Day: February 14, 2022

Airtel Africa has sold its 723 towers in Malawi to Helios Towers, an independent telecommunications infrastructure company, for US$55 million (about K45.1 billion).

The Senior Resident Magistrate Court in Lilongwe has fined a Zimbabwean couple K1 million and ordered their deportation for possessing dangerous drugs and damaging a banknote. Central West Region Police Spokesperson Alfred Chimthere says Tinashe Mukarati and Melisha Jackson were found in possession of 215 millilitres of narcotic liquid cocaine at their residence in Area […]

Former governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Deputy National Director of Women, Hyasinta Chikaonda, has defected to Malawi Congress Party (MCP). MCP Central Region Chairman Patrick Chilondola has officially welcomed Chikaonda at the party’s headquarters in Lilongwe. Chikaonda, who once served as a legislator for Dedza East from 2009 to 2014, says she has decided to […]

TNM Super League giants Silver Strikers and Mighty Wanderers will be hoping to bounce back quickly after suffering defeats in their respective opening matches last weekend. Both Silver and Wanderers lost their opening matches of the season 1-0 to Red Lions at Balaka Stadium and 2-1 to Nyasa Big Bullets at Kamuzu Stadium respectively. This […]

Against allegations that it has been quoting low prices in its bids – reportedly as a trick to be awarded contracts in Malawi — only for it to inflate the figures while the works are in progress, Mota Engil quoted its contract bid price for the retendered Marka-Bangula Railway project at K82 billion. This is […]

The Road Funds Administration has disclosed that the Chingeni and Kalinyeke tollgate plazas have raised 1.2 Billion Kwacha in four months. Speaking to news update Masauko Ngwaluko Spokesperson for the Fund said this is an increase from the 700 Million Kwacha that was realized by February this year. Ngwaluko said the RFA has already advised […]

Hiring of a new Chief Executive Officer at Roads Authority has been thrown into bad light because some of the candidates vying for the position are outright bad apples and puppets of certain construction companies in the industry. A vacancy advertisement in the local papers this week indicates that the Authority is seeking services of […]

Eradicating polio would eradicate so much tragedy.