The Minister of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Nicholas Dausi has condemned corruption among public officers in the country saying it tarnishes government’s image. Dausi, who is also government spokesperson, expressed the concern Wednesday in Mzimba during a meeting with District Executive Committee (DEC) members where he sensitized them on the recently passed laws in […]
Minister of Information and Communications Technology, Nicholas Dausi, has assured people of Mwanza that governments will soon construct a stadium as one way of promoting sports in the district. Dausi who is government spokesperson said this on Sunday when he launched the Nicholas Dausi Football and Netball Bonanza at Mwanza Community Center Ground. He said […]
Firebrand Rumphi east MP Kamlepo Kalua on Friday took the government to task over a spy machine which he said the government has planted in South Africa to snoop on critics of the government. He told parliament just before it rose that state intelligence agents visit South Africa every fortnight to retrieve information from the said machine. […]
Malawi government has moved in swiftly to dismiss social media rumours spreading on Thursday that Finance, Economic Planning and Development Minister Goodall Gondwe and ttorney General Kalekeni Kaphale had been dismissed. Minister of Information and Communications Technology Nicholas Dausi said President Peter Mutharika had not fired any of the two. “Honourable Goodall Gondwe remains Minister of Finance and Economic Development […]
Malawi government on Sunday was duped into believing a story that transpired to be fake news generated on social media. The initial statement issued by Minister of Information, Communication and Technology Nicholous Dausi said the government was rejecting “lies” in a story by Nyasa Times that Mutharika does not want to be like Zimbabwe’s President […]
Opposition Members of Parliament (MPs) on Tuesday stopped Minister of Information Nicholas Dausi from answering a question asked by MP for Mulanje Bale to his ministry because of his long-winded style of answers. The Mulanje Bale legislator Victor Musowa was asking the minister to negotiate with a Mozambican mobile internet provider, Vodacom to start working in […]
Ward Councillors in the eastern city of Zomba on Monday sealed offices of Director of Planning and Development and Director of Administration at the District Council suspecting them of corrupt practices. According to the irate councillors, the two who are in the District Executive Committee, hid project information from the councillors and they suspect that […]
Minister of Information and Communications Technology, Nicholas Dausi, has lauded the newly passed access to information (ATI) law saying it is going to improve transparency and accountability in the way public funds are used in councils. Speaking on Friday during a meeting with District Executive Committee (DEC) members Dausi said the ATI is permitting public […]
A high-powered delagtion of the government Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and the Executive will be send to attend the Public Affairs Committee (PAC) conference, government spokesman Nicholous Dausi has indicated. Dausi, who is also Minister of Information, Communication Technology, said government is ready to attend the conference scheduled for Blantyre this week. “Government will attend […]
Minister of Information and Communications Technology Nicholas Dausi has said Malawi is making great strides towards self-dependence as evidenced by its ability to run without budgetary support from donor partners in the past few years. Dausi said this on Friday in Lilongwe when he was briefing members of the press on the commemoration marking the […]
Malawi Government has ruled out the possibility of enacting laws that would limit the number of children born per family amid concerns of the country’s population explosion. Minister of Information and Communications Technology Nicholas Dausi said this on Wednesday in Nsanje when he met District Executive Committee (DEC) members a briefing on the new Communications […]
Malawi government has rejected the latest Afrobarometer survey results that highlight performance on the governance front which says nine out of every 10 Malawians or 88 percent believe the country is headed in the wrong direction in terms of handling of major policy issues such as consumer price stability and job. Afrobarometer is a pan-African […]
Tormented Rumphi East legislator Kamlepo Kalua says he want to travel to South Africa for further medical examination fearing regime thugs who abducted him for 11 days might have been put some dangerous substance in his body through food or otherwise. Kalua, who is also People’s Party (PP) third vice-president and vice-chairperson of Parliament’s Public […]
Minister of Information and Communications Technology Nicholas Dausi has denied accusations by a group of civil society organisations (CSOs) that President Peter Mutharika’s administration is favouring his Lhomwe tribe and practicing naked nepotism. CSOs are concerned by the “Lhomwelisation” of the public service and public appointments. But Dausi, who is government spokesman, issued a statement made […]
Malawi government through its spokesperson, Nicholas Dausi has given the multi-faith governance watchdog , Public Affairs Committee (PAC) a vote of no confidence and accused the organization of “departure from the very principles of its existence and consistent demonstration of political biases”. Dausi, who is Minister of Information and Communications Technolo, has argued PAC is […]
Minister of Information and Communications Technologies Nicholas Dausi who is also government spokesman has said authorities have the details and names of people behind the fake resignation letter alleged to have been written by Vice President Saulos Chilima. The letter, which went viral on social media over the weekend, bore what was presumably Chilima’s signature and was addressed […]
Malawi government has parried away fears that robbers who invated offices at Zomba Diocese Research and Development where Peter Mulomole—the outspoken spokesperson of the Public Affairs Committee (PAC)—also works were regime thugs. There were assertions that the regime thugs may have been behind the incident to instill fear and panic to PAC spokesman after a […]
Minister of Information and Communications Technologies Nicholas Dausi has hit at the quasi religious grouping and governance watchdog Public Affairs Committee (PAC) for its assessment that Malawi was currently experiencing mediocrity as poverty levels have been deeply entrenched among ordinary Malawians. Dausi said the statement by PAC at a news conference in Blantyre shows that the governance watchdog has “hidden agenda”, saying […]