All posts tagged "featured"

Ugandan professor Susan Kiguli receives Lifetime Achievement Award in Italy

Venice, Italy: Ugandan poet, writer and academic, Professor Susan Kiguli has been honoured with a prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award at the internationally...

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TOP STORY: Inside Museveni’s order to reinstate Geraldine Ssali as Trade Ministry PS

Kampala, (UG): In a letter dated October 26, 2023, Uganda’s President, H.E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni directed the Ministry of Finance to immediately...

Education Ministry to save shs4.5bn with construction of new headquarters

Kampala, (UG): The Ministry of Education and Sports has commenced construction of its own headquarters. This initiative is anticipated to result in...

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Govt not ready with action taken report on NSSF probe

Kampala, (UG): The Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development, Hon. Betty Amongi, has said that the action taken report on the...

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Parliament

New Animal Feeds Bill proposes five-year jail term for offenders

Kampala, (UG): The Minister for Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, Hon. Frank Tumwebaze presented the Animal Feeds Bill before MPs during a...

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Rwanda

Former Rwanda IGP, Emmanuel Gasana arrested

Kigali, (RW): Emmanuel Gasana, a former and once powerful Inspector General of Police in Rwanda, has been arrested, local reports based in...

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Corporate Affairs

Janet commissions MTN refurbished dormitory at Salama School for the Blind

Kampala, (UG): MTN Uganda, in collaboration with the government, on Tuesday commissioned a state-of-the-art dormitory at the Salama School for the Blind...

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Buhweju policeman shoots civilian dead

Buhweju, (UG): The Police in Buhweju District, Western Uganda are on a serious hunt for one of their officers who allegedly shot...

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Businesswoman, refugee arrested over illegal possession of firearms in Koboko

Koboko, (UG): The Police in Koboko District have arrested two people including a South Sudan Refugee on charges related to the illegal...

West Nile police boss freed of aggravated defilement allegations

Arua, (UG): The Inspector of Police (IP) Thomas Otim who also heads the Professional Standards Unit in the West Nile Region has...

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Court halts removal of Charles Musekuura as UNBS Chairperson

Kampala, (UG): The High Court in Kampala has ordered a temporary injunction halting the suspension of Mr Charles Musekuura as chairperson of...

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Ex-Minister Kyemba honoured with road renamed after him in Jinja City

Jinja, (UG): Jinja City authorities have unanimously passed a resolution to rename one of the roads in the City after former minister...

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NIRA fails to enrol over 17 million people due to lack of funds

Kampala, (UG): The National Information Registration Authority (NIRA) has failed to commence mass enrolment of 17.2 million persons due to funding gaps...

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Lawyer Patrick Kiconco told to refund shs39b NAADS money in six months or face jail

Kampala, (UG): The Parliament’s Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) has given embattled city lawyer Patrick Kiconco Katabaazi an...

Old Kampala SS headteacher arrested over exam malpractice

Police in Kampala are holding Mr Williams Suuna, the head teacher of Old Kampala Secondary School following his Tuesday arrest over alleged...

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Why North Korea is closing its embassy in Uganda

North Korea announced Tuesday it is closing its embassy in Uganda ending a half-century diplomatic presence in one of its longest-standing African...

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PDM progress in Karamoja at 15%, MPs worried

Kampala, (UG): Members of Parliament on the Public Service and Local Government Committee have expressed concern with the level of implementation of...