The Blantyre Magistrates Court on Wednesday afternoon convicted one of the senior reporters at Malawi’s oldest newspaper, The Daily Times, Kandani Ngwira in an extortion case. Ngwira was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) and police officers in 2011 for allegedly extorting money from a Story Workshop senior official. The court made its judgment three […]
Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL) also called Times Group has removed in circulation controversial tabloid The Weekend Times amid a pile of lawsuits and unclaimed losses. The news will be welcomed with mixed reactions with its critics celebrating at pains of its admirers especially fanatics of erotic page, Action Girl that use to feature practically nude […]
Traditional Authority (T/A) Chitera of Chiradzuru district has dethroned the chieftaincy of Group Village Headman (GVH) Chitera whose real name is Wilson John for allegedly impregnating a standard 7 pupil. According to tabloid Weekend Times, the decision was reached upon following the intervention of a human rights body called Girls Empowerment Network (Genet-Malawi) which was […]
Malawi deputy minister of trade, Sam Ganda is demanding apology, retraction and compensation from a sensational tabloid, Weekend Times for reporting that he was assaulted by a woman in Nsanje. According to the published report, Ganda, who is also MP for Nsanje Lalanje, infuriated the woman-identified as Annie Khembo-when he alleged that she was his […]
Malawi female Pop singer, Tigris, on Friday grabbed headlines in the sensational Weekend Times tabloid over a story that she assaulted her boyfriend Zamil Mohammed after a disagreement over trust issues in their relationship. According to the paper, the smooth-voiced artist beat up her boy friend and left him with a swollen forehead. The boyfriend told his […]
Former minister of Sports, Symon Vuwa Kaunda, who made a public pledge to a Lilongwe based-female gospel musician Miriam Kuseni’s CD launch on April 1 has changed his tune when the artist approached him to fulfil his pledge has dominated the Friday’s scandal- sheet Weekend Times. The paper reported that Kaunda’s change of tune has prompted […]
The Weekend Times, a sensational tabloid that hits the streets every Friday, carried the ‘Action Girl’ section on what is popularly known as ‘Page 8’, again, despite Minister of Information and Civic Education, Patricia Kaliati’s recent condemnation of the “women-demeaning page”. When she officially launched the Malawi Child Protection and Gender Media Network which was […]
Sports, Youth Development and Welfare Minister, Symon Vuwa Kaunda is alleged to have severely beaten up his second wife, Rachael Nkavuli Kaunda, suspecting her of cheating on him with a clinician at Nkhota Kota District Hospital, The Weekend Times of Friday Reported. The tabloid quotes a “source close to the young woman” as saying the […]
Malawi Information Minister Patricia Kaliati is politting war with sensational tabloid, Weekend Times, with its Page 8 ‘Action Girl’ that depicts ‘sexualised images’ similar to ‘Page 3′ of The Sun in the UK. Kaliati, speaking at the launch of the Malawi Child Protection and Gender Media Network, is reported to have condemned the Weekend Times Page 8 […]
Police in Malawi’s commercial capital, Blantyre on Thursday invaded the Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL) looking for information over story done by the sensational Weekend Times a few months ago. The story was in connection with the a senior Police officer at Chilomoni Police Station who was cheated by his junior to undress, ready for sex […]