The embattled Chairperson of the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC), Sylvia Nabatanzi Muwebwa was spotted at Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Rebecca Kadaga’s office in what some said was a last minute attempt to persuade her sweet-talk President Yoweri Museveni to renew her expired contract at the commission, as corruption charges
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Dipu speaking at FMU’s Annual General Meeting The new management of the Federation of Motosports Clubs of Uganda (FMU) has cleared one of entity’s oldest debts of Sh55m that was left behind by the old management. Speaking at FMU’s Annual General meeting on Saturday at Lugogo, the FMU Presdient Dipu
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Hajjat Aisha Lubega Basajjanaku, the Deputy Chairperson, Electoral Commission The Electoral Commission conducted Local Government Councils Elections countrywide for City/District Chairpersons and Councillors; Municipality and City Division Chairpersons and Councillors; Councillors representing Special Interest Groups to District/City Local Government Councils; and Sub County/Town/Municipal Division Chairpersons and Councillors. However, some electoral
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The Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, 2020 has revealed Africa’s most countries. Released on January 28, 2020, the report ranks Sudan, Somalia, Sudan, Equatorial Guinea and Libya as Africa’s top corrupt countries. Others are DR Congo, Guinea Bissau, Congo, Burundi and Eritrea. The least corrupt countries are Seychelles, Botswana, Cape Verde,
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The Biden administration has ended the deadlock over the next head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) by expressing its "strong support" for Nigeria's ex-finance minister. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (pictured) was frontrunner for the role until the Trump administration last October said it wanted another woman, South Korea's Yoo Myung-hee. Ms Yoo has
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The Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has called upon all companies with laboratories to ensure that they adhere to the quality Standards for laboratories; ISO/IEC 17025:2017 General requirements for testing and calibration laboratories, ISO 9001 requirements. The call was made during an online stakeholder engagement with all companies that
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Turkish Investment Group, ASB has failed to utilize 18 square miles of land Nakasseke district that was given out by Government through the Uganda Free Zones Authority (UFZA). The land was allocated to the company five years ago. The shocking revelation was made by UFZA Executive Director, Hez Kimoomi Alinda while meeting MPs on Finance
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In January 2019, UN Women and Standard Bank Group partnered to form a Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) programme aimed at empowering more than 50,000 women farmers in Uganda, Malawi, Nigeria and South Africa to take up modern and environmentally friendly farming technologies to increase yields and incomes across the agriculture value
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Dominic Ongwen is the first LRA commander to appear before the International Criminal Court Known as the "White Ant", convicted war criminal Dominic Ongwen is estimated to have been between nine and 14 years old when he was abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) as he was walking to
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Gregory Dow was already a sex offender when he set up the orphanage/YouTube A US man has been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for abusing underage girls in an orphanage in Kenya. Christian missionary Gregory Dow set up the orphanage with his wife in 2008. "Gregory Dow
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