Windhoek, Namibia News

Relationship status: A newlywed, married wife Sydal last year. They dated for four years and have been married for just over two months.

THE Ministry of Finance is facing a massive lawsuit by a local clearing agent, Onyeka Clearing and Forwarding, after it was established that officials of the ministry were involved in the disappearance of cartons of cigarettes in 2008.

SMS Of The Day *NBC TV news presenters please send out a warning to sensitive viewers before you air 'disturbing' images at all times! Thank you.

SLAUGHTER ...The carcasses of two kudus and two hartebeest were dumped about 500 metres from the main road at the turn-off to Nina.

The airline already runs two leased A319s on regional routes and two other A340-300 on international routes between the Namibian capital of Windhoek and Frankfurt in There had been, initially, some confusion over the order.

THE strike by hundreds of TransNamib employees since last week was declared illegal through an order of the Labour Court in Windhoek on Saturday.

A WINDHOEK resident convicted of murdering his daughter in a shooting incident eight years ago was sentenced to an effective eight years' imprisonment at the end of his trial last week.

'THE wheels have stopped moving until we know the way forward,' a TransNamib worker from Walvis Bay, told The Namibian yesterday, the second day of industrial action launched by the harbour town's railway workers that is threatening to become a national strike involving 1 800 workers protesting an allegedly 'derailed' salary structure.

THE Anti-Corruption Commission has discovered nothing but pornography on computers seized from some Government departments while conducting investigations.

Frustration and anger boiled over again at a second public consultation meeting last week to discuss the erection of a cluster of MTC cellphone towers in the upmarket Ludwigsdorf area of Windhoek.

WITH the stigma attached to poaching of rhinos and the moral outrage provoked by media reports on ever increasing incidents, Namibia and South Africa may be missing a major economic and environmental opportunity.

THE N$300 000 defamation claim of former Walvis Bay Municipality Chief Executive Officer Augustinus Katiti against The Namibian is due to continue after a ruling was given in Katiti's favour in the High Court in Windhoek yesterday.

SMS Of The Day *I HAVE seen numerous students losing thousands of dollars by studying at colleges and so-called universities not accredited by our country.

NAMIBIANS' cries for justice and protection from criminals have been heard and will be heeded, was the message from the High Court in Windhoek on Friday with the sentencing of the two men convicted of murdering Keetmanshoop teacher Magda Maas in late 2007.

While 2011 has been a bad year for African wildlife , a foundation in Namibia is making a difference.

TWO of Namibia's biggest pending fraud and corruption cases were both again postponed in the High Court in Windhoek yesterday, due to court rulings which must first be given before the cases can proceed to trial.

Four businessmen accused of assaulting a freelance journalist in 2010 at a bar in Windhoek will on 9 March 2012 find out whether or not they are off the hook, says a report by New Era.

NAMIBIA has achieved its highest ever number of graded subject entries in the 2011 Grade 12 National Senior School Certificate ordinary level exams, and more than 6 000 full-time and part-time candidates are expected to qualify for university admission.

THE POLICE'S seizure of cars, money, furniture and other assets from the house of an alleged drug dealer in Windhoek in early December last year was legal, it was ruled in the High Court on Monday.

The Republic of Namibia is a nation of southern Africa bounded by South Africa , Botswana , Zambia , Angola and the Atlantic Ocean .