Local authorities have highlighted concerns over Nampower's prepayment installation rollout.

The bulk electricity supplier aims to convert all its distributing customers' conventional metres into pre-paid metres by July 2025.

Nampower engaged stakeholders on the prepayment system installation project at a meeting held at Keetmanshoop.

Local authority representatives maintained that the requirement to prepay electricity may lead to frequent power supply disconnections.

The National Unity Democratic Organisation and Gobabis Residence Association say the Gobabis Municipality is set to lose its electricity distribution license, if dilapidated electrical network is not attended to as a matter of urgency.

This was shared by leaders of both NUDO and GRA at a press conference at Gobabis.

NUDO's Elvire Theron accused the municipality of withholding the services of an electrical consultant engineer.

The consultant was appointed to mantain the aging network, which has now and then been causing several power outages.

As the nation gears itself for the imminent Population and Housing Census exercise, Otjozondjupa Governor James Uerikua has voiced concern over private farm owners that act as "mini republics" and deny officials access to the workers employed on their premises.

Uerikua made this remark during a courtesy visit by the nbc's Chief of News and Programming, Menesia Muinjo, and various heads of department as well as staff members to his office recently.

The Minister of Environment, Forestry, and Tourism Pohamba Shifeta has expressed concern at the increase in the population of brown fur seals at Cape Cross.

The Cape Fur Seal colony on the Skeleton Coast of Namibia is the biggest on the African coast, with over 100,000 seals.
 
The months of October, November, and December are usually the seal breeding season, where male seals reserve and defend their territories that consist of harems of between five and 25 females.

The Business and Intellectual Property Authority has expressed concern over a low turnout of business registrations. 

The authority says it has observed a 7.3 percent decline in the registrations of businesses.

BIPA recorded more than 12 000 registrations on its business register for the period January to December last year, compared to 2021 when the Authority recorded a total of 13 594 registrations.