Hellen Chabunya dumps MCP to join UTM: ‘I would like to champion Chilima’s...
Lilongwe-based Hellen Chabunya has resigned as Director of Recruitment in the main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and withdrawn her membership to join newly formed UTM of State Vice-President...
View ArticleChilima says will make more foreign trips: State House says VP must notify...
Vice President Saulos Chilima has said he will continue to make foreign trips but State House has said he should notify the President about his travel as required by government protocol. Chilima has...
View ArticleChilima pledges to improve Malawi security agencies welfare: ‘K145m graft...
Vice-President Saulos Chilima Has pledged to improve conditions of service for the Malawi Defence Force (MDF), Police Service, Prisons Service and Immigration Department , saying he was aware of the...
View ArticleUTM convention set for December: All positions up for grabs
The country’s newly registered political party, UTM, has announced that it will hold its first elective convention in December at a venue to be communicated later. Vice President Saulos Chilima, whom...
View ArticleMCP-UTM electoral combination doubtful, other alliances likely – Analysts
There is great possibility of electoral partnerships in the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections but analysts have doubted the possibility of opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and and the newly...
View ArticleThree-horse race for Malawi presidency: Mutharika front runner, Chakwera and...
The May 21 2019 presidential elections will be a three-horse race between incumbent President Peter Mutharika, leader of opposition Lazarus Chakwera and State Vice-President Saulos Chilima, an analyst...
View ArticleUTM ‘Kuwala Night’ in UK this Saturday for fundraising
The newly-formed UTM party which is promoting the presidential bid of its leader Vice-President Saulos Chilima in the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections has a fundraising dinner and dance organised by...
View ArticleCourt dismisses judicial review on UTM registration: Lawyer Bob Chimkango...
High Court has rebuffed an application by private practice lawyer Bob Chimkango seeking judicial review for the registrar of political parties to put aside the court’s earlier order to register the...
View ArticleMutharika hits at Chilima, rejects owing 2014 victory to veep
President Peter Mutharika has rejected claims made by his second in command, Vice-President Saulos Klaus Chilima , that Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) could not have won the 2014 polls without...
View ArticleMutharika warns UTM operatives: Stop insults or risk tonne of bricks on your...
President Peter Mutharika has again warned newly registered political party UTM led by Vice President Saulos Chilima against attacking him during political rallies and through social media. Speaking...
View ArticleUTM sets December 8 for national convention
Newly registered UTM party has set December 8 for the much awaited national elective convention. UTM president Saulos Chilima has confirmed the date but said the office of the party publicity...
View ArticleChilima says there have never been alliance talks with MCP
UTM party leader and State Vice Presudent Saulos Chilima says there have never been talks with the main opposition, the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) on an electoral alliance. Speaking in an interview...
View ArticlePresidential aspirants should outline policy positions to improve Malawi economy
I have patiently been waiting for the country’s major presidential aspirants to outline their policy positions on how to improve the Malawi economy. I have listened to Democratic Progressive Party’s...
View ArticleUTM UK Wing lauds Chilima ‘s transformation policies for Malawi
Malawians based in UK who support Vice President Saulos Chilima’s UTM party hosted a dinner and dance event in Bradford on Saturday at Cedar Court hotel to remind each other of their role to...
View ArticleKaliati takes UTM to Thyolo, Usi storms Balaka: ‘Chilima did not hold talks...
UTM party interim secretary general Patricia Kaliati on Sunday addressed a political meeting in Thyolo Central Constituency – a bedrock of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) which she...
View ArticleUTM has Diaspora Directorate in NEC, veep post not in rank and file
The newly-registered UTM party led by Vice-President Saulos Chilima has become the first to create a post of Diaspora Directorate in its national executive committee to be elected that its first...
View ArticlePeterkins Kayira endorses Chilima for Malawi presidency: Football legend...
Malawi football legend Peterkin ‘Beruit’ Kayira on Saturday joined the political podium when he spoke at UTM rally held at Chitipa Airfield and endorsed Vice-President Saulosi Chilima as the “real...
View ArticleChilima promises old-age social security arrangement
Vice President and UTM party leader Saulos Klaus Chilima has said he will form Council for the elderly once he becomes the country’s president as part of an old-age social security arrangement to...
View ArticleChilima against Malawi fuel price hike: ‘Its a rip off when global prices are...
Malawi’s Vice-President and president of the new party UTM, Saulos Chilima, on Sunday attacked Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA) over the latest fuel price hike and demanded a proper...
View ArticleChilima says Malawi needs economic liberation: Ends North tour with bumper...
State Vice-President Saulos Chilima says Malawi needs urgent economic liberation, bemoaning the poor state of water transport system and tourism along the Lake Malawi. Chilima said on Monday wrapping...
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