News that government has cancelled the 2012/13 fertilizer procurement contracts for possible review is not unexpected. The review comes at a time when high level sources have revealed of serious anomalies and high level corruption in the way the contracts were awarded. It has been alleged that Erica Maganga was removed as Secretary for Agriculture […]
Police in Blantyre have netted two men suspected to be hired assassins who gruesomely murdered a University of Malawi student activist, Robert Chasowa in cold blood at Polytechnic campus for criticizing Malawi’s late president, Bingu wa Mutharika, publicly and exposing him and his DPP government of clandestine and underhand deals, in a special combat, Nyasa Times […]
Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) told the Blantyre Magistrates court on Thursday that it has lined up more than 20 witnesses to testify in the inquest of the death of Polytechnic student Robert Chasowa. MHRC has instituted the inquest after granted permission by Limbe Dalton Magistrates court earlier this year following the application by Chasowa’s […]
Body of the late Mrs Festa Ntila Chanthunya, sister to President Joyce Banda was laid to rest on Tuesday at Ntogolo Village in Domasi, Zomba where thousands of mourners led by the president paid their last respects. In her eulogy, President Banda said her sister was a “hard working woman” who was more of a […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) top brass who were involved in a scheme to subvert the constitutional order on the filling of the vacancy created after the death of former president Bingu wa Mutharika, have exonerated Chief Justice Lovemore Munlo that he was not part of their plotting meeting. The DPP gurus plotted to install Mutharika’s brother, Peter, […]
The change of government leadership from the late Bingu wa Mutharika to Joyce Banda has forced former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to vacate from the house of chief executive officer for Blantyre City Council which it took by force and used as regional offices for the party in the south. The party made the […]
Malawians should celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ in a special way by thanking God for giving them a new Malawi under a female president, said Catholic priest Fr. Joseph Kimu at the start of his Easter Sunday mass on Radio Maria Malawi. Fr. Kimu said God has given Malawians a special Easter by revealing […]
Ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) regional governor for the south Noel Masangwi on Friday used his office to stop Tapita Building Construction from putting up a billboard along the Masauko-Chipembere Highway at AXA head office in Blantyre. Despite the company getting permission and making payments to Blantyre City Council for their project, Masangwi called the […]
Malawi’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Governor (South) Noel Masangwi has confessed that the Panga-wielding youth on the streets of Blantyre a day before the July 20 anti-government demonstrations were DPP youth militia. Masangwi reportedly told the Presidential Committee of Inquiry into the July 20, 2011 events in Zomba on Monday that the youth were meeting […]
Malawi Vice President Joyce Banda has demanded K100 million in damages from rulig DPP Southern Regional governor Noel Masangwi over his remarks that Banda was plotting to overthrow the Bingu wa Mutharika administration. The Vice President has also demanded a written for defamatory remarks Masangwi made against her at Kachere when President Mutharika adressed a […]
Malawi Vice President Joyce Banda, who heads an opposition People’s Party, has been accused of treason as President Bingu wa Mutharika’s regime raised the stakes in the battle to retain its grip on power. Ruling DPP Southern Region Governor, Noel Masangwi, on Sunday accused Banda of conspiring with Public Affairs Committee (PAC) chairperson Rev Macdonald […]
The road to 2014 is bumpy and full of bloodshed to innocent Malawians and even some DPP officials. Attacks and petrol bombs that have landed on innocent Malawians are now extending to other ruling DPP officials. On Monday, some thugs sent by the regional committee of the DPP in the south attacked DPP Thyolo West […]
President Bingu wa Mutharika has withdrawn the dismissal of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) regional governor for the south Noel Masangwi to save the party from more trouble, Nyasa Times understands. Mutharika fired Masangwi recently after being convinced by several DPP officials to fire him for being dormant and lacking vision. Masangwi’s dismissal brought divisions in […]
President Bingu wa Mutharika has tipped his Thyolo homeboy member of parliament, Charles Mchacha, to take over the post of governorship for southern region, Nyasa Times understands. Mchacha become a favourite for the post, which has been vacant after Mutharika booted out Noel Masangwi some weeks ago. The parliamentarian’s name has been given blessings from […]
Malawi President and leader of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Bingu Wa Mutharika has sacked from his position, Noel Masangwi,the s regional governor for the south, Nyasa Times can reveal. The firing of the vocal regional party boss happened last Sunday, the day same day Mutharika replaced his military officer – Aide De Camp […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) regional committee for the south on Thursday tried to abort First Lady Callista Mutharika’s visit to Blantyre City South Constituency because the Member of Parliament for the area Moses Kunkuyu is one of the four MPs who spoke against the party last year. The team of the regional committee members led […]
Ruling DPP has recruited ‘mafia’ Humphrey Mvula to work on a project of propaganda and mudslinging against lawmaker Atupele Muluzi’s presidential ambitions. According to a senior DPP official, Mvula has been tasked to work with Sky broadsheet newspaper of DPP’s Noel Masangwi to “create damaging stories” against Atupele. Plan Mvula and broadsheet reporter (name withheld) […]
Ruling Democratic Progressive Party regional governor for the South Noel Masangwi is involved in a K41 million tax evasion at Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) but officials say he is being shielded by President Bingu wa Mutharika. Local media received an injunction stopping them from publishing the story on two occasions. Some lawyers expressed surprise that […]