dfcu employees being vaccinated With COVID-19 Vaccination opening up for everyone above the age 18 years, many companies are taking the initiative to vaccinate their employees and family members. In a recent drive to ensure that as many of it’s employees respond to the national call for vaccination, dfcu Bank, in
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Aliko Dangote (pictured), Africa's richest man, has praised Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan, saying that the business environment in the country had changed "dramatically" under her leadership. "Things have opened up and I can assure you that wherever I go I will be the champion of Tanzania and will tell people
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The new Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah Following his declaration by Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo as the duly elected Speaker of the Eleventh Parliament, Right Honourable Jacob Oulanyah has pledged to execute with utmost diligence the mandate given to him as head of the legislature. Oulanyah won a hotly contested
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Omoro County MP Jacob Oulanyah has been declared the Speaker of the Eleventh Parliament/ Photo by Olive Nakatudde The Omoro County MP Jacob Oulanyah has been elected Speaker of the Eleventh Parliament. Oulanyah won the hotly contested race with 310 votes against 197 votes garnered by former Speaker of the
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Residents gathered at the deceased's home in Kasangati Unknown assailants have brutally killed a retired employee of United Nations-UN in Uganda in Kyankyima zone in Kasangati town council Wakiso district. The Kampala Metropolitan Deputy Police spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigyire has identified the deceased as Barnabas Kakyaama Muwonge. According to Owoyesigyire, Muwonge
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CP Enanga Fred With the elections for Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the 11th parliament underway, security is deploying at Kampala and upcountry homes of winners and losers to ensure no attacks happen to candidates. Police Spokesperson, Fred Enanga, said they have realized that the positions of Speaker and Deputy
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Over 600,00 teachers and health workers have not yet gotten their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Teachers and health workers were among the top prioritised groups that the first consignment of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines was meant to protect. The health ministry targeted to vaccinate 550,000 teachers and 150,000 health
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The National Unity Platform, now the largest opposition political party in parliament with 57 MPs has told its members to vote for Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga (pictured) as speaker of parliament. The do or die contest is happening now at the Kololo Ceremonial Grounds. According to sources who attended a meeting
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Primary Seven Candidates at St Joseph's Primary School/URN Photo Several parents are crying foul as school operators take advantage of the current disorganized education calendar to over-charge them in school fees and scholastic requirements. While reopening schools after a long unprecedented holiday of nine months as a result of
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Norman Nduho Kapaapa, a dairy farmer in Kiruhura says farmers are counting losses due to low milk prices Farmers in the Western districts of Kiruhura, Mbarara, Ibanda, Bushenyi and other districts in the cattle corridor are starting to abandon dairy farming business due to low milk prices and limited market.
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