President Yoweri Museveni has urged cultural leaders and cultural institutions in the country to keep off politics, but rather endeavour to promote unity, togetherness and co-existence of all tribes and people of Uganda. The President added that cultural leaders and institutions should desist from meddling in politics because they are
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Seven teachers from five African countries have been included in the top 50 shortlist for the Varkey Foundation’s Global Teacher Prize 2018. Now in its fourth year, the US$1 million (Shs3.6bn) award is the largest prize of its kind. Catherine Nakabugo from Uganda, Ayodele Odeogbola and Itodo Anthony from Nigeria,
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Fresh details have emerged as to why Bank of Uganda (BoU) dropped lawyers from MMAKS and AF Mpanga in mediation talks between Crane Bank (in receivership/BoU) and property mogul Sudhir Ruparelia. Daily Monitor reports that it was the Principal Judge Yorakamu Bamwine who advised Bank of Uganda to appoint new
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Uganda's Leader of Opposition in Parliament (LoP), Winnie Kizza on Saturday afternoon survived death after the vehicle she was traveling in got involved in a nasty accident along Masaka road. According to local news reports, Winnie was traveling to Masaka when the vehicle she was traveling in, a Landcruiser registration
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A Ugandan innovator has won a top Africa innovation award, walking away with US$50,000 (Shs180.49m). Geoffrey Ssekatawa, the founder of Brent Technologies, a lubricant collection and recycling company was 12 winners of the African Entrepreneurship Award 2017 supported by AfriBMCE Bank of Africa. In its 3rd edition, African Entrepreneurship Award
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Dubai-based flydubai’s inaugural flight touched down Friday at Kilimanjaro International Airport, increasing capacity to Tanzania and further expanding its network in Africa to twelve destinations. flydubai will offer six flights a week to Kilimanjaro, three of which are via a stop in the capital, Dar es Salaam and will increase
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Kenyan born Harvard University Professor, Calestous Juma has passed on in Boston following a battle with cancer. There has been an out pouring of grief for the Kenyan academic and social media influencer Juma. Just like he did alive, he continues to provoke social media reaction across the board even
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Thieves have broken into the cyber unit offices of the Internal Security Organisation (ISO) in Uganda and reportedly made off with a hard disk containing information on the some of the country's high profile murders. [caption id="attachment_6995" align="alignnone" width="595"] Joan Kagezi[/caption] According to reports, the thugs who identity is yet
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Details why eight MPs on the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee drafted a minority report on the proposed scrapping of the constitutional age limits have emerged. The MPs on the Legal Committee opposed to amending Article 102 (b) in order to allow a person above 75 years of age as
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In a bid to promote cashless banking by encouraging increased usage of debit and credit cards, Stanbic Bank Uganda today held a trolley dash for three lucky frequent Visa and MasterCard users off the Stanbic card machines in a promo dubbed “Merry Madness”. The three lucky customers Gad Rogers Tusiiime,
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