By Draxon Maloya More than 80 people have sustained various degrees of injuries following a stampede that took place at Katoto Secondary School in the city of Mzuzu on Tuesday. The ministry of health invited job seekers to an open Interviews session where those interested to join the ministry using either junior certificate of education…
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Mourinho Strongly Condemn Racial Discrimination
By Draxon Maloya Former Chelsea, Real Madrid and Porto FC manager, Jose Mourinho has in strongest term condemned racism. Mourinho who has all along worked with people of black or brown skin such as Benni MacArthur, Didier Drogba and Mario Ballotteri among others in his quest for glory has described aside racism is evill. Mourinho…
16 Years IHL for Defilement
By Draxon Maloya The Mzuzu Resident Magistrate Court on Friday has convicted and sentenced a 37 year old, Kumbukani Namakhwa to 16 years Imprisonment with hard labour after being found guilty of defiling a 12 year old girl (name withheld) According to Mzuzu Police station Public Relations Officer, Edith Kachotsa, “ the court heard that…
George Floyd’s killing touches a nerve with Africans who know police brutality at home and abroad
When a high ranking official condemns state brutality against citizens in an interaction between African countries and the United States, Africa is typically on the receiving end. This week, the tide turned as the African Union (AU) issued a strongly worded statement condemning the killing of George Floyd, the African American killed by Minneapolis police officers. The…
Chanthunya’s Case Adjourned
The High Court in Zomba has adjourned a case in which murder suspect Misozi Chanthunya was expected to enter into defence on three charges. Chanthunya was earlier answering the charge of murdering his Zimbabwean girlfriend Linda Gasa in 2010. However, after parading witnesses in the case, on 2 March, the state applied for an amendment…
Malawi registers 70 new Covid-19 cases
Co-chairperson of the Covid-19 Taskforce, John Phuka, says Malawi has recorded 70 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the total to 273 cases. He says of the cases; one is in Lilongwe and one from Nsanje, 64 cases have been diagnosed from Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital and others are those who have returned from South About 140…
Presidential Candidates Not Speaking Much on Human Rights
Draxon Maloya Youth and Society (YAS) and the Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) have expressed no satisfaction in the way they are tackling issues to do with human rights. CHRR acting executive director, Michael Kayiyatsa and YAS executive director, Charles Kajoloweka said they have written the presidential candidates in the forthcoming election to…
Cotton farmers stranded in Salima after Atupele’s promise confirmed to be nothing but a lie
By Memory Kazombo .The campaign promise by Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)-United Democratic Front (UDF) Alliance running-mate, Atupele Muluzi in which he told cotton farmers in Chikwawa district to immediately bring the cash crop to the Admarc as money used for buying was readily available has plunged dozens of farmers into a stranded situation, as nobody…
Vipsya forest reserve wrangle rages on
By Draxon Maloya Government is still failing to extinguish wrangles between workers of Raiply Malawi Limited and members of the Reformed Timber Miller’s Union that have been hindering progress in the replanting, caring and harvesting of trees in the Vipsya Forest Reserve, also known as the Chikangawa Forest. On Tuesday, workers at Raiply Malawi Limited…
Kamuzu Stadium Quarantined Escapee Clarifies the Ideal
VOMI NEWS 247 – Radars Hello!I am one of the people who traveled from RSA with the buses that have just arrived and my heart is so bitter with the way government has handled us. First of all anthu we paid for our own transportation those buses were not for free. And we paid double…