Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) Director General Charles Nsaliwa used his position to employ his daughter as a research assistant and paid her a cool K360, 000 for a research whose results have not been presented to Macra. The expose is contained in a dossier which insiders have presented to the new board of directors […]
Malawi’s National Statistics Office (NSO) has been hit by accusations of nepotism and maladministration following revelation that the Commissioner of Statistics Charles Machinjiri employed her own daughter to head the NSO’s regional office in Blantyre. Some of the members of NSO staff in Zomba have since written the Ministry of Justice and Attorney General asking […]
TEVETA, which is responsible for Technical and Vocational training in Malawi, is embroiled in allegations of nepotism in the recruitment of senior staff where it makes fake adverts in the press to hoodwink the public, Nyasa Times has gathered. Consequently, staff are asking the country’s graft busting body, ACB to fully investigate this issue at […]
Some disgruntled Blantyre City Council (BCC) employees have tipped the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) to probe the council’s Director of Administration (DAS), Alfred Chanza, and the security officers over the manner in which they have been handling theft cases of millions of property at the institution. Investigations by Nyasa Times have revealed that over the […]
The Peoples’ Development Movement (PDM) has outlined some of its core values saying apart from championing the issue of federalism, the party is also fighting for the elimination of nepotism, regionalism, quota system and equity in development. “Federalism is not regionalism. We are not saying only the northern region should be federal but Malawi,” the […]
First and foremost, we at the Nyasa Times wish to congratulate Her Excellency Joyce Hilda Mtila Banda on her ascendancy to high office of State President of the Republic of Malawi. We wish her all the best and we have enough reasons to trust her to perform this rather tough job very well. Secondly, we […]
Government says the Nkhoma Synod pastoral letter released on Sunday was not written in good faith, arguing it is a result of discontent, according to a report in The Nation of Tuesday, April 03, 2012. Capital Hill argues that the letter is from a disgruntled group that is crying for an unfulfilled K10 million pledge […]
The just ended District Commissioners (DCs) conference in the resort district of Mangochi is reported to have ended on a very hot note with DCs accusing the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development of institutionalising nepotism, Nyasa Times can reveal. As part of the programmes, the ministry arranged an in house meeting with the […]