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NPL’s manager, other inducted as Rotarians
Nation Publications Limited (NPL)’s Marketing Manager Albert Banda became the latest employ to join a rotary club after he was…
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Energy project to light 8 000 households in LL
About 8 000 households in Traditional Authority (T/A) Mazengera in Lilongwe are expected to have light in their homes…
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Survey finds ‘free’ education not free in Mzimba
Primary education is not free in Mzimba South because learners are asked to pay money, a development that is…
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M’mbelwa Council registers high migration rate to SA
Data gathered by M’mbelwa District Council (Mzimba) shows that at least 25 people per day seek travel documents from…
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Poor resources derail childcare programmes
Lack of trained child care givers and resources are hindering progress of early childhood development (ECD) programmes in the…
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CMST donates 5000 units of sunscreen to Apam
Central Medical Stores Trust (CMST), through the Ministry of Health (MoH), has donated 5 000 sunscreen lotion with skin…
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Mzuzu-bound 6MW genset to arrive this week—Egenco
The Electricity Generation Company (Egenco) says a six megawatts (MW) diesel-powered generator for Mzuzu is expected to arrive this…
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Zanu-PF fires Mugabe, wife
Embattled Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has been fired from Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) and given until midday…
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Ecklain Kudontoni family tussle over his estate
A year after the death of DPP secretary general Ecklain Kudontoni, a wrangle has erupted between his family and ‘wife’ over…
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ACB leaves passport scam probe to police
After initially working with the Malawi Police Service (MPS), the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has left MPS to investigate some officers…
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Khato case back in court
Mzuzu-based Youth and Society (YAS) has moved the Supreme Court of Appeal to join or substitute Malawi Law Society (MLS)…
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Aford convention shifted, party divided
Serious cracks have emerged in the Alliance for Democracy (Aford) between its leader Enoch Chihana and some members of the…
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Chakwera disrespected APM—Speaker
Speaker of National Assembly Richard Msowoya on Friday ruled that Leader of Opposition Lazarus Chakwera disrespected President Peter Mutharika with…
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Govt’s total negligence
One of the computer tomography (CT machines) that the Ministry of Health purchased in 2012 for Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital…
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APM facing war on two fronts
PAC, Parliament want him to reduce presidential powers President Peter Mutharika is facing war on two fronts—PAC and Parliament—which have…
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14 yrs for exhuming an albino body
Senior resident magistrate Viva Nyimba yesterday convicted and sentenced three men to 14 years imprisonment for conspiracy to exhume a…
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Over 70 000 people are diabetic
About 70 000 people in the country are registered to be diabetic, an indication that more might be affected by…
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Nsanje records first cholera case
Nsanje District has recorded its first cholera case this year, health authorities have confirmed. In an interview on Thursday, Nsanje…
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‘Prioritise solar power to contain blackouts’
Balaka West member of Parliament (MP) (Independent) Patricia Shanil Dzimbiri has emphasised the need to invest in solar energy…
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Integration of drug supply chain deferred to 2019
The drug supply chain system remains fragmented with about 13 separate routes of supplying medicines and supplies to the…
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