30th January 2023  /  EAGLE FM

1.The minister of health, Kalumbi Shangula, has said the ministry has began with plans to build new hospitals.

2.Agriculture minister Calle Schlettwein warns of second wave flood in northern Namibia.

3.Political analysts Ndumba Kamwanyah says it is about time that the urban and rural development minister intervenes with the affairs at the troubled City of Windhoek council. This comes as minister of Urban and Rural Development, Erastus Uutoni has summoned the councilors to an urgent meeting.

4.Eight lions fled on Saturday night from Etosha National Park. The police and ministry of environment are still hunting the one missing lion.

5. Former Walvis Bay chief executive officer Muronga Haingura has dragged the Walvis Bay municipality council, former regional councilor Knowledge Ipinge and municipal employee relations officer Gertrude Usiku to court in a defamation law suit in which he is demanding N$1.5 million in compensation over accusations that he misappropriated N$24 million meant for a government-funded mass land servicing project.

6. The Environment Ministry says that elephant poaching cases have declined steeply over the past years.

7. The Uvhungu-Vhungu Green Scheme Project in Kavango East projects harvest of 10-12 tons of maize per hectare this year, according to the agriculture ministry.
Meanwhile, the Sikondo Green Scheme Project in Kavango West, currently, has more than 266 hectares under irrigation, both commercial (166 hectares-maize)and Medium Scale farmers (100 hectares-including horticulture).

8. 17-year-old Selma Makoke, the recipient of a bursary to study nursing that OK Foods in Rundu awarded on Saturday, encouraged all parents not to give up on their children because of their poor backgrounds, but to show them love and encourage them.

9.News beyond the borders of Namibia