Mandatory testing for all incoming passengers is expected to commence this weekend at Entebbe International Airport. This after the Inter-ministerial committee, chaired by the Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja, inspected the airport on Thursday evening to assess readiness to start the exercise. Julius Mucunguzi, the spokesperson of the Office of the
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The Speaker of Parliament Jacob Oulanyah has today asked Members of Parliament to refrain from using unparliamentary language while debating, saying the debates are broadcasted live to all Ugandans. This is after Manjia County MP and Opposition Whip John Baptist Nambeshe talked about sex during the Parliamentary session in the
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Between 80,000 and 180,000 health and care workers may have died from COVID-19 between January of 2020 and May of this year, according to figures released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday. That grim estimate features in a new WHO working paper based on the 3.45 million coronavirus-related deaths
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Owners of private schools want Shs100m for each school The proprietors of private education institutions are asking government to provide with each private education institution with Shs100M as recovery plan ahead of the planned reopening of schools in January 2022. According to the group, there is an enrollment of not
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The Executive Director of Uganda Bankers’ Association (UBA), Wilbrod Humphreys Owor says that the total direct school loan portfolio is currently 1.3 trillion Shillings and this includes institutional and personal loans and the accumulated interest. He adds that their records also indicate another 600 billion debt under private sector institutions
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Guster Muwanga Eighty-year-old Guster Muwanga is in trouble for fraudulently selling 500 acres of land in Luweero and Nakasongola districts. Muwanga is being held by the Criminal Investigations Directorate –CID following his arrest by the Land Protection Police Unit –LPPU. He is accused of masquerading as an administrator of
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Joseph Muvawala, the Executive Director at NPA The National Planning Authority (NPA) has called on Government to halt construction of all new road projects in order to allow Uganda’s economy that has been battered by Covid to recover and contain the public debt. The precaution was made yesterday by Joseph
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Tina was the first copilot at Uganda Airlines to successfully complete the type rating training on the A330 in Miami ,Florida. Tina Drazu is a Senior First Officer (co-pilot) with Uganda Airlines. She graduated from Cape Flying Services in George South Africa in 2010 before going on to start her flying career
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According to the new policy, all nursery and primary school teachers will be mandated to have degrees Authorities in the Education and Sports Ministry have advised teachers to shape up or ship out as they move to implement the 2019 National Teacher Policy. The policy sets set a bachelor’s degree
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Demand for Ugandan coffee in Italy, where espresso lovers abound, has helped increase the East African nation’s exports of the beans to the highest in at least 30 years. In August, Uganda overtook Vietnam to become the second-largest supplier of coffee to Italy for the first time this year, behind
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