Month: September 2022 Posts

Ombudsman nullifies Buluma’s appointment as NOCMA deputy CEO

Sep 30, 2022 Russell Kondowe 2 &

Ombudsman Grace Malera says National Oil Company (NOCMA) deputy chief executive officer Helen Buluma’s contract should be terminated immediately because Buluma was appointed without following procedures in 2019 by the then President Peter Mutharika. Malera… ...

Chakwera concedes defeat, says Malawi facing fuel shortage

Sep 08, 2022 Russell Kondowe 0 &

President Lazarus Chakwera has admitted that fuel shortage caused by forex scarcity has hit Malawi for several weeks now, and the crisis has affected manufacturing, businesses, work and domestic life. Chakwera has disagreed with Malawi… ...

Forex problems have caused fuel shortage, says Chakwera

Sep 07, 2022 Mwayi Mkandawire 0 &

President Lazarus Chakwera says long term forex problems  have led to the current shortage of fuel in the country. Speaking today at the 2022 Malawi Investment Summit at Bingu International Convention Centre (BICC) in Lilongwe,… ...

Fuel is cheap here – NOCMA’s Buluma defends hike

Jun 25, 2022 Russell Kondowe 0 &

National Oil Company of Malawi  (NOCMA) deputy Chief Executive Officer Helen Buluma has defended the fuel price increase, saying the current prices are not high as Petrol price was supposed to be at K3,500 per… ...

Exit Sattargate, enter Nocmagate: Chakwera implicated

May 31, 2022 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

President Lazarus Chakwera has been implicated in the National Oil Company of Malawi (Nocma) fuel contracts case. In court today, a recording was played in which Chakwera's former advisor Chris Chaima claimed that the president… ...

NOCMA gives go ahead to local transporters to bring fuel

May 07, 2022 Martha Chikoti 0 &

Government through National Oil Company of Malawi (NOCMA) has granted permission to some transporter associations to bring fuel into the country after they successfully passed tests. The associations are Transporters Association of Malawi (TAM), RTOA,… ...

Buluma: I was offered K410 million bribe

Jan 20, 2022 Malawi24 Reporter 1 &

National Oil Company of Malawi (NOCMA) acting Chief Executive Officer Helen Buluma has revealed that she was told she would be given US$500,000 (about K410 million) if she corruptly awarded contracts to companies favoured by… ...

Buluma says she was threatened with job loss over NOCMA fuel deals

Jan 20, 2022 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

Kambala (2nd from R) and Chihana (3rd from R) at the court National Oil Company of Malawi (NOCMA) acting Chief Executive Officer Helen Buluma has told a court in Lilongwe that former Minister of Energy… ...

Sindikudziwa – Chakwera athawa funso la NOCMA

Nov 10, 2021 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

Mtsogoleri wa dziko lino a Lazarus Chakwera dzulo anathawa funso lokhudza kusakazidwa kwa ndalama ku National Oil Company of Malawi (NOCMA) kudzera mu chitetezo chomwe chikuperekedwa kwa a Hellen Buluma. A Chakwera, omwe NOCMA ili… ...

NOCMA deputy Tsar threatens Malawi Nation journalists  

Oct 28, 2021 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

National Oil Company of Malawi (NOCMA) deputy chief executive officer, Hellen Buluma, threatened Malawi Nation journalists over a story which revealed that NOCMA is spending K3.9 million per month on Buluma’s security. The Nation Publications… ...

Chikhosi told to disclose Buluma’s conditions of service amid revelations of K3.9 million security spending

Oct 27, 2021 Martha Chikoti 0 &

A Malawi human rights group has demanded Secretary to President and Cabinet Zangazanga Chikhosi to reveal conditions of service for National Oil Company of Malawi (NOCMA) deputy Chief Executive Officer Hellen Buluma following revelations that… ...

Investigate Buluma, demands Malawi activists

Oct 25, 2021 Lindiwe Sambalikagwa 0 &

A grouping of Malawian vocal activists, the Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC), has asked the office of Ombudsman institute investigations into reports that Deputy Chief Executive Officer for National Oil Company of Malawi (NOCMA) Hellen… ...

Talking Blues: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it

Oct 24, 2021 Mapwiya Muulupale 0 &

According to reports, the Parliamentary Committee on Natural Resources and Climate Change has proposed sweeping changes to pave the way for the government to have 90 per cent control of fuel imports. If implemented, the… ...

Talking Blues: Who is fooling who?

Oct 17, 2021 Mapwiya Muulupale 0 &

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.” - Ephesians 5:11 If truth be told, the timing of the resurgence of controversy around the 2021-22 fuel importation contracts issued by… ...

NOCMA seeks to expand storage capacity to 120 million litres

Oct 15, 2021 Mike Kalumbi 0 &

National Oil Company of Malawi (NOCMA) says it has started works to increase fuel storage capacity from the current 60 million litres to 120 million litres by the year 2023. NOCMA deputy chief executive officer… ...