K500,000 once again dangled as incentive to break 18-year-old Blantyre City Marathon record Malawi National Council of Sports still keeps the K500,000 which was dangled as an incentive three years ago to the athlete who might break the 18-year-old Blantyre City Marathon time record of 2:18:40hrs set in 2003 by retired marathoner Henry Moyo. The […]
Uduak Akpan
The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has paraded Uduak Akpan, who allegedly raped and killed job seeker, Miss Iniubong Umoren, and his father, Mr. Frank Akpan.
The state Commissioner of Police, Amiengheme Andrew, said the parade was necessary to dispel rumours that the suspect had committed suicide while in its custody.
Meanwhile, the Iniubong was buried yesterday in her family compound in Nung Ita, Ikot Essien in Oruk Anam Local Council. At the funeral service, friends and sympathisers of the deceased, who were undeterred by a downpour, rained curses on Uduak and others behind the heinous crime. x
GOMANI: The story emphasizes the hardships poor Malawians are facing as results of massive plunder of public resources by some self-centered citizens
A thought-provoking brand new novel by a Blantyre based writer Gertrude Gomani ‘Surviving the lean season’ has finally hit the market in all Montfort Media book shops across the country and its going at MK2000 ( Two Thousand Kwacha) per copy.
According to the author Gomani, ‘Surviving the Lean Season’ novel depicts some of the problems that the marginalized class are facing in developing countries such as Malawi.
Multi-talented Gomani, a graduate from the Polytechnic a Constituent College of the University of Malawi, was inspired by ‘cashgate’- a scandal involving the systematic plunder of public funds which happen at Capitol Hill during Joyce Banda’s era.