By Denis Jjuuko One Friday night, around 10.00pm, a friend who was enjoying a date with his wife in one of Kampala’s hot spots saw his phone ring. It was his father. He felt that the phone call had come at the wrong time and was unusual for his father to
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Minister Amongi with graduates and other guests cutting the cake The Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development on Tuesday held a graduation ceremony for the first cohort of apprentices the country has registered in many years, marking a significant milestone in the country's efforts to tackle unemployment and underemployment.
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Officials from Coca-Cola Beverages Uganda and Acacia Foundation touring Acacia Foundation's plastic recycling plant Coca-Cola Beverages Uganda, an environment-conscious entity, has partnered with Acacia Foundation, to manage challenges associated with plastic waste management. The partnership with the Acacia Foundation will boost the recycling outfit’s operations through an agreement where CCBU will
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UBL has so far invested over UGX 20 billion in water and sanitation projects across Uganda benefitting over 2 million people. Uganda Breweries Limited (UBL), has handed over 10 hand pump boreholes worth UGX 307m to communities in the North Eastern Uganda sub-region of Teso, that will serve 4,800 people
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Frank Tumwebaze, the Minister for Agriculture Government has proposed a fine of Shs5M or jail term of 5years for anyone found liable of dealing in adulterated or contaminated animal feeds. The proposal is contained in the Animal Feeds Bill 2023, that was tabled before Parliament by the Minister of Agriculture,
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The Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has called upon the public to purchase fuel from gazetted areas to avoid consumption of adulterated fuel. According to the UNBS Acting Executive Director, Mr. Daniel Richard Makayi Nangalama, fuel sold in Jerrycans and bottles is adulterated. “We regulate fuel at gazetted dispensing
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PAU Officials inspecting the EACOP Pipe casings at the PCK Pipe Mill workshop at Lianyungang, jiangsu Province. Panyu Chu Kong (PCK) Steel Pipe Co., Ltd, the company contracted to supply line pipes to the East Africa Crude Oil pipeline (EACOP) has said the first batch of 100 kilometres of pipes
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The Increased cases of examination malpractice in Vocational and Technical institutes have been attributed to poor payment of teachers. This is according to a report by the Uganda Business and Technical Examinations Board (UBTEB). While disseminating the findings to principals and academic registrars of Institutes from South Western Ankole, at
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By Christopher Burke-Managing Director, WMC Africa Africa is experiencing a demographic revolution with youth constituting the vast majority of its inhabitants. According to the United Nations, 70% of people in sub-Saharan Africa are under the age of 30. Uganda has one of the youngest populations in the world with approximately 50
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Stanbic and BoU received their awards from Dr. Diana Atwine, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health Stanbic Bank Uganda has been awarded for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Safe Motherhood-Alternative Health Financing’ at the recently concluded 3rd National Safe-Motherhood Conference held in Kampala during midweek. The two-day conference was organised
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