World Relief has rolled out a nutritional project in Nkhatabay District to fight stunted growth among children which is currently at 33 percent in the district. Introducing the project dubbed ‘Chiyambi Chabwino’ to the District Executive Committee (DEC) members Friday, Project Coordinator, Desire Mwasikakata Mkandawire said stunted growth results in permanent irreversible negative outcomes that […]
A jealous man has been arrested “savagely” killing his former wife after she struck up a friendship with another man in lakeshore northern district of Nkhatabay. Nkhata Bay Police spokesperson, Ignatius Esau, said after the suspect Lymon Nkhoma, 24 years old, divorced his wife, son to the deceased 70 year old Gibson Buleya Phiri married […]
The Norway- based Gronn Haggen-Bjorke Foundation has constructed five state-of-the-art classroom blocks at five primary schools in Nkhata Bay which are expected to enhance learning environment for pupils in the beneficiary schools. The classroom blocks, which are all valued at over MK100 million, have been donated to Seka, Kazando, Masimu, Kapundi and Mazembe primary schools […]
First Grade Magistrate Court in Nkhata Bay has sentenced a 25 year old Bright Banda to nine years imprisonment with hard labour for breaking into NBS Bank branch in the district. The court heard that on the night of April 15 this year, Banda together with his three accomplices broke and entered into NBS Bank […]
Fourteen teenage school girls in Malawi on Tuesday launched a legal challenge against a controversial court decision to punish them over pregnancies, including jailing some of the girls’ parents. Nyasa Times reported that in April 2016, a primary school in Nkhata Bay on the shores of Lake Malawi gave one-year suspensions to several students aged […]
Malawi Police in Nkhotakota have arrested six sex workers for severely beating up a client who refused to pick up a prostitute he had initially promised to take for romps. Assistant police publicist in Nkhotakota Paul Malimwe said 23 year old Thokozani Mkali was severely beaten by the sex workers and is currently battling for […]
Malawi Police in Nkhatabay are keeping in custody a 68 year-old, Silale Kaunda, on allegations that he defiled a minor, age 12, at Mpamba Trading Centre in the district. Nkhata Bay police public relations of officer (PRO), Ignatius Esau, confirmed the development saying that on January 28, 2017 the victim was passing by Kaunda’s house […]
A 39 years old, Soya Mwale, fisherman at Kalowa area in lake shore district of Nkhatabay, has been murdered by unknown assailants. Malawi Police spokesperson for the district, Ignatius Esau said Mwale was found lying dead along M5 road on Monday morning with a deep cut on the left side of his head. He added ”in the first place, […]
Malawi Police in the lakeshore district of Nkhatabay say they have registered a high number of drowning cases in the first half of 2016 as compared to the same period in 2015. Nkhatabay police spokesperson,Sergeant Ignatius Esau told Nyasa Times that a total of six people drowned between January-July 2015 compared to ten people the […]
Nkhata Bay District are the official hosts for the 2016 World International Youth Day, government through the Nkhata Bay District Youth Office has announced. Samuel Thapasila Gondwe, Nkhata Bay District Youth Officer, told media during a presser on Monday that the commemoration are slated for Monday 29 at Mpamba Primary School grounds next week. He […]
Nkhata Bay District Executive Committee (DEC) have reserved their decision to approve a two year Access-to-Justice Project, to be implemented jointly by Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP) and the Malawi Police Service. The Nkhata Bay technocrats have instead referred the proposed project to a full council for further consultation before approving it. […]
President Arthur Peter Mutharika on Monday opened the new Nkhatabay District Hospital where among other things he warned hospital staff against vandalism and theft of drugs and equipment at the new facility. Over the past months, under President Mutharika’s orders, Police have intensified the fight against drug theft in hospitals. “To you the staff of […]
President Peter Mutharika has said he has issued a decree that any public health worker found stealing medical drugs would be fired immediately and will not be getting salary as was the case before. “Do not dare to steal. We will fire you immediately if we catch you. We will not even pay you. You […]
People in Nkhata Bay have been severely warned against boarding any vessels on Lake Malawi, saying most of them are uncertified and unseaworthy. This follows the decision by the government to withdraw MV Ilala for maintenance. Nkhata Bay Police Station public relations officer said marine police have found that people have now resorted to boarding […]
A Magistrate court in NkhataBay has ordered the suspension of 32 boys and girls at one school over pregnancy scandal just in one term, a situation that has raised eye brows over sex activities for teenagers in the lake shore fishing district. Magistrate Alexander Gomba heard how 16 boys at Hoho secondary school in Chintheche […]
Police and divers in Nkhata Bay District are searching for a form two student of St Augustine Community Day Secondary School who went missing on Sunday afternoon on Lake Malawi. Nkhata Bay Police Spokesperson, Sergeant Ignatius Esau, said Mc Molly Mpuma aged 15 together with his friends went to fish on Lake Malawi on Sunday, […]
With no hope and nowhere to go, 600 households in Nkhatabay Central Constituency trapped in the arms of hunger breathed a sigh of relief when they received a donation of 7, 500 Kilograms of maize from former member of parliament of the area Symon Vuwa Kaunda. According to latest Malawi Vulnerability Assessment Committee figures, more […]
Barely twelve months after passengers travelling on Lake Malawi struggled to board or off load goods at Nkhata Bay jetty due to its collapse last year, the jetty on Friday night sunk again due to strong north easterly winds that blew. The jetty was constructed in 1957, and many observers argue that it has outlived […]