Tag archives: Rev Lazarous Chakwera

Chakwera assures frightened Malawians we’ll overcome Covid-19’s ‘crusade of death’:  Declares State of Disaster, Chilima to lead  health guidelines review

By Nyasa Times Reporter

‘Come what may, we shall overcome!’ President Lazarus Chakwera on Tuesday had to do some straight talking to convince frightened Malawian that we can safely overcome the coronavirus pandemic’s brutal “crusade of death” and declared a State of Disaster to cut densification. Chakwera said this when he addressed the nation following the death of Local Government […]

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5 new Covid deaths, spiralling infection rate  as  Chakwera turns to prayer: 21 days of fasting

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Malawi continues to register spiralling coronavirus infection rate  and public hospitals are struggling to cope  with the second wave with 15 related deaths  reported on Sunday and 269 new virus pandemic cases have been registered with 15 as new recoveries as President Lazarus Chakwera  has asked Malawians  to go into self-isolation and consult healthcare workers […]

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Covid-19 is real! Chakwera admits relaxing in restrictions as Malawi cases surge

By Nyasa Times Reporter

President Lazarus Chakwera conceded he is one of the people in the country who relaxed in the fight against Covid-19 which might have escalated the infection and has since urged people to exercise a high degree of personal responsibility. Chakwera said this during a radio address to the nation on Sunday. He has since called […]

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Chakwera’s touch of humility: Can he make it a mark of his leadership?

By Nyasa Times Reporter

The story of Lazarus Chakwera’s rise to presidency is typical of a Malawian boy, born and raised in kerosene but, against all odds, he benefited from a functional education system that catapulted him to different capitals of power. In him you see a man who never missed a stage of life and, also, the hustles […]

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HRDC asks Chakwera to meet expectations of Malawi citizens

By Nyasa Times Reporter

The Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) has stressed that Malawians are eager to see President Lazarus Chakwera and his Tonse Alliance administration deliver on a number of critical issues  as they begin 2021. In a seven-page New Year’s message, HRDC  reminded the Tonse government to fulfil their promise of serving Malawi better. The Tonse Alliance […]

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Madonna faces criticism for dancing on tables at Malawi presidential palace: ‘Virtues of Kabbalah cult’

By Nyasa Times Reporter

US pop star Madonna is facing criticisms in social media platforms after she sat on tables and danced when she went to meet President Lazarus Chakwera last week with some critics saying she was spreading the virtues of Kabbalah sect of Judasim to the Malawian head of states who is an ordained evangelical pastor. Madonna is […]

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Talking Blues: Prof Kamchedzera interrogates Chakwera’s vexation with the Gordian Knot

By Nyasa Times Reporter

A “Gordian knot” is a conundrum denoting a complex or unsolvable problem. The term’s origin is traced to Alexander the Great who, in 333 B.C., marched into the Phrygian capital of Gordium in modern-day Turkey. Upon arrival, history says he encountered an ancient wagon, its yoke tied with “several knots all so tightly entangled that […]

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Chakwera asked to act on MCP ministers threatening Malawi journalists

By Nyasa Times Reporter

A media expert has asked President Lazarus Chakwera to act on Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Cabinet ministers who are threatening journalists in the country. Dr. Anthony Gunde, a communications lecturer at Chancellor College said the threats are uncalled for. This follows the condemnation of the threats by Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa) Malawi Chapter . […]

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Malawi leader  Chakwera meets pop star Madonna, praises her charity

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera on New Year’s Day met with visiting U.S. pop singer Madonna, praising her efforts to help children’s education  in the South African country. Chakwera received the pop icon at the Kamuzu Presidential Palace in the capital, Lilongwe, where Madonna  briefed him about her charity work in the country. Writing on his […]

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Chakwera delivers optimist New Year message for 2021: Talks of collective action to build Malawi not ‘nay-sayers’

By Nyasa Times Reporter

President Lazarus Chakwera has asked Malawians to rediscover the spirit of togetherness to take what he called national activity of national building and support his administration’s efforts to rebuild the country, expressing the hope that 2021 will be great year despite coming from a very troubling 2020 which has left the country vulnerable in some […]

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Courtesy call to former Malawi presidents: Much ado about just a gracious photo that masks not heals pain

By Nyasa Times Reporter

President Lazarus Chakwera isn’t the first Malawi leader to pay courtesy call on a frustrated, angry and irritated immediate former president. Bakili Muluzi did that in 1994 when he took off time and visited the ailing and tired Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda at Mudi Residences in Blantyre. It was a courtesy call that, in all […]

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Chakwera’s next stop to Muluzi’s residence: ‘Compatriots always’

By Nyasa Times Reporter

After visiting his predecessor Peter Mutharika at the immediate past president’s  residence in Mangochi, President Lazarus Chakwera is set to visit the  country’s first multiparty president from 1994 to 2004, Bakili Muluzi at his home. Chakwera met his predecessor Mutharika on Sunday. “Foes, never. Rivals, sometimes. Compatriots, always,”  posted Chakwera on his Facebook page. On […]

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President Chakwera meets his predecessor Mutharika at ‘Nyekhwe Palace’: No retribution

By Nyasa Times Reporter

President Lazarus Chakwera  and First Lady Monica Chakwera on final Sunday of the year  paid a courtesy call to immediate past president Peter Mutharika at his beachside retirement home in Mangochi. State House spokesperson Brian Banda confirmed to Nyasa Times about the meeting, saying the  President and the First Lady took to Mutharika “gifts of solidarity […]

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Chakwera urges ‘Hands-Face-Space’ measures, takes Christmas cheer to Mangochi hospital

By Nyasa Times Reporter

President Lazarus Chakwera and  First Lady Monica Chakwera distributed gifts to patients  at  Mangochi District Hospital  on Christmas Day. The First Couple  visited the maternity ward, where they were told an average 40 children are born every day, before  cheering up patients in the general ward. Addressing reporters after the tour, President Chakwera   urges the […]

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Chakwera fails to live up on promise to meet Leader of Opposition

By Nyasa Times Reporter

President Lazarus Chakwera has failed to live up to his promise of meeting Leader of Opposition in parliament to discuss issues of national importance. Chakwera made the promise after taking the presidential oath that he would be meeting the Leader of Opposition in parliament every three month to exchange notes on issues of national importance. […]

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HRDC takes on Tonse for betraying trust of Malawians: Faults Chakwera for okaying self-enrichment, hike of fuel prices 

By Nyasa Times Reporter

The Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) has taken the Tonse Alliance-led government to task for allegedly betraying the trust of Malawians on almost all the social and economic fronts. The coalition has also observed that the Tonse administration is losing direction, stressing that there are early signs that President Lazarus Chakwera and his partners are […]

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Bishop Mtumbuka tells Chakwera to avoid leadership style that would lead Malawi to be failed state

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Bishop Martin Mtumbuka  of the influential Catholic Church has appealed to President Lazarus Chakwera to be decisive in his administration to root out corruption in the country. Mtumbuka made the appeal on Saturday at Civo Stadium in his homily during a requiem mass for the late Archbishop Tarcizio Ziyaye of Lilongwe Archdiocese. Ziyaye died of […]

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