Employers who mistreat their employees will be jailed for seven years once the Employment Act 2006 is amended. Agnes Kunihira (Workers Representative) has moved a private member’s bill seeking to amend the Employment Act 2006. The lawmaker has proposed an insertion of new section to the principal Act to prohibit mistreatment, harassment and violence against
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The Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee has recommended for a forensic audit into the payment of electricity bills by Mulago Hospital to UMEME after it emerged that over Shs1.2bn was gifted to the electricity company without power being consumed. The recommendation was made by Medard Sseggona (Busiro East) while tabling the Committee
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Richard Byarugaba (2nd Left-front row), the NSSF Managing Director, joined by officials from the Fund and the contractor, giving journalists a guided tour of the Temangalo housing project The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has embarked on the construction of its mixed-use affordable housing project in Temangalo, Wakiso District. The project
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The Ministry of Education and Sports has extended the deadline for submitting the learner profile data to the Education Management Information System-EMIS. In a letter to all head teachers, principals, and university vice-chancellors, Dr. Jane Egua, the acting permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education notes that the deadline had
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Thirteen people are hospitalized at Mubende Regional Referral Hospital because of Ebola. According to officials, the 13 were picked up from Madudu Sub County in Mubende District and Rujuburi Refugee Camp in Kyegegwa district on Wednesday evening. Rosemary Byabashaija, the Mubende Resident District Commissioner– RDC, says that 10 people were
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By Denis Jjuuko There are skits on social media of a landlady called Nakayiza. She can visit her tenants at any time and if she finds them eating chicken or meat, she wonders how they can be enjoying expensive foods while still renting. She castigates them for being such poor
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Cabinet has agreed to purchase coffee seedlings from farmers on credit and pay farmers later, after initially scaling back on the purchase due to lack of funds. The revelation was made by Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa during the plenary sitting, where he asked Government to expedite the process of supplying
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On July 15th, 2022, Makerere University Council halted the electoral process for the 88th guild leadership. The council also suspended all activities of the senior common room, caretaker government, and guild leadership structures. This was part of the decisions made by the council to restore peace at the institution following
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Dan Odongo of UNEB moving with Minister Kaducu A section of school inspectors has accused the Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB) of masterminding examination leakage and fueling malpractices. While the examinations body and the Ministry of Education blamed the school inspectors for supporting examination fraud, the inspectors say that most
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The Ministry of Health has been asked to stretch its probe into the origin of outbreak of Ebola virus within the Uganda people’s Defence Forces (UPDF), with claims that the Army is famed for bringing the deadly virus into the country through its returning troops from abroad. The call was made by Charles
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