Nkhotakota Archives

‘I am a daughter of a sex worker’

Mar 19, 2016 Bright Malenga 53 &

The Nkhunga First Grade magistrate court in Nkhotakota has sentenced a student from Nkhotakota College of Education in the district to two years in prison for stealing from fellow students. The convict, who asked for… ...

Police arrest robbers who stole from NBS bank

Mar 11, 2016 Bright Malenga 70 &

Police have arrested two people for breaking into Nkhotakota NBS Bank in order to steal millions of cash. The criminals broke into the bank last week after they climbed a fence that surrounds the premises… ...

Two convicted over Indian hemp trafficking

Feb 28, 2016 Macdonald Kaleso 30 &

The Nkhunga first grade magistrate court in Nkhotakota has sentenced two men to three-and-a-half years in prison with hard labour each for trafficking Indian hemp. The duo, Patrick Sopa Mana, 32, and Gift Kapalamula, 25,… ...

Newborn baby dies in road accident

Feb 05, 2016 Geoffrey Banda 131 &

A one day-old Malawian boy has died while his mother and the driver sustained serious injuries after a minibus they were traveling in overturned in Nkhotakota district. Nkhotakota Police Public Relations Officer, Sub-Inspector Williams Kaponda… ...

Nkhotakota recording high cases of Indian hemp possession

Jan 19, 2016 Geoffrey Banda 74 &

After being named the second best police station in combating crime in the central region, Nkhotakota police says in last year 71 people were convicted in the district after the police had arrested them for… ...

Ministry of agriculture vehicle kills two year-old in Nkhotakota

Jan 16, 2016 Geoffrey Banda 65 &

A two year-old girl has died in Nkhotakota after being hit by a motor vehicle as she was crossing the M5 road at Chamba village in the area of senior chief Malengachanzi in the district.… ...

Church watchman and friend jailed for theft

Jan 15, 2016 Geoffrey Banda 23 &

Nkhotakota New Apostolic Church watchman Luke Simfukwe (26) and his friend Bernard Zimwanda (30) were on Wednesday convicted to two years and 18 months imprisonment respectively for stealing iron sheets at the church in Nkhotakota.… ...