Chakwera urges DPP to be exemplary on three pillars of development : ‘Stop...
Leader of opposition Lazarus Chakwera has commended President Peter Mutharika for “going around the country” to enoucarouge Malawu to observe three pillars of patriotism, integrity and hard work to...
View ArticleMCP bursts into party songs in Malawi Parliament as Chakwera says President’s...
Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) members of parliament burst into party songs on Monday and gave their Leader Lazarus Chakwera a standing ovation after his hard hitting state of the nation...
View ArticleIt’s Mutharika’s grand finale, Chakwera tells Parliament: President...
Leader of opposition and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarous said in parliament on Monday that he is reminding all Malawians that this coming fiscal year is “ technically the last one” of...
View ArticleChakwera hits DPP on ‘bad governance’: Malawi govt using MBC to vilify those...
Leader of Opposition in Parliament and president of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Lazarous Chakwera has bemoaned what he call poor governance under the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), saying the...
View ArticleChakwera says World Bank’s K60bn is concessional loan to Malawi not free money
Leader of Opposition in Parliament Lazarus Chakwera has said Malawi government should not give “a wrong impression” that the World Bank’s$80 million (about K60 billion) general budget support to the...
View ArticleMCP wants Malawi govt to phase out FISP for universal fertiliser subsidy
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) says the government’s programme of providing cheaper farm inputs to smallholder farmers has not produced results and is maintain that there should be universal subsidy...
View ArticleMalawi is roten, Jesus help us — CCAP’s Reverend Gondwe
Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP ) cleric has said Malawi is rotten because of the stinking poverty around the citizsens, official corruption and the extreme suffering of the people ....
View ArticleChakwera says 2017 Malawi K1.1trillion budget ‘ too ambitious’: Fight...
The Leader of Opposition in Parliament and Malawi Congress Party president Lazarus Chakwera has described the 2017/18 National Budget unveiled Friday in Lilongwe as too ambitious. Chakwera said he was...
View ArticleMCP’s Chidaya laid to rest: Chakwera gives powerful eulogy
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) members and other politicians joined thousands of mourners who bade farewell to long-serving party administrative secretary Potiphar Chidaya at the Area 18 Cemetery...
View ArticleMalawi voters would opt for MCP to govern, Chakwera to be President...
A new Afrobarometer survey has shown that if elections were held today the main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) can win the poll and its president LazarousChakwera can be Head of State....
View ArticleWakuda, Kandodo join MCP rally: Chakwera ‘confident’ of winning 2019 elections
Former Finance Ministers and a relation to founding president Kamuzu Banda, Ken Kandodo and People’s Party (PP) legislator Wakuda Kamanga on Saturday joined a politicall rally in Kasungu addressed by...
View ArticleProphet Bushiri warns Rev Chakwera over son’s attack on his church
South Africa-based Malawian Major Prophet Shepherd Bushiri has warned opposition leader Reverend Lazarus Chakwera to rebuke his son, Nick, against attacking him and his Enlightened Christian...
View ArticleMCP convention to proceed on July 7: Kaliwo invites Chakwera
The troubled opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has not contested against the calls by a grouping of party rebels led by Secretary General, Gustav Kaliwo to hold an emergency convention slated for...
View ArticleMCP MPs accept SG Kaliwo’s constructive resignation: Denounce ‘nkholokolo...
Members of parliament for opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) have said party secretary General Gustav Kaliwo has constructively resigned from the position he was appointed by MCP president Lazarus...
View ArticleChakwera and Kaliwo agree to ‘bury the hatchet’ after cease fire talks
After months of damaging infighting in the main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP), secretary general Gustav Kaliwo and his deputy Chatonda Kaunda have agreed to ”bury the hatchet” with party...
View ArticleChakwera is political lightweight, not a threat to DPP – Wa Jeffrey
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Secretary General, Grelzedar Jeffery, has blemished Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leader Dr. Lazarus Chakwera saying his predecessor John Tembo was a much better threat...
View ArticleMalawi Congress Party gives ‘rebels’ amnesty: Chakwera seeks to end infighting
Main opposition Malawi Cogress Party (MCP) has extended olive branch to party ‘rebels’ and asked them to come back and work with the leadership in a move to end political squabbles. Party acting...
View ArticleMCP not yet out of the woods: Kabwila questions Chakwera’s olive branch
Marginalized Malawi Congress Party (MCP) parliamentarian, Jessie Kabwila has questioned the party’s extension of an olive branch to rebelling factions, arguing they should stop cheating the nation. MCP...
View ArticleChakwera demands independent investigators over Malawi Independence tragedy
Opposition leader and president ofMalawi Congress Party (MCP), Lazarus Chakwera, on Friday cheered up victims of Bingu National Stadium stampede-tragedy where 8 people lost their lives and 45 others...
View ArticleChakwera says some leaders blocking change in Malawi Congress Party
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera has revealed that there is resistance against his reformist agenda to shade off the bad image of the party amid a growing push for a convention he...
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