Times Media Group — the broadcasting and print empire founded by Malawi’s first president, Hastings Kamuzu Banda — has been left hollowed out, its most experienced journalists steadily absorbed into senior government roles under the Democratic Progressive Party administration. What was once one of Malawi’s most formidable newsrooms is now, insiders say, a diminished institution, […]
Clement Mukumbwa, a contractor trading under Fukumele Building Contractors, has written Times Television (TTV) demanding an apology and withdrawal of a ‘defamatory’ news item which was broadcast on March 4 and March 5, 2021 news bulletins on the television. According to a letter by Mukumbwa’s lawyers, Blackstone Chambers, which Nyasa Times has seen, Times Television […]
Times television celebrated and maverick presenter Brian Banda has been forced to resign following accusation of professional misconduct. Social media has been awash with reports that Banda resigned because of alleged soliciting of corruption. But sources at Times indicate that Banda was asked by management to resign after a catalogue of professional misconduct. “It has been […]
The Constitutional Court on Wednesday granted permission to Times and Zodiak for live audio coverage of elections case proceedings. Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera and UTM Party leader Saulos Chilima who are disputing the May 21 presidential poll results. The case continued Wednesday morning in Lilongwe amidst tight security as police officers have surrounded […]
Times Group media empire has banned a paid for programme ‘Tiyambenso’ which was being hosted on its radio and television by Michael Usi, UTM presidential running mate. Nyasa Times can reveal that top management at Times Group were blasted by their directors over the programme and ordered them to stop ‘airing the programme immediately’. The […]
The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has infiltrated running of affairs at Malawi’s giant media house, The Times Group, widely seen to be controlled by the opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP). DPP influence on how the media house should be run started showing last week when top management suspended Sunday Times Editor Mabvuto Banda for […]
Minister of Information and Communications Technology Henry Mussa has demanded Malawi News to retract its sensational story that Malawi is implicated in a recent terror attack that claimed 21 lives in Kenya, which has been widely condemned by Malawians commenting on social media. The story headlined ‘Malawi implicated in Kenyan Terror, cites a South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) […]
A story by the country’s oldest weekly, Malawi News, in which it is posted that Malawi is implicated in a recent terror attack that claimed 21 lives has raised grave tumult across the country with most commentators saying there could be serious repercussions regarding the country’s international relations. In the story titled ‘Malawi implicated in […]
Objections and poor time managent took center stage in defamation case by former Minister of Agricuture Dr George Chaponda against media giant Times Group and some of its editorial staff in connection to stories and comments on the suspicious maize deal between Malawi and Zambia as court has to adjourn the matter until corruption related case […]
Nation Publications Limited award winning investigative journalist Rabecca Chimjeka is set to join Times Group and reunite with her former editor George Kasakula who is heading the Malawi media giant. Chimjeka, a former Nyasa Times investigative journalist before joining Nation, confirmed that she is heading to Times Media Group newsroom. “It’s a done deal, I have resigned at […]