COVER STORY: Makerere University in the age of emotion and blackmail: Apparently, the university’s top management organ; the University Council, adopted paying the incentives without a proper budget. If it had budgeted, it would have realized that the incentives scheme was neither affordable nor sustainable as it is supposed to be …
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Trade, Industry and Cooperatives minister Amelia Kyambadde maintains elections of Uganda National Chamber of Commerce (UNCC ) will not take place this month because of “national security threats”. She has issued a new statement confirming the cancellation. This follows a press briefing in which UNCC head Olive Kigongo said the elections …
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PICTORIAL: Uganda’s Parliament football and netball teams have qualified for the finals in the ongoing East African inter-parliamentary games in Mombasa. Uganda beat the EALA team 3-0 in the football semifinal at Mbaraki Sports grounds Thursday with two goals from Kampala Central MP Muhammad Nsereko. Uganda will play Burundi in the final on Sunday. …
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The trial of Muslim clerics accused of murdering their colleagues resumed on Thursday with a prominent businessman from Masaka Hajji Yasin Kakomo accusing Sheikh Mohammad Yunus Kamoga and 13 other people of masterminding the operations. Kakomo told court that Tabliq leader Kamoga and his colleague had made threats before the …
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Uganda’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said it has introduced a new policy requiring all companies involved in labor exports to pay for transportation costs of those stranded or those being mistreated abroad. Head of the diaspora department at the ministry Patrick Muganda Guma said that the decision to have …
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Ugandan comedian Joseph Opio has been nominated for a major American award. Opio, who is on Trevor Noah’s The Daily Show support team, is nominated for the 2017 Writers Guild of America award for Outstanding Achievement in Comedy. “Dear Joe, Congratulations. On behalf of the union, it’s my pleasure to tell you that you …
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Members of Parliament (MPs) have shown eagerness to adopt the Songhai Model in Uganda’s programmes aimed at fighting unemployment, enhancing labour productivity and food security. “It is very important Members of Parliament experience the Songhai Model. I am saying that because I am a fan of the Songhai model,” Uganda Parliament …
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VIDEO: Just a week after the Trade, Industry and Cooperatives Minister Amelia Kyambadde put the election of the Uganda Chamber of Commerce on hold, the Chamber board has said they are going ahead with the election process. Chamber President Olive Kigongo says that in doing so, they are exercising the mandate …
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VIDEO: Local leaders in the restive Kasese district have demanded sincerity and truth if the region is to reconcile and heal from the recent attack on the palace of the Mumbere that left dozens of his guards dead. The leaders made the demands in a meeting with the Inter Religious Council …
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VIDEO: The Parliamentary Committee on Defence and Internal Affairs has summoned the IGP Kale Kaihura and the Army commander Gen. Katumba Wamala to answer queries regarding the Kasese attacks that led to the deaths of over 80 people. Parliament wants them to explain the deaths that followed the arrest of the Omusinga Charles …
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