Ecobank Malawi has on Friday rolled out a promotion aimed at rewarding its customers for using the bank’s mobile banking and Mobile App digital platforms.

Mandala Lions Club on Saturday installed new leaders at a changeover dinner that took place at Mount Soche Hotel in Blantyre which saw Lion Tina Das taking over as president from Lion Godwin Ng’oma.

Petroleum Importers Limited (PIL), a consortium of private fuel importers, on Saturday took time off their business review and strategy meeting in Salima to donate textbooks to Senga-Bay Primary School in the district.

Telecommunications solution provider, Malawi Telecommunications Limited (MTL), says it is repositioning itself to reclaim its spot as the best ICT provider in the country.

The police in Blantyre are hunting for a gang of five assailants that last night kidnapped a son of well-known businessman Shyam Patel of OG Plastics near a Hindu temple in Limbe township, but freed him a little later.

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Five prisoners have escaped from Blantyre prison, popularly known as Chichiri prison in the wee hours of Thursday.

Sources at the Chichiri correctional facility have told Zodiak Online, the inmates have escaped after they managed to dig a hole to one of the cells on which they have been urinating on, for a while, to weaken it.

Prison warders are currently conducting a head count to identify and ascertain the figure of the escapees.

Malawi prisons spokesperson, Chimwemwe Shaba has asked for time be for commenting.

This prison break comes days after a man masquerading as a police prosecutor broke out a suspect on pretext he was being taken to court.

Despite a tough economic landscape, coupled with the Covid-19 pandemic, the depreciation of the Malawi kwacha, weather shocks and fiscal slippage, Eco Banks has posted a K12.0 billion profit before tax, representing a 15 percent growth in 2021.

NICO Life Insurance company says it has recorded an 18 percent growth in premiums from K2.2 billion in 2020 to K2.6 billion in 2021.

Airtel Malawi has made available a donation of assistive devices to Blantyre Secondary School - BSS and Mulanje Vocational Training and Rehabilitation Centre for the Blind to aide visually impaired students, easily read printed materials.