A general duties police officer at Mzimba police station Inspector Casam Mdeza stunned the Mzimba first grade court on Monday when he alleged that his mother in-law squeezed and pulled his private parts. Mdeza was testifying in a case where he had dragged his mother in-law Martha Munthali and wife Kondwani Nyirongo to court. The […]
Thousands of people in Malawi’s northern district of Mzimba mourned Inkosi ya Makosi M’mbelwa IV when his body was returned home at his Edingeni headquarters after he died in Blantyre on Tuesday. Several women clad in black mourning dress, broke into uncontrollable wailing during the viewing of the body ‘squatting-in-state’ on Friday in a casket […]
Thousands of Malawians from all walks of lives led by Vice President Khumbo Kachali paid their last respects to the late Inkosi Ya Makosi Mbelwa IV at Mtunthama residence, with preachers cautioning leaders to dedicate their service to serving Malawians. hief M’mbelwa IV died on Tuesday at Mwaiwathu Private Hospital in Malawi’s commercial city, Blantyre, […]
Ngoni Chief Inkosi M’mbelwa 1V who was admitted to Kamuzu Central Hospital last week has died. According to ministry of Local government spokesperson Maganizo Mazeze, M’mbelwa IV has died few hours ago at Mwaiwanthu Private Hospital in Blantyre in the commercial city of Blantyre. “On the burial arrangements, we are waiting for the family to […]
Villagers in Mbalachanda, in Malawi’s northern district of Mzimba are living in fear and anxiety after 38 tombstones have been desecrated. The mysterious looting of these tombstones follows a series of murder cases where five people have been killed in January alone. Speaking to Nyasa Times on Sunday village headman Yakolowoka Zimba said they first […]
Malawi Police in riot gear clashed with irate villagers at Engucwini in Mzimba who were resisting attempts to push them from the land they had encroached illegally. Mzuzu Police Station spokesperson Sergeant Maurice Chapola confirmed the development saying there were no casualties but said six villagers were arrested. Those arrested are: Edward Phiri 52,Namasalimo Village […]
The Mzimba First Grade Magistrate Court has slapped a 21 year old man with a six year jail term for sexually assualting a 15 years old girl. Mzimba Police spokesperson Sergeant Gift Nyirongo said the girl (name shielded) met her fate when she was coming from a sports session at Watereka Full Primary School where […]
A First Grade Magistrate Court in Mzimba district has jailed a 23 year old man to two years imprisonment with hard labour for attempting to sell human private body parts to businessman for use to boost his business. Mzimba Police Station spokesma Sergeant Gift Nyirongo said in a statement made available to Nyasa Time that […]
A primary school teacher at Mgomatchuwa primary school in the northern district of Mzimba, Elick Luhana, 49 has committed suicide after his wife accused him of engaging in extramarital affairs. Mzimba police spokesperson Sergeant Gift Nyirongo confirmed the death of Luhana, who comes from Eferanji village, T/A Mtwalo in Mzimba. According to Nyirongo, the teacher […]
Police at Kafukule in Mzimba district have arrested a 15 year old girl for concealing the birth of her baby girl and then dumping it. According to police the suspect Tawonga Chilinda was married off to a 23 year old man Justice Msowoya, 23, of Mandanyera village Traditional Mtwalo in the district when she was 14 years last year but got divorced in May the […]
Five substations that make up Mzambazi Catholic Parish at Euthini in Mzimba district have petitioned his Grace Bishop Joseph Zuza of the Mzuzu diocese asking for the immediate removal of Reverend Father Mark Mkandawire saying the cleric’s alleged sexual relationships is denting the Catholic Church. The substations are; Heneric, St John Bosco, St James, St […]
All roads in Mzimba led to Edingeni at the residence of Malawi Vice President Khumbo Kachali where a Ngoni traditional festival where he slaughtered two bulls in a celebration of the New Year. Inkosi ya Makosi Mbelwa the fourth said the Vice President has always remembered his roots despite his ascendancy to the high office. […]
A parish priest of Mzambazi Roman Catholic Church in Malawi’s northern district of -Mzimba at Euthini area was on Saturday caught red-handed having sex with a wife of the losing opposition Democratic Progressive Party’s parliamentary aspirant in the recently held Mzimba by-elections Owen Mkandawire. Confirming the incident Nkandawire told Nyasa Times on Sunday that he caught his […]
Police in Mzimba have arrested Chancy Mtambalika 36, from Mtambalika Moyo Village in the area of Traditional Authority M’mbelwa in the district after he was suspected of shooting to death a Zambian national and stealing his vehicle. Mzimba Police Public Relations Officer, Sergeant Gift Nyirongo said Chancy Mtambalika and his accomplice Thomas Makina, on Friday […]
Mrs Martha Kachali, wife to the Vice President Khumbo Kachali has encouraged women across the country to seek professional medical services whenever they are expectant. She was speaking after cheering 110 expectant mothers and newly born babies at Mzimba district hospital. The Vice Presidents wife said it was only through access to professional medical services […]
Wrangles over the legitimate heir to the Mzikubola chieftancy in Mzimba have errupted again with one of the claimant Zoba Jere threatening to drag Inkosi ya Makhosi Mbelwa IV to court over the protracted chieftancy. Speaking to Nyasa Times, Zoba Jere claimed he is the rightful heir to the Mzikubola chieftaincy. He accused the Ngoni […]
Women in Mzimba have petitioned District Commissioner Rev. Moses Chimphepo over increasing cases of gender based violence in the district. The women, coming under a united front, Mzimba South Women Forum have since called on authorities to investigate and bring to book perpetrators of various forms of abuse. Presenting the petition on Friday, the women […]
About 1, 610 bags out of 1, 860 of subsidized 23:21:0 fertilizer that were distributed at Ebombeni Admarc depot in Mzimba had sand while only 250 bags contained fertilizer. Farmers from Chibamu Jere, Ebombeni and Mgubani villages in the area of traditional authority M’mbelwa on Saturday were shocked to discover that many bags contained sand […]