Centre for Youth and Development (CYD) Friday handed over a Teacher Development Centre (TDC) worth K10.5 million to Ezondweni community in Mzimba to help improve education standards in the district. The project, made possible with financial assistance from Swiss’ based NGO International Project Aid, will play a vital role in continuous professional development of teachers, according to […]
Electricity Supply Commission of Malawi (ESCOM) Tuesday expressed its non-commitment on whether or not it will compensate victims of fire that gutted Mzimba market Sunday morning, allegedly said to have been sparked by an ESCOM fault. Goods and property worth K800 million are said to have been lost in the inferno, according to M’belwa Council district Commissioner Thomas Chirwa. […]
At least 42 people have been arrested for allegedly being involved in looting shops at the gutted Mzimba Market which has pushed off 400 vendors out of business and goods worth millions damaged on Sunday March 8 2015. Mzimba Police Station spokesperson Gabriel Chiona has said that the suspected looters were arrested during the inferno […]
Mzimba market is engulfed in fire from Saturday night. Witnesses say no cause has been identified, although others say it is an electrical fault. There was no fire bridgate but after three hours fire fighters from Raiply arrived to extinguish but few shops had been gutted down. There has been many fire incidents around the […]
A K100 million kwacha eye clinic in Mzimba district is not yet operational months after completion, reportedly due to “some technicalities,” Nyasa Times has established. The facility, built with funding from Lions Club Norway, is supposed to be helping over one thousand plus people around Mzimba most of who are vulnerable to cataracts. Cataracts is […]
Member of Parliament for Mzimba South East Rabson Chihaula Shawa has rejoined the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and has opted to sit on the government side of the House . Shawa, who left DPP to join Peoples Party (PP) but stood on anindependent ticket, wrote Speaker Richard Msowoya that he had made the decision to rejoin […]
Malawi Police in the northern district of Mzimba have arrested a 16 year old mother identified as Linda Shonga for allegedly killing her own baby boy by placing him in a pail full of water Mzimba police publicist Constable Gabriel Chiona said Shonga is alleged to have killed the baby on Tuesday night at MBC location in […]
The Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) intercepted a truck and seized Indian hemp weighing 42 kilogrammes (kgs) at Lojwa, just after Jenda Trading Centre in Mzimba District. The incident occurred on Thursday, February 5, 2015 following a tip to MRA from members of the public about suspicious items in the truck. The Indian hemp was in […]
Paramount Ngoni chief M’mbelwa of Mzimba district has called on government and all well-wishers to extend their support to his subjects. Hundreds of families were hit last week by a hailstorm in the vast northern region district. Of the six villages under Edingeni, Kalitubi has been most hit. Speaking from his headquarters at Edingeni, Inkosi […]
Inkosi Mabilabo Jere of Mzimba and his community has asked management of Global Metals and Mining who are behind Kanyika Niobium Mine to pack up their equipment and go for their failure to provide social and economic demands. The Kanyika Niobium Mine will be the first of its kind in Africa but the fourth in the world […]
Three people who formed a bogus agro dealer company- Chimwemwe agro dealers have been arrested in Malawi’s northern district of Mzimba where they are alleged to have swindled farmers of close to K15 million. Mzimba police spokesperson Constable Gabriel Chiona identified the three as Moses Nkhata aged 39 Esther Mbale aged 34 and wife to […]
He is multi-talented. At 31, Corled Nkosi, an MSCE holder he obtained at Mzimba Secondary School in 2006 is carpenter, a builder and a self-motivated electrical engineer behind Kasangazi Hydro-Electrical Power Plant. His ability to divert water from Kasangazi River, create own water fall through gravitational force and able to generate power of over 300 […]
At least six people have died and several others seriously injured after a passenger service bus they were travelling in collided with a 48 ton, heavy goods truck in Dedza, during the early hours of Monday. According to some eye witnesses interviewed by Nyasa Times, the truck, a freight liner registration number MB 48-48 belonging […]
A 22 year old murder suspect Bydon Chizizi junior has been arrested in Mzimba for allegedly killing his 77 year old grandfather Bydon Chizizi senior at Chilongosi village in the area of Inkosi Mthwalo. Mzimba district police publicist constable Gabriel Chiona said Bydon picked a quarrel with his grandfather over some mattresses and suitcases which […]
A girl died after being struck by lightning at Mughogho village in the area of Inkosi Kampingo Sibande in Malawi’s northern district of Mzimba. Mzimba police spokesperson constable Gabriel Chiona identified the deceased as Loveness Mguntha aged 12 who met her fate when lightning struck in the evening on Friday. “The mother and her three children […]
There has been assertions that some law enforcers are aiding gang of criminals in the country and the fears continue to gain currency with the arrest of a police officers caught stealing Saturday at Kanjedza in Blantyre. The police officer was caught stealing with a gang of robbers and was roughed up before other cops […]
Reports are rife that most households in Mzimba are still sqauting among the few trees and bushes and defecate in the open despite various interventions by government and stakeholders in hygiene and sanitation. Recent statistics by Mzimba District Health Office show that only 15 per cent of the households have toilets in their homes while […]
Traditional leaders and other stakeholders in Malawi’s northern region district of Mzimba have been accused of failing to enforce bylaws which they together with other stakeholders established to check various abuses the girl child is subjected to in the communities which have a negative bearing on their education. Speaking when she was guest of honour […]