The new Indian High Commissioner Subbia Gorpalalerishnan says his government is committed to enhancing bilateral relations for the two countries socio-economic development. Speaking at Mtunthama State lodge in Lilongwe on Tuesday when he presented his letters of credence to President Lazarus Chakwera, the new envoy said although the two countries already enjoy good bilateral relations, […]
Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) spokesperson of Finance and the Economy in Parliament Joseph Mwanamvekha has decried the hike in the price of electricity, saying it would have negative ripple effect to the rest of the economy and hurt poor Malawians even more. Mwanamvekha said this in interview with Nyasa Times in reaction to a recent […]
President Lazarus Chakwera says Malawi economy has shown resilience despite Covid-19 and he is optimistic that it will recover as his administration is working on policies designed to reorient the governance framework from one that enriches a few individuals to one where all Malawians can prosper together. He said such policies are in line with […]
State House Press Secretary, Brian Banda has revealed that President Lazarus Chakwera has been based at Mtunthama State Lodge in Area 3 in Lilongwe since Thursday last week as Kamuzu Palace was undergoing much needed renovations using funds allocated specially for State Residence functions. “The President will be temporarily staying at Mthuthama for about four […]
President Lazarus Chakwera will name his new cabinet by Wednesday March 31, 2021, the presidential spokesman has disclosed. State House Press Secretary, Brian Banda confirmed the development on Monday in Lilongwe during the weekly State House brief. “I can independently confirm that in the next two days President Chakwera will announce his cabinet,” said Banda […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has said government was likely to ease some of the restrictions put in place to fight Covid-19 pandemic in the near future if the gains being attained in the fight against the pandemic would uphold. He disclosed this on Sunday during his monthly address to Malawians from Mtunthama State Lodge in Lilongwe […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has said the Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP) for the 2020/21 growing season which his government launched to replace Farm Input Subsidy Programme (Fisp), has been a success. Fisp which was run by the previous regime was associated with a number of challenges, including fraud, corruption and logistical issues especially in hard-to-reach areas. […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has said his Tonse Alliance administration will be implementing policies to ensure there is money in people’s pockets in line with its philosophy by directing all Ministries, Departments and Agencies of government (MDAs) to buy supplies locally. In a televised address on Sunday night, Chakwera said while that comprehensive review lead by […]
President Lazarus Chakwera says he wants Malawi to be one of the best in the world of sports because the Tonse Alliance administration has an enhanced vision for sports. Chakwera, speaking Friday when he laid a foundation stone of the multi-purpose indoors sports complex named after the late legendary Malawi national netball team coach, Griffin Saenda, […]
President Lazarus Chakwera on Friday laid a foundation stone at the site of the new state-of-the-art first ever multipurpose indoor sports complex to be constructed in Lilongwe’s Area 48, named Griffin Saenda in honour of former Malawi National Netball Team coach, late Griffin ‘Zagalo’ Saenda. Speaking after the inspection of the progress of the project, […]
“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward.” –Colossians 3:23-24 When Tanzanian President John Pombe Magafuli was elected as President of the East African coastal country Tanzania, his first […]
Professor Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba, PLO, as he is popularly known, has hailed Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera as the promising transformational leader for Africa and called his eulogy of Tanazania’s late president John Pombe Magufuli “the most powerful tribute ever made to an African leader.” Speaking on Pan-African TV Wednesday night, PLO Lumumba said: “It […]
A powerful parliamentary committee has faulted the Lazarus Chakwera administration for flouting laid down procedures in the hiring of officials in the public service. Shadreck Namalomba, chairperson of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee said the Tonse Alliance regime is repeating the cycle of irregular recruitments in the public service. It follows the publishing last week of […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has given a strong indictment to foreign financial institutions – such as Bretton Woods institutions International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank – that their programmes have had any significant progress to alleviate poverty, in African countries at least, and in Sub-Saharan Africa more particularly: home to the largest portion on the world’s bottom […]
President Lazarus Chakwera says the departed Tanzanian president John Pombe Magufuli was a towering symbol of Africa’s economic resurgence and described him an icon and a hero in the African continent. Chakwera, speaking on Monday at the Jamhuri Stadium in Dodoma, Tanzania during Magufuli’s funeral requiem mass, eurogised: “166 days ago, President John Pombe Magufuli […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has this morning left the country for Dodoma, Tanzania to attend the state funeral of that country’s former president, John Pombe Magufuli. Chakwera was seen off at Kamuzu International Airport in Lilongwe by vice president Saulos Chilima, cabinet ministers, government and party officials. Speaking before departure, Chakwera described Magufuli as a visionary […]
President Lazarus Chakwera flies off to Tanzania on Monday to attend the state funeral of that country’s former president John Pombe Magufuli. Ministry of Foreign Affairs sayse in a statement the plane carrying Chakwera is expected to depart from Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) at 05:30 Hrs. The statement discloses that the state funeral will take […]
When President Bingu wa Mutharika spoke in May 2004. the nation shook. He had gotten only 34% of the popular vote, but his speech resonated well with at least 90% of the voters, excluding the Bakili Muluzi fanatics. By the time Bingu left the UDF in February 2005. People were comparing him with Kamuzu Banda. […]