Over 45 000 needy people who cannot afford to buy face masks will in the next few days receive re-usable face masks, courtesy of the Mia family. The donation includes 50 sewing machines, 100 rolls of cloth and other materials for sewing of masks. The Mia family through Elias Karim MP, who is nephew to […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has said it will hold a central executive committee meeting to fill positions of the party’s first vice-presidency and director of research left vacant following the death of its title holders, two Cabinet ministers last week. MCP lost its vice president Mohammed Sidik Mia and Lingston Beleyankama who was director of research. […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) second vice president Harry Mkandawire travelled from his base in Mzuzu to Chikwawa to condole the family of the party’s first vice president Sidik Mia following his death. Mkandawire’s trip to Chikwawa came amid accusations that no top party official or government official attended the funeral and burial ceremony of the […]
Deputy Minister of Lands Abida Mia, who is also legislator for Chikwawa Nkombezi Constituency spoke out in mourning Wednesday following the death of her husband Mohammed Sidik Mia who was minister of Transport and the governing Malawi Congress Party (MCP) vice-president from Covid-19. Speaking to Nyasa Times “through tears,” Abida – comforted by messages of condolence led by […]
Minister of Transport Sidik Mia has died, a day after the country lost another Minister of Local Government Lingstone Belekanyama to coronavirus pandemic and President Lazarus Chakwera is “devastated” on the death of his Cabinet members in a day. Presidential spokesman Brian Banda has said Chakwera will address the nation today at 3pm. Minister of […]
Transport Minister Sidik Mia, who is also Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Deputy President, is self-isolating after testing positive Covid-19 but he has reassured fans he has only minor symptoms. Mia took a test for the virus that has swept the globe in the last 12 months having recognised the symptoms of loss of taste and smell. […]
Transport Minister Sidik Mia, who is also deputy president of Malawi Congress Party (MCP), has received criticism from prominent newspaper columnist, warning him that his ego against Vice President Saulos Chilima could append President Lazarus Chakwera’s agenda. The no-holds-barrel Cut the Chaff column in the Weekend Nation published on Saturday December 19 2020 follows Mia’s […]
Minister of Transport and Public Works Sidik Mia on Tuesday rushed to check on Chapananga Bridge across Mwanza River in Chikwawa after social media rumours were rife that heavy rains had washed it away. However, the minister found that the bridge is intact, it has not been washed away contrary to social media rumours. The […]
Minister of Transport and Public Works Mohammed Sidik Mia visited the Njakwa-Livingstonia Road in Rumphi construction site and has assured the communities that the administration of President Lazarus Chakwera will ensure the long-neglected road should be completed within a year with October 2021 as a deadline after decades of lies and broken promises by past regimes. […]
The Lilongwe Drivers Association has commended Minister of Transport and Public Infrastructure Sidik Mia for listening to concerns from truck drivers regarding the way the Directorate of Road Traffic and Safety Services was renewing their licences and how it was administering examinations. The minister two days ago declared that there was no need for truck drivers to […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has delegated Transport and Public Works minister Sidik Mia to represent the country at the inauguration of President John Magufuli of Tanzania on Thursday. Mia is accompanied by Minister of Information Gospel Kazako. University of Livingstonia political analyst George Phiri insisted that Chakwera should have delegated veep Chilima as the event was […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has committed to reduce traffic congestion especially in the cities with government announcing that it will commence a project to construct a six-lane carriage in Lilongwe at an estimated cost of K13 billion. The road from Parliament Roundabout through Kamuzu Central Roundabout to Shoprite/Nico Centre will be upgraded to a six-lane carriage. […]
Minister of Transport and Public Works, Sidik Mia, has announced that President Lazarus Chakwera administration will construct a $50 million dual carriage road from Lilongwe to Kasungu as it gears up to improve the road infrastructure network in the country. Mia said this on Wednesday by when President Chakwera toured the Area 18 interchange project […]
Minister of transport and public infrastructure, Sidik Mia says the current government is geared to improving transport infrastructure which, in turn, will ensure and support the socio-economic growth of the country. Mia made the commitment known Friday when he was touring transportation projects in Nsanje district. The minister said no country like Malawi can develop […]
About 60 vehicles were on Wednesday tailing two ministers in the southern region where they were on duty, drawing public fire that the motorcade is sprawling. Minister of Transport Sidik Mia, who is also Malawi Congress Party (MCP) deputy president, has an entourage of 27 vehicles as he inspected Thyolo-Thkerani to Makhanga road and East […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has appointed a cabinet committee on Public Private Partnership (PPP) which will, among other things, provide high level strategic and policy advice to government, with a view to promote private sector growth. PPP is a contractual relationship in which the private sector is allowed to invest and deliver service in areas that […]
Minister of Transport Mohammed Sidik Mia has ensured that there are all systems in place for key workers at the airports are working with support of the military to ensure the country allows cargo planes including those meant to bring in Covid-19 materials such as testing kits. There has been an industrial action by the […]
Mo Sidik Mia and Abida Mia has become the first husband and wife to sit in the Tonse Alliance government Cabinet as the country in previous administrations had couples serving in Cabinet. President Lazarus Chakwera appointed the Mia couple in his Cabinet on Wednesday night. Sidik Mia, the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) first deputy president, […]