A teacher attending to pupils in class The government has failed to eliminate quack teachers from both private and public schools, let alone free its payroll from ghost teachers. Understanding, who is teaching in schools is one of the common queries raised by different reports, which is blamed for the
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Grace Muliisa, the Ecobank Uganda Managing Director, speaks at a recent event Ecobank Uganda, a subsidiary of the pan-African Banking Group, Ecobank Transnational Incorporated, and parent company of the Ecobank Group, is undergoing transformation in order to serve customers better, Business Focus exclusively reports. Ecobank Uganda has posted inconsistent results for over
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EC Spokesperson, Paul Bukenya The Electoral Commission has started displaying the National Voters’ Register in preparation for conducting by-elections for Local Government Councils in electoral areas across the country where vacancies exist. During these by-elections, a total of fifty-six (56) vacancies for Chairpersons and Councillors, which occurred as a
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Some 176 LC3 parish councilors in Lamwo district are protesting the unexplained deduction of their annual honoraria allowances for the 2021/2022 financial year. Countrywide, each councilor representing a parish and the special interest groups in both Sub County and town councils is entitled to a monthly honorarium allowance of 35,000
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Personnel of the anti-stock theft unit, a branch of Uganda Police Force directly handling animal rustling in Karamoja, have tightened security and alertness at their detaches after the Karimojong rustlers resumed their attacks on ASTU detaches in search of guns. On Friday at 8pm, a group of armed Karimojong rustlers
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Authorities of Lamwo district have expressed concerns after a contractor who abandoned the construction of Pagada Bridge in Palabek Kal Sub County right at the start resurfaced at the end of the contract period ostensibly to embark on the works after abandoning the site a year ago. The contractor,
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Brig. Cyrus Bekunda Besigye, the Uganda People’s Defense Forces Engineers Brigade Commander. About 20 residents at Namataba town council in Mukono district accuse the Uganda People’s Defense Forces Engineers Brigade Commander, Brig. Cyrus Bekunda Besigye of land fraud. The residents claim that the brigade commander connived with his estate manager,
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Residents of Kyabisagazi in Hoima enduring heavy rainfall after their houses were torched during brutal eviction in 2019.More families in Hoima are on the verge of being evicted. More than 400 residents in Hoima are on the verge of being forcefully evicted from their ancestral land. The affected residents are
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Authorities of Lamwo district have expressed concerns after a contractor who abandoned the construction of Pagada Bridge in Palabek Kal Sub County right at the start resurfaced at the end of the contract period ostensibly to embark on the works after abandoning the site a year ago. The contractor, Hardscreen
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Detectives attached to the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament – PAC (Local Government) have been tasked to arrest and produce Joel Musisi, the former Kaabong Chief Administrative Officer – CAO over queries relating to Shillings 328 million. It has emerged that in the Finance Year 2020/2021, the Auditor General reported
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