Malawi has dominated this year’s prestigious Black Entertainment Film Fashion Television, Arts and Sports Awards (BEFFTA) astoundingly scooping five medal awards at an alluring ceremony held at the weekend at Central Hall Westminster in London. Malawians subjugated the glamorous and glitzy 7th BEFFTA awards with a staggering eight nominations in total in an assortment of categories […]
Nyasa Times will be carrying a new column titled: ‘The Loose Cannon’ by Thom Chiumia. It will be about my reflections and analysis on issues without fear or favour. I will not gossip about issues. I will discuss them and indeed I will be a ‘Loose Cannon’ . Tighten your belts. Look out for my […]
Malawi’s leading media group Blantyre Printing and Publishing (Times Group) Chief Executive Leonard Chikadya on Monday cancelled a K100, 000 cheque; a contribution towards an initiative to raise funds for one of its fired editors Limbani Moya who is battling with chronic kidney failure disease and needs a kidney transplant in India. An accountant at […]
Malawi former national team football players and netball stars took to the pitch once again on July 6 in Manchester during the 49th independence celebrations from British rule, festive social football games. The Malawi Association Manchester which was hosting the celebrations, organized a football tournament between Malawian teams from different cities in UK and also […]
You may loathe or adore it. Online publication Nyasa Times has done it with flying colours. It is the number one online ‘Newspaper of the Year’, courtesy of a survey. The Malawi Media 2011 survey was undertaken by Malawi2014 between November 24 and December 4 2011 where respondents gave 77.2 per cent to Nyasa Times online […]
Most people hated him passionately – Bakili Muluzi – the former President of the Republic of Malawi. And most people adored him, Dr. Bingu wa Mutharika – except for a few voices who expressed skepticism from the start like the doubting “Toms” Likambale and Chiumia in particular of this world who urged people to wait […]
Editor of Malawi’s leading online news, the Nyasa Times, Thom Chiumia was invited to be a panellist at the debate organised by St Andrews University of Scotland which was held at the Royal Commonwealth Society in London on Monday. The debate was held under the theme: ‘Will the Arab Spring be followed by an African […]
The UK based Malawi Diaspora Forum has called on Bingu wa Mutharika to gracefully resign as President of Malawi within 91 days after the July 20 mass demonstrations or face force removal. Meeting in the City of Manchester, Diasporans said yesterday that they “note with harrow the appalling difficulties” of people of Malawi all due […]