Mumba Kalifungwa, Absa Bank Uganda MD hands over a certificate to the proprietor of Environment and Social Safeguards Int'l, as Donald Agaba, Program Head of Employment and Skills for Development in Africa (E4D) and Alfred Agaba, MD of ACLAIM Africa look on. 60 decision-makers from 46 Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)
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The sensitization meeting attracted key players along the coffee value chain Mukono district officials have rallied players along the Coffee value chain to embrace the National Coffee Act, 2021. The Act gives UCDA powers to regulate all on-farm and off-farm activities in the coffee value chain. The Act repealed the UCDA Act,
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Students in PLE exams Several Ugandans are calling for the scrapping of Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE), vocationalisation of primary education, and overhauling of the assessment framework. The proposals are part of the hundreds of documents that have been so far received by the Education Policy Review Commission which was instituted
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Kampala Parents pupils active in co-curricular activities The Ministry of Education and Sports has given green light to schools to organize and participate in games and sports events, but maintained the ban on visitation days. Before the reopening of schools, the Ministry of Education and Sports issued tough guidelines limiting
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The Criminal Investigations Directorate-CID has arrested a woman suspected to be the ringleader of fraudsters who reportedly defrauded parents more than One Billion Shillings in a school fees scam, URN reports. Charles Twine, the CID spokesperson, identified the suspect as Edith Nasoozi, a teacher and a resident of Nakawuka village-
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Health practitioners under their umbrella body Uganda Medical Association (UMA) have tasked the Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah (pictured) to champion legislation to improve the healthcare system in the country upon his recovery. Oulanyah is currently hospitalized in Seattle City in the United States of America where he was rushed
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MPs were Wednesday forced to throw out Minister of Security, Jim Muhwezi after he failed to explain what he based on to award a Russian Firm a contract to install spy chips in motor vehicles and motorbikes as part of the measures to curb insecurity in Uganda. Muhwezi had appeared before Parliament’s Defence and
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If all the banks and other deposit-taking institutions regulated by the Central Bank collapsed today, the Deposit Protection Fund (DPF) would be able to pay 16.7 per cent of the protected deposits. The DPF is a government agency that provides deposit insurance to depositors in banks and deposit-taking microfinance institutions.
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Past winners of Rising Woman competitions pose for a photo with the partners dfcu Bank, in partnership with Monitor Publications Limited and Uganda Investment Authority, has today launched the fifth edition of the ‘Rising Woman’ – an initiative that aims to recognize, celebrate, and promote a culture of mentorship among
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Hoima farmer, Sayuni, tending cabbages. Photo by ActionAid Uganda Uganda’s small-scale business players especially farmers have largely failed to supply to the oil and gas companies, both the government agencies and private sector players have admitted. The farmers, who were targeted by the government campaigns supported by the civil society to
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