Oshana Governor Elia Irimari has encouraged female parliamentarians participating in a capacity-building workshop for women parliamentarians in Oshakati to advocate for more funding for the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (nbc).
This step is essential to enabling the broadcaster to expand its reach across all 14 regions of the country.
The Olufuko Annual Cultural Festival dinner has raised more than N$200,000 which will go towards the hosting of the event.
The festival will be held from the first to the seventh of July at Outapi.
Businessman Johannes Kambwela pledged the highest amount of N$20,000, followed by Kambwa Trading and Rani Group with a pledge of N$15,000 each, while the Face of the Olufuko Cultural Festival, Maria Nepembe, will donate N$10,000.
Thus far, 257 exhibitors have registered to take part in the exhibition.
Residents of Omusati's Amaupa and Oikokola villages are fuming over the lack of cellphone network coverage, resulting in them resorting to climbing trees in search of a network.
The fed-up villagers handed over a petition to the Tsandi Councillor and the Governor of the Omusati Region.
The villagers say the non-availability of network coverage has made it difficult for them to report incidents of crime and emergencies.
They are calling on MTC, or Telecom, to erect a network tower in their villages.
Cabinet has issued a directive to NamPower to put on hold the planned suspensions of power supply to defaulting local authorities.
The Minister of Finance and Public Enterprises, Ipumbu Shiimi, said this in a letter to the NamPower Board Chairperson, Daniel Motinga, yesterday.
Shiimi says the directive to suspend power cuts is in consideration of pending consultations between the Ministry of Finance and Public Enterprises, the Ministry of Urban and Rural Development, and the local authorities.
Works and Transport Deputy Minister Veikko Nekundi had a series of familiarisation visits at NATIS offices and facilities in the Oshana and Omusati regions.
He also made a stopover at the Tsandi-Omugulugwombashe gravel road, which is vital as it leads to the Omungulu-Gwombashe national heritage site, where the first shot to commence the armed liberation struggle was fired and where heroes, heroines, and veterans of the liberation struggle are buried.
The ongoing government drought relief program in the Kunene, Erongo, and Omusati regions was extended on Tuesday to May 2024 by a Cabinet decision.
In a media statement issued on Thursday, the government stated that the drought relief program underway in the Kunene and parts of Erongo and Omusati regions will continue as per the Cabinet decision, which was taken at the fifth Cabinet decision-making meeting that took place in the capital on Tuesday.
The Cabinet also approved N$21 million for this program.
Three of the four northern regions are preparing for another possible severe drought due to poor rainfall.
It is against that background that the Regional Governors of Oshana, Omusati and Oshikoto along with other stakeholders, assessed water levels in the Etaka- Uuvudhiya water canal.
The rainy season is rounding up and some areas are still dry including most of the Oshanas. This situation poses a serious threat to water availability and scarce grazing for animals.
The Road Fund Administration (RFA) has donated N$600,000 towards flood victims in the Oshana, Omusati, and Ohangwena regions.
The devastation caused by the floods is worrisome, and RFA CEO ALI Ipinge says, as a public entity, it is duty-bound to support communities impacted by these natural disasters.
Ipinge further says the RFA will rehabilitate roads that have been washed away, damaged, or riddled with potholes in due course.
The Namibia Statistic Agency (NSA) met various stakeholders in Omusati Region to update them on the upcoming 2023 Population and Housing census.
The last Population and Housing Census conducted in Namibia was in 2011 and according to the Census Manager Isaak Neemu, this year's focus will be on Population and Housing.
Recruitment has already started and will end in June.
NSA advised those with permanent employment not to apply because they will not be considered.
It might not be rare for a group of regional governors to be in one place, especially at state functions, but a visit to a school speaks volumes of their care towards a Namibian child.
This is what happened after five governors went all out to visit the Swakopmund Secondary School, where they had encouraging words with the learners.
The regional governors of the Ohangwena, Omusati, Kunene and Oshana regions, have had a close-door meeting with Erongo Governor earlier.
