Mwilima Mushokobanji is the new Meatco CEO who takes over from Advocate Vekuui Rukoro who left in Dec. 2017. He starts duty on 1 Feb. 2020. Mushokobanji is currently the executive director of the Namibia National Farmers’ Union. Although the Meatco board chairperson Martha Namundjebo could neither confirm nor deny, public enterprises minister Leon Jooste […]

Newly appointed National Assembly member and Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL) secretary, Ephraim Nekongo, said his appointment to the National Assembly by President Hage Geingob was a privilege. The youth leader was sworn-in on Monday together with former information minister Joel Kaapanda, businesswoman Martha Namundjebo and unionist Festus Marenga. Nekongo replaces former minister Jerry Ekandjo […]

Police said David Kido (52) was found dead in his bed on 4 Jan 2020 at the Windhoek Central Correctional Facility at about 07h00. Kido was serving a 34-year long term for raping and killing his teenage stepdaughter at Mariental in 2013. Kido told the court in 2016 that he accidentally hit his stepdaughter Izelda […]

    Former minister Joel Kaapanda, businesswoman Martha Namundjebo-Tilahun and SPYL secretary Ephraim Nekongo, and Festus Marenga have been sworn in as MPs. They will serve for four weeks. Nekongo has been appointed while the others are replacing Sacky Shanghala, Bernard Esau who were recalled after their arrest over the fishrot scandal as well as […]

The junior primary phase is from Grade 1 to 3 The senior primary phase is from Grade 4 to 7 The primary phase has 5 promotional core subjects, a pre-vocational subject and 5 support subjects to lay the foundation for the technical-vocational education. The junior secondary phase, which consists of Grade 8 and 9 Pupils […]

Fishrot scandal accused, former minister of fisheries Bernhard Esau is now at the Windhoek Correctional Facility after spending one week in the hospital. Khomas regional police commander commissioner Joseph Shikongo confirmed that Esau was given a clean bill of health on Sunday. Although the police could not say where Esau was admitted, Eagle FM understands […]

West China Cement CEO Zhang Jimin Namibia’s cement sector is now in the hands of Chinese companies after the German Schwenk Zement entered into a Sale and Purchase Agreement with West China Cement on 3 Jan. 2020. The Ohorongo Cement Plant is located on Farm Sargberg near Otavi. Schwenk owned 70%, the Industrial Development Corporation […]

A secretary with businessman Jack Huang’s City of China in Viana district of Luanda, Angola, says the fake kwanzas found in a container on the premises belonged to a company called Tai Wan Food. Huang, who has Namibian citizenship, and five other people were arrested in Luanda on suspicion of producing counterfeit money end of […]

Deputy education minister Anna Nghipondoka The education ministry has moved to allay fears that the new curriculum will send some pupils onto the streets. In audio recording in Eagle FM’s possession, both the deputy education minister Anna Nghipondoka and the executive director Sanet Steenkamp said although the new curriculum needs a lot of work, it […]

The FNB housing price index contracted by 3.7% year-on-year as of June 2019 compared to the 2% contraction experienced during the same period in 2018. The market and research manager at FNB Ruusa Nandago said the poor showing in the index is the worst performance recorded since 2009. Nandago also said that the poor performance […]