Month: February 2021 Posts

Teachers raise tough questions on risk allowances

Feb 23, 2021 Thula Chisamba 1 &

Teachers in the country may not proceed prodding for risk allowances if some of their questions can be addressed adequately and soberly, they say. In a WhatsApp panel discussion monitored by this reporter, the disgruntled… ...

Concerns over timing of by-election in Karonga Northwest

Feb 23, 2021 Jordan Simeon-Phiri - MEC Stringer 0 &

Political and traditional leaders in Karonga Northwest constituency have expressed concern over the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) decision to hold by-elections in the area barely two weeks after the demise of the area’s Democratic Progressive… ...

Fraud fears muddle Mota Engil over Area 18 Interchange: Cost spiked from K7bn to K16bn

Feb 23, 2021 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

Mota Engil and Roads Authority (RA) chiefs inflated the cost of the Area 18 Interchange from about K7 billion to K16 billion, a whistleblower says. Mota Engil, which enjoyed government construction contracts during the Democratic… ...

Bushiri escapes arrest in Malawi

Feb 23, 2021 Sibu M. Mokoena 0 &

Fugitive prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his alleged partner-in-crime and wife, Mary Bushiri, have escaped arrest in Malawi. The prophet has confirmed the news. Bushiri, widely known as Major 1, revealed in a statement that there… ...

Low turnout for voter registration in Lilongwe Nsinja South

Feb 22, 2021 Joshua Mphanda - Contributor 0 &

By Joshua Mphanda, MEC Stringer Voter registration and verification has started on a low note at Lilongwe Nsinja South constituency where by-election will be held next month. A survey of five centres on the first… ...

Utility debts cripple operations at Chikwawa District Hospital

Feb 22, 2021 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

Utility debts amounting to over K60 Million have crippled operations at Chikwawa District Hospital which was built around 1940s and serves 600 thousand people. The District’s Director of Health and Social Services (DHSS) Dr Stalin… ...

Teen arrested over sister’s murder

Feb 22, 2021 Mike Lyson Zgambo 0 &

Police in Mzuzu are keeping in custody a 19-year-old young man accused of stabbing to death his 34-year-old sister. The deceased has been identified as Esnart Tchuwa aged 34. The suspect was reportedly staying with… ...

Community leaders advocate for Ward and Constituency demarcation

Feb 22, 2021 Jordan Simeon-Phiri - MEC Stringer 0 &

Community leaders from Chilanga Ward in Karonga Northwest Constituency in the area of Senior Chief Kilupula have called upon the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to expedite the re-demarcation exercise to enable elected leaders implement development… ...

‘We will do rallies again’: Chakwera hopeful Malawi will win Covid-19 fight

Feb 22, 2021 Russell Kondowe 0 &

President Lazarus Chakwera has expressed hope that Malawi will win the fight against Covid-19. Speaking during a press briefing yesterday, Chakwera said the countrywide efforts in fighting the pandemic are bearing results. He noted that… ...

Audit of K6.2 billion will take one month – Chakwera

Feb 22, 2021 Russell Kondowe 0 &

President Lazarus Chakwera says audit of K6.2 billion Covid-19 funds will take one month and those found to have looted the public funds will be dealt with. The Malawi leader made the remarks yesterday at… ...

Voter registration, verification starts today

Feb 22, 2021 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

By Topson Banda. Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) will hold voter registration and verification for two weeks starting today, 22 February, 2021, for next month’s by-elections. MEC spokesperson Sangwani Mwafulirwa, has said there will be no… ...

Farmers to hold anti-govt demos: ADMARC yet to pay them

Feb 22, 2021 Thula Chisamba 0 &

Some farmers in the country have hinted of staging massive anti-government demonstrations over failure by the Agriculture Development and Marketing Corporation (ADMARC) to pay them in time. According to the farmers, ADMARC just got their… ...

16-year-old boy murdered in Nkhotakota

Feb 22, 2021 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

By: Topson Banda. Police in Nkhotakota are hunting for assailants who brutally murdered a 16-year-old boy and dumped his body in Lake Malawi over the weekend. The deceased has been identified as Swadi Selemani of… ...

Taskforce formed to push for construction of Machinga-Chingale- Lirangwe road

Feb 22, 2021 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

By Synd Kalimbuka Members of Parliament from Machinga, Zomba and Blantyre in collaboration with concerned communities from the three districts have formed a taskforce aimed at pushing government to construct Machinga-Chingale-Lirangwe road, which Malawian presidents… ...

Bushiri gets the ‘Norman Chisale’ injunction: Court stops Police from arresting Major 1 on all matters

Feb 21, 2021 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

The Malawi High Court in Lilongwe has today granted an injunction restraining the Malawi police from arresting fugitive Prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his alleged partner-in-crime wife Mary Bushiri from being arrested on all matters. Filed… ...