The Energy Minister, Ruth Nankabirwa has commenced the process that will lead to the award of a construction license for the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP). East African Crude Oil Pipeline(EACOP) Ltd at the beginning of July applied for a construction license from the governments of Uganda and Tanzania.
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President Museveni has rallied the youth to venture into commercial farming to curb poverty and create more jobs. The President says it should be abominable for the young people in the country to be engaging in subsistence farming to date, an area he says doesn’t address poverty and unemployment. He
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The banking industry has come out of the first half of 2022 stronger compared to the same period in the previous year. High inflation rates have seen governments cut their growth prospects, while the International Monetary Fund-IMF and the World Bank have also revised global growth outlooks downwards. Some of
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Beda (with a book) and Namara (with a bottle) in handcuffs. The former Chief Administrative Officer Kabale Edmund Ntimba has been arrested over the missing 289 million meant for the Parish Development Model-PDM program. Ntimba who was transferred from Kabale to Mitooma district last year was arrested together with Christopher
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The Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control in the Ministry of Internal Affairs has so far arrested more than 100 foreigners accused of engaging in petty businesses. Simon Peter Mundeyi, the Spokesperson for Ministry of Internal Affairs, said in the operations they have conducted in the various parts of the
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(L-R) Helen Nangonzi - Absa Marketing & Customer Experience Director, Irene Mutyaba - Absa Corporate Banking Director & Vivian Kityo - Director of Wakisa Ministries Staff from Absa Bank Uganda today embarked on a journey to skill over 500 teenage mothers and women from the Central, West Nile and Albertine
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Land refilling in Namanva industrial park. Investors in Namanve industrial park have protested an order by the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) to demolish structures established in wetlands. NEMA instructed several investors to raze down structures and restore the destroyed areas of wetlands, an order which, according to the Authority's Deputy Spokesperson,
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Margaret Muhanga, Minister of State for Health (General Duties) MPs have blasted the Ministry of Health for the failure to transport marine ambulances to island districts due to financial challenges. This followed a complaint raised by Idd Isabirye (Bunya South) who revealed that although President Museveni launched 12 marine ambulances for
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Makerere University VC, Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe A section of Makerere University students has vowed to boycott the planned universal suffrage elections scheduled for Saturday. The university council is planning to hold a Universal suffrage election across all colleges and halls of residence to elect a constitutional Review Commission that will participate
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A sample garden of the failed beans after the Seeds were Recycled Farmers in the Greater Masaka area are recycling low-yielding seeds following delays in the delivery of agricultural inputs by the government. For close to a decade now, the government has been directly distributing farming inputs that include improved
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