JB is not hospitalised, to address rally – Spokesman
State House Press Officer, Tusekele Mwanyongo, has refuted social media gossips that President Joyce Banda collapsed on Friday where she was taken to Kamuzu Central Hospital and has not been well...
View ArticleMalawi is dead, but we are not buried
Malawi is dead. Its youths are dead. Its politicians are dead. Chiefs are dead. Wizards and witches are dead. Herbalists are dead. Physicians are dead. Academics are dead. The Malawian Diaspora is...
View ArticleUK Malawi Achievers Awards set for March 29: Nominations open
Outstanding diaspora Malawians and organisations be recognised for their larger-than-life individual brilliance, selfless commitment and hard work within their communities in UK and their contributions...
View ArticleMalawi Police arrest 3 over fake MSCE
Malawi National Examinations Board (Maneb) says police last week arrested three people on suspicion that they used fake Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) to get employment. Of the three,...
View ArticleDonors to review Malawi situation March 11
The second 2013/14 Common Approach to Budget Support (CABS) biannual review will take place on March 11, and will ascertain if Malawi is ready to receive aid. The forthcoming review will, among other...
View ArticleMother abandons six-month old twins over marital disputes
Ordinarily the arrival of a newly-born baby in a family is supposed to create happiness to the home and not the other way round. But a couple in Malawi’s lakeshore district of Nkhotakota has...
View ArticleKutsaira, several MCP members defect to PP
Nomadic politician and former Malawi’s head of government intelligence, Binton Kutsaira has for the second time ditched the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) to join the ruling People’s Party (PP). Kutsaira,...
View Article‘Big fishes’ face arrests in cashgate, says Malawi Justice Minister
Malawi’s Justice Minister Fahad Assani has hinted that more arrest are looming and will involve high profile personalities involved in the plundering of public coffers at Capital Hill popularly...
View ArticleUladi, Gwengwe tongue-lashes Mia: Label him an opportunist
Two Malawian cabinet ministers Sunday afternoon went to town and tore into pieces former Transport and Infrastructure minister, Sidik Mia, who resigned last Friday. Mia also resigned from his position...
View ArticleOverwhelming evidence against Kasambara – Justice Minister
There is “overwhelming” objective evidence against former justice minister Ralph Kasambara that was involved in the shooting of former budget director Paul Mphwiyo, the Minister of Justice Fahad...
View ArticleJB rewards Kutsaira: Tells PP members, ‘hold your patience’
President Joyce Banda on Sunday appointed Bintony Kutsaira who had just defected from MCP to her ruling People’s Party to the position of deputy minister of agriculture and food security and urged...
View ArticleUpdated: Kasambara faces K55m money laundering charges
Malawi’s former Justice Minister Ralph Kasambara was Monday morning re-arrested on a fresh charge of money laundering. Five police vehicles at 5.30 stormed Kasambara’s house at his Area 10 residence...
View ArticleLike it or not, I will contest –Peter Mutharika
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has challenged that no matter what, he will contest for presidency in the in the May 20 tripartite election despite legal challenges threatening his candidature....
View ArticleFirst Merchant Bank profit to rise 75 percent
First Merchant Bank Limited (FMB), which is listed on Malawi Stock Exchange (MSE), expects its after-tax-profit for the year ended December 31 2013 to jump by over 75 percent compared to that of the...
View ArticleMCP and Chakwera: Political arrogance or electoral confidence?
On the very first day of this year, I suggested that as Malawians, our hope for the future, politically and economically, lay in understanding the role that President Joyce Banda has played in...
View ArticleChuma to continue sponsoring Thyolo Football League
Former Mighty Wanderers Chairman, James Chuma, has given Thyolo Football League a lifeline after disclosing that he would continue sponsoring it under the banner of his construction company J and J....
View ArticleSt Columba CCAP’s clerk Chimaliro dies
The dark cloud has fallen on St Columba CCAP church’s faithful following the sadden death of their Session Clerk, Elston Chimaliro after succumbing to severe deep cuts he sustained when armed robbers...
View ArticlePolice seize journo’s camera during Kasambara’s arrest
Malawi Police officer on Monday morning seized a camera belonging to Nation Publications Limited (NPL) photo-journalist Thoko Chikondi in full view of the journalists who had come to the residence of...
View ArticleMalawi Soldier ordered to pay K1.2m, spared jail
The First Grade Magistrate Court in Mzuzu has ordered a convicted Soldier from Moyale Barracks in Mzuzu in to pay MK1.2 million as compensation to a man he disembowelled at Jombo Trading Centre on...
View ArticleUK, Zodiak launch ‘Question Time Malawi’: TV, radio political programme
With just three months left before Malawi conducts her first ever tripartite elections, the British High Commission in Malawi jointly with private owned Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS) have come up...
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