Leader of Opposition and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera has branded President Peter Mutharika’s address on Friday during the opening of the 47th Session of Parliament in which he did not mention the issue of electoral reforms as ‘a public lecture’ on what ‘Parliament is all about’. In his immediate response to the […]
Leader of opposition and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera has accused Malawi Police for showing their “unprofessional conduct” and partisan by blocking his party supporters from entering Parliament Building premises to escort three newly elected Members of Parliament for a swearing in ceremony. Police mounted make-shifts road blocks in the Capital blocking MCP supporters […]
South Africa-based Malawian, Prophet Shepherd Bushiri of the Enlightened Christian Gathering Church, has thrown his weight behind President Peter Mutharika to renews his five and final year mandate in 2019 Tripartite Elections and his governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Bushiri, who also has Shepherd Bushiri Investments, told special prayers organised by a grouping of Malawians living in […]
President Peter Mutharika has hit back at leader of opposition in Parliament Lazarus Chakwera who branded him as a “pathological liar”, saying he tells the truth projected Chakwera as a big liar. Chakwera accused President Mutharika of being “clueless, directionless and insensitive” to the people’s misery and suffering inflicted by power blackouts and that he lied to […]
Geneva-based social-economic commentator Stanley Kenani has backed leader of opposition in Parliament Lazarus Chakwera who has dared President Peter Mutharika to demonstrate seriousness to resolve the energy crisis facing the country by fast-tracking interim solutions to extended power outages but a group of individuals sympathetic with the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) calling themselves Concerned Citizens has registered […]
Minister of Information, Communication and Technology Nicholas Dausi has hit back at the leader of the opposition Lazarus Chakwera, who is also Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president, who accused President Peter Mutharika of being “clueless, directionless and insensitive” to the people’s misery and suffering inflicted by power blackouts. Chakwera on Thursday asked Mutharika to demonstrate seriousness resolve the […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leader Lazarus Chakwera has accused the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)-led government of influencing the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) to award a contract of purchasing generators to a company with links to the party’s members, saying leaders are busy enriching themselves through corrupt means and are failing to fight corruption because “they […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president and leader of opposition in parliament, Lazarus Chakwera, has said it is sad that a few superstitious individuals and communities have chosen to “tear the fabric of our society apart” and disturb the peace in the country through spread of fallacious ‘bloodsucking’ rumours. Malawi has been marred with the rumours, […]
Major political parties on Saturday were busy finalising campaign ahead of Tuesday October, 17 by elections. Campaign period officially closed Sunday morning. Ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), final whistle stop tours were led by Minister of Transport and Public Works , Jappie Mhango and the DPP secretary general Grezelder Jeffrey while Malawi Congress Party (MCP) final whistle stop tours […]
The Transformation Alliance (TA) has said alliance between the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and United Democratic Front (UDF) means UDF is an accomplice to the regime political terror campaign. In an open letter to the Head of State released as he was arriving from New York where he attended the United Nations General Assembly, TA […]
Government spokesperson and Minister of Information, Communications and Technology Nicholas Dausi has dismisses suggestions that the delayed completion of some projects were being used to siphon money from public coffers claimed by the opposition. Nyasa Times reported on Friday September 29 2017 that opposition parties told journalists in Lilongwe that the delay to complete the […]
Opposition political parties have hailed the remaining credible civil society organisations (CSOs) in the country who have taken the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to task to refund all the money it received from parastatals and city councils during its fundraising dinner called Blue Night on July 29 2017 and to desist from abusing power. […]
Opposition political parties in Malawi on Thursday held a news conference at Crossroads Hotel where they expressed their frustration following the countless abandoned projects by the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Leader of opposition in parliament Lazarous Chakwera, who is also president Malawi Congress Party (MCP), led the news conference where the leaders tackled a […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) President Reverend Dr Lazarus Chakwera has warned Malawians against voting for any of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidates in forthcoming bye-elections its leadership has failed the country. He said this on Sunday when he was drumming up support for the Lilongwe Msozi North candidate, Sosten Gwengwe ahead of bye-elections […]
Local Government and Rural Development minister, Kondwani Nankhumwa, has denied that he showed up three hours later after the scheduled time to preside over the installation of Chief Njolomole of Ntcheu on Thursday, September 21, 2017. In an interview with Nyasa Times on Friday, the minister said the reports are “dangerously inaccurate” and “a total […]
Leader of opposition and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera, has said the current talk about Malawi’s inflation easing to a single digit is just a lie and a fluke as any such major economic shift would translate into socio-economic growth and improved life among the majority of Malawians. Chakwera said authorities are falsify […]
Lilongwe City Deputy Mayor, Juliana Kaduya on Sunday joined the opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) during a rally which party president Lazarus Chakwera held at Msambeta Primary School Grounds where he drummed up support for MCP candidates for ahead of the Lilongwe City South East October 17 by-elections. Kaduya joined MCP alongside former Deputy minister […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera has hit at “scandalous” Denocratic Progressive Party (DPP) led administration, faulting corruption in the awarding of government contracts, which he said is segregating against competent contractors, and resulting in substandard works. Chakwera said this on Saturday when he addressed a rally at Mtsiliza Primary School in Lilongwe City […]