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Women In Energy 2023: Eng. Ziria Calls Girls To Study Sciences As ERA Launches Year’s Career Guidance Program at Nabisunsa Girl’s School

The Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA) has launched the Women in Energy program 2023 to impart female students to get interested in science and technology. The call came on Friday, March 31, 2023, as the authority led a campaign, starting with Nabisunsa Girls

April 1, 2023

Crime

Russia Arrests Wall Street Journal Reporter On Spying Charge

Russia’s security service arrested an American reporter for The Wall Street Journal on espionage charges, the first time a U.S. correspondent has been detained on spying accusations since the Cold War. The newspaper denied the allegations and demanded his release. Evan Gershkovich

March 30, 2023

National News

Exclusive! How Pressure At Office Forced Embattled Dr. Ibembe Patrick To Resign From USPC, UPPC Boards

The minister for the presidency Milly Babalanda’s decision to replace Dr. Patrick Ibembe as board chairperson of Uganda Security Printing Corporation (USPC) and also as a board member of Uganda Printing and Publishing Corporation (UPPC) did not come out of the blue,

March 29, 2023

National News·Politics

Hajjat Hadijah Uzeiye Appoints Dr. Tibamwenda as Deputy PRO ONC

Hajjat Hadijah Namyalo Uzeiye the Senior Presidential Advisor on Political Affairs who doubles as the Personal Assistant to the National Chairperson National Resistance Movement (NRM) and Head of the Office of the National Chairman (ONC) has appointed Dr. Brenda Jessica Tibamwenda as

March 29, 2023

National News

Busted! Min. Babalanda Tells MPs How She Foiled Plot By Ex-Board To Steal More Funds On UPPC Accounts As Cabinet Appoints 8 Members To New Board

Cabinet sitting yesterday at State House Entebbe approved the names of eight people as new board members for the Uganda Printing and Publishing Corporation (UPPC). According to the minister for the presidency whose docket supervises UPPC, Hon. Milly Babalanda, the approved names

March 28, 2023

Crime·Health·National News

Is Dr Musenero Blackmailing PAC & Hon. Nandala Mafabi After Failing To Account For Covid-19 Billion?

By Nakimuli Jackline Kampala: The Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr Monica Musenero who is facing the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) since March 14, 2023, over Covid-19 expenditures in the financial years 2019/20 and 2020/21, seems to have started blackmailing the

March 28, 2023

Health

Retired Archbishop Orombi Critically Sick, Airlifted To Nakasero Hospital

Retired Church of Uganda Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi was last night airlifted to Kampala after his health deteriorated on Monday. “We rushed him to Nakasero Hospital at 2:00am for specialized treatment. His wife accompanied him and is by his side” Nebbi Diocese

March 28, 2023

Business

BANKS: We Have Failed To Identify SMEs For COVID-19 Relief Fund

Leaders in the banking industry say that they have failed to identify people who qualify for the government’s COVID-19 relief fund meant for small and medium enterprises. It comes a few days after the Bank of Uganda revealed that only Shillings 6 billion

March 28, 2023

National News

Parliament Irked By Delayed Maintenance on Kampala-Jinja Highway

The delayed maintenance of the Kampala-Jinja highway has irked lawmakers, who have now questioned the competence of Energo Projekt, a company contracted by government to undertake civil works. Parliament approved a budget of Shs82 billion for Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) to

March 28, 2023

Op-ed

Africa’s Freedom Is With In Her Reach-Bp Dr. George Oduch

When we see such messages that Donald Trump,Joe Biden etc has said this and that; we need to know that all those statements are part of the propaganda machinery from the West. Answers to our problems as Africans are found in our

March 26, 2023