Mobile phone operator TNM says plans are in the in the pipeline for the company to introduce a package targeting the youth called ‘Agulu’.
Announcing the news during Gwamba’s musical show in Mzuzu, Segment Manager for TNM, Wanangwa Banda, said the package aims at empowering the youth to easily access the internet.
Wanangwa Banda
“At TNM we realise that the internet is the gateway to many aspects of development these days.
“We also realise that with the internet the youth can access limitless opportunities be it education, markets, applications just to mention a few, ” Banda said.
He further said the package will target the youth aged 26 and below.
Carrying the tagline ‘I have joined the movement’ Agulu’, TNM will provide a package that will have cheaper internet bundles, cheaper call bundles and many more freebies.
Established in 1995, TNM is the oldest telecommunications company in Malawi.
Mzuzu High Court has on Tuesday adjourned to a late date hearing of the manslaughter and trafficking in person case involving President Peter wa Mutharika’s stepson, Tadikira Mafubza.
In court, one of the defence lawyers, Gilbert Khonyongwa, said the adjournment is due to delays by the defence and state to submit their charge sheets to the court where a ruling on the plea would have been based.
“The adjournment is because both parties were supposed to submit their issues of objections to the charge sheets and the court was supposed to give its ruling as per scheduled time but the defence delayed in submitting which made the State also delay in responding, ” said Khonyongwa.
Tadikila Mafubza
He said this means that the court needed more time to prepare its ruling.
Khonyongwa added that they could not proceed without the ruling since it is the ruling that bears whether the accused has to take a plea or not.”
He however, said the court will electronically share the ruling on the submitted charge sheets to both parties later today and that a new date will be communicated.
During the day, Judge Gladys Gondwe was supposed to hear the fresh plea to be entered for all suspects on all charges following an application by the State for the amendment of the charge sheet to reflect the gravity and how the crimes were committed.
Tadikira and five others who are currently on bail are answering this case following the discovery of a mass grave in which about thirty bodies of unidentified Ethiopian nationals were buried at Mtangatanga forest in Mzimba district.
Eastern Region President for former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Bright Msaka SC says the Tonse Alliance administration has started engaging foreign individuals to rigg 2025 elections so that they elected into power again.
Msaka made the claims on Monday at a press conference that DPP organized at Mount Soche Hotel in the commercial of Blantyre.
He said they are engaging foreign experts to provide old equipment for electoral registration so as to discourage people as they will stand in queues for days.
Msaka
“They will fail as Malawians are angry and registration will be in masses. They tried to rig ward elections in Mangochi, at that level, we did not know until they were caught. What about the national vote. They are bent on trying to oust the will of the people,”said Msaka.
He continued to say that the Tonse Alliance Government started on a note to, loot from poor Malawians and enrich themselves because that is the only thing they have achieved so far.
He said since they come in power, there is no even a single week that goes without hearing something naughty.
Msaka questioned how can an entire government buy fertilizer from a butcherry, Romanian company that not even exists.
He however, demanded Chakwera to resign as president and let DPP take over the leadership.
“He promised himself that if he will fail to deliver, he will resign himself without forcing him to do so. Now it is that time to resign.
“Being eroquent does not bring results. This government was not ready to run the state of affairs and it does not have the capacity for that. If they knew what to do, inflation wouldn’t have been like this, prices of commodities wouldn’t be like this, we would have had fuel, ” he said.
In his turn, former Reserve Bank of Malawi(RBM) Governor Dalitso Kabambe described the current economy under Tonse Alliance administration as ‘Sick’
Kabambe said, rising in cost of living, high inflation rate, hunger crisis, an increase in poverty rate,depreciation of Malawi Kwacha against major currencies and fuel shortages are among signs that the Malawi economy is sick under the Tonse Alliance administration.
“Ntchito yoti chuma chadziko chikhale bwino, mafuta azipezeka, njala ithe, umphawi uthe komaso kuti katangale athe ndincthito ya anamatatule pankhani ya zachuma ndipo anamatatulewo ndifeyo tili ku DPP,” said Kabambe.
The press conference which was attended by journalists from various media houses was organized under the theme ‘ Enough is Enough, Chakwera Must Fall’
The High Court sitting as a Constitutional Court in Blanytre has on Tuesday adjourned the ‘Consential Same Sex’ case after parties involved wound-up their submissions.
Judge Joseph Chigona leading a panel of three judges in the case said the court will communicate the judgement day “in due course.”
The two-day session was meant for lawyers representing claimants, the respondents and Friends of the Court to submit their oral submissions.
In the case, claimants Wim Akster and Jana Gonani are being represented by Fostino Maere and Bob Chimkango respectively whilst lawyers Victor Jere and Thabo Chakaka-Nyirenda came as the state and Attorney General respectively.
Among others Friends of the Court in the case are Chikondi Chijozi, Pempho Likongwe, Innocentia Ottobar, Frank Mbeta and Bright Theu.
In the case, Wim Akster who is a dutch national and Jana Gonani (Malawian) are challenging the constituanality of laws that criminalize same sex relationships in Malawi.
Chief Resident Magistrate Court in Blantyre has issued a warrant of arrest against businessman Humair Salim Mahomed Sidik Jussab over a car suspected to have been stolen from South Africa.
This is after Interpol a couple of weeks ago traced the car, VW Amarok, double cab, registration number BZ 1382, white, at a garage in Blantyre. He is suspected to be on the run.
Humair happens to be a young brother to businessman Mohamed Shabir Salim Jussab, who is also suspected to be on the run after another warrant of arrest was also issued against him earlier for alleged cyber harassment offences.
Jussab
The warrant of arrest issued against Humair require investigators from Blantyre Police Station who applied for it to hunt the suspect and bring him before the court.
“This is to authorise and require you to enter into upon and arrest the said suspect, and if arrested, to take possession of the said suspect and produce the same forthwith before this court,” reads the warrant of arrest in part.
The warrant explains the offence is suspected to have occurred on December 15 2022 when the suspect brought the car into Malawi dishonestly.
Malawi Police Service (MPS) investigators, who formed part of the Interpol, carried out an operation in selected districts that included Blantyre and Mangochi, according to South West Region Police Headquarters spokesperson Beatrice Mikuwa.
The Interpol recovered four vehicles, including this Amarok VW registered in the name of Humair Jussab.
Humair’s elder brother, Shabir, apart from the cyber harassment offences, is also wanted by police for assault of his driver, and is also facing a K26 million claim for his client’s vehicle he failed to repair at his garage.
The K26 million claim was filed by Shafqat Kasam, demanding the refund which he said was value of his BMW convertible which he claimed RR Auto Service, Shabir’s garage in Blantyre, failed to repair it for over two years.
Kasam claimed in an interview his car, which he said was a runner and only had a sun roof problem which was not functioning, was not repaired until the garage was sold and he later heard that Shabir was on Interpol Red Alert and in Saudi Arabia.
On the case of the fired driver who told police he was assaulted, the 72-year-old ex-employee, Stainford Kalitsilira, told police his former boss assaulted him and verbally abused him on July 16 2021.
