Tag Archives: Minister Fabiano

Opinion

EDITORIAL: Intervention in teachers strike: wise and dynamic leadership

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Kamuzu Banda
Kamuzu Banda: first Malawi President

When former Malawi leader, Dr. H. Kamuzu Banda was released from his one-year detention in Gwero in 1961, he proceeded to Britain (the U.K.) and negotiated Malawi’s independence. He was an eloquent orator, who earlier in 1953 wrote a ten thousand word letter to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to voice his dissent on the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. And in 1961 when he went knocking on 10 Downing Street, with sharp words, he convinced the British Government to break the Federation, and at the same time, to allow Nyasaland become a self-governing nation. Continue reading EDITORIAL: Intervention in teachers strike: wise and dynamic leadership →

Regional

MY TAKE ON IT: Higher political figure takes up ownership of higher education

Janet Karim
President Mutharika
Govt has no money; Mutharika appears to be telling Mzuni Vice Chancellor in this file photo

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments Psalm 78:5-7

 

In the twenty years that Malawi has enjoyed democratic governance, ironically the country has also experience a degeneration in the delivery, administration and undertaking of higher education. Among the reasons for this degeneration are hiking of tuition, demands by tutors or support staff for salary or displeasure with the head of the various institutions. Continue reading MY TAKE ON IT: Higher political figure takes up ownership of higher education →

Business, Malawi, Top News

Petroleum Importers Limited excites Luanar with MK100 million donation for multipurpose hall

Lloyd M’bwana
Bunda College
Education Minister Dr Fabiano shaking hands with PIL Board Chairman Bhana recieving the dummy cheque while Prof Seyani and Kanyama look on

LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-In its continued quest of corporate social responsibility drive in the education sector, this time on tertiary, the country’s main fuel carrier, Petroleum Importation Limited (PIL) has again pumped in MK100 million (US$290,000) for the construction of the multipurpose hall at Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (Luanar).

The cash donation is expected to improve the overall Luanar?s operation upon completion of the dreamed and ambitious multipurpose hall. Continue reading Petroleum Importers Limited excites Luanar with MK100 million donation for multipurpose hall →