‘LET THIS YEAR BE THE BEST IN SUBSIDIES’
Recently, Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development Dr Allan Chiyembekeza announced that government has raised the amount of purchasing fertilisers under the Farm Input Subsidy...
View ArticleQueens lose fighting
Queens 49-57 New Zealand The Malawi Queens and New Zealand’s Silver Ferns have met seven times before—four times in the World Netball Cup and the three times in Commonwealth Games. In all those...
View ArticleNRB in pilot birth, death registration
The National Registration Bureau (NRB) has started the Universal and Compulsory Birth and Death Registration and Issuance of Certificates. The exercise started on August 1. According to NRB Public...
View ArticlePolice, residents in running battles over KCH land
Police in Lilongwe were on Tuesday and Wednesday were caught in running battles with residents of Kawale I and Mchesi, who are encroaching on land belonging to Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH), leading...
View ArticleKachali to beef up PP by-election campaign
Former Malawi vice-president Khumbo Kachali has vowed to beef up People’s Party (PP) campaign for Khwawa and Chiwanja by-elections in Mzuzu and Karonga respectively, to ensure that the party claims...
View ArticlePoly students take to the streets over allowances
Students at the Malawi Polytechnic, a constituent college of the University of Malawi in Blantyre closed part of Masauko Chipembere Highway at Ginnery Corner causing traffic chaos. The strike comes...
View ArticleNot over yet
Queens can still qualify if they beat Jamaica on Friday Despite going down 49-57 to New Zealand’s Silver Ferns on Wednesday in Australia, the Queens can still qualify for the semi-finals of the...
View ArticleGate revenue sharing at match venue stopped
Once the second-round of the TNM Super League begins, gate collection sharing among teams will not be done at match venues, but the money will first be deposited into Super League of Malawi’s (Sulom)...
View ArticleSulom executive endorses Somba-Banda for FAM polls
Super League of Malawi (Sulom) executive committee meeting held in Lilongwe last Friday endorsed its treasurer Tiya Somba-Banda to contest for the position of Football Association of Malawi (FAM) first...
View ArticleGo Queens, don’t relax—Airtel
Airtel Malawi, the official sponsor of the Malawi Queens, says it is impressed with the team’s performance at the on-going Netball World Cup in Australia. In a statement made available to The Nation on...
View ArticleUpdate: Polytechnic authorities locked up in a meeting
The Malawi Polytechnic management is currently locked up in a meeting following the school’s closure on Wednesday evening. On Wednesday, students took to the streets over delays in allowances and...
View ArticleUS ambassador swears in GHSP volunteers
United State of America (USA) ambassador Virginia Palmer, on Tuesday, presided over the swearing-in ceremony of nine Global Health Service Partnership (GHSP) volunteers who comprise specialists in...
View ArticleFirm outlines four Economic threats
Portfolio and investment advisory management firm Nico Asset Managers Limited has outlined four risks that could stand in the way of Malawi’s economic growth and development. The firm, in its July...
View ArticleDFID commends government on Fisp reforms
Head of the UK Department for International Development (DFID) in Malawi, Jen Marshall, has commended the Malawi Government for instituting reforms that would make the Farm Input Subsidy Program (Fisp)...
View ArticleChild trafficker sentenced to 2 years imprisonment
The Blantyre Magistrate Court has this afternoon sentenced Mateyu Sali Kuchepa, 40, to two years imprisonment for each of the nine counts of child trafficking which he was answering. Kuchepa will serve...
View ArticleAPM cancels SADC trip
President Peter Mutharika has canceled his trip to Gaborone, Botswana, for the 35th SADC heads of state and government summit as one of the ways of cost cutting in government. Mutharika has instead...
View ArticleSadc’s economic integration stuck
The Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) has made no progress in implementing its all-inclusive economic integration as the bloc has failed to reach the various milestones set out in its...
View ArticleSuper Sunday excitement grips
The Queens with all that spellbinding display of netball, ask Jamaica if I am lying, are indeed an embodiment of a skilled team that works socks off to put Malawi on the world map, yet are continuously...
View Article‘JB can’t be running PP by remote control’
BONIFACE PHIRI engaged People’s Party (PP) provincial governor for the north CHRISTOPHER MZOMERA NGWIRA on his actions to install former State and party vice-president Khumbo Kachali as the party’s...
View ArticleWe have rich Europe to thank
Hon. Folks, the passing of Access to Information Bill would not have been a condition for budgetary support had government—from the administration of Bakili Muluzi, Bingu wa Mutharika, Joyce Banda and...
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