Category: News
POLICE YET TO RECOVER STOLEN FIREARMS DESPITE ARRESTS
By: Kelvin Chiringa, Vetondouua Tjivikua Police Inspector-General Sabastian Ndeitunga says the police are still in the process of recovering the guns that were stolen last year. Ndeitunga’s comment comes after he confirmed the arrest of a suspect in connection with…
CHIEF KAPUOO DIGS IN OVER GENOCIDE DECLARATION
By: Tjizouye Kazombungo Ovaherero Traditional Authority says their positions on the Joint Declaration of the Namibian and German governments regarding genocide remains unchanged. Chief Vipuira Kapuuo said this at the Swakopmund reparation walk on Saturday. The first reparation walk in…
GREEN SCHEMES GOING IN JUNE THIS YEAR
By: Nghiinomenwa Erastus The country’s 11 green schemes are up for grabs and were offered to foreign investors during the president and his ministers’ trip to the Dubai Expo. After dumping Agribusdev, which has been run by a board of…
PDM PARLIAMENT-HOPEFULS AWAIT JUDGEMENT
By: Ludorf Iyambo One of the six PDM members whose names were removed from the list of National Assembly candidates in the 2019 election says they can still have an impact in parliament two years on. This comes as chief…
HEALTH TARGETS VACCINATING 215 000 CHILDREN BY JUNE
By: Vetondouua Tjivikua & Tjizouye Kazombungo The health ministry has said that Namibia plans to vaccinate about 215,108 children for Covid-19 between 12 and 17 before June this year. Director of primary health care Neami Shoopala said Namibia has 307…
COVID-19 JOB LOSSES WENT UNRECORDED
By: Justicia Shipena Some job retrenchments went unrecorded during the Covid-19 pandemic. A report by Simonis Storms on Covid-19 update on stock taking and looking ahead has revealed on Monday after Namibia marked its second year since the first lockdown….
POLICE ORDERED TO RELEASE “ILLEGAL” INDIAN IMMIGRANTS
By: Eba Kandovazu The police in Oshakati was left in shock on Sunday after an immigration official who drove from Eenhana instructed them to free undocumented eight Indians. On the same day, over 170 Angolan illegal immigrants were deported to…
KAVANGO WEST STRUGGLE VETERAN LAID TO REST
By: Annakleta Haikera A 71-year-old veteran of the liberation struggle and one of the long-serving civil servants, Siwombe Gideon Nestor Mufenda, was laid to rest on Saturday. Mufenda was buried at Nkurenkuru, where he grew up in the outskirts of…
ONHELEIWA RICE PROJECT CAUSES UPROAR
By: Frans Sinengela A proposed rice project at Onheleiwa in Omusati has sparked commotion among community members in the area. This comes as a group of young people under an organisation called Namibian People Against Poverty approached the chief headman…
FIXING WALVIS BAY-NDOLA-LUBUMBASHI CORRIDOR IS A MUST
“the WBNLDC is no longer an alternative trade route to Zambia and the DRC but rather a preferred trade route” By: Nghiinomenwa Erastus Beyond South Africa, DRC and Zambia are Namibia’s biggest trading partners in Africa, offering export markets and…