Malawi VP Chilima basketball pictorial: Agitates for revamping of minority sports

State  Vice President Dr. Saulos Klaus Chilima on Saturday said there is an increasing need for the country to revamp some of the minority sports. Chilima who was the guest of honour at the launch of National Bank Mo626 ice College Basketball tournament at Blantyre Youth Centre observed that most sporting disciplines especially the minorities […]

Politics forces National Bank of Malawi to replace Fredokiss with Tay Grin at college basketball

In a twist turn of events, organizers of the much billed College Basketball tournament have been forced to replace the sole music performer at the event hip-hop artist, Fredokiss due to political pressure. Nyasa Times can reveal that organizers of the event National Bank have been featuring Fredokiss born Penjani Kalua as main performer in […]

‘Au revoir’ Chikaonda as National Bank of Malawi declares K8.35bn dividend to shareholders

Listed commercial bank, National Bank of Malawi plc, a subsidiary of conglomerate Press Corporation plc Wednesday held its 45th Annual general Meeting (AGM) where it declared a final dividend amounting to K3.8billion making a total of K8.35 billion in respect of 2016 profits. The bank already paid a first interim dividend of K3.01 billion in […]

National Bank of Malawi new banking system goes live on July 1

Listed commercial bank, National Bank of Malawi (NBM) plc has upgraded its new core banking system which will go live on July 1, 2017. NBM General Manager and Head of Operations Austin Musyani told a media breakfast in Blantyre Monday that the bank has spent ‘billions of Malawi kwacha’ on the new system and that […]

Business captains hail National Bank of Malawi for Credit Card

Business captains and customers have hailed National Bank of Malawi (NBM) for introducing its Visa branded credit card describing it a huge innovation and way forward for the banking industry in the country. NBM launched the NBM credit card last week in Lilongwe and on Friday introduced the innovation to business gurus and customers based […]

Catholic women partners National Bank of Malawi in ‘Go green’ campaign

The Catholic Women Organization (CWO) in the Archdiocese of Blantyre have partnered with National Bank of Malawi in a tree planting project dubbed ‘Go Green campaign’. According to this partnership the bank will support the women with 3.5 million Kwacha to plant trees in all the forty one Parishes of the Archdiocese. The project was […]

National Bank of Malawi relaxes lending terms: Kasunda tells Chitipa customers

National Bank of Malawi, (NB) customers in Chitipa District  heaved a sigh of relief  Saturday when the bank made it clear that  formulation of viable business plans was the best eligibility criteria  for clients to access its loans and not availability of  collateral a lone, like it has always been wildly speculated. The  bank made […]

Malawi army helicopter hired to promote Busy Signal gig

Impact Events boss Lucius Banda on Wednesday put Lilongwe on a stand still as for first time in the history of Malawi Music shows, when he used a Malawi Defence Force helicopter to promote Jamaican artist Busy Signal show slated this Saturday at Civo Stadium in Lilongwe. Banda together with National Bank of Malawi Marketing Manager Wilkins […]

National Bank of Malawi-Indebank merger affecting customer service, performance

National Bank of Malawi (NBM), which bought 97.05 percent stake in Indebank Limited  has conceded that the  merger of the  banks has come with negatives as customers from Indebank were taken on board without proper transition. NBM  closed all Indebank branches across the country and this created congestion in already full NBM branches and facing  poor customer services. […]

Customers unhappy with abrupt changes to National Bank of Malawi’s online banking service

Most of National Bank of Malawi (NBM) customers have been taken unaware of some changes to the Online Banking service in which it is reported that individuals have to re-register first as business accounts to access the facility. While some received some communication to that effect, many did not and only learnt of the changes […]

National Bank frustrates customers during festivities

National Bank of Malawi has been a flop as far as delivery of its services to customers for the festivie period, customers say. A number of customers who spoke to Nyasa Times, and others who took their rants to social media platforms such as Facebook said the bank’s services especially auto teller machines (ATMs) and online […]

Ex-Miss Malawi Ella Kabambe speaks out on ‘character assassination’

Former Miss Malawi Ella Kabambe has for the first time spoken out on allegations awash on social media that she is breaking a family of 30 years, challenging the anonymous woman circulating the false story to confront her face to face if she is at all real or exist. The social media especially WhatsApp cross-platform […]