Vice President Saulos Chilima on Friday opened a virtual Malawi Engineering Institution Annual General Meeting (AGM) from his office at the seat of government Capital Hill in Lilongwe with a call to the engineers to up standards in the delivery of services to the nation. Chilima emphasized that the engineering profession is among the pivotal […]
The Public Service Systems Review Taskforce which government announced last week Friday has rolled into action and held its first meeting in Lilongwe on Thursday to roll out its work to comprehensively review systems of allowances, procurement and employment contracts which have over the years been conduits of looting public funds. The meeting – […]
Resilient policies and strategies are crucial for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to enable them jump start the economy after the devastation caused by Covif-19, Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Chilima said on Tuesday. Chilima was speaking when he participated in a session on rethinking structural transformation in African Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in the era of […]
The second wave of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic has forced President Dr Lazarus Chakwera and his Second-in-Command, Dr Saulos Klaus Chilima, to review the performance of the Cabinet ministers internally. The Presidential Press Secretary Brian Banda has confirmed the development in an interview with Nyasa Times , stressing that the review is already underway. This […]
Government has set up a 14 member taskforce led by vice president Saulos Chilima to look into civil service reforms on allowances, procurement and employment contracts. This follows the directive by President Lazarus Chakwera, on February 14, 2021, that Chilima must form and lead a special taskforce to comprehensively review the three government systems of […]
The Malawi government will proceed to delink the University of Malawi (Unima) into three universities, a statement from the Office of the Vice President has said eventually pushing to the drain an argument from the Council of the University that the process was legally flawed. In the statement signed by Vice President Saulos Chilima’s spokesperson […]
Vice President Saulos Chilima has stressed commitment in ensuring transparency and accountability in domestic and external resources for attainment of national development in line with the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Chilima made the assertion on Wednesday during a virtual media conferenced hosted by the UN office of the High Representative for the […]
President Lazarus Chakwera on Sunday conceded the public perception that Malawi government is like a crime scene of the mafia-like criminal enterprise, saying public sector reform is what the country needs and delegated the country’s second-in-command Saulos Chilima up a turbo-charged reforms to clean the system. Chakwera said this on Sunday during his weekly briefing […]
Today marks exactly one year after the Constitutional Court nullified the 2019 elections citing massive irregularities and fraud. The ruling meant that the election of president Peter Mutharika had been set aside and that a fresh election would follow which was eventually won by President Lazarus Chakwera who led the Tonse Alliance with Saulos Chilima […]
Vice President Saulos Chilima has intervened in a matter the University of Malawi council decided to delay the delinking process of the University of Malawi colleges. Some Malawians expressed concern over the decision by the council after parliament approved the delinking process for efficiency and effectiveness of public universities. On Tuesday morning in Lilongwe, Chilima […]
Daring thieves on Tuesday beat the security system and broke into Deputy Minister of Defence Jean Sendeza’s house at Area 47 in Lilongwe and went away with K3 million and assorted items while State Vice President Saulos Chilima has reported to police for investigations an attempted break-in at his office. The incidents for criminals to […]
President Lazarus Chakwera on Tuesday launched the country’s new master plan, Malawi 2063, a successor to Vision 2020, with an emotional call to the citizenry for mind change, dedication and to embrace the power of hope and belief that Malawi can develop. Speaking from Kamuzu Palace where he was joined virtually by Vice President Saulos […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has launched the country’s second long-term national development plan, dubbed “Malawi 2063” with a call not to tolerate or smile on anyone who engages in wasteful conduct. The Vision 2063, which succeeds Vision 2020, was launched virtually at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe and was among other attended on the internet live portal […]
Vice President Saulos Chilima challenged stakeholders to seriously and deliberately consider and define alternative healthcare financing, stressing that financing “free” healthcare service is proving difficult and unsustainable. Chilima made the remarks in Lilongwe at the launch of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Malawi recently. “Faced with shrinking resources and difficulty in organizing its traditional “free” […]
Two legal teams that represented President Lazarus Chakwera and Vice-President Saulos Chilima in the May 21 2019 presidential election nullification petition have been paid the legal fees by government after the courts ordered they be paid costs in billions; Treasury has confirmed. Chakwera had eight lawyers while Chilima had four, and the 12 initially claimed […]
After President Lazarus Chakwera on Tuesday proclaimed a state of national disaster and directed that the country’s second-in-command Saulos Chilima leads a ministerial task-team to review Covid-19 guidelines in order to respond effectively to the pandemic, the vice-president hit the ground on Wednesday by chairing a first meeting with the Ministers in Lilongwe to work on […]
Vice President Saulos Chilima has not tested positive for coronavirus as rumours on social media seem to suggest as government machinery has dismissed the callous propaganda. Nyasa Times has verified with government spokesperson Gospel Kazako as well as spoken to the Veep’s spokesperson Pilirani Phiri that indeed Chilima is well and has been in the […]
Blantyre-based youth Organisation Young Achievers for Development (YAD) has taken a further step on the public lecturing titled ‘Mindset Change’ which was delivered by the Vice President Saulos Chilima in October last year by translating the message into Chichewa version with the title ‘Kusintha Kaganizidwe’ in order to give opportunity to the people especially those […]