From across Papua New Guinea
PNG Electoral Commissioner, Simon Sinai, has confirmed that there will be a delay in the commencement of polling for the 2025 Local Level Government (LLG) Elections. He has cited the need for better preparedness and smoother execution of the process, recommending that polling begins after the country’s Independence celebrations. Commissioner Sinai has set the election […]
The Governor of West New Britain has condemned in the strongest possible terms, the brutal and barbaric actions by the so-called men in Magarima, Hela Province, who tortured and killed a woman under the false pretext of sorcery. In a statement, Governor Sasindran Muthuvel says the inhuman act of exposing her private parts to fire […]
The East New Britain Provincial Election Advisory Committee is encouraging a peaceful extended campaign period for their candidates contesting in this year’s LLG Elections. The province has received a circular from the PNG Electoral Commissioner Simon Sinai, via the Provincial Electoral Commission office in Kokopo, regarding a decision to defer the polling dates for the […]
The Papua New Guinea Law Society [PNGLS] has condemned a recent horrific sorcery related killing and torture in Hela Province. President of the society Hubert Namani says the lawyer’s society was deeply disturbed and horrified by the recent video circulating on social media, showing a woman in Hela Province being tied, tortured, and executed at […]
It has been one week since the return of Papua New Guinean citizens from Israel, following the outbreak of conflict in the region. The repatriation took place last Sunday and Monday as a result of the war between Israel and Iran. In a statement released on Friday, the Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed that diplomatic […]
After a year of harvesting the terrible and negative results of tribal fight, the people of Kagazo and Keneeza clans of the Fayentina LLG in the Henganofi District of Eastern Highlands Province finally laid that hostility to rest The two warring tribes fought for a year over sorcery accusations. The conflict has claimed six lives […]
The Minister for International Trade and Investment, Richard Maru says he fully endorses the proposed 90MW Kaugel Hydropower Project in the Southern Highlands Province as a transformational project of highest national priority. “The proposed K2.5 billion project, which will take 4 years to construct, has my highest support. This is a transformational project. We have […]
Long serving Correctional Service Officer Senior Inspector Bani Womboni was farewelled in Alotau on Friday, after 47 years of service. The soft-spoken 62year old from Western Province served his last six years in Alotau and will now return to Western Province to await his formal retirement. CS Giligili Commanding Officer Chief Superintendent Ray Gideon described […]
Online news Public Solicitor office Friday / 04 / July / 2025 By John Wena Dilu / NBC Jiwaka – Banz ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Locals in Minj, Jiwaka province need not to travel far in search of legal services, they now have a public solicitor office that was opened recently. PNG’s Public Solicitor Leslie Mamu who […]
Over 50 men in Jiwaka allegedly murdered elderly man in his 70s, burnt his guest house and three makeshift houses last Saturday. He was allegedly suspected of practicing sorcery in Onlo village, Upper Jimi, in Jiwaka. A PNG Tribal Foundation officer [named] is actively assisting the families of the deceased and accompanied them to the […]