President Lazarus Chakwera has said African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) offers a huge opportunity to promoting trading among African Union (AU) member states. He said this in Lilongwe at the end of the 13th Extraordinary Session of African continental Trade for African Union (AU) Head of State and Governments conducting virtually. Chakwera said the […]
Malawians have taken up in various social media platforms to criticize and mock president Lazarus Chakwera over his endless trips. Chakwera was in Lumbadzi, Dowa on Friday where he visited the Green House vegetable structure run by Israelis. However, some Malawians feel such trips could have been undertaken by an official in the ministry of […]
Lilongwe City Councillors said they smiled back home after getting better “brown envelopes” with cash handouts from President Lazarus Chakwera than compared with their Blantyre counterparts when they had an interface meeting with the head of state at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe. Chakweara’s meeting with 27 councilllors was the third presidential meeting with councils, after […]
Muslim Association of Malawi (MAM) chairperson, Sheikh Idrissa Muhammad, during the National Thanksgiving Prayer Service organised by Interdenominational religious bodies in Lilongwe on Wednesday, prayed against driving a wedge between President Lazarus Chakwera and second-in-command Saulos Chilima so that they can deliver their Tonse philosophy successfully to the betterment of the country. Muhammed preached on […]
An influential youth rights activist has called on President Lazarus Chakwera to stop the recruitment of Tony Blair and his team as advisors to the government, with some observeser saying his administarion has failed to explain what is their challenge. Charged Kajoloweka, who is the executive director of Youth and Society has described the government’s […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has said Malawi has been saved from being consumed from political turmoil, corruption and coronavirus pandemic by the love of God. Chakwera said this on Wednesday morning when he attended the national service of thanks giving at Bingu International Conference Center. “We came close to be consumed by political wind, by lawlessness […]
Malawi on Tuesday commemorated World Aids Day with President Lazarus Chakwera stressing his government’s commitment in the fight against HIV and Aids by staying the course to achieve zero infection rate by 2030 amidst Coronavirus (Covid-19). The World Aids Day and International Candlelight Memorial event was held at Mitundu Primary School Ground in the area […]
Malawians are telling President Lazarus Chakwera to send back the United Kingdom’s former prime minister Tony Blair who is in the country to be adviser to the Tonse alliance government of President Lazarus Chakwera. The President’s key spin doctor, Sean Kampondeni says Blair and two other members of his Tony Blair Institute are indeed […]
State House has dismissed media reports that the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBIGC), which is expected to establish a Delivery Unit to help the government in service delivery, will siphon taxpayer’s money through salaries and other expenditures, saying the government would not spend any money on the service. Speaking at Sanjika Palace on […]
A social media activist Onjezani Kenani has lashed out at reports that former United Kingdom (UK) prime minister Tony Blair wants to set up an advisory office on governance results delivery at Malawi State House and the Office of the President and Cabinet, saying their activities will be opaque as they coming to feast on the poor […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has spoken tough against rape and defilement, saying his administration will deal with perpetrators as law enforcers are urged to step up their game prevent sex crimes and hold offenders accountable. He said this on Saturday during his weekly radio address to the nation. He warned those who conceal sexual abuse cases […]
Monday 23 November 2020 will be remembered as the day that President Lazarus Chakwera experienced his presidential come-to-Jesus moment. Speaking at Kamuzu Palace when chairing the signing ceremony of Public Service Reform Performance Contracts with government ministries, local councils, institutions and parastatals; Chakwera bemoaned the public service’s failure to repent, change and begin earning the […]
An international relations affairs expert has warned President Lazarus Chakwera against making a unilateral decision without Sadc to send Malawi Defence Force (MDF) soldiers to fight Islamist insurgents in Mozambique. President Chakwera told the media in Botswana during an extraordinary Sadc Troika meeting last week that he would send the Malawi troops in Capo Delgado […]
The former United Kingdom (UK) prime minister Tony Blair wants to set up an advisory office on governance results delivery at Malawi State House and the Office of the President and Cabinet, a return to the country years after Blair and his team pulled out as official consultants to the then president Joyce Banda. According […]
President Lazarus Chakwera, on Saturday, November 28, 2020, during the launch of year 2020 of nurses and midwives at Bingu International Convention centre, declared the nurses and midwives in the country as national heroes. The President commended nurses for their sacrifice and commitment in providing the best healthcare services in the country. “If I may, […]
In coming Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) chair, President Lazarus Chakwera is likely to face the insurgency in Mozambique as his main challenge. But speaking on Friday during the SADC extra-ordinary organ troika summit in Botswana, Chakwera has not said how he will help tackle the insurgency once he becomes the SADC chairperson. The insurgency […]
President Lazarus Chakwera who last week endured a seven-hour delay on his journey back from South Africa which included “vague security reasons” for thorough checks of the presidential plane had another damage to his dignity after his trip from Botswana on Friday shrouded with controversy of the flight crew being detained. Botswana authorities detained for […]
President Lazarus Chakwera will be installed as Chancellor of the University of Malawi (Unima) on Thursday, December 10, 2020, at the Chancellor College in Zomba. The President will later preside over a graduation ceremony for the 2020 university graduands. Last week Chakwera was installed Chancellor of the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (Luanar) […]