Blantyre City Council (BCC) and its Chief Executive Director (CEO) Dr. Alfred Chanza have been dragged to court for declining to consent transfers of plots offensively sold to business tycoon Muhammed Ahmed, owner of Superior Halaal and Malawi Sun Limited. The plots in question are part of the Council’s Engineering Yard that housed the Health […]
The Blantyre City Council (BCC) has shelved off its earlier plans to spend K75 million in buying vehicles for its Chief Executive Officer and Director of Administration after a backlash from the public. The new development has pleased many city residents calling it sensitive to the wishes of people and a true reflection of their […]
The Local Government Service Commission has started an inquiry in the controversial pay hike at Blantyre city council and the subsequent suspension of its chief executive officer, Ted Nandolo. Nyasa Times sources said that Nandolo was seen self-driving a personal white Toyota car to the Civic offices and came out of the inquiry towards lunch […]
Suspended Blantyre City Council (BCC) Chief executive officer (CEO) Ted Nandolo is being investigated on allegations that he was exercising ministerial powers in executing some of his duties. Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development suspended Nandolo three weeks ago with no pay . The ministry is carrying investigations into allegations that Nandolo was implementing […]
The Ministry of Local Government has confirmed the suspension of Blantyre City Council (BCC) Chief Executive Officer, Ted Nandolo, for allegedly implementing salary increments without following required procedures. Nandolo reportedly affected the salary increment for workers without government approval. According to city bylaws, once councils make decisions on issues like salary increment, it is supposed […]
Blantyre City residents have hailed the Council for organising a participatory pre-budgeting session where they had an opportunity to input into the 2015/16 development budget. Gamulani Community Development Committee chairperson a Mr Makwinja appealed to the Council to take on board the comments from the participants. “We are very grateful that you decided to bring […]
Motorists and other road users in Malawi’s commercial capital Blantyre should expect improved flow of traffic on Masauko-Chipembere Highway once the Phase III rehabilitation works are completed. Blantyre City Council Chief Executive Officer Ted Nandolo told the second ordinary Council meeting on Monday that actual ground work on the road would commence by March 1, […]
In what could be described as scoring a double, Emmanuel Ted Nandolo, got some massive praises on his first municipal appearance in his second term of office as Blantyre City Council (BCC) Chief Executive Officer. Nandolo’s contract with BCC, offered to him on 8th January 2011 by the former President late Bingu wa Mutharika, officially […]
Over the last few years, the Blantyre City Council (BCC) has drastically fallen short of offering vital services to its residents but management has shielded itself heaping the blame on the country’s “weak bye-laws”. The council’s management says the laws governing the local authorities are tired and hitting it hard resulting in catastrophic droopiness in […]
It never rains but pours for the Blantyre City Council (BCC). The financial destitution that has hit the country’s major municipal office has reached alarming levels that it has no money to pay its workers, Nyasa Times can reveal. Over the last few months the council has been operating on bulky bank drafts to ensure […]
Financial destitution has hit hard Malawi’s Blantyre City Council (BCC) forcing it to let off over 500 temporary workers, Nyasa Times can reveal. Officials have confirmed the council is undergoing perhaps the worst ever economic constraints that has forced it to operate on deficit. On Friday, a source in the human resources department confided in […]
Employees of Blantyre City Council (BCC) are set to go on industrial action starting next week Tuesday to force management to increase their salaries by 61 percent, Nyasa Times understands. Last month, Malawi Government offered a 61percent pay hike for the lowest paid civil servants and a five percent rise for high earners effective January 1, 2013 […]
There is a communication collapse at Blantyre City Council (BCC) after management sealed offices of switchboard operators for allegedly swindling millions of the council’s finances. The three operators have since been sent home on an indeterminate suspension, a source at the scandal rocked and financially abused institution confided in Nyasa Times. For about two weeks […]
Self-acclaimed untouchable Chief Executive Officer for Blantyre City Council (BCC), Emmanuel Ted Nandolo, continues with his boundless plundering and destruction of the council’s assets as authorities deliberately keep on giving a blind eye. Since his arrival at BCC from Council for Non Government Organisations (CONGOMA), three years ago, Nandolo has been absorbed in massive asset […]
Cracks have emerged within the hierarchy of Blantyre City Council (BCC) just few days before the expiry of an ultimatum handed on it by Members of Parliament from within the city, Nyasa Times understands. A group of irate Parliamentarians, three weeks ago, nearly sealed BCC main offices at Civic Centre demanding an immediate resignation of the […]
Tempers flared Thursday morning at Blantyre City Council (BCC) civic offices when a group of parliamentarians in Blantyre demanded for the resignation of the entire management. This happened during a meeting the council held with the lawmakers who demanded an explanation on why it is taking long for the council to release funds for projects […]
The Blantyre City Council (BCC) has been rocked in a dispute with an event decoration firm it committed to engage as the country was celebrating its 48th Independence last month at the COMESA Hall in Blantyre, Nyasa Times can reveal. The council, according to our source, picked KAMA Florists to decorate the COMESA Hall for the […]
Government has announced new names of board members for the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) raising suspicion that President Joyce Banda may not have been told the truth about the composition of the board. Health rights activist Martha Kwataine is heading the new board where three board members have been retained namely Richard Chisala, Armstrong […]