By: PRISCILLA MUKOKOBI The PDM’s Youth League has called on Namibians to boycott the celebration of Independence Day. According to media reports, government has earmarked N$25 million. According to the PDM youth league, acting secretary-general Yvette Araes, the N$25 million allocated for the Independence celebration is a stark contradiction considering the current state of […]

By: Big Lips For the first time in a long while, President Hage Geingob said something that should make any rightminded Namibia reflect deeply. Truth, as they say, is a very painful thing, and this is why most people who read about his interview with Al Jazeera got angry. The truth, however, is what Geingob […]

By: Justicia Shipena  High Court judge Johanna Sailonga says that members of the society have to be protected from dangerous individuals such as Annastancia Nalucha Lubinda together with her co-accused, David Kondjara and Donald Hindjou.  Sailonga said this on Friday when she sentenced the three to life imprisonment for the murder of Lubinda’s husband, Peter […]

Staff Writer The Lions Club International will receive a humanitarian award for her dedication to humanitarian service and medical contributions to the world. Dr Helena Ndume is the Chief of Ophthalmology at Windhoek Central Hospital. She is a partner to Surgical Eye Expeditions International (SEE) International, a nonprofit humanitarian organisation based in Santa Barbara, California, […]

Staff Writer A recent Afrobarometer survey found out that more Namibians are calling on the government to ban the production and use of plastic bags. The survey also says that where environmental-protection policies threaten jobs and incomes, Namibians are sharply divided on which should be prioritized.  Namibians say the benefits of natural resource extraction, such […]

By: Annakleta Haikera Last week, a crocodile killed a 25-year-old man at Mupini, Kavango West.  Ndumba Ben, the deceased, was taking a bath in the Kavango River at Mupini with others when the crocodile pounced upon him. On Saturday, the police retrieved Ndumba’s mutilated body, and the crocodile suspected of having killed the deceased was […]

By: Justicia Shipena  Higher education executive director Alfred van Kent says they are still unpacking how to integrate the students studying in Ukraine into local universities.  Many returning students have expressed their concerns about their future at the Hosea Kutako International airport on Sunday.  Namibia welcomed 23 students from Ukraine after they fled due to […]

  By: Justicia Shipena  While the Namibian government is still to locate two Namibian nationals in Ukraine, Wilka Ngalandji entered Poland with only her passport and the clothes on her body.  This comes as tensions between Ukraine and Russia have spiked, with Russian launching an invasion in the European country with more than 2 000 […]

  By: Big Lips There has always been this belief that the British author George Orwell wrote his book 1984 to depict the tyranny in the then Soviet Union. Looking at the events unfolding in the world today, a lucid mind can only point at a situation where every country has become Oceania where there […]

By: Vetondouua Tjivikua  Namibia remains in the top 10 countries globally, with many TB cases.  Namibia recorded several 8100 cases in 2020. This comes as Namibia is set to commemorate the World TB day that will be observed on the 25 March 2022 in the Oshikoto region at Onandjokue clinic in the Onyaanya district, where […]