2018-11-27Nuusita Ashipala ONGWEDIVA – Young people in Oshana Region said they want a young person to be appointed as governor to replace incumbent Clemens Kashuupulwa who was commissioned yesterday as Namibia’s new ambassador to Russia. Kashuupulwa, 70, has been governor of Oshana for 20 years, since 1998. View more
2018-11-27Nuusita Ashipala OSHAKATI – The government of Japan donated close to 500 neonatal and nutritional equipment to seven northern district hospitals valued at US$800 000 (about N$9.5 million). View more
2018-11-28Nuusita Ashipala ONDANGWA - The Ondangwa Town Council has proposed to rezone the Omashaka informal settlement to enable it to segregate residential erven from business plots. View more
2018-11-29Nuusita Ashipala ONGWEDIVA - The Ongwediva Junior Secondary School whose construction faced several hitches since 2014 will finally be completed and is set to open its doors in 2019. View more
2018-11-29Nuusita Ashipala ONGWEDIVA – The Oniipa Town Council political office-bearers retained their positions when Mannetijes Kambonde and Lovisa Ndeapo Iikali were re-elected to serve as mayor and deputy mayor respectively at a swearing-in ceremony held at the town on Tuesday. View more
2018-11-29Nuusita Ashipala OSHAKATI - The ousted chairperson of the management committee at the Oshakati Town Council, Katrina Shimbulu, who is at the centre of the withdrawal of the local authority councillors at the town, said the party could have opted to chuck her out alone without dissolving the entire leadership. View more
2018-11-30Nuusita Ashipala ONGWEDIVA – With high youth unemployment and a subsequent lack of income, the Oshikuku Youth Forum created temporary jobs for upcoming youth entrepreneurs at the ongoing youth expo in Oshikuku. View more
2018-12-03Nuusita Ashipala OSHAKATI - In his quest to overcome malnutrition, the Minister of Health and Social Services Dr Bernard Haufiku has urged communities to prioritise and promote family and community health and nutrition. View more
2018-12-03Nuusita Ashipala ONGWEDIVA - Martha Kanyemba, 34, who made news in September when she was arrested for smuggling drugs into the Oluno Correctional Facility, was last month shown the door and dismissed from her work. View more
2018-12-12Nuusita Ashipala ONGWEDIVA - The ruling party Swapo yesterday reinstated its six councillors that it had recently axed from the Oshakati Town Council for allegedly not toeing the party line. View more
2018-12-12Nuusita Ashipala ONGWEDIVA - The Okahao Town Council raised over N$400 000 at a gala dinner hosted at the town over the weekend. The Ehao Cultural Expo gala dinner was held in preparation of the town’s first expo scheduled for next year June. View more
2018-12-13Nuusita Ashipala ONGWEDIVA - At a time when the country is battling Hepatitis E, residents at Elyambala in Ongwediva are fuming at the discharge of sewerage in their community. View more
2018-12-14Nuusita Ashipala ONGWEDIVA – The Ongwediva Town Council on Thursday commissioned the construction of the much awaited 1.6 km Ehenge road. The road will be upgraded from gravel to bitumen standard by Kambwa Trading at a cost of N$12.6 million. The groundworks, which already commenced late November, is envisaged to be completed June next year. View more
2018-12-17Nuusita Ashipala OSHAKATI - In its mission to reduce the backlog of 92 000 housing applicants, the National Housing Enterprise (NHE) last Friday handed over 41 houses at Oshakati, one of such recent handovers. View more
2018-12-17Nuusita Ashipala ONGWEDIVA - The Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL) has condemned the brutal atrocities perpetrated against women and children following the killing of its Elim District Secretary in Omusati Region Annastasia Iipumbu-Shivute allegedly at the hands of her husband on Thursday. View more
2018-12-18Nuusita Ashipala ONGWEDIVA - The Oluno Correctional Facility has yet again successfully nabbed a drug supplier and an inmate for allegedly attempting to smuggle cannabis into the prison facility on Monday. View more
2018-12-18Nuusita Ashipala ONAMUNGUNDO – An infamous politician who claims to have formed a political party to contest the 2019 elections, Kennedy Iilonga was escorted from a community gathering at Ondonga Palace by security guards on Friday. View more
2018-12-19Nuusita Ashipala ONDANGWA – Car crash survivor Victoria Amutenya has appealed to fellow road users to be considerate of other road users to prevent the unnecessary loss of lives this festive season. View more
2018-12-20Nuusita Ashipala ONGWEDIVA - Farmers have expressed concern should there be no rain or insufficient rain over the next two weeks, the country could experience another debilitating drought. View more
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