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SuperSport kicks off football season with FA Community Shield; Available on all DStv packages, GOtv Max and Plus

August 27, 2020

Maravi Express The battle for honours of the 2020-21 English Premier League season is set to begin in earnest on September 12 as more thrills are expected for SuperSport viewers on DStv and GOtv. Arsenal and Liverpool will be raising the curtain for the highly anticipated season, with African superstars, Mohammed Salah and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang going head to head when they meet in the FA Community Shield on Saturday (August 29) at 17:30 CAT. All DStv customers are promised…

COVID-19: Ministry of Sports also issued guidelines on reopening of sporting activities

August 26, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira Five months after sporting activities were suspended due to COVID-19 pandemic, Ministry of Youth has released guidelines on how to tread carefully in reopening of matches, a week after Ministry of Education Science and Technology also developed its guidelines for schools and teacher training colleges. In its introduction, the Ministry says the long suspension has created genuine fears that the standard of sports, physical fitness of players and the competence of both players and officials will…

Reunion Insurance Company introduces reward on golfers who manage to score holes-in-one

August 26, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira One of the country’s fastest growing insurance firm, Reunion Insurance Company Limited has introduced Chisa Domestic policy (insurance nest) that will cover people’s assets for urban and rural dwellers and among the packages rewarding golfers who can score a hole-in-one playing as an amateur. The Chisa policy says this will be done in terms of the rules at any of the country’s recognized golf clubs and in that event the company will pay MK50,000 upon…

Reunion Insurance Company introduces Chisa Domestic policy to cover people’s assets

August 26, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira One of the country’s fastest growing insurance firm, Reunion Insurance Company Limited has introduced Chisa Domestic policy (insurance nest) that will cover people’s assets for urban and rural dwellers. The Chisa policy will cover motor vehicles, cycles, trailers or caravans (for private usage), personal liability, all risks, pleasure craft, personal accident as well as golfers. Reunion Insurance’s Business Development Manager, Miller John Joshua said this is a truly packaged policy conveniently designed with various sections amid…

Postmortem on cause of death of Lilongwe University of Agriculture lecturer reveals he was poisoned

August 25, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira Postmortem on the cause of death of Lilongwe University of Agriculture lecturer, Professor Peter Mumba reveals that he died not of natural cause but of acute poisoning from a chemical compound. The postmortem, done by renowned pathologists, Prof. Ndalama George Liomba (B. Med. Sc, MBBS and FRCPath (UK) and Dr Charles Dzamalala (B. Med. Sci; MBBS; MMED Path (UK) on 23 May, 2020 at Chidikalala village, T.A. Mtwalo in Mzimba District reveals the man died…

Alert on reopening of schools: US study reveals children are silent spreaders of COVID-19

August 23, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira As many countries across the world are contemplating on reopening of learning institutions that were closed as one of the preventive measures against the spread of Coronavirus, a new study done in the USA has provided a critical data that children play a large role in community spread of COVID-19. A report by www.europahealth.eu says a comprehensive paediatric study carried out by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Mass General Hospital for Children (MGHfC) shows higher…

Chigumula’s Evangelical Mission Church describes SA-based marathoner’s donation as priceless

August 22, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira Bishop Benjamin Chalemera of Evangelical Mission Church at Chigumula in Limbe has deeply thanked South Africa-based athlete Gloria Chitedze’s donation of COVID-19 relief food hampers to underprivileged kids by describing it as priceless. Bishop Chalemera said this on Saturday when the Mission received a consignment of COVID-19 relief food hampers which Chitedze procured from funds she realised in a charity marathon challenge she did on June 14 together with her South African colleague, Ntabaleng Tsusane. The…

ACB arrests Police prosecutor and three others in Blantyre for corruption to defeat justice

August 21, 2020

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Maravi Express The Anti-Coruption Bureau (ACB) have arrested four in Blantyre, including a police officer for conspiring to withdraw a defilement case registered as Criminal Case number 204 of 2020 — which was being heard at the Dalton Road Magistrate’s Court in Limbe against Hanif Muhammad. A statement from ACB’s Principal Public Relations Officer, Egrita Ndala says on or around 18th March, 2020, Hanif Muhammad is alleged to have conspired with Cecilia Kananji, Esther Kalanda through prosecutor Ismael Abubas…

Malawi’s agricultural commercialization project gears up to help create much touted 1 million jobs

August 21, 2020

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By John Saukira Agricultural Commercialization Project of Malawi (AGCOM) says it is committed to ensure implementation of Government effort in the creation of the much touted of 1 million jobs promised by the Boma Lokomera Tonse aMalawi AGCOM coordinator Teddie Nakhumwa, said this in Lilongwe during a press conference, saying his project is aimed at transforming small scale farmers to commercial ones. “When we talk about creation of jobs this is possible because on average we have 100…

Airtel, MoneyGram partner to enable 19m Airtel ustomers to receive money directly into mobile wallets

August 20, 2020

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Maravi Express MoneyGram International Inc, a global leader in cross-border P2P payments and money transfers, on Thursday announced a new partnership with Airtel Africa PLC, to enable Airtel Money’s 19 million customers to quickly and conveniently receive MoneyGram transfers directly into their mobile wallets from family and friends around the world. Once Airtel Money customers receive the funds, they can be accessed immediately and used to pay utility bills, goods and services, transferred to other individuals, or converted to…