Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera has added his voice in demanding the Joyce Banda government to name all suspects involved in the Cashgate scandal after an audit revealed K13 billion was embezzled from state coffers. A much-awaited report by British auditors — commissioned by President Joyce Banda — showed this week that K13 billion […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) first vice president and runningmate took time on Friday to tour Rev. Dr. Lazarus Chakwera’s constituency, Lilongwe North West asking people to help him express gratitude to the MCP torch bearer in the forthcoming tripartite election for picking him, Richard Msowoya from the north as runningmate. Msowoya went on to challenge the people that although […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) torch bearer for the 2014 tripartite elections Dr Lazarus Chakwera risks being jailed for disobeying a court order that restrained him and his agents from presenting nomination papers for Jean Sendeza legislator for Lilongwe South West until the primary elections are heard. According to court documents in our possession filled at […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Presidential aspirant, Reverend Dr Lazarus Chakwera has alleged that some people are taking voter certificates from people, especially from his constituency. Briefing the press after presenting his nomination papers in Blantyre, Chakwera said he is reliably informed that there are some people who have been asking for voter certificates in exchange […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential candidate Dr Lazarous Chakwera on Tuesday filed his nomination papers for the May 20 Tripartite Elections. Chakwera, accompanied by his running mate Richard Msowoya, thousands of MCP top officials and supporters including former party leader John Tembo, former official hosted Mama Cecilia Kadzamira presented his nomination papers to Malawi Electoral […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential candidate Dr Lazarus Chakwera has settled for the youthful Richard Msowoya—a former Cabinet minister in the Bingu wa Mutharika government— to be his running mate in the May 20 elections. Chakwera, a pastor throughout his adult life, has picked Msowoya according to MCP hierarchy where Msowoya is his elected vice […]
Presidential hopefuls in the May 20 tripartite elections have promised that once they get into power they will work on having a cabinet of not more than 16 members and without deputies, Nyasa Times has established. Officials of the Public Affairs Committee (PAC), which since a fortnight ago is meeting presidential candidates so that they clearly outline what they […]
President Joyce Banda and her People’s Party (PP) led government are running Malawi in a “mafia way of governing” according to Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera. Chakwera made the accusations during a Tambala Night at Sunbird Mzuzu on Friday, Chakwera said people have suffered under the PP administration. He promised to end the […]
The Malawi Congress Party (MCP) says Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) must incorporate locals so that Malawians must benefit from their own resources. MCP President Dr Lazarus Chakwera said this during whistle stop tours held in northern Mzimba district at Ekwendeni, Euthini and Mzimba Boma on Saturday. Chakwera is also scheduled to hold similar meetings in […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Presidential hopeful Dr Lazarus Chakwera has said his government will allow Malawians to express their discontent if there is a problem and will not resort to killing its citizens for exercising that right. Chakwera said this in Mzuzu at Zolozolo cemetery where he went to lay a wreath on the graves […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Dr Lazarous Chakwera has travelled to the north where he will address a couple of political meetings calling on Malawians to vote for the party in elections so May polls that it should return to power. Addressing supporters in Mzuzu on Thursday when he arrived in the northern city, Chakwera […]
On the very first day of this year, I suggested that as Malawians, our hope for the future, politically and economically, lay in understanding the role that President Joyce Banda has played in destroying the economic and political fabric of our country. As I reflected on the trials and hardships that Malawians have had to […]
The opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) have moved to cool speculation linking the former transport minister Sidik Mia becoming a running mate of Dr Lazarous Chakwera but said the party was flattered that the Lower Shire political giant is linked with join it. MCP spokesperson Dr Jessie Kabwila said the party’s president has not picked […]
Former Minister of Transport and Public Works, Sidik Mia, who was also vice president for the ruling People’s Party (PP) before his resignation on Friday has been tipped for running-mate by the country’s leading opposition, Malawi Congress Party (MCP), whose May 20 presidential candidate, is Lazarus Chakwera, Nyasa Times understands. Mia is also sitting MP […]
The opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has observed that the root cause for the country’s distressing poverty is the trend by leaders who look upon themselves as gods. Chakwera made the remarks Sunday at Nathenje in Lilongwe when the party’s members welcomed him from his week-long Southern Region campaign trail. “The problem is that the […]
President Joyce Banda continues to run the country like “mandasi business” as there is no clear direction as to where the country is heading, and yet Malawians seems to be pretty much ok as there is no loud voice of outcry from this governments deliberate and careless tons of corruptions that in all likelihood germinates […]
Former Chief Justice Lovemore Munlo has disclosed that he declined a position in the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) national executive committee (NEC) because he felt the request from party leader Lazarus Chakwera vague and the offer was like for “a student picked for second selection after failing initial exams.” Munlo, who fought against Chakwera during […]
Malawians are on national holiday today the 15th of January which is Chilembwe Day. The day was specifically set aside for the country to celebrate the life and martyrdom of Reverend John Chilembwe. In observing Chilembwe Day, the nation, also holds prayer led by Chilembwe’s own found Christian church, the Providence Industrial Mission (PIM). Apart from […]