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Thu, 16 Sep 2021 09:00:16 GMT
Alliance One Tobacco Renovates Kamuzu Central Hospital's Paediatric Section
[Nyasa Times] Management of Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) has commended tobacco buying and processing company Alliance One Tobacco Malawi Limited for renovating the entire children ward at the Capital city's based referral hospital a development that...

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 08:44:14 GMT
10+ Her Period, Her Pride Donates Sanitary Pads to 58 Schools in Promotion of Menstrual Hygiene
[Nyasa Times] A youth initiative operating under the banner 10+ Her Period Her Pride on Tuesday donated reusable sanitary pads and tablets of soap to 58 primary and secondary school-going girls in the area of Traditional Authority (T/A) Chiseka as on...

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 08:34:03 GMT
The Shrinking of Lake Chilwa
[Nyasa Times] In Southern Malawi, a landlocked south-eastern country in Africa, temperatures have been infamously known to get extremely hot. Most residents would have noted the year 2012, where most residents saw scorching temperatures that threaten...

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 13:36:43 GMT
Mutharika Case for Nullification of Election of President Chakwera Pushed to 29-30 Sept
[Nyasa Times] The Constitutional Court - hearing the case in which former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) wants the nullification of the election of President Lazarus Chakwera in the June 23 Fresh Presidential Election (FPE) - has set Septe...

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 13:35:37 GMT
President Chakwera Spokesman Calls for Accurate Reporting
[Nyasa Times] The newly-minted President Lazarus Chakwera's acting Press Secretary, Anthony Kasunda has challenged journalists in the country to always striving to thrive serving the Malawian by reporting issues affecting the lives of the masses accu...

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 08:58:39 GMT
CPRI Discourages Sharing of Suicide Notes and Images
[Nyasa Times] Connect Plus Resource Institute (CPRI) has made an impassioned appeal to the public and online media platforms, pleading with them to desist from sharing suicide notes and images, saying the tendency has potential to cause more harm, in...

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 08:54:12 GMT
Four Drug Pushers Jailed for 20 Years in Mangochi, Vehicle Forfeited
[Nyasa Times] The Mangochi Senior Resident Magistrate Court has on Wednesday, September 15, 2021 sentenced Jafali Phiri, 34 and three others each to 5-years imprisonment and forfeited a Toyota Sienta they used to ferry Indian hemp on September 8, 202...

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 08:45:40 GMT
Experts Deplore Demeaning Teachers' Treatment At Promotion Aptitude Test in Dedza
[Nyasa Times] A horde of social commentators and education experts have bemoaned the degrading treatment 2 600 teachers were subjected to when they took a promotion aptitude on Tuesday in Zomba where they were sat down in the open Dedza Football Stad...

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 08:43:19 GMT
Post Office and NRB Staff Attack Service Users for Complaining Over Delayed Service
[Nyasa Times] Praise-seeking Malawi Posts Corporation (MPC) and National Registration Bureau (NRB) officers on Wednesday exchanged bouts with service users whose only crime was to complain about delays to start operations at the centre.

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 08:41:59 GMT
NBM Donates K3m to Icam for Annual Lake Conference
[Nyasa Times] The country's leading commercial bank, National Bank of Malawi (NBM) plc has supported the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Malawi (Icam) with a K3 million donation for its annual lake conference scheduled for 16-18 September 2021 ...

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 07:57:59 GMT
Malawi Demand FAM Audited Accounts Before Bailout
[The Herald] THE Minister of Youth and Sports, Ulemu Msungama, says his Finance counterpart, Felix Mlusu, has asked for the Football Association of Malawi's financial report.

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 08:34:03 GMT
Vuwa Kaunda to Seek High Court Intervention On His K600m Demand From MEC
[Nyasa Times] Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) member of Parliament for Nkhata Bay Central Constituency Symon Vuwa Kaunda has disclosed that he will seek the intervention of the court on his K600 million claim from the Malawi Electoral Commission (...

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 08:34:01 GMT
Police Arrest Mzuzu Prophet for Encroaching Kaning'ina Mountain Top
[Nyasa Times] Police in Mzuzu City are keeping in custody a soi-disant and self-proclaimed prophet for encroaching and illegally making his home Kaning'ina Mountain, a natural preserve situated just outside the precincts of Mzuzu City since 2018.

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 12:03:54 GMT
Electoral Body, CMD and Covid-19 Task Force Nod to By-Elections
[MEC Malawi] A tripartite meeting of the Commission, the Centre for Multiparty Democracy Board and the Covid-19 Task Force has agreed that the Commission should proceed with holding of by-elections in the four areas that are vacant.

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 12:02:21 GMT
Electoral Commission Meets Public Affairs Committee On Boundary Review
[MEC Malawi] As part of the ongoing sensitisation and engagement of stakeholders, the Malawi Electoral Commission on Wednesday, 8th September, 2021 held a meeting with the Public Affairs Committee (PAC) over the review of constituency and ward bounda...

