Standard Bank Namibia has shaken off the adverse impact of Covid-19 in its half-year results after the bank recorded an increase in profit after tax of 24.1% for period on period to N$235.3 million. This is according to the bank’s interim results announcement for the first six months ended 30 June 2022, released this week.
Regional oil refineries are being investigated to make Africa more independent in terms of oil supply. This was confirmed on Monday by mines and energy minister, Tom Alweendo, who recently returned from West Africa’s leading energy forum in Dakar, Senegal, that took place from 1 to 2 September with the aim to determine the future for the continent’s energy.
Suicides are increasing at an alarming rate. I suspect that narcissism is the main cause of suicides globally.
Namibia is among the countries with a high unemployment rate, particularly among youth graduates roaming the streets with their degrees.
A man who was sentenced to 35 years imprisonment in 2019 for stabbing his girlfriend and mother of his now 11-year-old daughter to death was provided with a lawyer by Legal Aid to appeal his sentence.
The High Court has scheduled to hear the side of Namibia Wildlife Resorts in a N$7.5 million defamation suit against it, filed by its former managing director Zelna Hengari next year.
The Canadian oil company, ReconAfrica, has petitioned the Supreme Court in a suit in which it is accused of illegally drilling on a family’s crop field in Kavango East without their consent.
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With a combined experience of close to 60 years in the top echelons of national politics, four long-serving politicians Albert Kawana, Doreen Sioka, Calle Schlettwein and National Assembly speaker Peter Katjavivi will be stepping down from active politics in two years’ time.
A local authority councillor has been arrested for possession of cannabis.