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MoH awards ambulance procurement bid to controversial Zambian firm; HRDC files corruption petition to ACB

September 10, 2020

By Duncan Mlanjira Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) has written a petition to the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), saying it has seen a notification of the award of a contract to Grandview International of Lusaka, Zambia to supply 35 Toyota Land Cruisers ambulances. However, Grandview International is a subject of investigation by the Anti-Corruption Commission in Zambia in their supply of 42 Fire Trucks at $1 million each that was investigated way back in 2017 by the Anti-Corruption Commission in Zambia in…

COMESA warns member states to be cautious of SA juice product Liqui Fruit

September 10, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira Competition Commission (CCC) under the wing of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), has issued warning to its member states against consuming Liqui Fruit Red Grape products from South Africa that allegedly to contain small shards of glass. Liqui Fruit products, that includes Ceres Juice, are common in Malawi especially through the South African retailers and other outlets connected to the Rainbow country. The decision by the South African company, Pioneer Foods to…

Police officers encouraged to upgrade their academic credentials

September 10, 2020

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By Daniel Namwini, MANA Commissioner of Police responsible for Central West Region, Merlyne Yolamu has encouraged police officers to upgrade their education in order to compete for high positions. Yolamu made the remarks on Wednesday in Lilongwe during a day-long customer care and professional code of ethics training under the theme ‘Soul Searching’ that targeted Central West Region’s police stations such as Kanengo, Kawale, Lilongwe, Nathenje, and Lumbadzi. She encouraged women officers more to consider upgrading their academic credentials…

Theme for 2020 World Tourism Day is ‘Tourism and Rural Development’

September 10, 2020

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By Daniel Namwini, MANA Malawi will join the rest of the world to commemorate World Tourism Day on September 27, whose is theme ‘Tourism and Rural Development’, that focuses on tourist attractions, accommodation, catering facilities and services for local communities’ tourism development. Through a press statement issued on Thursday, Secretary for the Ministry of Tourism, Culture & Wildlife, Isaac Katopola said the theme focuses on how tourism has the power to touch on almost every part of the societies…

Man nabbed in Kasungu over fake K 2,000 banknotes

September 10, 2020

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By Vincent Khonje, MANA Police in Kasungu arrested Filodi Goodson, 35 on Tuesday for possessing fake K2,000 banknotes. The suspect was arrested at around 10 am at Vijumo village in Traditional Authority (TA) Mwase after Police detectives were tipped that there was a certain man lodging at Midima Rest House who was suspected of possessing the K2,000 fake. According to Kasungu Police Public Relations Officer (PRO) Harry Namwaza, following the intelligence gathered, they accosted the suspect and was indeed…

NCHE asks the public to scrutinize if registered learning institutions’ programmes are also accredited

September 10, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) is appealing to all prospective students, parents and guardians to access and scrutinize lists of all registered and accredited private learning institutions if their academic programmes are also accredited in Malawi before enrolling. NCHE said this in a public notice that detailed all registered and accreditation higher education institutions in line with the National Council for Higher Education Act (No. 15 of 2011), that gives mandate to the Council to…

Chilima not impressed with MIM; praises MUST, LUANAR, UNIMA

September 10, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira In his engagements with the education sector to appreciate the strides they are making in the implementation of public sectors reforms, Vice-President Saulos Chilima — who is also Minister for Economic Planning & Development and Public Sector Reforms — was not impressed with Malawi Institute of Management (MIM) own management style. However, in his report posted on Facebook, Chilima praised Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST), University of Malawi (UNIMA), Lilongwe University of Agriculture and…

COVID-19 flattening curve still encouraging; no new death recorded in past 24hrs

September 9, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira From 494 COVID-19 tests that have been done in the past 24 hours, there were 23 new cases, 21 new recoveries and no new deaths. Of the new cases, 19 are locally transmitted and four are imported infections — two recorded on new arrivals at Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Dowa and the other two are truck drivers identified at Mwanza border through routine screening of people entering the country. Of the locally transmitted infections, 11 are…

7 jailed for assaulting Escom employees

September 9, 2020

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By Peter Kanjere, ESCOM PRO Nkhunga First Grade Magistrate Court in Nkhotakota District sentenced on Monday seven people to three years imprisonment with hard labour for assaulting Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) employees on suspicion that they were blood suckers. The court convicted are John Manda, aged 37, Ellia Chirwa, 35, Patrick Manda, 38, Letison Chirwa, 32, Fandison Chirwa, 29, Ishmael Phiri, 25, Zione Manda, 23, and Leonard Kamanga, 22 — all from Paulosi Village, Traditional Authority Kafuzila…

Airtel Money removes transaction fees on ESCOM tokens

September 9, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira Airtel Malawi has announced the removal of transaction fees for customers purchasing ESCOM tokens through Airtel Money from K200 per transaction to free of charge, effective 3rd September, 2020. This follows a recent announcement recently made by the mobile digital payments leader that it has reduced cash-out fees and revision of agent commissions for cash-in and cash-out transactions. A statement released on Wednesday says Airtel Money has also directly linked its platform with ESCOM, whereby previously,…