By Raphael Tenthani LILONGWE (AP)-Malawi’s new president has announced she will repeal her southern African country’s ban on homosexual acts. President Joyce Banda’s announcement during her first state of the nation address Friday is one of several steps she has taken that break with the administration of her predecessor, Bingu wa Mutharika, who died in office [...]
LILONGW-: The balance of power has shifted in Malawi parliament with the new ruling People’s Party of President Joyce Banda being in majority now disposing the former ruling Democratic Progressive Party. As of Friday when President Banda delivered her first state of the nation address, the government side had 107 lawmakers in the 193 member [...]
By Wisdom Chingwede BLANTYRE (ZBS)-As the issue of MRA’s borrowing of K15 billion kwacha to support the zero deficit budget continues to be in the public domain, more dirty information is also emerging. ZBS now has information that Director of Budget in the ministry of Finance Dr. Dalitso Kabambe did not only authorize MRA to borrow [...]
By Gregory Gondwe LILONGWE ( BizCommunity)-Newly appointed information minister of Malawi, Moses Kunkuyu has said that if there has to be an unbiased debate over the controversial Consolidated ICT Regulatory Management System (CIRMS), the media and all those involved have to stop calling it a ‘spy machine‘. Kunkuyu, who is also the government spokesperson, said [...]
LILONGWE (Nation)-Businessperson Watson Katawa, who is suing six former Cabinet ministers for sedition and conduct likely to cause breach of peace over their controversial news conference addressed at night on April 5 2012 to announce the blocking of the then vice-president Joyce Banda from assuming the presidency, has hired a South African lawyer. Katawa said in [...]
BLANTYRE (Malawi Democrat)- President Joyce Banda has instituted a cabinet committee to probe FinanceMinister Dr Ken Lipenga for his role in tampering with national budget figures in parliament with hints that he will be left off the hook. The committee is headed by Vice president Khumbo Kachali with Water development Richie Muheya and defence minister [...]
LILONGWE (Nation)-The Budget and Finance Committee of Parliament has given MRA till Thursday to explain the authority’s borrowing of about K30 billion from banks to cover up a revenue collection shortfall. The committee gave the directive after a Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) management team, led by Commissioner General Lloyd Muhara, that was summoned to Lilongwe on [...]
By Charles Mkula LILONGWE (Newstime Africa)– Preliminary investigations of gold deposits in central Malawi have identified three targets that contain anomalous values of the precious metal. The exploration undertaken by South East Africa Mining Exploration (SEAMEX) carried out the study involving systematic stream sediments sampling and geological observation in the central tobacco growing district of [...]
By George Kasakula OPINION (Nation)-When Balaka South MP George Nnensa drew the attention of the country to the greatest fraud of our time through which MRA borrowed money from commercial banks with the sole aim of cheating that the zero-deficit budget was not a flop it is, the whole DPP bunch of fraudsters were up in [...]
LILONGWE (Malawi Democrat) – Whistle-blowers have sent a docket to Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) to investigate Mulli Group Limited managing director Mr Leston Mulli on how he obtained a diplomatic passport and various corruption scandals including that of fertiliser subsidy programme. Mulli hols a diplomatic passport which he uses the VVIP lounge at the airport [...]
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