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 09:42:50 GMT
Macoha Bangwe Weaving Factory Employees Strike Over Salary Increment
[Nyasa Times] Employees for Malawi Council for the Handicapped (MACOHA) Bangwe Weaving Factory in Blantyre are staging a sit in, demanding a 'promised' 12 percent salary increment.

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 09:05:28 GMT
Govt Bargains Buleya Lule Compensation to K45m From K80m
[Nyasa Times] The family of Buleya Lule - a man who was arrested in connection with his alleged involvement in the abduction of a boy with albinism, but died under mysterious circumstances in police custody in February 2019 - will finally get K45 mil...

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 08:54:15 GMT
Juba to Officiate Fdh Cup Second Semi-Final
[Nyasa Times] The National Referees Association (NRA) has announced names of people that will officiate the second semi-final match of the FDH Bank Cup between Silver Strikers and Mighty Wanderers at Bingu National Stadium on Sunday.

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 08:34:03 GMT
Malawi Govt. Has No Money for Flames - Ivory Coast World Cup Qualifiers Encounters
[Nyasa Times] The Government of Malawi says its coffers are dry to make available for the country's national football team, the Flames scheduled to battle it out against one of Africa's footballing powerhouse, the Elephants, Ivory Coast for next mont...

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:01:16 GMT
National Registration Bureau Registers 50,000 Deaths in 6 Years
[Nyasa Times] Various social commentators, including traditional leaders, have commended the National Registration Bureau (NRB) for its death registration initiative saying it is impactful as far as government's economic planning and development is c...

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:00:36 GMT
Police Concludes Malawi Bank 'Miracle Theft' Investigations
[Nyasa Times] Investigations into the K42 billion which 'grew legs' and miraculously vanished into thin air from a Malawi Leaf Limited bank account two years ago have been concluded and ready for the wheels of justice to get into motion, the Malawi P...

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 17:01:17 GMT
Mera Set to Announce Fuel Price Increase
[Nyasa Times] Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA) has announced that it is reviewing current trends of the international market and other economic factors to determine possible increase of petroleum products following the increase on landed cos...

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 17:01:17 GMT
High Court Reprimands DPP Lawyers Over Forged Documents
[Nyasa Times] The Malawi High Court, sitting as a Constitutional Court in the commercial city of Blantyre, hearing the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)'s court-sanctioned Fresh Presidential Elections case that led to President Lazarus Chakwera asce...

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 17:01:17 GMT
Construction of New Lilongwe Area 23 Road Starts Mid September
[Nyasa Times] Lilongwe's Area 23 road users will soon breathe a sigh of relief as works for the construction of a new quality bitumen road are expected to start this month, Member of Parliament (MP) for the area Ulemu Msungama has announced.

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 17:01:11 GMT
Robert Hanjahanja Appointed New Blantyre Water Board CEO, Wants Board to Reduce Inefficiencies
[Nyasa Times] The Board of Directors for Blantyre Water Board (BWB) has hired Engineer Robert Hanjahanja as the board's new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) succeeding Engineer Daniel Chawezi whose three-year contract expires on October 31, 2020.

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 14:54:21 GMT
Cdedi Pens ACB's Chizuma Over Unresolved Nocma Fuel Supply Saga
[Nyasa Times] The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has penned the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Director General, Martha Chizuma, challenging the Bureau to take steps towards bringing to bare circumstances surrounding ...

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 14:53:33 GMT
Abida Mia's Intervention Into MHC Ngumbe Land Dispute Pays Off
[Nyasa Times] Firebrand Lands and Housing deputy minister, Abida Mia, who intervened in a land dispute between Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC) and the families, who own the land where government housing-building entity built houses on their private ...

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 14:52:44 GMT
Vale Logistics Ex-Staff Case Back to Full Trial
[Nyasa Times] The Brazil headquartered Vale Logistics currently involved in a railway project in Malawi, made an out-of-court settlement on 20 August 2021 in a case its former employees dragged it to court over claims of unfair dismissal.

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 11:28:13 GMT
TNM Shoots Icam in the Arm - Donates K12m for Annual Lake Conference Proceedings
[Nyasa Times] Malawi's premier and pioneer mobile network and ICT services provider, Telecom Networks Malawi (TNM) has, out of corporate benevolence, given a cool K12 million to Institute of Chartered Accounts (Icam) to help them run smoothly this ye...

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 10:55:54 GMT
Atsogo Estate Agent Makes Inroads On Malawi Real Estate Market
[Nyasa Times] Youthful entrepreneur Mathews Kapanda has challenged young people in the country to consider working against all odds in establishing their own business ventures arguing it is the only way to go in a country whose absorption of youths i...



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