Month: December 2024

A hippopotamus has killed 12 cows and injured 20 others in Kikuube district. The hippo has been raiding Kyehoro lower and Kyehoro upper landing sites in Nkondo parish of Kabwoya sub-county for the past two weeks, the latest being on Thursday night. The Hippo emerges from the lake Albert waters.

Six technical and vocational institutions are scheduled to benefit from a capacity building project funded by the government of South Korea to a tune of over 26 billion shillings. The project launched on Friday at Gold Course hotel in Kampala shall benefit 180 instructors and 2400 trainees from Ntinda Vocational

Parliament and the government of Uganda have moved a step closer to meeting the requirements that would see the country given a nod of approval in fighting money laundering and terrorism financing. This comes after parliament passed a raft of legislations this week including the Trustees Incorporation (Amendment) Bill, 2022;

Eskom Uganda has today commissioned three generator transformers for units 3,5 and 6. The project involved the replacement of transformers that were past their service life expectancy at a cost of UGX 6.84 billion. Speaking at the project commissioning, Ms. Thozama Gangi, the Managing Director of Eskom Uganda, said, "Generator

Left -Right (Center) Executive Director & Chief Operations Sam Ntulume,   Managing Director & CEO I&M Bank Kumaran Pather pose for a photo moment together with the students and faculty at their head office in Kampala. I&M Bank Uganda has held a study tour for Mbarara University students as it ramps

One person has died and two others injured after they were buried by soil at a construction site at Mbiro Zone, Kafumbe-Mukasa Kisenyi II on Friday. The deceased has been identified only as Kato while two unidentified people were rushed to the Doctors' Clinic, Mengo. One of the survivors, Godfrey

The World Bank has called on the government to streamline the tax incentives regime for investors, as one way of increasing domestic revenues and curbing leakages. Tax incentives in Uganda come in the form of tax holidays, tax waivers, and refunds, among others, aimed at attracting mainly foreign investors into

A group of private sector and government agencies have partnered with the UN Capital Development Fund in a pilot program to link small and medium enterprises to sources of financing. The partnership known as Agora is a digital platform that seeks to serve as a global public good by scaling

Gen. Jeje Odongo handing over Rotary Cancer Run kit to Rtd Gen. Robert Rusoke this afternoon. Foreign Affairs Minister, Gen. Odongo Jeje Abubakhar, has this afternoon officially launched and  handed over a consignment of running kits to  Maj. Gen. (Rtd) Robert Rusoke, Uganda's High Commissioner to the Republic of Rwanda

National Identification Registration Authority has  proposed an increase in fees for people who have lost national identity cards or want to change particulars on their IDs to 200,000 shillings. The proposal has been made by the Minister of Internal Affairs Kahinda Otafire while appearing before Parliament's Committee on Defense and