National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) has emerged as the most profitable public entity in Uganda, according to a new report by the Auditor General, John Muwanga. The details are highlighted in the December 2019 audit report that was recently handed over to Speaker Rebecca Kadaga and formally tabled before
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Parliamentary Commission procured air tickets worth Shs2bn in 2019 through agents contrary to the guidance given by Finance Ministry Permanent Secretary/Secretary to the Treasury for all entities to procure air tickets directly from airlines, the December 2019 audit report by the Auditor General John Muwanga has revealed. The audit team
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The UN has called for international help to fight huge swarms of desert locusts sweeping through east Africa. A spokesman for the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), called for aid to "avert any threats to food security, livelihoods, malnutrition". Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are all struggling with "unprecedented" and
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Kampala Parents’ School (KPS) has held a thanksgiving service to thank God and celebrate the 2019 Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) stellar performance. The Bukoto based school registered 172 First Grades while 54 passed in Second Division. According to the breakdown of First Grades, 15 scored 4 aggregates, 16 had five
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Uganda's ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party's to decision making organ, the Central Executive Committee (CEC) has agreed to a proposal to line-up behind candidates during party polls. The proposal was agreed to by the CEC during a meeting at State House Entebbe on Thursday. It came a day before
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Ministers in the East African region and the Horn of Africa have agreed to a list of resolutions to govern labor migration. According to a statement issued on Friday by Uganda's Gender minister, Frank Tumwebaze, the meeting held from the 20th - 21st of January in Kenya's capital Nairobi, agreed
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Embracing a Race, Racism and Racial Playing the race card is an idiomatic phrase that refers to the exploitation of either racist or anti-racist attitudes in the audience. For the good of Motorsport, I had agreed with a few stakeholders to restrain from outlines that would put the sport to
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By Magezi Kiriinjju Government of Uganda under Operation Wealth Creation in partnership with Mountains of the Moon University and Uganda Investment Authority will host The Rwenzori Investment Expo themed “Investments for Local Economic Development” from 30th-31st January 2020 in Fort-Portal City. The expo is intended to strengthen Uganda’s economic development agenda
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Hon Niwagaba(C) presented his proposals to the committee. He was accompanied by the LOP, Hon Aol Ocan(R) and Hon Sseggona Legislators on the Committee of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs are divided on the proposal within the Constitutional Amendment Bill, 2019 to establish a panel of speakers saying it is unclear
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The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the principal leader of the Church of England, has visited Kiburu Boys Secondary School, a school he taught at in central Kenya. During his visit, the archbishop said it was the Kenyan school where he first learnt about salvation and God. He spent a
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