Richard Todwong, Secretary General at National Resistance Movement The Inter Party Organisation for Dialogue (IPOD) has warned Ugandans against tarnishing the good legacy built by deceased Speaker Jacob Oulanyah and instead all efforts should be put towards commending him for the services he rendered to the country. The call was
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Adolu Otojoka standing behind his house in Serere. Zadok Adolu- Otojoka, a former lecturer of music and performing arts at Makerere University says that he is humbled by the decision by the university to recognise him. The College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHUSS) recently named the 90-year-old Adolu-
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IGP Okoth Martin Ochola Private Security Organisations (PSOs) are under the spotlight for confiscating the National Identity cards of their employees. “My monthly salary is Shillings 160,000. I recently got a better paying job where they needed a National ID but my current employers refused to give it
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From March candidates at different levels of education have been sitting for 2020 national examinations. Examinations have been a permanent fixture in Uganda’s education cycle. However, this is bound to change with the new competence-based lower secondary curriculum, which will shift focus to class-based assessments. Normally, towards the
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A $425 million undersea cable connecting China to Europe and Africa, which counts Huawei Technologies Co. as shareholder, has landed in Kenya. The 15,000-kilometer (9,320-mile) Peace cable is part of Beijing’s so-called Digital Silk Road initiative that involves deploying information and communication technology infrastructure to boost trade and investment
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Catalyst CEO Paul Kavuma. PHOTO | SALATON NJAU | NMG Biscuit maker Britania has been accused in court of cooking books ahead of selling the confectionery producer to private equity firm Catalyst for KSh1.2 billion (UShs37.5bn), inflating the buyout price nearly ten times. Catalyst says the alleged deception has cost it
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EAC Due to become world's 'largest trading bloc' after DRC inclusion The heads of state of the East African Community, EAC, countries are due to meet Tuesday, with the final step for the admission of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) expected, according to officials at the secretariat. Expected because
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The joint security forces comprising the army and police killed twenty Karimojong cattle rustlers during their disarmament operations in the Karamoja region last week. Micheal Longole, the Karamoja Regional Police Spokesperson told our reporter in an interview on Monday that the rustlers were gunned down in gunfire exchanges with
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President Yoweri Museveni Ikwera Girls secondary school in Kwania district wants President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to fulfil a pledge he made to the school 16 years ago. In 2006, the Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) used a Lorry Reg No. UG 0753G belonging to Ikwera Girls SS to
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By Yan Carrière-Swallow, Pragyan Deb, Davide Furceri, Daniel Jiménez and Jonathan D. Ostry The sea carries more than 80 percent of the world’s traded goods, most of which sail inside 40-foot-long steel containers stacked by the thousands atop some of the largest vessels ever built. The shock of the pandemic
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