By: Kelvin Chiringa The mines ministry is expected to announce the latest fuel price this Thursday morning at the back of consumers feeling the pressure due to hiked diesel and petrol prices. The announcement is expected at 09:00. However, economists are sceptical of the possibility of consumers escaping a fuel price hike considering the latest […]

By: Justicia Shipena Police Inspector-General Sebastian Ndeitunga says they are conducting an audit system to ensure all items at the Central Depot are there. Following the theft of 90 firearms from the police depot, a source within the police told The Villager that four to five generators have gone missing. “The report is still coming […]

  By: Kelvin Chiringa Secretary General of the National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW), Job Muniaro, has said that the resignation of public enterprises minister, Leone Jooste, has placed him in celebratory mood given the “mess he created with public enterprises”. Muniaro, a Jooste-critic who has accused the outgoing minister of selling out the country […]

By: Vetondouua Tjivikua Acting managing director of AgriBusDev, Berfine Antindi, says she expects locals in the bidding process for the 11 green scheme irrigation farms. This comes after agriculture minister Calle Schlettwein announced during the Namibia Investment Summit at World Expo 2020 in Dubai that the 11 green scheme irrigation farms in Namibia will be […]

By: Kelvin Chiringa The Grootfontein municipality faces the prospect of being reported to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) regarding an Omulunga Extension 6 construction tender suspected to have been corruptly given to a joint venture company, NGC Investment CC JV Gecko Investment. The company’s director, Gideon Shipiki, has accused authorities at the municipality of tempering with […]

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 90 missing guns last year. “Namibian police are working with the South African police, and […]

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 2007 was officiated by the late Ovaherero paramount chief, Ombara Otjitambi Dr Kuaima Riruako, and […]

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 directors mainly from the ministry of agriculture, the government has decided to outsource the operation […]

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 Justice Peter Shivute, Deputy chief Justice Petrus Damaseb, and acting Judge of appeal, Theo Frank, […]

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 307 298 young people in that age bracket from which the ministry is targeting vaccination. She […]