Mzuzu and districts Simama Premier League prize presentation has been delayed because the Northern Religion Football Association (NRFA) is yet to agree with the sponsors on the actual date of the presentation. The league, which in previous seasons was characterized by wrangles and poor administration, lasted on 27th December 2015, earlier than in the previous […]
Minister of Information, Tourism and Civic Education, Jappie Mhango on Thursday officially commissioned the MK3.6 Billion Simama Hotel in the capital city, Lilongwe. Mhango commissioned a 52 roomed hotel amid problems of shortage of accommodation in the capital city. Speaking during the function, Mhango commended Simama Group of companies for complementing Government efforts in boosting tourism sector. […]
The country’s tax collector, the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) has fined the son of controversial businessman, Bishop Simama MK 10 million for smuggling 30,000 litres of petrol into Malawi from Tanzania. While MRA’s public relations office headed by Wilma Chalulu dodged the matter, Nyasa Times was able to confirm the development with inside sources and […]
Bishop Abraham Simama, one of the shareholders of National Bus Company (NBC), says he wants the firm’s majority shareholder and Chairperson Leston Mulli to be ousted because he uses NBC money to fund opposition DPP and Mulakho wa Alomwe grouping. Speaking in a telephone interview with a Nyasa Times correspondent, Simama said he will fight […]
Illovo Sugar Malawi Limited says it has now liberalized local sugar distribution and is now allowing anyone interested to participate in the selling of the product. The company said the public is free to purchase sugar for wholesale or retail purposes without any restrictions or the need for a licence but said interests person would be […]
The business community in Malawi’s northern border district of Karonga are challenging the findings of the Competition and Fair Trade Commission which have faulted the country’s sugar manufacturing company Illovo and one the distributors Simama General Dealers of flouting procedures for sugar distribution in the district. In the findings which were published in one of the […]
Malawi’s arguably richest Pentecostal Pastor and business man, Bishop Abraham Simama has spoken about rumors that have been making rounds linking him to Satanism and devil worshipping. The bishop told the country’s private owned MIJ FM’s ‘The melting Point’ program that such rumors gain strength and spread like wild fire because he is a true servant of God. […]
Mangochi first grade magistrate Jack Njiko on Wednesday granted bail to four suspects arrested in connection with the 600 bags of subsidized fertilizers found mixed with sand at Katuli ADMARC depot a week ago. They are a driver of Simama Transport and his two assistants, and production manager for fertilizer manufacturer Optichem, Samuel Synoden. They […]
Malawi Vice President Khumbo Kachali and business magnet Bishop Ibrahim Simama are scheming to snatch the country’s biggest bus company from business tycoon, Leston Mulli of Mulli Brothers Holdings, Nyasa Times can reveal. The National Bus Company, was established under the Public Private Partnership following the demise of the state owned Shire Bus Lines Company. […]
Police in Malawi’s southern region of Mangochi continue netting more people in connection to the scandal in which they impounded a lorry which carried 600 bags of subsidized fertilizers at some of which were found mixed with sand during offloading at Katuli depot. The police had first arrested a driver of the Simama Transport which […]
Police in Malawi’s southern district of Mangochi have arrested one person in connection with a scandal in which 600 bags of subsidized fertilizers were found mixed with sand. The suspect Chiyembekezo Akimu, who operates a hardware business at Mangochi market, is being suspected of using his vehicle to carry sand which was used to mix […]
Farmers Union of Malawi, a grouping of over 78 associations of farmers is asking government authorities to ensure that all culprits involved in Mangochi subsidised fertilizers scandal should been prosecuted. Police in Malawi’s southern district of Mangochi on Friday evening impounded a truck registration number KA 5310 belonging to Simama Transport after 600 hundred bags […]
Preliminary investigations into a fertilizer subsidy scandal in which police have impounded a vehicle carrying 600 bags filled with sand are implicating Optichem, Simama transport and Smallholder Farmers Fertilizer Revolving Fund of Malawi (SFFRFM) . Police in Malawi’s southern district of Mangochi on Friday evening impounded a truck registration number KA 5310 belonging to Simama Transport […]
Police in Malawi’s southern district of Mangochi have impounded a truck registration number KA 53 10 belonging to Simama Transport after 600 hundred bags of subsidised fertilizers it carried found filled with sand. Officer in charge for Mangochi police station senior assistant commissioner Ephraim Chipojola says the police have so far arrested four people including […]
The Karonga Business Association (KABA) has asked government to enact the Competition Act as a matter of urgency to curb issues of monopoly thereby levelling the business environment. For instance, the Association said it was unfair to have Simama General Dealers being a sugar distributor, transporter, wholesaler, and retailer for the whole northern region. They […]
Zimbabwean woman, who was arrested last week on charges of defrauding a Malawian subsidiary company in a maize buying scam, has been granted $100 bail by a Harare provincial magistrate, according to NewsDay Online report. Tabeth Makombe (41) allegedly swindled Simama General Dealer — a Malawian company — of $83 562 in March last year. […]