Students at The Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences (MUBAS) are questioning the Management of the institution on why it is failing to announce the upward adjustment in tuition fees. According to the students, it is a surprise to learn about the hike through a loan beneficiaries list released by Higher Education Students' Loans and Grants Board (HESLGB) while the University is silent. The loan beneficiaries list released indicates that tuition fee for The Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences has been hiked from k400 thousand to k650 thousand per year. Screenshot from HESLGB showing next academic year's tuition fees   A Second Year student in Business Information Systems (BIS) , Frezer Makina, says fees hike is a serious issue that has to be communicated timely and professionally.  Wondering on the same, a first-year student in Industrial Physics, Innocent Soko, says he suspects the institution has planned to announce the hike during the coming hol...

  While crime rate is increasing among the youth due to lack of unemployment, a 32-year-old in Manja, Blantyre is earning a living through quarry mining using local tools and equipment. Joseph Phiri, a married man with three children started quarry Mining way back in 2012 after several unsuccessful Job interviews with Security companies around Blantyre. Being a man of the family, Phiri needed to find a way of sustaining the needs of the family and among the glaring opportunities Phiri decided to try out the local quarry mining business. “After being unsuccessful in several Security job Interviews, I understood that I quickly needed to find something to do so as to find money for food, rentals and fees for my kids and the whole family. So, I decided to join some people who were already in the local quarry mining business at that time.” Phiri narrated.    Phiri hitting a large quarry  stone Phiri continued to say that since then his family has depended on the quarry bu...