The opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has questioned the meeting Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president, Reverend Lazarus Chakwera and President Joyce Banda had over political violence in Thyolo last week. On Tuesday last week Chakwera met Banda at Sanjika Palace in Blantyre following a fracas that ensued at Goliati in Thyolo district where two people […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Dr Lazarous Chakwera has said his party will be entitled “to rethink” the country’s fiscal year, once voted into power in May 20 elections to ensure ministry of agriculture gets “timely” funding. Chakwera said this when he signed a pledge card with Oxfam Malawi in which it committed to ensuring […]
It is not surprising as we approach the May 20 Tripartite Elections to hear politicians promise a lot of things to the feeble, gullible and often uninformed citizens on the political podiums. Someone will literally promise the moon as the electioneering reaches a crescendo. It is widely accepted that politicians are dirty congenital liars and […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Dr Lazarus Chakwera has confirmed holding talks with Head of State Joyce Banda at Sanjika Palace on Tuesday which he said centred on matter of national interest. Speaking to journalists in Lilongwe Tuesday, Chakwera said their discussion was centred on the political violence which is rearing its ugly head on the […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) executive members said they are in the dark over the agenda of the meeting between their president Dr Lazarous Chakwera and Head of State Joyce Banda on Tuesday. Nyasa Times understands that Chakwera had a courtesy call on President Banda at State House. MCP officials said Chakwera informed the party of […]
“Panic is sudden desertion of us, and a going to the enemy of our imagination”- Christian Nevell. The ruling Peoples Party (PP) is panicking. That the stampede in PP has gone intense media coverage is testament to a party whose in-house panic is intense. Malawi is going to the polls on 20 May and this […]
Leader of the opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Lazarus Chakwera says he is not regretting his recent statement concerning how President Joyce Banda’s administration is handling issues of national interest and on his remarks against the opposition Democratic Progress Party (DPP0 position on people in the northern region. Speaking during Tiuzeni Zoona program on the […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera on Wednesday conducted a whistle stop tour on his way to a rally at Malingunde in the outskirts of Lilongwe City where he criticised the tendency of letting tobacco buyers dictate leaf prices at the auction floors. The tour took him to Njewa, Chigwirizano, unit six and then […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential candidate Lazarus Chakwera has been sued for slander and defamation. Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) treasurer general George Chaponda took out the legal suit against Chakwera over the remarks he made to the media that Chaponda said DPP did not need the Northern Region vote to win the May 20 Tripartite […]
People’s Party (PP) running mate Sosten Gwengwe has been asked to apologise to Nkhoma Synod of the Church of Central African Presbyterian (CCAP) over remarks he made at a rally held at Chief Mazengera headquarters in Lilongwe on Sunday addressed by President Joyce Banda. The church has written Gwengwe asking him to make an apology […]
Special Advisor to President Joyce Banda on Politics and Communication, Elias Wakuda Kamanga has condemned Malawi Congress Party’s (MCP) president, Dr. Lazarus Chakwera for describing Banda’s administration as childish. Kamanga said in a statement made available to Nyasa Times on Tuesday that Chakwera’s sentiments are motivated by an apparent outrage at the prospect of losing the Presidential […]
Malawi Congress Party’s campaign has received a boost as veterans in the likes of former party president John Tembo and former speaker of parliament, Louis Chimango coming in to support by either holding their own rallies or joining aspirants in their constituencies. Tembo, the outgoing Leader of Oppisition, has taken his own initiative to campaign […]
The Chairperson of Africa Ministerial Advisory Board (AMAB), a forum of Africa Christian political and church leaders from the continent, Reverend Dr Lazarus Chakwera says solutions to woes facing Africa lie within the continent itself by reflecting on whether Godly values have been a way of life in the leadership at government, political, business, society, […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) leader in Parliament Dr George Chaponda has threatened to sue Malawi Congress Party (MCP) President Rev Dr Lazarus Chakwera if he fails to make a public apology within three days over alleged remarks that Chaponda claimed that DPP can win the elections without Northern Region vote. Chakwera told journalists in Lilongwe […]
President of the opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP), Dr Lazarus Chakwera has emphasised the need for President Joyce Banda to make public her assets before May 20 Tripartite Elections if her name is to be cleared in the cashgate scandal. Addressing journalists Tuesday in the capital Lilongwe, Chakwera said declaring her assets was the only way Banda could clear […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) President, Lazarus Chakwera, has snubbed an invitation from the High Level Development Council to attend the national dialogue on ‘Malawi @50 Forum’ in Lilongwe on Wednesday. The dialogue will be presided over by President Joyce Banda under the theme “Malawi at 50 and prospects for the next 50 years.” Among others, the […]
In a surprising twist of events, new hospital director for Kamuzu Central Hospital, Dr. Grace Chiudzu refused to allow Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Dr. Lazarus Chakwera visit the mortuary or even see her to understand and appreciate the problems at the referral hospital. Chakwera sent an advance party of Director of Campaign Felix Jumbe […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leader Dr Lazarous Chakwera has returned home from a fund-raising tour of the United States, saying he is ready to go flat out and campaign for May 20 elections. The official campaign begins on March 21, a day after the dissolution of parliament, and will go on for 60 days. Chakwera […]