Communities in the area of Traditional Authority Zilakoma in Nkhata Bay have expressed frustration over a habit of negligence by health workers at Liuzi Health Center, who leave some patients to return home unattended to. Group Village Headman Dambanjoka, one of the 29 village heads in the area, said the workers give excuses of being […]
Development Fund for Local Authority (DFLA) has asked district and city council in the country to think commercial if they are to be independent financially that is in line with decentralization. DFLA Chief Executive Officer Cydex Makunje said this in Nkhata Bay after monitoring and evaluation tour for Nkhata Bay district council rest house which […]
Former Minister of Health and Population in late Bingu wa Mutharika’s regime and academician, Professor David Kapenyera Mphande was laid to rest on Monday with full military honours at Bandawe in Nkhata Bay District. Professor Mphande died on September 14, 2018 after a long illness. President Peter Mutharika directed that Prof. Mphande’s funeral be accorded […]
Nkhata Bay District Council has dismissed claims that it has a fixed deposit bank account where it deposits chiefs’ honoraria before paying beneficiaries. Village head Gwazeka alleged that the council contributes to delays in paying chiefs’ honoraria because it keeps the money in its fixed deposit account to earn interest before paying to the traditional […]
Malawi Police in Nkhata Bay have arrested a 33 year old suspected killer of a US citizen in the district. Police spokesperson Cecelia Mfune said the police have arrested a known businessman Gabriel Chirwa on suspicion that he killed 47 year old Michael James on July 20, 2018. The suspects stole unspecified amount of money, […]
Malawi Police in lakeshore northern district of Nkhatabay are hunting for the suspected criminals who have murdered a 47 year old business man of United States of America (USA) nationality. According to Nkhatabay District Police Public Relations Officer (PRO) Cecilia Mfune, the deceased Michael James Maglioli from Massachu-setts State met his ugly fate in his […]
Civic Education minister Grace Chiumia is under intense fire in Nkhata Bay for allegedly dismantling a gear box from a running utility council vehicle. At a full council meeting at Nkhata Bay boma, members were informed that the vehicle, BN 801, was allocated to the minister to serve in her Nkhata Bay West constituency as […]
Minister of Local government Kondwani Nankhumwa has installed Goodwin Chiwiwi Mwasi as chief Kabunduli of Nkhata Bay after 11 years of chieftaincy wrangles in the area. The coronation ceremony took place on Monday at Senior Chief Kabunduli’s headquarters at Mzenga in Nkhata Bay District Nankhumwa installed the 59 year-old on at a ceremony attended by high-level government officials, […]
Nkhata Bay Central legislator Ralph Mhone has renewed his calls to demand compensation from the British Government for Malawians, whose unarmed relatives were massacred at Nkhata Bay Jetty by federal forces on March 3 1959. Mhone, who is leader of opposition People’s Party (PP) in Parliament , said as Britain’s protectorate, Malawi was supposed to be protected by […]
Leader of opposition and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera had added his weight to the calls that the annual 3 March Martyrs’ Day Commemoration in Nkhata Bay should be incorporated in the National Budget. Martyrs Day commemoration is held to remember people who were killed on 3rd March, 1959 in various parts of the […]
Malawi Police in Nkhatabay have launched a man-hunt of unknown thugs who brutally killed a 30 year old man on Thursday March 1 2018. Nkhatabay Police Station Spokesperson Desire Mfune confirmed the development in an inteview with Nyasa Times on Friday. Mfune identified the deceased as Levi Phiri from Nyambwani Village in the Area of Traditional […]
Last December, Pamela Mphasi, 21, gave birth at home and named the baby Favour because she was born “luckily if not riskily”. This is contrary to a policy government adopted in 2007 to ensure every baby is born in a clinic. “I used to go to Ruarwe Health Centre for antenatal services. Due to lack […]
Minister of Transport and Public Works Jappie Mhango has touted a revolutionary infrastructure development with a National Transport Master Plan in roads, ships and airports . Mhango said apart from the roads infrastructure projects President Peter Mutharika’s government has recently embarked on, his ministry has procured a consultant to undertake a full feasibility and design study for the construction […]
Presidential adviser on unity and youth affairs Simon Vuwa Kaunda has gone flat out to campaign for the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in the lakeshore northern region district of Nkhatabay and is touting development projects government will carry in the district. The former Cabinet minister and member of Parliament (MP) for Nkhata Bay Central wants […]
Angry villagers from the area of Traditional Authority (TA) Mankhambila in Nkhatabay, on Tuesday stormed the District Commissioner’s office demanding the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Kondwani Nankhumwa to stop elevating Baden Chakwanika to the position of TA Mankhambila or face bloodshed. The villagers accused Nankhumwa of politicising the chieftaincy by not following […]
First Grade Magistrate Court in Nkhata Bay district has sentenced a 29-year-old Gift Mbale to 14 years imprisonment with hard labour (IHL) for sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl. State prosecutor Sergeant Keston Chiona told the court that the victim’s father left the girl with Mbale as family friend. “But on December 7, 2017, Mbale was […]
He has fathered 28 children with four wives and has over 50 grandchildren whom he can hardly recognise. Lindiza Phiri, 85, fathered 12 children with his first wife, 10 with the second, four with the third and two with the fourth. “I was born very strong as a man; that is why I decided to […]
Youths in Nkhata Bay District have asked authorities both in government and Non Governmental Organisations to actively involve them in critical policy decisions that have effect on the country’s future generations. Speaking in an interview last week, the district’s youth chairperson, Catherine Mkandawire said the youths need not to be sidelined because they are the […]