Local suppliers are likely to earn over 150 billion shillings from supply of goods and services to the oil and gas sector in 2018. Petroleum Authority Executive Director, Dr Earnest Rubondo confirms that the Authority approved work programmes for local companies to the tune of $400m (Shs1.5 trillion) for the
Read More
Security forces in Uganda's capital, Kampala, have deployed in a suburb which is seen as the stronghold of musician-turned-MP Bobi Wine, local media are reporting. Bobi Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, was prevented from leaving the country on Thursday night. He was hoping to travel to get medical
Read More
The Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) conducts regular market surveillance inspections to determine the level of compliance to Uganda Standards to protect consumers and the environment from dangerous substandard products. In the month July 2018, the market surveillance inspectors picked 249 samples which were submitted to UNBS laboratories for
Read More
The Uganda shilling held steady against the dollar due to subsiding demand activity on the back of end month inflows that provided adequate supply during the week ending 31st August 2018. Trading was in the range of 3750/3760. In the interbank money market, overnight funds traded at 6% while one
Read More
Rajiv Ruparelia, the managing Director of Crane Management Services (CMS), a subsidiary of Ruparelia group, has donated millions of shillings in cash and gifts to People with Disabilities (PWDs) at the Skills and Talent Expo 2018. The expo is organised annually by the Rena community Development Association. This year’s expo
Read More
Kyadondo East Lawmaker Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine has been blocked from traveling abroad where he was due to seek medical attention. According to reports, Bobi Wine was intercepted by Uganda Police at Entebbe International Airport on Thursday evening. Sources say he was driven out of the airport in a
Read MoreJOHANNESBURG, South Africa, August 30, 2018,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- National Assembly Speaker, Ms Baleka Mbete, is scheduled to attend a healing prayer service to be held at the University of Johannesburg, Soweto Campus, on Thursday – 31 August 2018. Ms Mbete will deliver a keynote address at the Service, which
Read MoreThe strategy reflects the different levels of engagement, from community to regional, that will be critical in efforts aimed at pursuing the goal of stabilizing the region that has witnessed a crisis of global magnitude ABUJA, Nigeria, August 30, 2018,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The almost decade long Boko Haram insurgency
Read More
The new Radiotherapy Machine used by Cancer patients has broken down, the Uganda Cancer Institute has said. “The cancer institute is experiencing technical glitch,” Dr. Jackson Orem, the Executive Director at Uganda Cancer Institute said in a statement dated 30th August, 2018. He added: “The computer system that operates the
Read More
A Trump administration official is visiting Africa this week to promote government acceptance of genetically engineered crops. Peter Haas, a State Department trade-policy specialist, told a three-day biotechnology conference in South Africa that use of genetically modified organisms (GMO) in agriculture can help meet the continent's food needs while also
Read More
