Tragic disgrace on M5
I magine a road trip within sights of your country’s largest freshwater lake, a 300-kilometre (km)picture-ready tourist attraction across three...
NGOs clean up Nkhotakota market
Malawi Creation Care Network, a consortium of more than 30 non-governmental organizations in environmental protection, on Saturday cleaned up Nkhotakota...
VP calls for durable public infrastructure
Vice-President Saulos Chilima has called on State institutions to ensure quality public infrastructure to minimise maintenance costs. Speaking when he...
3 women harm lady suspected of cheating
Tiyanjane Matchado, 25, is in agony at Nkhotakota District Hospital after three women battered her for allegedly having an affair...
Chia Lagoon at crossroads
Thirty-nine-year-old Lydia Phiri doesn’t bat an eyelid when asked about using Chia lagoon for fishing and rice growing. “Rice,” she...
Gold rush risks nature
The chirping birds with periodic interjections of domestic animal sounds early in the morning used to wake up Pendwe villagers...
Minister dangles K3.2bn to community radio stations
Minister of Information Gospel Kazako says government has set aside K3.2 billion for community radio stations to cushion them from...
Mtekama burial ignores Covid protocols
The body of fallen Malawi Police Service Criminal Investigations Department (CID) director Bob Mtekama was on Wednesday laid to rest...
Court okays Salima District Council to evict encroachers
The High Court in Lilongwe has given Salima District Council permission to evict private developers who built illegal structures on...
Nkhotakota Council under pressure to deliver projects
Action for People’s Voice has petitioned Nkhotakota District Council to deliver on the district’s projects. The group on Monday presented...
Dwasco Sacco surplus jumps 9.2% to K83m
Dwangwa Sugar Company Savings and Credit Cooperative (Dwasco Sacco) has posted K83 million after-tax surplus in the year-ended December 2019,...
Covid wipes vital cash inflows
At 51, Patricia Habibu cannot work as hard as she once did when she was younger. With age, her earnings...
Reviving sick banana industry
A bumpy earth road off M5 at Chisaka Trading Centre in Nkhotakota leads to Kayembe Farm Field School, a banana...
Community sources K6m for clinic project
Tired of travelling long distances to access primary healthcare, people of Chongole Village in Nkhotakota have raised K6 million for...
Sugarcane farmers protest prices, want regulatory framework
Some sugarcane farmers in Nkhotakota say they are contemplating on switching to other cash crops due to low produce prices....
Woman dies amid sit-in at KK hospital
The mood outside the labour ward at Nkhotakota District Hospital was sombre Thursday morning. Pregnant women, who lined up along...
Sheriffs seize Salima District Council vehicle
Sheriffs on Tuesday impounded Salima District Council’s vehicle, a Nissan Hardbody, for failing to settle a K13 million fine as...
Man helplessly watches as elephant tramples wife
Gostina Yosefe, 23, and his wife Sabita Banda, 21, of Bamba Village, Traditional Authority (T/A) Mwadzama in Nkhotakota thought they...
Irate villagers assault African Parks rangers
…after elephant kills woman in KK Mayhem erupted at Bamba Village in Traditional Authority Mwadzama in Nkhotakota Friday as irate...
Salima council staff protest over wages
Salima District Council employees yesterday downed tools in protest against the council’s failure to pay them their three month salaries....
