Parliamentary committee sends back Accountant General over Ifims
Budget and Finance Committee of parliament has sent back accountant general Clyton Chimombo and his team from a meeting for failure to give substantive answers on the decision by the government to buy...
View ArticleDPP gurus invade Winiko constituency in Mulanje: Nankhumwa pledges continued...
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) vice-president for the South Kondwani Nankhumwa says the party is aware that Mulanje south constituents are “orphaned” following the defection from the party of...
View ArticleCatholic bishops condemn dragging Pope into politics, Malawi ‘fake news’ on...
Catholic bishops have condemned the recent attack on Pope Francis at the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) rally in Blantyre, saying politicians should desist from dragging the head of the...
View ArticleDPP following UTM footsteps on private media: MBC ignored for bias
The ruling Democratic progressive Party (DPP) has woken from its deep slumber to follow the footsteps of three month old United Transformational Movement (UTM) in using private media to cover its...
View ArticleChakwera sails through in MCP primary polls
Leader of opposition in parliament and the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera has won the party primary elections in Lilongwe north west constituency. Chakwera got 1187 votes...
View ArticleMalawi Electoral Commission upbeat in voter registration exercise
Pollster, the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) says the ongoing voter registration exercise in phase five is going on according to plan, saying in some areas, more than half the targeted voters have...
View ArticleMachinga Development Association against relocation of studentsas Malawi govt...
Machinga Development Association (MADAS) has written to Malawi Government strongly demanding that its Ministry of Education Science and Technology should not relocate the 120 students who were selected...
View ArticlePolice officer in Thyolo netted for sexual assault of a 15-year- old girl
Malawi Police in Thyolo have arrested one of their own on allegations that he defiled a 15-year-old girl at a duty station he went to give security to the ongoing voter registration exercise in the......
View ArticlePresident Mutharika registers in Thyolo as voter in Malawi polls
President Peter Mutharika has registered in his home village of Goliati in Thyolo East constituency as a voter and urged people to go out and register in the ongoing voter registration exercise in some...
View ArticlePIM decorates Mutharika with a Nelson Mandela leadership award
President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika on Thursday received a Nelson Mandela Leadership Award from the Providence Industrial Mission (PIM) in recognition for his development efforts in the country,...
View ArticleKamuzu great grand-niece wins MCP primary polls, burst into tears
Former president Kamuzu Banda’s great grand-niece on Thursday sailed through the contentious Malawi Congress Party (MCP) primary elections in her Kasungu south east constituency where she is the...
View ArticleLilongwe Council presses for K12bn from city rate defaulters
Lilongwe City Council officials and the police on Thursday made a surprise swoop on properties which failed to pay city rates since 2005, closing the business premises down. LCC spokesperson Tamara...
View ArticleFavoured Martha set to launch third album in a tour
Malawi’s celebrated gospel musician, Favoured Martha said all is set for the launch of her new album ‘Mawa Limafika’ scheduled to be launched from October 21.2018 through a countrywide tour. In an...
View ArticleCriminal investigation cop reported missing in Ntcheu
A Criminal Investigations Department (CID) officer based at Ntcheu Station is reported t missing after he was deployed to monitor voter registration exercise in August at Mwansambe Primary School in...
View ArticleUS envoy calls for investment in girls to improve Malawi economic and public...
US Ambassador to Malawi, Virginia Palmer has said for Malawi to improve its economic and public health status, her government recignises that girls’ education is the best investment. Palmer was...
View ArticleCensus enumerators petition NSO over allowances
Population and Housing census enumerators have petitioned the National Statistics Office (NSO) to express displeasure at the K5 000 per day allowance. The petition says the K5 000 per day allowance...
View ArticleMalawi govt to proceed with anti-corruption software Ifmis procurement from...
Malawi government is going ahead to procure a new anti-corruption software Integrated Financial Management Information System (Ifmis) at $14.8 million (about K10.2 billion) from a Zimbabwean-owned...
View ArticleMCP parroting Chilima mantra on one million jobs in Malawi
The ‘Chilima factor’ is dominating the promises for Malawi ahead of May 21 2019 elections as vice-president Saulos Chilima promises to create one million jobs in the country within a year has also...
View ArticleAHL Group K44 billion loss to stir debate at AGM
Auction Holdings Limited (AHL) Group record breaking K44 billion financial loss is expected to top the agenda at its 55th Annual General Meeting (AGM) scheduled at the end of this month in Lilongwe,...
View ArticleMalawi marketers in elections fever, jostle for positions at AGM
When the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Malawi Chapter went to the polls last year, it was not without a frenetic, bruising and fierce social and mainstream media campaigning between...
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