Ugandan teachers have been challenged to adopt a new curriculum and system of teaching employable learners. Speaking at the launch of DHL partnership with Teach For Uganda, a local Non-Governmental Organisation championing a new innovative education on Thursday at Naguru Skyz Hotel, Fagil Mandy, an education consultant advised teachers to
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The Deputy Speaker of Uganda’s Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah has blocked an attempt by Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) to remove Prof. Ogenga Latigo from the Pan African Parliament. Oulanyah said there is no rule the academic turned politician has contravened to warrant his unceremonious eviction. The Deputy Speaker’s decision followed
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Coffee traders and processors under their association Uganda Quality Coffee Traders and Processors Association want government to clearly explain the intentions of the contentious National Coffee Bill 2018. Appearing before parliament’s Agriculture Committee this morning, Amos Kasigi, Chairman of the association said that ever since news of the bill broke
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Uganda National Roads Authority-UNRA returned 3.4 billion shillings to the consolidated fund at the end of the 2018/2019 financial year. UNRA head of finance and Accounts, Kwesiga Brazza explains that the authority failed to spend 3.4 billion shillings due to failure to recruit new staff. According to a report of
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Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) will this financial year return up to 4,000 land titles to persons affected by road works across the country, the head of land acquisition at UNRA, William Matovu, has said. UNRA, which keeps the titles to avoid land owners obstructing works because of their land
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A proposal is in the offing to amend the Bank of Uganda (BoU) act to split the bank management from the board of directors. The Iganga East County Member of Parliament, Michael Mawanda who intends to table the proposal in a private member's bill, says they are intended to end
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President Yoweri Museveni has ordered an audit in troubled telecom firm, Uganda Telecom (UTL). In a letter addressed to Evelyn Anite, the minister of state for Finance in charge of Investment and Privatization, tasking her to institute the audit, Museveni says he has heard of some allegations and wants them
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A US judge has sentenced Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán (in featured photo-Centre) to life in prison plus 30 years. Guzmán, 62, was found guilty of 10 charges, including drug trafficking and money laundering, by a federal court in New York in February. He escaped a Mexican jail
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Top five living and deceased ministers have been cited in the illegal give away of hundreds of departed Asians properties. This has been unearthed by the Parliamentary probe into the fraudulent takeover of the properties in question, with the Departed Asian Custodian Board (DACB) coming under spotlight. The matter came
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These are indeed hard times for Pastor Aloysius Bugingo. The is that Government is considering closing down his Kikoni based Church- House of Prayer Ministries, at least according to Minister of Ethics and Integrity, Father Simon Lokodo. Lokodo made the pronouncement in a media interview with journalists at Parliament in
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