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UPDF Conducts Air Force Defence Cadet Course
The Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) has started conducting Air Force Cadet Training in its Uganda Air Force College located at Nakasongola Military Cantonment. The Deputy Commander of UPDF Air Forces (D/CAF), Maj Gen Katsigazi Tumusiime, has presided over the course opening of the first intake of the Cadet Course. Some of the trainees Maj…
LOLC Finance Uganda Launches Digital APP
The threat of economic downturn caused by the Coronavirus pandemic has forced companies to devise means of survival. One of such company is Light Over Light Capital (LOLC) Finance Uganda which has gone into launching phone applications to alleviate the difficulties faced by farmers and business people in rural areas. The Company yesterday launched this…
Only 15 Students Per Classroom! Education Ministry Draws Strategies For Re-opening Schools Amid Covid-19 Crisis
The Ministry of Education and Sports has drawn strategies to ensure effective implementation of specific standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the phased reopening of the educational institutions. The reopening will mainly focus on finalists and candidate classes. The academic year was prematurely cut short on March 18, 2020, as a precautionary measure to control the…
Do Not Dare: FDC Warns Ingrid Turinawe Against Contesting As Independent For Rukungiri Parliamentary Seat
Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Secretary General Nathan Nandala Mafabi has warned the party’s Secretary for national mobilisation Ingrid Turinawe not to dare contest as an independent for the Rukungiri Municipality parliamentary seat come 2021 general elections. On Tuesday Turinawe lost in the FDC party primaries to Dr Warren Tumwine Nuwagaba. Nuwagaba polled 130 votes…
UHRC Asks Gov’t To Scrap ‘Failed’ Social Media Tax Ahead Of 2021 Elections
The Uganda Human Rights Commission has asked government to amend the law introducing Over the Top tax and suspend it during the electoral period in order to make internet more affordable and accessible. Dr. Katebalirwa Amooti Irumba, the acting chairman of the commission told journalists today that it is necessary to scrap the tax in…
Rajiv Ruparelia Rally Team Hits Sanyu FM Airwaves On Saturday
With the increasing number of fans supporting the Rajiv Ruparelia Rally Team (RRT), the fans manager Gideon Kirumira will be hosted on 88.2 Sanyu FM tomorrow Saturday morning to share updates on several issues surrounding the motor sport in the country. Gideon Kirumira who will be accompanied by the team manager Daniel will be hosted…
BoU-Defunct Banks Saga: Police, DPP Chicken Out On Arresting Sekabira
The Uganda Police Force (UPF) and office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) have either failed to arrest or chickened out on Bank of Uganda director Benedict Sekabira, who was summoned to the Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) Kibuli, three weeks ago, but he has never responded to the summons. Bernard Sekabira, the Director of…
Exclusive: Kabaka Mutebi, Uhuru Kenyatta Secretly Meet In Kenya
The President of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta has today August 21, 2020 held talks with the Kabaka Of Buganda Ronald Edward Frederick Kimera Muwenda Mutebi II of Buganda Kingdom who paid him a visit at Statehouse, Nairobi. Kenya’s State House in an afternoon statement said the duo hashed over a number of things, including regional cultural…
Full List: 58 Archades To Be Closed For Violating Covid-19 SoPs
At least 58 arcades will be closed down in the next seven days following failure to adhere to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kampala. The government has issued a strong warning after the number of Covid-19 related deaths in the capital’s Kampala showed an upward increase as time…
Hon. Nambooze Appointed New Ambassador For Eastern Africa
The Mukono Municipality Member of Parliament Betty Nambooze has been appointed Ambassador for East Africa region representing an international organisation based in Netherlands. The good news has been revealed by the legislator herself through her social media pages. Without disclosing the name of the organisation, Nambooze said it deals in fighting modern slavery of women…