Namibia

As people celebrate Valentine's Day today and shows like Tinder Swindler trend, First National Bank (FNB) Namibia would like to remind the public that online safety is paramount to protect self and one's cash. "Dating and romance scams happen when victims are deceived into false relationships by fraudsters who aim…

French energy company TotalEnergies has made a "massive" oil discovery on its block off the Namibian shore - another block in which the National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (Namcor) owns 10%. This was confirmed by Namcor yesterday. Namcor's managing director, Immanuel Mulunga, said following the recent success of the Graff-1well…

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The Indian government has asked Namibia's assistance to repopulate its extinct cheetah population. A five-member delegation from India, comprising senior officials, experts and the environment ministry, the state of Madhya Pradesh, and the Wildlife Institute of India visited Namibia from 18 to 22 February 2022. India's high commissioner to Namibia,…

The Bank of Namibia (BoN) has predicted that the local economy would grow by some N$13,5 billion at current prices this year - the bulk of which is expected to come from the tertiary sector. This is contained in the bank's February 2022 economic outlook, released yesterday. According to this…

THE education ministry is facing a shortage of 4 479 classrooms for both secondary and primary schools. The ministry's deputy executive director, Edda Bohn, told The Namibian on Friday that the current budget allocation may not be enough to solve the shortfall. "Yes, we do have the development budget to…

THE Hospitality Association of Namibia (HAN) says the sector continues to struggle although there are signs of recovery. The association cited an article in the Business Insider Africa, crowning Windhoek the healthiest city in Africa to visit in 2022 and that no country in the world had put travel bans…

Maihapa Ndjavera Namibia's construction sector is projected to remain in contraction during 2022 before recovering to growth in 2023. The sector is expected to contract by 2% in 2022 before expanding by 2.5% in 2023. This is according to the Bank of Namibia's February economic outlook, which stated the projected…

Osino Resources Corp. provided an update of drill assay results for the resource definition drilling recently completed at Twin Hills West (THW) project, Namibia. The latest assay results at Twin Hills West satellite discovery at Twin Hills Gold Project, include hole OKR461 that returned 7 metres of 7.94 g/t gold…

NAMBIA has recorded three new cases of typhoid fever. This was announced by health minister Kalumbi Shangula on Wednesday morning during a press conference in Windhoek. Typhoid fever is a potentially fatal bacterial infection that can lead to a high fever, diarrhoea and vomiting. Shangula said the first case was…