Month: December 2024

Experts have urged Ugandans to embrace solar energy for both domestic and industrial use such that they have an option when the hydropower electricity supply declines. Dr. Nicholas Mukisa, an expert in Renewable Energy from the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, says that with the effects of climate change

Educationists are worried that the government's move to make Vocational occupations optional might kill the spirit of the lower secondary curriculum before it is fully implemented. According to the lower secondary curriculum, learners are supposed to attend vocational studies from which they can sit an examination of one vocational occupation

There is panic among Mukono municipal authorities after discovering that Haji Salim Busuulwa who signed off the land hosting Nakagere Muslim Primary School in Goma division lost the title to a money lender. The Town Clerk, Godfrey Kisekka says they have for so long been trying to recover only the

Bujagali Power Project Government through the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development is seeking Parliamentary approval to gift Bujagali Hydroelectricity Dam and Private hospitals income tax holiday for five years, a move that will see Government lose over Shs250bn in revenue.   The proposal is contained in the Income

Henry Musasizi, State for Finance- General Duties The Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development has said that in the coming 2022/2023 Financial Year, there will be no new taxes introduced. Government will instead the focus will be put on improving tax administration.   The revelation was made by Henry Musasizi (State

Attorney General, Kiryowa Kiwanuka. Attorney General Kiryowa Kiwanuka has said government will neither pay nor reinstate Cornwell Kiwanuka as Uganda Airlines Chief Executive Officer. Kiwanuka made the revelation while responding to claims by Muleya’s lawyers Muwema and Co. Advocates and Solicitors that the interim board issued him a notice to

Police in Bukwo district are investigating a financial scandal involving the payment of Shillings 209 million to a contractor for the supply of some items to Kapinyi seed secondary school. The investigations started on Thursday after Anticorruption monitors noted that there was no value for money for the items supplied

A section of medical doctors who started reporting for internship on Friday are complaining about the unfair deployment to centres that are either hard to reach or inappropriate to some of them for personal reasons. They argue that previously the Ministry of Health (MOH) would release its deployment list and