He is the Current Attorney General of the Republic of Malawi, Before assuming the Attorney General’s office, he worked at Malawi’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of Malawi, (RBM) as Manager of Ethics and Compliance Division and as In-house Legal Counsel. In 2001, Nyirenda joined the University of Malawi at Chancellor College where he was enrolled to study Bachelor of Arts in Humanities (BAH) Degree. One year after studying for BAH he crossed to the Faculty of Law at the same Chancellor College where he graduated with Bachelor of Laws Degree (LLB) (Hons) in 2006. In 2018, he went for Master of Laws Degree (LLM) in International Financial Law at University of Sussex in United Kingdom. Nyirenda has worked as a Senior Legal Aid Advocate from 2006 to 2008 at Legal Aid Department. He then joined the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs in August 2008 as a Senior State Advocate where he worked as government lawyer in both criminal and civil suits.