Traditional leaders in Mzimba District have said President Joyce Banda’s Mudzi Transformation Trust is a fulfilment of peoples’ rights to shelter, health and food security hence they will support it to ensure its success. “I am tongued tied. We have never dreamt that some of our people would have decent houses and have access to […]
The Church and Society of the Livingstonia synod has embarked on a three month investigation into school projects in Mzimba to find out if the projects were done according to the plan. The investigation which targets 20 schools in Mzimba North and South education zones is under Kalondolondo project under local development fund. Briefing members […]
Traditional Authority Mtwalo of Mzimba district has defied a court order from the High Court in Lilongwe stopping him from presiding over the installation ceremony of Pius Kamkhoti Mkandawire as Inkhosana because the court had no jurisdiction to sit on a matter that a court of the same jurisdiction had already decided. Under miscellaneous civil […]
The African Church in Mzimba north has said it wants a servant who is ready to serve people Godly than enriching himself or herself if the gospel is to be effectively spread. Preacher Newton Chataika Mkandawire said some leaders who pledged to serve the constituency well in the past ended up dispersing the sheep after failing […]
A Ngoni academic Sunduzwayo Madise has discouraged plans by the Ngonis of Mzimba to install the crown prince Mkhosi Jere, set to become Inkosi ya Makosi M’Mbelwa V, as the king of the Ngoniland in their bid to ensure that Mzimba is turned into a kingdom, independent from Malawi’s central government. According to Mzimba Heritage […]
President Joyce Banda has said her administration will make it a point that health facilities, with adequate staff and amenities, are made available to all Malawians at reasonable distances because the real measure of any country’s development is the health of its people. Speaking at a development rally after she laid a foundation stone for […]
About 20 students have been arrested by police in Malawi’s northern region district of Mzimba for allegedly being found in possession of Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) Geography Paper 1 examinations. Mzimba police publicist Joseph Chambuluka said of the twenty students, 14 are girls studying at Multipular Private Secondary School while the rest are […]
Police in Mzimba have arrested a 32 year old Moses Malengenya Phiri from Kafoteka Village in the area of Traditional Authority Mzikubora in the district for allegedly being found with human private parts. Mzimba Police Station Crimination Investigation Department Officer, George Chilinda, said the suspect was arrested on Sunday for being found with private parts […]
Members of Ndau Irrigation Scheme in Mzimba district have asked government to complete the irrigation project launched in 2008 as part of the greenbelt initiative saying the contractor abandoned it in 2009 after six months. The Scheme’s President Austin Nyondo told Malawi’s Vice President Khumbo Kachali during his tour of the scheme on Tuesday that the contractor […]
“Newspaper columnist George Kasakula writing in ‘My Diary’ column published in Weekend Nation on Saturday June 8 has gone to town blasting Mzimba Luwerezi MP Immanuel Bofomo Nyirenda ove rhis controversial remarks in Parliament. The column is re-posted below, full text: Mzimba Luwerezi MP Immanuel Bofomo Nyirenda should learn to give taxpayers value for money by resisting the urge to talk sectarian politics […]
Senior Ngoni chiefs in Malawi’s northern district of Mzimba have summoned a parliamentarian from the district to discuss his recent suggestion in Parliament that Mzimba was not part of Malawi. MP for Mzimba Luwerezi Dr Bofomo Nyirenda raised the issue in Parliament on Friday as part of debate on the Land bill, arguing the land in Mzimba does […]
The Mzimba Secondary School Alumni Association (MSSAA) is undertaking the second visit to the school to donate more desks on 15th June 2013. The group which comprises of those in the Diaspora as well, will make the donation during this year’s Form Four graduation ceremony this June. Speaking during an interview at the Crossroads Hotel in […]
Northern region’s district of Mzimba is part of Malawi by mistake; this is according to MP for Mzimba Luwelezi, Dr Bofomo Nyirenda. Nyirenda raised the issue in Parliament on Friday as part of debate on the Land bill. He said the land in Mzimba does not belong to Malawi Government as the new Land Act states, but to […]
Police in the northern region district of Mzimba are keeping in custody an 18 year old man in connection with murder of his friend’s wife. Mzimba police spokesperson Sergeant Gift Nyirongo told Nyasa Times on Monday that the suspect Joel Chirwa is alleged to have raped and murdered Milika Mabaso 18 who was a wife to the […]
Police in the northern region district of Mzimba have arrested a 30 year old man suspected of murder. Mzimba police station spokesperson Sargent Gift Nyirongo confirmed the arrest of Godwin Nyirongo of Kapaika village, T/A Khosolo in the district. Nyirongo said the man is suspected of murdering Nephan Nyirenda of Maluza village, T/A Mabulabo on […]
A herbalist in the northern region district of Mzimba has been sentenced to 8 years imprisonment with hard labour (IHL) for raping a 19 year old married woman on the pretext of treating her to get love therapy. Mzimba first grade magistrate George Longwe sent to jail 53 year old herbalist Griffin Vitima Mlenje after […]
A self-confessed HIV-positive Malawian man, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for forcing a 12-year-old girl to have sex with him. The Mzimba First Grade Magistrate on Thursday found guilty a 40 year-old Jacob Munthali of Chendausiku village in the area of traditional authority Chindi in Mzimba district for sexually assaulting the girl. […]
Villagers at Mtwalo Headquarters in Mzimba District on Wednesday morning pulled out a six day old baby girl from a pit latrine, whom she had born out of wedlock when the woman’s husband was in South Africa for greener pastures. According to Police, a young boy who went into the toilet to answer a call […]