This weekend will the northern city of Mzuzu getting its share of the Coca Cola Kuphaka Life Campaign following its launch in Blantyre last month. The setting will be Mzuzu University (Mzuni), with a number of sporting and music activities lined up. In sports, games such as basketball, flaye, volleyball and soccer will be played, […]
Mzuzu University (Mzuni) is set to embark on scholarship fundraising concert with the aim of raising money to assist needy and deserving students who have been selected to pursue various programmes at the institution. Mzuni Deputy Vice Chancellor, Dr Loveness Kaunda, said the institution has decided to come up with the programme as a result […]
As if the on going strikes that have marred the country’s everyday business are not enough, Mzuzu University (Mzuni) lectures have threatened to lay down tools unless government honor their 41 percent pay hike. According to inside sources, the agreement was reached at on Monday during a meeting which the lectures had. “The cost of living is […]
About six hundred government sponsored students at Mzuzu University (Mzuni) have been sent on an indefinite suspension following mayhem they caused over “insufficient meal allowances,” Nyasa Times has established. Exempted from the suspension are self-sponsored students and, first years who began their studies in September this year. Nyasa Times journalist Pius Nyondo in the Northern Region city of […]
A professor at Mzuzu University (Mzuni) Fred Msiska on Wednesday spoke in support of a federal system of government in Malawi during a public debate held at Grand Palace Hotel in Mzuzu which was broadcast live on Zodiak Broadcasting Service. Prof Msiska, who is a director of open and distance learning at Mzuni, trashed anti-federalism […]
Mzuzu University (Mzuni) student Kwenji Tembo was Wednesday night attacker by his fellow student for allegedly being involved in the theft of a laptop in the university library. Tembo – a fourth year reading for Bachelor of Science Renewable Energy Technologies – was cornered by other student who threatened to lynch him. He was detained […]
Mzuzu University (Mzuni) plans to have its own modern hotel which will be used for its hospitality students as a teaching and research hotel to be financed by the World Bank, according to Mzuni vice chancellor Dr. Robert Ridley. Ridley said the plan to have the teaching hotel so that Mzuni o students in the […]
The European Union has committed €3.8 million towards support to agricultural research and education in Malawi as part of its investment in the knowledge economy of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) member states. Malawi joins around 200 partnerships throughout the ACP world which together promote access to knowledge, reinforce capacities and foster innovations. Aquaculture and […]
Speaker of the Malawi National Assembly, Richard Msowoya, has challenged students and all citizens in general to call their Governments to accountability if they truly want to see change. Msowoya made the challenge in Mzuzu on Friday when he held a public lecture at Mzuzu University. “The problem with us [Malawians] is that we are […]
Leading mobile telecommunications operator Airtel Malawi extended its ‘Hello, Muli Bwanji?’ gesture to the Mzuzu University on Wednesday by donating MK2 million to the Mathematical Science department in a bid to enable students attend the 3rd Southern Africa Mathematical Sciences Association Annual Conference in Zimbabwe this month. Airtel also donated 10 state of the art […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika has promised the people of the northern region that he is going to build a higher learning insitution in Mzimba to be called Mombera University, saying government is committed towards improving quality higher learning in the country regardless of region. Mutharika said in Mzuzu on Friday during the graduation of 686 […]
President Peter Mutharika has avoided pronouncement of his government policy shift in terms of access to institutions of higher learning particularly the controversial quota system, saying there is need to establish more institutions to absorb more students. “Access to higher education still remains a privilege of a few people in this country. We must increase […]
Mzuzu University (Mzuni) says wide reading of literary books can help secondary school and college students excel in their various subjects of study in addition to enhancing their general understanding. Mzuni’s Vice Chancellor, Robert Ridley, expressed the sentiments when he officially opened the second conference on Malawian Literature which the university organized in its compass […]
It is no longer arguable that, for the past two years or so, Malawi’s movie industry has produced some world class motion pictures – ones that can compete at international film festivals. Of course, ones that top the list are the two movies from avid short story writer turned movie director Charles Shemu Joyah. His […]
A massive entertainment extravaganza dubbed Mzuni Inter-Social Weekend is on this weekend beginning Friday at Mzuzu University (Mzuni) with an aim of refreshing awareness among college-going students on the need to stay free of HIV. The event, sponsored by National AIDS Commission (NAC) and Banja La Mtsogolo (BLM), will feature Malawi’s urban music stars Young […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarous Chakwera has said Mzuzu University (Mzuni) is currently struggling financially and materially because some politicians rushed it into a tertiary institution to appease people of the north. Chakwera said Mzuni was constructed by its former leader Hastings Kamuzu Banda initially as a demonstration school and part of it a […]
Mzuzu University (Mzuni) Friday suspended 75 students for causing mayhem on campus following night riots that happened Monday over delayed processing of stationery allowances. The students, all on government sponsorship, were sent packing from to Mzuni campus Saturday “pending disciplinary hearing.” Registrar Vyson Jedegwa wrote in a statement seen by Nyasa Times that the “suspension is as a result […]
Renowned writer, poet and academic Professor Felix Mnthali has called on young women to up their endeavours in creative writing exploits, saying Malawi’s present day literature lacks a female voice. Mnthali, a retired professor of English formerly with the University of Botswana – where he was head of the English department for 28 years, said […]