It is reported that whenever members of the public approach police officers to state their facts concerning them, by swearing upon such facts before police officers because the law requires that such swearing/oath should be administered by a commissioner of oaths, sadly, police officers misinterpret this.
A considerable number of government projects – mostly worth millions of dollars - are lying idle, either abandoned by contractors or simply struggling to take off.
Poet Publius Ovidius Naso, better known as Ovid (43 BC and 17 AD), once wrote “fertilior seges est alenis semper in agris”, which translates: ‘the harvest is always more fruitful in another man’s fields.’
The late Benedickus Johannes Nkundu, who died at the age of 80 on 19 March 2022 at Mururani, was laid to rest yesterday at Siya village in Kavango West’s Kapako constituency. Nkundu was accorded the honour of an official funeral by President Hage Geingob.
The infamous findings contained in an audit report performed by accounting firm PwC Namibia over an alleged unaccounted for N$24 million have caused a rift among councillors at the Walvis Bay municipality.
The Namibian Financial Institutions Supervisory Authority (Namfisa) yesterday urged the working public to remain calm ahead of the final standards and regulations on the Preservation of Retirement Benefits to be made under the Financial Institutions and Markets Act, 2021 (FIMA).
Police in Kavango West have arrested a 19-year-old male for being in possession of 115 parcels of cannabis, collectively weighing about 68kg and valued at N$682 850.
Members of the San community say they are being exploited and forced to work on farms without receiving the monthly payment.
A man who was first found to be unfit to stand trial due to a mental defect by a State psychiatrist, then declared fit by a private one, was convicted on some of the charges he faced yesterday.
Kavango West governor Sirkka Ausiku says government-owned green schemes should team up with locals through potential joint ventures to ensure optimal output.