Reports of a nation-wide power outage on Friday, are false. NamPower issued a statement Thursday, rubbishing reports that there would be no electricity throughout Namibia, on Friday 15 June, from 06h00 to 12h00. The utility’s corporate communications and marketing department says the documents making the rounds was not issued on an official company letterhead, as […]

The public has been warned against a Facebook scheme using the Deputy Prime Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah’s name to defraud citizens. Deputy Minister for International Relations and Cooperation, Christina Hoebes says the scheme is sourcing money from unsuspecting individuals by promising study opportunities and in turn request for payments. Many have already fallen victim to the […]

The Attorney General has expressed concern over the continued exodus of African youth to mainly western countries in search of greener pastures. Addressing fellow MPs in the National Assembly Albert Kawana called on African governments to introduce incentives to keep the youth on the continent.

The Tsumeb Municipality’s electricity is restored. This follows a temporary disconnection by the Central-North Regional Electricity Distributors (CENORED). Tsumeb Municipality Chief Executive Officer, Archie Benjamin explains that the council failed to honour its monthly payment of N$800 00 since 2017.

Just three years after it was renovated at a cost of millions of dollars the Ondangwa Airport is already falling apart. The new terminal was inaugurated by President Hage Geingob who said at the time he was impressed with the building.

A shelter that was built for pregnant women waiting to deliver at Engela Hospital in the Ohangwena Region is so vermin infested and filthy that the to-be mothers might as well continue living in the tents which they previously used.

Windhoek-The Namibian Broadcasting Corporation officially launched the 2018 FIFA World Cup broadcast, which will kick off on Thursday. It was officially announced that NBC will broadcast 32 games of the 64 World Cup games. At the launch, NBC Director General Stanley Similo said that the acquisition of the games was a trying process but negotiation […]

A family of 26 was left destitute after their entire Mahangu harvest was engulfed by flames at Omundudu village in the Ohangwena Region. It is alleged that the fire started at a nearby cuca shop as a woman was preparing food for her kapana business and embers blew to the threshing floor ‘Olupale” where the […]

Various sectors, especially the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are set to benefit from Namibia hosting the SADC summit. President Geingob instructed the local organising committee to showcase sectors such as the diamond polishing industry during the SADC industrialisation week.

Preparations for the 38th SADC Heads of State and Government Summit in August this year has started. The hosting of the summit is estimated at a cost of close to N$50 million. During a brainstorming session at State House, President Hage Geingob made it clear this amount is tentative, as government plans to rope in […]