Limbe Senior Resident Magistrate Byson Masonga yesterday convicted and sentenced Isaac Mpinga, 25, and Precious Kalamula, 20, each to three years imprisonment with hard labour for kidnapping a 14-year-old boy of Indian origin. State prosecutor Ernest Mangwena told the court that the convicts, together with others, on June 30 2022, attacked the victim near Y.A. Bhana building in Limbe and later took him to a nearby bush before calling his father demanding a ransom of K6 million.

Reports reaching Nation Online indicate that Centre for Democracy and Economic Development (Cdedi) executive director Sylvester Namiwa has been picked by unknown people. According to Cdedi communications officer Edwin Mauluka the incident happened around Area three in Lilongwe, 45 minutes after Namiwa and other human rights activists held a joint press conference at Crown Hotel.

Delivering his closing speech at the National Anti-Corruption Conference conference, President Lazarus Chakwera says corruption is Malawi's biggest enemy and is not welcome. Chakwera says this should be the key message from now till December during the anti-corruption campaign which he set to launch after the conference.

Anti-Corruption Bureau director general Martha Chizuma says President Lazarus Chakwera has hosted the national anti-corruption conference at a time when there are high levels of reported corruption. Speaking at the ongoing National Anti-Corruption Conference in Blantyre, Chizuma said corruption has been high in Malawi for decades.

She observed that the Tonse Alliance administration has provided an enabling environment to deal with corruption head on.

President Lazarus Chakwera is today expected to launch an anti-corruption campaign at the end of the two-day National Anti-Corruption Conference at Sunbird Mount Soche Hotel in Blantyre. The conference has brought together numerous stakeholders from the media, clergy, politicians, and academia, among others. On its second day, the stakeholders have been holding breakaway sessions where they have been discussing their commitments to the fight against corruption.

Power Market Limited (PML) chief executive officer (CEO) Rosemary Mkandawire has obtained an injunction at the High Court in Lilongwe restraining the office of Ombudsman from conducting a public inquiry into alleged irregular recruitment of PML top management, including the CEO. Judge Yakuwawa Msiska in a ruling dated July 22 2022, which Nation Online has seen, has directed that the inquiry be pended until the court hears the defendants notice to apply for judicial review on August 1 2022.

President Lazarus Chakwera says the two-day National Anti-Corruption Conference must define the role of each and every stakeholder in the fight against corruption. In his speech delivered at the conference, Chakwera has stressed that from the conference, there must be new approaches to the fight against corruption that will require concerted efforts.

A two-day National Anti-Corruption Conference is set to commence at Sunbird Mount Soche Hotel in Blantyre.
President Lazarus Chakwera is set to preside over the event. Among others, the conference aims at auditing what has been done and what needs to be done to win the fight against corruption.

Ombudsman report has faulted former MEC Chairperson Jane Ansah and former Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale in the manner they procured the service of South African lawyers to represented it in the Presidential Election Case. The Ombudsman has also faulted how government through then Chief Secretary Lloyd Muhara illegally appointed lawyer Madalitso Mmeta as Board Chairperson of Public Procurement and Disposal of Assets (PPDA) who in turn bulldozed the contract of the lawyers.

Four Principal Secretaries have been interdicted for failure to submit reports on the management of Covid-19 funds. This follows President Lazarus Chakwera's directive to have all heads of clusters on Covid-19 suspended for failure to submit financial reports. Our impeccable sources indicate that the following Principal Secretaries have been affected; secretary for Labour, Dickson Chunga, secretary for Lands, Benard Sande, secretary for Transport Patrick Ndipita and secretary for Education, Chikondano Mussa.

#NationOnline Government has issued new restrictions to contain the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic following continued rise of cases in he country.

In the past 24 hours, the country has registered 83 new COVID-19 cases, six new recoveries,
and two new deaths. This brings the total number of confirmed infection in the country to 2069, with 31 deaths.