The Oshikoto police revealed that the recent increase in the number of fatalities and serious injuries resulting from road crashes on the national roads places an obligation upon all relevant stakeholders to intensify road safety activities.
One hundred and one beneficiaries received allotment letters for ten hectares of land on Farm Tsintsabis and Urwald in the Guinas Constituency of the Oshikoto Region.
The beneficiaries have been urged to develop and use the land productively.
The Indoor Residual Spraying Campaign for Malaria commenced in the Omuthiya District.
Omuthiya District Hospital Environmental Health Practitioner Victoria Gideon is urging the public to allow the spray operators to access their homes.
A former volunteer at the Kufamosha Information Disability Centre in the Omuthiya Constituency is among trainees undergoing a three-month basic orientation training at the National Youth Service Centre in Rietfontein, Otjozondjupa Region.
The Okawambi residents in the Omuthiya constituency of Oshikoto Region have taken the initiative of digging a pond to harvest rainwater amid water scarcity.
For the past two weeks, Okawambi residents have been working together to dig the pond.
A total of 6,263 gender-based violence (GBV)-related cases were reported nationally during the 2023/2024 financial year.
Oshikoto Governor Sacky Kathindi on Wednesday visited the bereaved family of four people who died in a vehicle accident last Friday between Oshigambo and Onethindi.
The victims were travelling from Nkurenkuru, Kavango West Region, to their village.
As Namibia observes Heroes' Day, the founder of the Kufamosha Information Disability Centre, Petrus Theofelus, popularly known as Makiti, believes heroism can be demonstrated through compassion and making a difference in someone's life.
Omuthiya Councillor Erastus Nekomba has commended the residents in the Oshikoto Region for successfully digging out a community well.
The efforts follow a period of three weeks without access to clean tap water.
Oshikoto Communal Land Board member Fabian Venasiu has warned village headmen to refrain from illegally selling or allocating land parcels.
This follows the removal of illegal fencing at Ohaiyanda village, outside the Omutsegwonime area in the Oshikoto Region, on Friday.
