Uganda Airlines CEO, Jenifer Bamuturaki (2nd Left) receiving the award in Lagos Jenifer Bamuturaki, the Chief Executive Officer of Uganda Airlines, has won the coveted Africa Travel and Tourism 100 Award, recognising exceptional women in the travel and tourism sector. The organiser of the event Ikechi Uko announced the Awards ceremony at the
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Senior four candidates of Nyakasura school are struggling with their Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) Examinations following their indefinite suspension from the school for alleged indiscipline. Management ordered all senior four candidates out of the school on October 5, 2022, for string chaos on the night of October 4th where
Read MoreThe government has started implementing guidelines that are aimed at ensuring that money kept under informal saving methods is protected and accounted for. This includes money that Ugandans keep in their houses or elsewhere, which is estimated to be in hundreds of billions of Shillings. The least formal means of
Read MoreToka polled 289 votes, while Andweineho came second with 278 votes An international student from Sudan, Given Victor Toka has been voted the new Guild President 2022/2023 for Nkumba University. Toka, a second-year International Relations and Diplomacy student defied all odds to beat six Ugandans to the race. He beat
Read MoreGovernment has paid all the salaries of civil servants, the State Minister of Finance -General Duties, Henry Musasizi, has said. The Minister made the remarks while appearing before the parliamentary committee on National Economy today to table a loan request of Shs1.7 trillion to be acquired from the standard chartered bank of
Read MoreUganda’s State Minister of Finance-General Duties, Henry Musasizi (pictured) has told MPs on Parliament's committee on National Economy that they should expect more loan requests from Government until the budget is fully financed. Parliament in May passed a budget of Shs48.1 trillion for the financial year 2022/2023 and was supposed to be financed through
Read MoreUganda’s Annual headline Inflation for October 2022 increased to 10.7%, from 10.0% of September 2022, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) has said in its Consumer Price Index for October 2022. Headline inflation is inflation-related to all the economy's commodities, goods, and services. On the other hand, UBOS says the Annual
Read MoreAlthough they have neither engineering knowledge nor strong and appropriate construction materials, residents of Bukwo district have decided to risk drowning than being cut off from neighbours and embarked on constructing bridges on their own using locally available materials. On Saturday, residents of the two sub-counties came together and started
Read MoreCommunities bordering Queen Elizabeth National Park are turning to apiary projects to safeguard their gardens from wildlife invasions. Mobilised under Kataara Women’s Poverty Alleviation Group-KWPAG in Kicwamba Sub County of Rubirizi district, the farmers now have over 200 beehives spread along the boundary of the park and their agricultural fields.
Read MoreSome of the Congolese refugees at Bunagana border trekking to Rutshuru. Thousands of refugees have on Saturday trekked back to the war-troubled territory of Rutshuru in North Kivu Province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after the official shutdown of Nyakabande refugees holding centre in Kisoro district. Early this month,
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