FCB Nyasa Bullets has left the country for Equatorial Guinea where they will face Dragon FC in the CAF champions league preliminarily round on Saturday.
The return match is expected to take place next week at Bingu National Stadium (BNS).
This is the Fifth time Bullets is taking part in the competition under coach Kalisto Pasuwa.
The following is the Bullets squard that has travelled for Equatorial Guinea
Police in Chiradzulu has arrested Simon Kaposa, 47 and 16 other people belonging to CFK Security Company who were responsible for providing security at Southern Region Water Board structures in Chiradzulu on suspicion that they vandalized the improvised water intake and emptying the recipient tanks while protesting that they did not receive their two months salaries.
Chiradzulu Police spokesperson Constable Cosmas Kagulo says the suspects committed the offence during the night of August 14 to 15, 2023 at Chiradzulu Southern Region Water Board.
Constable Cosmas Kagulo
Kagulo says, “the guards are alleging that they did not receive their monthly salaries for the months of June and July, and on Friday August 11, 2023, they wrote a petition to the water board expressing their anger and threatening to deal with any officer who will report for duties at the water board offices.”
However, the suspects instead of waiting for the response from Southern Region Water Board headquarters in Zomba, they resorted to damaging the water intake and removing the drain plug for the two tanks which resulted in no piped water supply to residents and offices around Chiradzulu Boma for two days.
All 17 Security guards were arrested for malicious damage following the report Chiradzulu Police Station received.
The suspects hails from Ching’amba village, Traditional Authority Onga in the same district.
Three lucky winners have today gone away with various prices in the promotion dubbed Mlimi Odzitsata.
Some of the prices include three maize Meals , hullers and motorcycle.
The prices represented one each per region.
One of Malawi’s leading tobacco buyers, JTI Leaf Malawi on Thursday, August 17, 2023, conducted the first of three grand draws for ‘Mlimi Wozitsata Ayiphule’ promotion launched on March 31, 2023.
The promotion, which falls under the company’s flagship grower incentive program called Mlimi Wozitsata was launched as a way of rewarding its growers who year in, year out, deliver contracted volumes of tobacco of exceptional quality.
Speaking at the draw, which was conducted in Nambuma, Lilongwe, JTI Leaf Malawi’s Corporate Affairs and Communications Director, Limbani Kakhome said JTI as a company was impressed by the response they got from growers.
He said overall, 1,608 growers met the promotion criteria, with Lilongwe West leading the pack with a total of 373 entrants.
“We have been rewarding our growers every year through the Mlimi Wozitsata incentive program. This year, we have gone bigger, better, and bolder by introducing national grand prizes to be won by our contracted growers who fulfilled set criteria,” said Kakhome.
“We are very impressed by the response from growers. At national level 1,608 growers took part in the promotion, which is unprecedented.”
In the next three weeks, JTI will hand over three sets of a diesel engine maize mill and huller, and three motorcycles, fully registered, to a total of six clubs or estates.
Each region will have two grand prize winners taking home either a set of a maize mill and huller or a motorcycle. In the run up to the grand finale, growers across the country have been winning bags of NPK fertilizer, bags of urea fertilizer and pruning saws, as consolation prizes.
Winners will have their prizes delivered at their respective homes, according to Kakhome.
Speaking during an interview one of the winner Godfrey Msampha thanked JTI company for the competition.
Msampha said his life will never be the same. He said at first he thought the promotion was just a waste of time.
Rodrick Sambakunsi, a Science Communication and Community Engagement and involvement specialist at Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme (MLW) has been selected as a winner in the 2023 Falling Walls Science Summit to be held in Berlin from November 7 to to 9,2023.
At the summit, Rodrick who is among 20 winners is expected to interact and collaborate with globa leaders for Malawi’s better future.
In an interview,Rodrick said the project that has made him to win the summit is the one he is leading in the country called One for All, All for One.
Rodrick Sambakunsi
This is a vaccine engagement project that has developed vaccine engagement resources, a comic book, an animation, and radio plays in collaboration with artists, students, young mothers, health surveillance assistants, religious leaders, local leaders, the youth, and researchers.
The project seeks to promote dialogue on vaccines and vaccine research.
“I am so excited to be selected as a winner! This recognition underscores MLW’s commitment in championing positive change in the way we do community engagement and involvement in health research,” he said.
He then dedicated the summit win to all the people that have been working with him on his project since 2019.
According to Sambakunsi,the 20 winners that have been selected are from a total of 207 submission.
To shade more light on the summit selection process, Tahabiso Mashaba,a member of the Engage Advisory Board and the co-founder and CEO of the Hands GSSE said: “The shortlisted participants are doing life-changing research and I am honoured to be part of the team that was tasked with sieving the very best from the best.
“The review process was both engaging and challenging, more so as there is a thin line between having a great reach, science communication and science engagement.”
Simply put,the Falling Walls Science Summit is a prestigious three day gathering that pools together the brightest minds in in science, politics, business and the media to explore ground-breaking research and foster collaborative solutions to challenges facing the world today.
Since 2018, every year, organisations and individuals active in Science Engagement are called upon to submit their projects or initiatives.
The best submissions annually are selected as Winners and invited to present their Science Engagement projects on stage in Berlin.
Mofgords Lake Resort in Mangochi which was affected by the raging Cyclone Freddy waters has re-opened for business, three months after being closed for renovations.
Mogfords Director Kisembe Partridge said in an interview yesterday that they were affected by the raging waters from the Cyclone Freddy disaster in April as most of the resort was submerged in water.
“Part of the resort was spared but we lost four panels of our fence from the side where the water forced its way to flood part of the resort. So, we have been sorting this issue from April until this week when we reopened and as part of testing our systems we successfully hosted a meeting for about 50 people.”
“So, I would say we are back to business because our systems are working well after the conference and we are ready to take more people for conferences and private stays,” said Partridge.
She said they managed to save their electricity transformer and backup generators which were partly submerged in water by quickly shutting them down completely during the disaster.
“We have now sorted out the sewerage system and replaced some furniture that was destroyed during the disaster. Fortunately, our electricity transformer and backup generator were switched off during the disaster and we managed to save them from damage,” said Partridge.
She declined to state how much was lost during the disaster saying it was ‘a substantial loss’ but was quick to thank all members of staff who worked tirelessly through-out the disaster and the rehabilitation process regardless of what they were employed to do.
“But we want to assure our clients that we will strive to offer our best services we offered before we were affected by Cyclone Freddy, they will feel the same Mogfords magic,” said Partridge.
She also said they have invested a lot of resources in the drainage system so that should the disaster replicate itself, it should not cause any substantial damage.
Mogfords Lake Resort which opened its doors in 2018, is situated at Mtakataka turn off on the Mangochi-Monkey Bay road and currently has an 80-room capacity soon to reach 100-rooms which include self-catering studios and apartments, conference and boardroom facilities, a swimming Pool, a modern spacious beach restaurant, a gym, motor boats and children’s playing facilities.
