Student leaders from public and private universities have called on government to pay salaries for teachers in private schools for at least a year after re-opening academic institutions for only finalists due to Covid-19 pandemic. The guild student leaders from Makerere University, Kyambogo University and Uganda Christian University who presented a joint petition to Speaker…
Sacked Internal Security Organisation (ISO) Director General, Col. Frank Kaka Bagyenda has been appointed Uganda’s Ambassador to Angola, this website has learnt. According to sources at Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Col. Bagyenda was posted to Luanda as the pioneer diplomat after Uganda decided to open an embassy in the central African country previously occupied by…
By Nayebale Syrus Sheema Municipality National Resistance Movement (NRM) Frag bearer Dickson Kateshumbwa has called upon his supporters double efforts in hunting Elections upto the last voting day. Kateshumbwa made a call on Thursday October 15, 2020 at Sheema District Electoral Commission headquarters after being nominated as a contestant in the 2021 Parliamentary race. Kateshumbwa…
By Nayebare Syrus The Sheema Municipality Member of Parliament and Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation Elioda Tumwesigye who lost in the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party primaries have described the process as a sham and vowed to return as an independent candidate. The dissatisfied Minister was recently defeated by former Uganda Revenue Authority customs…
By Musaazi Namiti Kampala: The governor of the Bank of Uganda (BoU), Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile, has a dazzling array of awards to his name, and enumerating them requires a fair bit of time. I will take a quick look at the awards and then pose the million-dollar question: How can an award-winning governor be the same…
The Selection Committee of the Commonwealth University Vocational University (CVU) situated in the Kingdom of Tonga has appointed Luzindana Adam Buyinza as its Resident Director in Charge of Uganda where he will coordinate the university activities in countries making the East Africa Community (EAC). The Commonwealth Vocational University (CVU) is a 21st Century new age…
By Agencies The leaders of Lebanon’s Maronite and Orthodox Christian churches urged Lebanese leaders on Sunday to stop delaying talks on forming a government in scathing sermons in which they blamed them for the country’s financial crisis and political deadlock. Patriarch Bechara Boutros Al-Rai, leader of the Maronite church, was speaking a day after demonstrators…
City architect Peter Kamya, who is the proprietor of Simbamanyo Estates, has chickened out on his fight to rescue the building called Simbamanyo House, which houses the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development. The building was a few days ago bought by tycoon Sudhir Ruparelia’s Meera Investments Limited, at USD5m, about Shs18.5Bn, after it…
Manchester United have literally resurrected after they headed up north to take on Newcastle United, during a match that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side turned things around after their recent poor form in the Premier League. A flurry of three late goals sealed victory for a dominant Manchester United side at St James’ Park. Bruno Fernandes,…
Police have vowed to continue pulling down campaign posters placed in undesignated places especially in the city centre. Addressingjournalists in Kampala, Fred Enanga the police spokesperson said they are to liaise with the Kampala Capital City Authority on the correct way to erect campaign posters and where they should be placed. This is after a…
