2024-04-02Edgar Brandt The National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (Namcor) has suspended its executive for information technology Bonifatius Konjore. The decision to suspend Konjore is part of an ongoing internal investigation into possible misconduct. View more
2024-04-03Edgar Brandt Shell Namibia’s country chair Adeleye Falade has been appointed as the CEO of Brunei LNG, which is an Asian operation, employing about 500 people and pumping close to seven million tonnes of liquefied gas annually into ocean-going tankers. View more
2024-04-09Edgar Brandt Namibia’s two main mobile telecommunications operators stand to lose more than N$15 million per month combined due to the suspension of customers who failed to register their Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards on time. View more
2024-04-11Edgar Brandt The annual domestic inflation rate continued a rapid downward trend for the second consecutive month to 4.5% in March 2024 compared with February’s reading of 5%. View more
2024-04-22Edgar Brandt THE Payment Association of Namibia (PAN) and nine registered commercial banks are being investigated for alleged collaboration regarding interchange fees. View more
2024-04-23Edgar Brandt The Portuguese company, Galp Energia, which recently discovered more oil in the Orange Basin offshore Namibia, estimates their hydrocarbon resource could hold 10 billion barrels or more of good quality oil View more
2024-05-07Edgar Brandt Azule Energy, a BP and Eni joint venture, which is headquartered in neighbouring Angola, has officiallye entered Namibia’s ‘highly attractive Orange Basin. View more
2024-05-13Edgar Brandt After nearly four months at the helm of the largest pension fund in the country, CEO and principal officer of the Government Institutions Pension Fund (GIPF) Martin Inkumbi (MI) recently sat down with New Era for a comprehensive analysis of the fund. View more
2024-05-13Edgar Brandt The N$2 billion credit facility that Namibia recently secured from the World Bank consists of an inclusive package of loans and grants. View more
2024-05-16Edgar Brandt A lack of financial capacity in both public and private sectors has impeded Namibia and other African countries from achieving clean cooking goals. View more
2024-05-16Edgar Brandt Excellent news for local JAC Motors customers is the southern African opening of a new state-of-the-art warehouse. Brand expansion and sales growth across the region prompted a second enlargement of the company’s parts warehouse within the last two years to meet rising demand from a growing customer base and expanded service area. View more
2024-05-20Edgar Brandt Following a significant decline in building plan completions so far this year as compared to last year, the suffering local construction industry is hoping that substantial investment in infrastructure and related projects connected to the burgeoning oil and green hydrogen industries could serve as a lifeline. View more
2024-05-20Edgar Brandt To reinforce economic growth, reduce income inequality and increase employment, the industrialisation and trade ministry adopted a theme of “Growth at Home”. View more
2024-05-27Edgar Brandt The Bank of Namibia (BoN) board cleared their governor, Johannes !Gawaxab, during a special meeting to deliberate on the out-of-court settlement between the governor and the Namibia Competition Commission (NaCC). View more
2024-05-28Edgar Brandt The national power utility, Namibia Power Corporation (NamPower), has embarked on the construction of a new power station to enable the cost-effective production of baseload electricity that is expected to contribute to the expansion of domestic power-generation. View more
2024-05-29Edgar Brandt Namibia Wildlife Resorts is currently in a healthy financial state. In fact, NWR spokesperson Nelson Ashipala said the tourism parastatal is in better shape than it has ever been before after declaring historic profits of N$46 million and a clean audit report for two consecutive years. View more
2024-05-30Edgar Brandt When consumers get attached to a certain brand, they generally tend to stick to it through thick and thin. To get these consumers to shift to a new brand takes something very special. View more
2024-06-07Edgar Brandt On the fringes of the desolate Dorob National Park in the heart of an isolated Namibian landscape, the first phase of a semi-industrial hydrogen dream is taking shape. View more
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