ARTICLES 2008-2015

By Joan Akello This morning, Umeme, the sole electricity provider launched a promotion to reward customers who have paid their power bills promptly. The promotion dubbed Hero at Zero begins today and will run for 90 days. Mrs. Florence Nsubuga Chief Operations Officer said “The promotion is aimed at reaching …

By Sarah Namulondo MTN Uganda has launched a new Wi-Fi service that provides a number of hotspots around the country. This service will be accessed by MTN and non MTN customers who have Wi-Fi capable devices in areas where the MTN Wi-Fi hotspots are located. To use this service all …

By Ronald Musoke The latest report by the UN’s labour agency, the International Labour Organization (ILO), has noted that global unemployment rose in 2012 with the world’s youth being the most vulnerable to the growing job scarcity. In its annual ‘Global Employment Trends’ report, released on Jan.21, ILO noted that …

By Aloysious Kasoma Opposition Democratic Party wants the First Lady and minister for Karamoja Janet Museveni to be convicted and sentenced the same way they did with Mike Mukula. The Soroti Municipality MP and former Minister of State of Health in Charge of General Duties was charged and sentenced to …

By Aloysious Kasoma Kalungu County West Member of Parliament Joseph Ssewungu Gonzaga has petitioned Uganda National Examination Board to start releasing Primary Leaving Exams and Uganda Certificate of Education results in two different categories. The MP wants the results by Universal Primary Education/universal Secondary Education released separately with privately owned …

By Aloysious Kasoma Opposition Democratic Party has expressed disappointment with the newly sworn in United States president Barack Obama. According to Jude Mbabali the party PRO, they expected Obama who won his second term to the White House to uproot all what they called dictators in Africa. “DP had a …

By Ronald Musoke The Minister of Information, Mary Karooro Okurut has announced that Jan.30 will be a public holiday to allow Ugandans celebrate the 27th anniversary of the NRA/NRM liberation day which was uncharacteristically postponed from its official date of Jan.26. Speaking to journalists today (Jan.22) in Kampala, Karooro-Okurut said …

By Miriam Mukama The Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) has released the Primary Leaving Examination results on Jan. 21 at the statistics house offices in Kampala. The results were received by Jessica Alupo the Minister of Education and Sports from Matthew Bukenya the executive secretary UNEB who said boys performed better …

By Ronald Musoke The joint UN programme on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS, has today launched a two-week online discussion (eDiscussion) to foster debate of how to tackle the HIV/AIDS pandemic after 2015. The thematic consultation is an open and inclusive online discussion targeting individuals, members of civil society, the academia, governments and …

By Joan Akello The African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME), with support from Hivos has launched the Uganda National Journalism Awards scheme. This award aims at inspiring young  Journalists to   embrace enterprise and investigative journalism; increase the quantity and quality of public affairs reporting and investigative journalism; promote accurate, knowledgeable, …