Chidanti Malunga is now Tobacco Commission CEO
The country’s tobacco industry regulator Tobacco Commission (TC) hashired former Nsanje South West legislator Joseph Chidanti Malunga as its new...
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HRDC takes govt to task over Covid-19 strategy
The Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) has asked government to come up with a comprehensive strategy for the Covid-19 pandemic,...
Unima students demand justice on Nyondo’s death
The University of Malawi Students Union (Umsu) has given theIndependent Police Commission up to January end to commenceinvestigations into the...
Tonse faulted on former presidents’ benefits
The Tonse Alliance government has not yet given immediate-past president Peter Mutharika his retirement benefits although his predecessor Joyce Banda...
Laz Chakwera’s Covid-19 strategy
Schools temporarily closedNew temporary hospitalsRecruitment of doctors and nursesNight curfewsGatherings reduced to 50Public buildings to be disinfected weeklyEmployees must work...
Neef bosses, board fight in court
The High Court in Blantyre on Thursday vacated an injunction that four senior managers at National Economic Empowerment Fund Limited...
Rot at Neef over loans
A special audit report at National Economic Empowerment Fund Limited (Neef) has exposed deep-rooted rot where officers gave loans to...
Water boards employees threaten shutdown
Employees from the country’s five water boards are pressing on government to increase their salaries by 20 percent, failing which...
Kidney Foundation cancels Kamuzu Palace vigil
Kidney Foundation has shelved plans to hold a vigil at Kamuzu Palace to pressure President Lazarus Chakwera to address challenges...
Wasteful Chakwera
The Tonse Alliance’s Cabinet and presidential advisers will cost the tax payers nearly K1.6 billion in salaries and benefits annually,...
Imbibers defy Covid-19 guidelines
It is life as usual in the cities where bar owners and imbibers are defying Covid-19 restrictions government effected on...
Malawi’s death penalty comedy
Although the death penalty is still in the statutes, it is almost three decades since a convict was sent to...
Nocma in race against time
Agency still operating without top managementNocma board “sleeping on the job”—Minister Minister of Energy Newton Kambala has faulted the National...
Covid-19 hits prisons
The Covid-19 pandemic has hit some of the country’s prisons, threatening inmates lives as the new strain is reported to...
Dodma for adherence to Covid measures
The Department of Disaster Management Affairs (Dodma) has called on its stakeholders to strictly adhere to Covid-19 preventive measures during...
Covid-19 mars cabinet review
December 10 2020, which President Lazarus Chakwera set to review his Cabinet and boot out nonperforming members, is far gone...
Unscrupulous traders dupe unsuspecting farmers
Schools remain open despite Covid-19 affecting learners and teachers in 11 of the country’s 34 education districts, with Lilongwe Girls...
Govt given up to March 1 to recruit health workers
The Human Resources for Health (HRH) Coalition has given the Ministry of Health up to March 1 2021 to recruit...
MHRC probes student’s death
The Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) has launched investigations into the shooting and subsequent death of a final year Polytechnic...
Treasury pays Chilima, Chakwera lawyers
Government has paid fees for lawyers who represented President Lazarus Chakwera and Vice-President Saulos Chilima in the historic presidential election...
