{"id":42881,"date":"2017-03-21T09:13:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T07:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=42881"},"modified":"2017-03-21T09:13:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T07:13:39","slug":"epac-fc-get-office-of-the-president-and-cabinet-sponsorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/03\/21\/epac-fc-get-office-of-the-president-and-cabinet-sponsorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Epac FC get Office of the President and Cabinet sponsorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) has taken over the sponsorship of Epac FC after dumping relegated TNM Super League side, Civo United.<\/p>\n<p>Following the acquisition of Epac, the OPC will be at liberty to either rebrand Epac or maintain the name as sponsors have naming rights.<\/p>\n<p>Civo Vice General Secretary, Ronald Chiwaula, Monday confirmed that the government informed them that it had taken over Epac ahead of the new season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truth of the matter is that the government stopped sponsoring Civo and started sponsoring Epac. There is no issue of swapping ranks or merger but it is just a change of sponsorship,\u201d Chiwaula said.<\/p>\n<p>However, Chiwaula said the government has directed Epac to change its name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sponsor is free to change the name of Epac to Civo. As it stands, the name Civo will still be maintained in the Super League because the government has already written a letter to Sulom,\u201d Chiwaula added.<\/p>\n<p>However, Super League of Malawi (Sulom) General Secretary, Williams Banda, was not available for a comment, but in an interview with MBC Radio 2 yesterday, he confirmed the change.<\/p>\n<p>Civo have since shortlisted Stanley Chirwa, Dan Dzinkambani, George Zulu and Beggie Mwagomba for the post of Head Coach after the expiry of Charles Manda\u2019s contract on January 31 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) has taken over the sponsorship of Epac FC after dumping relegated TNM Super League side, Civo United. Following the acquisition of Epac, the OPC will be at liberty to either rebrand Epac or maintain the name as sponsors have naming rights. Civo Vice General Secretary, Ronald Chiwaula, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42884,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42881\/revisions\/42884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}