Category: Business

* Illovo Sugar and Garda World also rehabilitated Ngabu Police Post and Nchalo Police Station * I confidently say Illovo, Unitrans and Garda World are our trusted partners, come rain or sunshine—IG * Illovo Sugar also donated torches, whistles and reflective jackets to Chikwawa community policing forums * Theft has been a serious concern for both the Illovo Nchalo operations and the wider Nchalo-Ngabu community itself By Duncan Mlanjira Illovo Sugar Malawi Plc and Unitrans has donated three patrol…

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An MBS official showing the gathering the calibrated scales By Salome Gangire, MANA Malawi Bureau of Standards (MBS) will start confiscating uncalibrated weighing instruments being sold in shops in the country following gazetting of regulations allowing the Bureau to do so. MBS Director General, Symon Mandala disclosed the development on Monday at Zigwagwa Market in Mzuzu during a sensitization meeting as part of commemoration of the World Metrology Day. He said: “At first we were just controlling at the…

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Sattar was not under any formal investigation by the ACB * Until the UK notified the Malawi government of its action to arrest Sattar, he was not under any formal investigation by the ACB * The British government had funded Baker Tilly’s forensic audit into Cashgate * Its report found that two Sattar-linked companies, Top Prima and Rummage Pace, were the biggest beneficiaries of Cashgate * They received K12 billion in payments for purported supplies to the Malawi Defense…

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By Moses Nyirenda, MANA Minister of Information, Gospel Kazako says government is concerned with the increase of fuel prices in the country but it was inevitable since this is the current global trend and the challenge had to be addressed that way. Kazako said this on Tuesday in Lilongwe at a media briefing which his Ministry jointly organized with Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA), saying government could not manage to control the fuel prices. “The fuel price hike is…

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Theft of rail pandrol clips is on the rise By Duncan Mlanjira Following the derailment of a goods train last week (October 1) at Matindi in Blantyre — close to National Oil Company of Malawi (NOCMA) fuel tanks — Nacala Logistics has suspended its passenger train service for the next two weeks due to rampant vandalism on this Limbe-Balaka route. In a statement issued on Saturday, October 9, Nacala Logistics said theft of rail pandrol clips and other rail…

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