Month: June 2025

Huawei Sub-Saharan Africa has seen the number of country offices represented in the Top Employer Institute’s Top Employer rankings rise from nine to 11. The increased representation in the prestigious annual rankings is a testament to the work Huawei has put into employee wellbeing across the region over the past

The Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS) has asked Parliament’s Budget Committee to reinstate a 10 billion Shillings allocation for Emergency Medical Services and Disease outbreak response to enable them to keep in operations. In the financial year 2019/2020, the government committed a budgetary allocation of 10 billion Shillings to support

The National Social Security Fund has undergone sustained uncertainty over the last few months regarding the filling of the two top managerial positions. While the public awaits the appointments, several reasons for the delay have surfaced, some confirmed by the authorities, and others not at all. One such reason involves

The Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB) is slated to release the Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) next week, something that is likely to end anxiety among students and parents following delays to do the same. The revelation was made by Hamson Obua, Government Chief Whip during the plenary sitting while responding

Deputy Speaker, Thomas Tayebwa has ordered Parliament’s Committee on Education and Sports to probe allegations of sexual violence like sodomy in schools, after some victims confessed to fearing to walking in school compounds, for fear of falling victim to crimes by the sodomites. Tayebwa issued the directive during the plenary

Museveni arriving at CNOOC's King Fisher Project. He was received by the Vice President Jessica Alupo, the Energy Minister Ruth Nankabirwa and officials from CNOOC. President Yoweri Museveni commissioned the first of the oil drilling rigs in the Albertine’s Kingfisher area operated by Uganda’s oil Joint Venture partner CNOOC. The

African countries have been asked to provide investment incentives to businesses operating in the agribusiness, green and blue economy in order to reduce the soaring costs of basic foodstuffs coupled with rising inflation in Africa. African Governments have further been urged to facilitate access to capital and crowd-funding to support

The cooperative movement is getting increasingly confident that the Cooperative Bank Ltd will reopen soon, 23 years after ceasing operations. The calls for the bank's reopening started almost immediately after the Bank of Uganda sold off its assets in 1999, citing undercapitalization and mismanagement. The shareholders of the bank have

The suspects being arrested/Courtesy photo A team of detectives has been dispatched to expedite enquiries into the motive of Arsenal fans, who were earlier on in the day, arrested over staging illegal procession and are still in detention. The Kiira regional police spokesperson, James Mubi, on Monday evening told journalists