Month: January 2025

Richard Byarugaba (pictured), the Managing Director of National Social Security Fund-NSSF says the fund will have to ring-fence One Trillion Shillings if the President assents to the NSSF (Amendment) Bill, 2021. Parliament passed the Bill last month. Among the key provisions is allowing individuals who are aged 45 years and have

Kabuleta (C) speaking to journalists The National Economic Empowerment Dialogue (NEED) leader Joseph Kizza Kabuleta has cautioned Ugandans to desist from being distracted by some government programs that are making them poorer. He says government has a tendency of coming up with unsustainable poverty elleviation programs such as emyooga, bona

Makerere University students are demanding involvement in the institution’s sexual harassment policy. Speaking on Friday at the meeting organized by the Gender Mainstreaming Directorate at the university as part of the 16 days of activism against Gender-Based Violence, the students led by the Guild President Shamim Nambassa noted that until

The fate of returning to school for more than 3,200 girls remains at stake due to teenage pregnancies and early marriages. The girls aged between 15 and 19 years were impregnated, eloped, or married off due to the nearly two years of the closure of all learning institutions following the

The Attorney General, Kiryowa Kiwanuka (pictured above) has expressed his disappointment with Justice Jesse Byaruhanga Rugyema of the Masindi High Court over directives issued regarding a land case involving Justice Geoffrey Kiryabwire. The directives being contested were delivered in a ruling on an application filed in March 2020 by Stephen Wekomba

The Central Bank is seeking the intervention of Parliament to ensure that regulations regarding governance and supervision of the financial sector are given urgent attention. The bank officials made the proposal while meeting MPs from different committees of parliament on Friday. Led by Deputy Governor Michael Atingi-Ego, the Central Bank

Experts have warned that Africa will continue seeing a circle of new COVID-19 variants if more people are not vaccinated. Speaking at a transnational science café on Friday attended by journalists from East and Southern Africa, Dr. Lul Riek a Public Health expert based at the Africa CDC said the

Maj Gen Kayanja Muhanga, the head of operation against the ADF The UPDF Engineering Unit has started opening impassable roads in the Eastern Democratic of Congo. The road from Mukakati, where the UPDF has set up an operating base has been in an appalling state. The Mukakati Forward operating Base

A final year student at Kyambogo University has learnt better to live off hand skill, than solely academics after picking lessons from an unpredictable nationwide lockdown in instituted in March last year. The lockdown was to put in place as one of the measures to curb the spread of COVID-19,