President Hage Geingob has tasked the Minister of Education Anna Nghipondoka to provide a detailed report on why the final results of the Namibia Senior Secondary Certificate Ordinary and Advanced Subsidiary levels (NSSCO and NSSCAS) were poor. The Presidency in a media statement on Tuesday indicated that Geingob has listened carefully to all stakeholders who…
Mobile Telecommunications Limited (MTC) has received over 8000 applications for its ‘MTC 4LIFE’ project from unemployed Namibian youth across the country. The N.dollars 2.6 million project, which began in October 2022, is a socioeconomic initiative aimed at reducing youth unemployment and empowering Namibians to work for themselves in the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector.…
The Rehoboth Town Council (RTC) has announced the implementation of two major projects this year, with vigour and dedication to achieving the town’s development goals. The first project to be implemented is the long-awaited bitumen upgrade of the Luketz Swartbooi Road to which a local company, Sebke Civil Contractor, was appointed through the RTC Technical…
The Blood Transfusion Service of Namibia (NamBTS) said it has recorded an increase of 14 per cent in blood donors during the fiscal year ending March 2022. Its Supervisor for Marketing and Donor Relations Titus Shivute on Tuesday said the blood supply has increased in a positive way compared to previous years, with 2300 units…
The Walvis Bay Magistrate’s Court on Monday denied bail to a 29-year-old man accused of murdering his five-year-old stepson at the town on Friday. Riddick Narib made his first court appearance before Magistrate Elizabeth Muatunga who postponed the case to 22 March 2023 to allow for further police investigations. Narib, who pleaded not guilty to…
The body of a 37-year-old woman was discovered floating in the Kavango River at Diyogha village in the Kavango East Region on Friday. Namibian Police Force (NamPol)’s crime investigations coordinator in the region, Deputy Commissioner Bonifatius Kanyetu, told Nampa on Monday that the woman, who has been identified as Theresia Ndominga, left her house on…
An earthquake measuring 3.3 on the Richter scale was recorded 184 kilometres southeast of Lüderitz in ||Kharas Region at around 06h48 on Saturday. A media statement issued on Monday by the Ministry of Mines and Energy said the geological survey within the ministry did indeed pick up on an earthquake located on the outskirts of…
Botswana’s President, Mokgweetsi Masisi, on Sunday paid a courtesy call to President Hage Geingob on Sunday, during his one-day visit to Namibia. The two presidents met to discuss issues of mutual interests, including bilateral and regional issues. This was confirmed in a media statement issued by the Republic of Botswana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The…
The Namibian Police Force (NamPol) recorded a death of a toddler at at Epalala village in Ohangwena Region on Saturday, after she allegedly drowned in a bucket of water. According to a report issued by NamPol’s spokesperson, Deputy Commissioner Kauna Shikwambi on Sunday, the nearly two-year-old Victoria Sevelen drown in a bucket of water after…
The Namibian Police Force (NamPol) recorded five suicides over the weekend. This was revealed by a crime report issued by NamPol’s spokesperson, Deputy Commissioner Kauna Shikwambi, on Sunday. In the first of the five cases, 33-year-old Gift Likunga Simataa, a Namibian male allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself with a plastic rope in his traditional…