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NFRA changes maize restocking strategy
Grain silos expert National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA) has announced a free-for-all supply of maize in its 2017 maize restocking exercise shelving the tender system which was announced earlier. NFRA...
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Daring Jazz with female voice
Mellow smooth jazz is a demanding genre, which requires a certain degree of skill and obligation to deliver successfully. It is a type of music that is looked at as something which appeals to a...
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‘Listen to all victims, not just ex-MYPs’
Of late, there has been a heated debate on whether government must compensate ex-Malawi Young Pioneers (MYPs) or not. While the ex-MYPs feel they helped developed the country, hence the need for...
View ArticleWho will arrest Grace Chiumia?
Grace Chiumia entered politics on the expectation and belief that she was Malawi’s Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States (US) and first black president of the land of the free. To her...
View ArticleTame your tongue Mama Greselder Jeffery
There are issues political party officials can defend, but not daylight thievery and abuse of government property and resources. It is even worse when such unbridled abuse of public property is done at...
View ArticleSomeone needs to defend council secretariats
During my time at Treasury and the Local Development Fund (LDF), I worked with councils—whether at town, municipality, city or district levels. Like every public body corporate, they have a lot of...
View ArticleAfter the courts, there’s political price to pay
Hon Folks, as the ruling party, DPP ought to be concerned that it’s been dragged to court, accused of fleecing statutory corporations of their funds. Essentially, the case is steeped in the principle...
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MJ bars BWB from accessing intake
Communities around Mulanje Mountain are taking turns to guard a point at the foot of Mulanje Mountain to stop Blantyre Water Board from launching the $22 million water project aimed at supplying water...
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K1.3bn cooking oil refineries to open oct
The Malawi Enterprise Productivity Enhancement (Mepe) under the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism will next month open two cooking oil centres of excellence in Mchinji and Phalombe districts. The...
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Councils rocked with accounting indiscipline
Various district councils are embroiled in cases of non-compliance of basic accounting systems and failure to follow orders from the National Local Government Finance Committee (NLGFC), Weekend Nation...
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Big fraud that is LDF, CDF, DDF
LDF, CDF and DDF—Malawi’s major local development financing mechanisms for improving the poor’s livelihoods and giving them better services—are on course to becoming the biggest fraud in the country’s...
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Ethlet Miscot: Founder of What’s-Up Gesu
In August 2015, 45-year-old Ethlet Frazer Miscot founded What’s-Up Gesu, a world-wide women’s ministry designed to embrace, educate and empower women by raising what she terms a ‘Woman with a...
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BB beat Red Lions for third time
After suffering two embarrassing defeats to Nyasa Big Bullets in Super League and Carlsberg Cup, Red Lions were expected to stiffen the upper lip when the two sides clashed at Balaka Stadium on...
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Fr Boucher, Mua Mission in triple celebrations
The community around Mua Catholic Mission in Dedza held a triple celebration on Saturday when they commemorated 115 years of the existence of Mua Parish as well as 50 years of priesthood for the area’s...
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Thrown out
Politicians and government officials in councils have conspired against the poor they are supposed to serve, working in cohort to kick them out of over K30 billion development projects. Nation on...
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Malawians discuss peace ahead of 2019 polls
Malawians joined the global community on Thursday to commemorate the International Peace Day [September 21] with a call for political leaders to cease fire and promote peace ahead of the 2019 general...
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Women football defies challenges
Malawi women national football team might have failed to fulfill their dream of winning the Cosafa Women’s Tournament, which ends today in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, but their fairytale overall performance is...
View ArticleWhy and who should study economics
Economics is a branch of social sciences which is concerned with people’s behaviour in the course of making a living. It is about the production, distribution and consumption of wealth. Human needs...
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Eidhammer launches a book apart
He flew in, represented his country for almost a decade and wrote with rare veracity about the host nation which shocked him with more than just warm-heartedness. Through his book, former Norwegian...
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EIU forecasts reduced trade deficit in 2017
Malawi’s trade deficit is expected to shrink in 2017 after widening to an estimated 17.6 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) in 2016, The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has forecasted in...
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