Year: 2025

MPs from the West Nile region have rejected government offer of 20Mws (Megawatts) of solar power in the west Nile saying they want their region connected to the national power grid if development is to take place. Currently, WENRECO supplies less than 7megawatts  of power in the West Nile region

The Electoral Commission has postponed voting for Namayumba sub county LC3 chairperson following a mix up of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) and National Unity Platform (NUP) party symbols and names on the ballot papers. EC chairperson, Justice Simon Byabakama Mugenyi confirmed the postponement in a statement Thursday. “The

The striking doctors under their umbrella Associations (UMA), Uganda Medical Association and Federation for Uganda Medical Interns (FUMI) have petitioned the High Court in Kampala seeking to quash the directive from the Ministry of Health directing them to vacate their respective hospitals. The umbrella Associations have together with a civil

The Electricity Regulatory Authority- ERA, has approved a new tariff plan that is aimed at reducing electricity bills significantly for industries and domestic cooking. According to the new tariff structure, homeowners using electricity for cooking will pay Shillings 412 per kilowatt-hour (unit) starting January 2022. The tariff structure review also

UNBS staff measuring length of the iron bar Uganda National Bureau of Standards-UNBS has impounded more than 7545 iron bars from hardware shops around Kampala valued at over Shillings 250million. The iron bars were impounded on Wednesday in an ongoing operation that is expected to last seven days with the

More than 3,000 acres (about five Square Miles) for out-growers in Atiak Sub-county in Amuru District worth billions of shillings have been lost in a devastating fire that ravaged the Atiak Sugarcane plantation over the weekend.More square miles which are yet to be measured were lost in the plantation of

Geoffrey Olila Geoffrey Richard Olila was the headteacher of Mother Mary Nursery and Primary school in Lira City by the time the government closed schools in March 2019 as part of the COVID-19 containment measures. The closure of schools meant that the 32-year-old Olila couldn’t earn a salary to support

Dr. Dennis Mugimba ,the spokesperson of the Ministry of Education and Sports Government is planning to assist private schools through waivers on the outstanding bills on utilities and internet Data. During the release of the school calendar ,the education ministry revealed that private schools will be supported though not financially.

Contipharma, a pharmaceutical company specializing in the development and marketing of targeted medical solutions has announced today that it is making a self-collection COVID-19 saliva-based PCR test available across the African continent. The test, which was developed by the University of Liège (ULiège) in Belgium can detect all known variants

The East African Business Council-EABC has issued a statement calling for bilateral dialogue to eliminate all outstanding Non-Tariff Barriers (NTBs) between Kenya and Uganda. John Bosco Kaliisa, Executive Director of the council says in the statement: "Intra-East Africa trade is currently low at approximately 15% and this low figure is