Tongues are wagging over reports regarding the alleged meeting between President Lazarus Chakwera and opposition leader, Kondwani Nankhumwa. Earlier today, State House Director of Communications Sean Kampondeni told the media, during his Weekly Briefs, that President Chakwera met in camera Leader of Opposition Kondwani Nankhumwa at Parliament building and also discussed national matters on Thursday. […]
President Lazarus Chakwera met London-based law expert Allan Z. Ntata who launched a citizen-led initiative to help build and ensure public accountability. State House Director of Communication Sean Kampondeni told the Weekly Press Conference in Lilongwe that Chakwera maet Ntata a law barrister who had previously worked at Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) and also served as […]
Parliament is set to discuss a Termination of Pregnancy bill which aims at expanding avenues for women to have safe abortion. Speaking during the Weekly Briefings on Monday, presidential press secretary Brian Banda said the bill is coming in the House as a private member’s bill. MP will debate, pass or reject the Bill to […]
President Lazarus Chakwera is courting the opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) and has scheduled a meeting with its party leaders. State House Director of Communications Pastor Sean Kampondeni,said on Monday during the weekly media briefings that President Chakwera will meet UDF Secretary General Kandi Padambo and the party’s vice-president for the south, Lance Mbewe . Kampondeni […]
Peoples Progressive Movement (PPM) leader Mark Katsonga Phiri, who is also legislator for Neno South, joined a lengthening list of legislators singing praise of President Lazarus Chakwera when contributing to the State of the Nation Address (Sona). Katsonga whose PPM is a junior partner in the Tonse Alliance government said Malawi is blessed to have […]
During his maiden His Exellency’s Question time (HEQs) session in Parliament on Thursday, President Lazarus Chakwera was captured in photos by Malawi News Agency photographer Lisa Kadango using both his left and right hands to take notes, the first ambidextrous person to be the country’s leader. Chakwera was reportedly was born right-handed but he re-educated […]
The popular narrative currently circulating on the social and even mainstream media is that President Lazarus Chakwera ‘roasted’ Leader of Opposition Kondwani Nankhumwa during His Excellency’s Question time (HEQs) style-session in Parliament on Thursday, September 11, 2020. The reason propagators of this narrative are forwarding is that despite the fact that President Chakwera took time […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has vowed that he will continue to attend His Excellency’s Question Time (HEQs) style-session in Parliament throughout his presidency as provided in the Constitution. The law provides for Question Time for the President, but since the adoption of the new Constitution in 1994, only the first president in the multiparty era, Bakili Muluzi, during his […]
Leader of opposition in Palriament, Kondwani Nankhumwa asked President Lazarus Chakwera on Thursday whether he is running a Tonse Alliance government or just a Malawi Congress Party (MCP) government as he wondered why the President was championing the Chakwera Hi-Five agenda and not that of the rest of the partners. During His Excellency’s Questions (HEQs) […]
President Lazarus Chakwera during His Excellency’s Questions (HEQs) in Parliament on Thursday rejected assertions by former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) officials, notably Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Kondwani Nankhumwa that the new Tonse Alliance administration was persecuting its rank and file. Nankhumwa has accused Chakwera of “arbitrarily arresting” former DPP “supporters” and that […]
The game of political play and tussle took an interesting twist and fun in Parliament on Thursday when President Lazarus Chakwera stormed the chamber for His Excellency’s Question Time (HEQs) style-session from Members of parliament . Chakwera’s masterly of speech delivery and articulacy gave him an upper edge in Parliament when he managed, on style, to […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has come gun-blazing in his defense of his plan to build houses for members of parliament (MPs) in their constituency which has come under heavy resistance from the opposition. The opposition and analysts have chided the move and, instead, advised Chakwera to priotise constructing houses for civil servants including teachers and health […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has detailed his decision to reduce presidential powers in an effort to empower the citizens targeting appointment of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) boss and chancellorship of public universities. Chakwera made the pronouncement during question time in Parliament on Thursday. Trimming presidential powers was among the campaign promises Chakwera made during political rallies that […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has said clarified that the founding president Kamuzu Banda was not the founder of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) which he leads now, but late Orton Chirwa, the country’s first attorney general after independence, as the founding father of party. Chakwera said this Thursday afternoon when he appeared in Parliament to face […]
The face of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) in the eastern region, Gerald Kazembe, whose party is headed by President Lazarus Chakwera, escorted all Senior Chiefs and Traditional Authorities from Mangochi to pay a courtesy call to the new Malawi leader on Wednesday. A picture circulating on the social media is showing Kazembe and the top […]
President Lazarus Chakwera on Tuesday fulfilled his promise of cash donation to musicians William Kachigamba. Musician Patience Namadingo orchestrated the move to help Kachigamba who was born with albinism to receive special treatment in Zambia. Lucius Banda, who is also presidential advisor on arts and youth, presented the cash donation amounting to K2 Million to […]
Political analyst Vincent Kondowe has cautioned President Lazarus Chakwera against continued reference to his ‘Super Hi 5’ political mantra as the driving force of his administration, reminding him he is leading a Tonse Alliance government of nine parties that won June 23 presidential elections. Kondowe said the touting of ‘Chakwera Super Hi-5’ could fuel scepticism […]
National Assembly has adopted guidelines on the procedure to be followed in asking the Malawi leader questions as President Lazarus Chakwera is set to be the country’s second leader to face His Excellency’s Question Time (HEQs) style-session from Members of parliament this coming Thursday in Lilongwe. First president in the multiparty era, Bakili Muluzi, was […]