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Education Minister Janet Museveni releasing UCE 2024 Results The Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among, has invited the Minister of Education and Sports, Janet Kataha Museveni, to brief the House about the grading system for the Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) results under the new lower secondary education curriculum. Promoted as

Officials from the Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs before the health committee Members of Parliament (MPs) have raised concern over the capacity of the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces’ (UPDF) Engineers Brigade to accomplish multiple projects across different sectors, citing issues of efficiency, project timelines, and budget allocations. During an

The undercapitalization of National Housing and Construction Company Limited (NHCCL) is contributing to Uganda’s high housing deficit, the Auditor General has revealed. According to the NHCCL Strategic Plan, 2018 - 2022, the country has a national housing shortage estimated at 1.6 million housing units. In his 2023/2024 report presented to

Lands Minister Judith Nabakooba issuing land titles in Mbale (Old Photo).   The Minister of Lands, Housing, and Urban Development, Judith Nabakooba, on Tuesday presented the Valuation Bill, 2024, to Parliament. The proposed legislation aims to regulate property valuation practices in Uganda by introducing measures to professionalize and oversee the

Pentecostal pastors in Kampala have asked for a provision in the Marriage Bill, 2024 to consider cohabiting couples as married. This, the pastors under the National Pastors Platform of Kampala said will prevent the growing tendency of men who take long to commit to relationships, even when children are involved

Joel Ssenyonyi   The Leader of the Opposition, Hon. Joel Ssenyonyi has asked government to stop any further allocation of funds to Inspire Africa Coffee, a private entity financed by government to establish a coffee factory as a tertiary hub for last mile coffee value addition in Ntungamo District. Ssenyonyi

Inspire Africa Industrial Park in Ntungamo district. The building materials are supplied by Uganda Baati Uganda’s industrial sector continues to expand, with manufacturing growing by 7.9% and agriculture’s gross value-added increasing by 4.4% in Q3 of 2023/24, according to the Uganda Bureau of Statistics. As the country prioritizes value addition,