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Chief internal auditor at the Malawi National Examinations Board (MANEB), Harrison Manda, and owner of Multi Career as well as Royal Private Secondary Schools in Karonga and Mzuzu respectively is said to have been behind the leakage of the 2020 Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) examinations that led to their cancellation before they were administered in January this year, Nyasa Times understands. Our sources, who include teachers, students and other school owners based in Mzuzu, wh...

Court Fines Three Tanzanians For Illegal Stay In Malawi A Court in Karonga has ordered three Tanzania nationals to pay a fine of K20,000 for illegally staying in the country . Police Prosecutor Sub Inspector Sub Inspector Harrison Mtambalika told the court that the aliens were arrested at Uliwa Trading Centre in Karonga for being found staying in the country without legal documents.   In his submission, Sub Inspector Mtambalika pleaded with the court for stiffer sentence to the conv...

FOSTER. F. FUNDI Let me applaud the decision by courageous and patriotic members of the Public Appointments Committee (PAC) to reject Ombudsman Martha Chizuma as the new Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) Director. Martha is a compromised Political hack. Martha has no temperament, discipline and professional maturity for such sensitive position of trust and power. She is more concerned with praises from social media party supporters and appointing powers than the truth. It’s all about her career ...

Association for Persons with Albinism in Karonga (APAM) have embarked on fundraising campaign aimed at raising funds to purchase Cryogen machine and Nitrogen liquid that protects their skin. Speaking in an interview with Karonga APAM Chairperson Chawanangwa Nyirenda on Wednesday he said the development comes after noting that Karonga district hospital doesn’t have the machine which detects skin cancer. “When our skin get exposed to too much sunlight, the body may develop to skin cancer, so ...

The Karonga Senior Resident Magistrate court has convicted and sentenced three Tanzanian nationals to pay K20, 000 fine each for illegally staying in the countr

The much anticipated K90 million FDH Bank League Cup, whose winners will go home with K25m as prize money, kicks off May 29 with regional leagues’ preliminaries. The competition, that was unveiled in November 2019, was due to have been played in 2020 but had been put on hold due to suspension of sporting activities […]

The much anticipated K90 million FDH Bank League Cup, whose winners will go home with K25m as prize money, kicks off May 29 with regional leagues’ preliminaries. The competition, that was unveiled in November 2019, was due to have been played in 2020 but had been put on hold due to suspension of sporting activities in the midst of the CoVID-19 pandemic. At a press briefing on Tuesday at Mpira Village, Football Association of Malawi (FAM) general secretary, Alfred Gunda confirmed the format of...

May 11, 2021 Lowani Mtonga 2 Comments On 14 July 2014 I wrote an article in The Nation newspaper under the headline ‘Do better on mining’ in which I urged government to establish a parastatal to actively participate in mining sector and not just watch foreign companies extracting minerals. Seven years down the line the government has done what it should have done many years ago. Actually Malawi used to have Mining Investment and Development Corporation (MIDCOR) which was vanished d...

Malawi Red Cross Society (MRCS) has advised flood victims in Karonga to relocate to upper areas to protect themselves from the effects of floods that occur every year in the district. MRCS District Coordinator for Karonga, Blessings Mlowoka, made the call on Tuesday when the organization distributed relief items to about 647 flood-affected households and those affected by strong winds in senior chiefs Kilupula and Mwakaboko in the district. “Karonga is one of the disaster-prone districts in t...

Malawi’s central government has been accused of contributing towards the poor performance of local governments in the country, this is according to the Malawi Local Government Association (Malga). The association’s Local Authorities Performance Assessment (LAPA) report for the 2019/2020 financial released last month established that the central Government has “ignored” the underlying causes for the poor performance of local councils. Hadrod Zeru Mkandawire, Malga acting executive direct...