Vice-President Joyce Banda says President Bingu wa Mutharika has an ulterior motive other than the court interpretation on the constructive resignation case.

The lid is off the tin regarding the ownership of some companies recently listed to be awarded licences to run radio and television broadcasting services. Politicians, government sympathisers and top government officials are among those appearing on some of the companies' ownership list.

The draft impeachment procedures have proposed the appointment of a tribunal to investigate allegations leveled against an accused president or vice-president.

Six police officers, arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), have been convicted this year alone, Malawi News can reveal.

Officials from Bunda College of Agriculture, a University of Malawi constituent college, have been mandated to grow the first ever biotech cotton in Lilongwe.

The Civil Society Trade Union (CSTU) has asked government to address the civil servants on the current fuel crisis which they say is affecting the quality of services in the civil service.

In the just-released 2011 Malawi School Certificate of Education Examination three schools country-wide produced students with 6 points.

Government has conceded that major consumers of fuel should be given independent importation licenses for fuel in order to reduce scarcity on the common market Malawi News has established.

Government says best science secondary school students will now have to go up to form 6, and thereafter government will provide them with scholarships for further studies, Minister of Education, Science and Technology, George Chaponda has said.

A senior law expert has urged President Bingu wa Mutharika to appoint a coroner on slain Polytechnic student Robert Chasowa saying an inquest conducted by a coroner is a judicial process that commands more public trust and confidence than a presidential commission of inquiry.

There is an unprecedented shortage of beef and beef products in and around the Shire Highlands districts of Blantyre, Zomba, Chiradzulu, Thyolo and Mulanje emanating from a beef ban imposed by the Ministry of Agriculture following a foot and mouth disease outbreak in the lower Shire.

The National Association for Suppliers of Stationery and Office equipment (Nasso) has asked government to suspend a new procurement system which bars government departments from purchasing stationery and other office equipment from local suppliers saying the directive is crippling their business.

The backward trends of politics in most African states including the collapse of democratic rule and increased political bickering which has given rise to conflict in many spots on the continent is a result of a deficiency of advice from elder statesmen, says Prophet T B Joshua of Nigeria.

The Chancellor College Academic Staff Union (Ccasu) has called upon the Council of the University of Malawi to take responsible and immediate actions to re-open the college.

The Zambian government has suspended Zambezi Airline from operating on reasons of failing to adhere to safety and schedule regulations as required in the aviation sector of that country.

Parliament has engaged private lawyers to prosecute five members of staff at National Assembly who are on interdiction for allegedly swindling the organization K10 million.

Over 300 retired nurses whose three-year contracts expired two years ago can now afford a smile as government has started paying them in phases, Malawi News can reveal.

Two weeks after being assaulted by Mzuzu University (Mzuni) students for being accused of maladministration of the institution's finances, the college's Director of Finance and Investment Catherine Kazembe has finally spoken on the accusations piled on her.