plunged colleagues and family into grief and left police scrambling to track down her killers. Tathokoza Salimu was discovered lifeless in her vehicle […]
A murder investigation has been launched in Dowa after a 31-year-old bank employee was found dead in a blood-soaked vehicle abandoned along the Dzaleka–Dowa Boma road, in a discovery that has left the local community reeling. The victim, named as Tathokoza Salimu, was found last evening at Chinkhota Village, near Tatolonga Bridge — in circumstances […]
A Zimbabwean national has been convicted of murdering his own brother following a bitter and escalating feud over their family business — with a judge revealing the pair had become locked in a chilling battle over who would kill the other first. Pardon Masukweza was found guilty by the High Court in Lilongwe of the […]
A British national has been caged for 45 years after being convicted of murdering his wife in a case that has dragged through Malawi’s courts for nearly seven years. Mohamed Shahid Iqbal Juma was on Thursday handed the lengthy sentence by the High Court’s Criminal Division in Lilongwe, after being found guilty of killing his […]
Malawi Police have arrested a 52-year-old businessman on suspicion of taking part in a horrifying armed robbery that left a heavily pregnant woman shot dead and her husband fighting for his life. Pofera Boma was picked up by Kanengo Police on September 6, 2026, as detectives closed in on the gang responsible for the harrowing […]
A grandmother has given harrowing testimony at the High Court in Kasungu, describing the chain of events that led to the discovery of her granddaughter’s body in a bush – and her grandson being found abandoned nearby, but alive. Jane Harawa, 49, the mother of murder suspect Medium Nyirongo, was the first State witness called […]
The High Court sitting in Kasungu has granted the State’s request to amend the charge sheet against former Malawi Defence Force employee Medium Nyirongo, adding a charge of child desertion alongside the murder charge he already faced. Nyirongo, who had previously pleaded not guilty to murder, admitted before the court that he had left his […]
A Malawian man has been found guilty of murdering his wife after the High Court’s Criminal Division in Blantyre ruled that his alibi failed to account for the critical hours during which she is believed to have been killed. Lucius Wilson was convicted on Friday of the murder of his wife, Cecelia Yakob, whose body […]
Five people accused of murdering and robbing Chileka businessman Omar Mbeta have all pleaded not guilty, as the High Court in Blantyre ordered the State to urgently produce crucial outstanding evidence before the trial can properly get underway. The accused appeared before Justice Etness Chanza on Tuesday, 25 August 2026, for the commencement of proceedings, […]