Malawi new rail coaches starts Wednesday -CEAR
The newly acquired Central East African Railways (CEAR) passenger coaches will take a maiden trip on the rails Wednesday, January 15, 2014, the company has announced. This follows the launch of the six...
View ArticleMalawi electricity problems to ease: Kapichira II commissioning Friday
President Joyce Banda will on Friday 17th January, 2014 preside over the official commissioning of the Kaphichira Phase II hydroelectric power project which will add 64 megawats to the national power...
View ArticleTNM dishes out K3.3m in Wali Wali ndi Mpamba: Competition hits finale
Telekom Networks Malawi Limited (TNM) on Monday conducted final draw of the Wali Wali ndi Mpamba promotion with 30 customers who used Mpamba Mobile Money Service for electricity bill payments and...
View ArticleRumphi mandasi seller wins K15m house in NBS Bank promo
A small scale entrepreneur in Rumphi District, Northern Malawi, has started the year 2014 with a stroke of luck after emerging the winner of a grand prize in the NBS Bank win a house promotion....
View ArticleTNM customers to pay GOtv subscriptions via Mpamba
Telekom Networks Malawi (TNM) customers will now start paying their GOtv monthly subscriptions using its mobile money transfer service called Mpamba. TNM Head of Marketing, Sobhuza Ngwenya, said the...
View ArticleKombucha health juice distribution reaches nationwide
Kambucha Health Juice, a product of Nutri.com has now expanded its market base, reaching as far as the Northen and Southern Regions. Speaking in Lilongwe, Nutri.com Marketing Manager Peter Ndalama said...
View ArticleMzimba food café operators drilled on hygiene, customer care
Restaurant operators at the popular and eventful Jenda roadblock in Mzimba district have been disciplined on how they can serve their customers better and manage the food they prepare. The operators...
View ArticleMinister blasts construction companies on labour recruitment modalities
Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security Uladi Mussa has faulted construction companies on labour recruitment modalities that have led to continued theft of materials meant for various projects...
View ArticleKapichira phase ll to minimize power outages in Malawi- ESCOM
The Electricity Supply Corporation Of Malawi (ESCOM) on Friday said that Kaphichira Phase II Hydroelectric Power project which will add 64 megawatts to the national power grid will help to minimize...
View ArticleAlliance One Tobacco targets to plant 2.5 m trees
One of the country’s tobacco firms, Alliance One Tobacco Malawi has embarked on a special reforestation campaign in a response to wanton tree-felling in the country because of tobacco farming and has...
View ArticleMalawi tax body collects K185.6 bn in six months
The Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) has disclosed that it collected over K185.6 billion (about $431m) since July 2013, beating its half year target by about 20 percent. The 2013/14 budget projected a...
View ArticleMalawi lost K8.9bn through cashgate – Finance Minister
Malawi’s Finance Minister Maxwell Mkwezalamba has announced that the auditing that government undertook on the onset of cashgate scandal revealed that the money stolen was K8.9 billion, not the K20...
View ArticleIMF’s release of Malawi funds to encourage donors – Mkwezalamba
Malawi’s finance minister, Maxwell Mkwezalamba, has said IMF’s release of a $20 million (around K9 billion) under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) will encourage other donors who have withheld aid to...
View ArticleMalawians at 50 still in darkness: ‘Electricity is seen as for well to do...
Only nine percent of Malawi’s population has access to electricity, a development Minister of Energy Ibrahim has described as sad and worrisome considering the country will be celebrating 50 years of...
View ArticleMalawi fuel reserves to increase buffer stocks – Energy Minister
Malawi’s Minister of Energy, Ibrahim Matola says issues of fuel shortage in Malawi will remain a thing of the past after the completion of strategic fuel reserves currently being constructed by an...
View ArticleStop politicizing water supply, Malawian MPs told
As Malawi is heading towards the May 20 tripartite elections official campaign, incumbent and aspiring MPs have been asked to cease politicizing water supply. The call has come from Kate Harawa,...
View ArticleCEAR to buy more rail coaches to meet Malawi demand
The Central East African Railways (CEAR), Malawi’s railway transport provider, will buy more passenger coaches to meet high demand. The company told Nyasa Times a week after it introduced six new...
View ArticleBunda lecturer wins K1 million in Tipate Promotion
As Airtel Malawi will be winding up its ongoing promotion dubbed Tipate , Bunda College Lecturer Joshua Mtimuni on Wednesday emerged one of the K1million winner. The promotion is splashing out cash...
View ArticleLet’s woo investors, revise laws later – Malawi Mining Official
Malawi cannot turn away investors in the extractive industry despite the fact that legislation in the sector is archaic and not in tandem with international trends, a Ministry of Mines official has...
View ArticleParamount says Malawi jet report has ‘serious inaccuracies’
African arms group, Paramount has disputed a report in Britain’s Telegraph newspaper that the company was helping Malawian President Joyce Banda to subvert her pledge to get rid of the impoverished...
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