Week End Nation:

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1. Committee for Fast track Impeachment




• Speaker  to Summon accused within 24 hrs


• process to be completed within 21 days


2. Money drained to fulfil Bingu directives




• The Muntharika administration has started making good promises to buy buses for some schools and Universities with the purchase of a minibus for Dedza secondary school but the unbadgeted for expenditure might make the controlling officer for the ministry of education  answer for flouting public finance Management act, experts warn.


3. Gwanda, Zikhale register new party




• Former Democratic progressive party stalwarts Gwanda Chakwamba and ken Zikhale Ng'oma yesterday registered a party called New Republican party(NRP) which will be launched next month.


4. Commission angainst haste




• Impeachment procedures presented in parliament yesterday by Legal Affairs Committee chair Atupele Muluzi confirm earlier suggestions that the committee wants a speedy process.


5. UDF to fill Nec vacancies




• UDF is organising an emergency convetion to fill more than 20 positions in its National Executive Committee (NeC) left vacant by those who followed President Bingu wa Muntharika out of the party ealier this year.


6. 500 might lose jobs at Escom




• Escom might lay off over 500 employees if it approves its board proposal  to close some of its department, Weekend nation established.


7. Hunger Grips in malawi maize crisis




• It is 7:00 AM and many Malawians we stumble across have been queuing for days. Queuing on empty stomach and with bare feet.

Sports

Back pack:

1. BB's problems a blessing -expert




• No sponsor no survival -Jussab


• Club can go it alone


• Big Bullets current problems could be a blessing disguise, some soccer analysts have said. But others feel its headed for the abyss.


2. Big eight tangle in Fam Cup




• As the race in the K10 Million Fam Cup draws to the finishing line, four teams are likely to say goodbye to the competition after the quater final clashes lined up for today and tomorrow in two cities of Lilongwe and Blantyre.


3. Flames can make it to SA 2010




• The qualification by less fancied sides Angola and Togo to the World Cup finals has instilled hope in Malawian that the countrys Flames can make it to 2010 World Cup final in South Africa provide the team gets full support from all stake holders.