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Premier Recruitment Sensitization Campaign Registers Success, Thousands Registered As Leaders Hail Sudhir for Employing Ugandans Abroad
Uganda’s fast-growing recruitment company, Premier Recruitment Ltd launched a sensitization campaign about labour externalization last week which was hugely received and embraced by western Uganda. The tour which kicked off last Thursday with a staff induction session at their Mbarara regional office along Kakoba roundabout and ran throughout the entire weekend attracted huge numbers from…
Speaker Kadaga Worried Over Continued Human Rights Violations By Security Agencies
The Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Rebecca Kadaga has said that parliament is concerned about the continued human rights violations by security agencies. Kadaga made remarks while responding to a petition presented to her by the newly elected Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) councillors. The Speaker said Parliament had tasked the government to release all…
‘We Are Equipped’- Minister Aceng Assures Ugandans On Second Covid-19 Vaccine Jab
The Ministry of Health is optimistic that Uganda will get the second consignment of COVID-19 vaccines on time despite the shortages experienced globally. Uganda has so far vaccinated 239,617 people out of the 964,000 dozes of vaccines that were received earlier. Although the government had initially said that the doses would cover 482,000 People, with…
Angry Gulu City Residents Petition UMEME Over Inconsistent Regional Power Supply
Residents of Gulu City have petitioned the electricity distributor UMEME over the inconsistent and inadequate power supply. The petition signed by more than 400 people was on Tuesday handed over to the Resident City Commissioner Nsubuga Bwayo and Doreen Ogenga the UMEME Manager for Gulu Region Area. Other copies were handed over to the…
Speaker Kadaga, Katikiro Mayiga To Meet Over Kabaka’s Health
The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has revealed her plans to meet the Katikkiro of Buganda, Charles Peter Mayiga over the Kabaka’s health. She disclosed this while meeting the newly elected Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA councillors at Parliament. During the meeting, Jeremiah Keeya Mwanje, the Kasubi councillor, who read a statement on behalf of…
Panic As Covid-19 Patients Overwhelm Lacor Hospital
The battle against the coronavirus pandemic looks increasingly like a game of cat and mouse between vaccine rollout and the virus’s mutation. Another a highly infectious COVID-19 way has hit Lacor Hospital which has put medical workers and residents into tenterhooks. This has forced the Minister of state for Primary Healthcare, Hon Joyce Moriku Kaducu…
Uncertainty: M7 Orders Cabinet To Implement Shelved Bamugemereire Land Report
There is alot of fear and anxiety in public after President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni said that the government will implement the Bamugemereire land commission Report once it is well studied and approved by the next Cabinet. Recently,Gen Museveni who was speaking to NRM MPs- Elect in Kyankwanzi shortly after Justice Bamugemereire’s presentation into land matters,…
IGP Ochola Fires 153 Police Officers Over Corruption
Police Authority and the Police Council Appointments/Promotions Committee (Subordinate officer), that are respectively responsible for overseeing the Police Disciplinary Complaints system, have dismissed, and also recommended for dismissal, officers found to have breached standards. The Disciplinary Complaints against Senior Officers and all officers charged in the criminal courts of law, are dealt with by the…
Just In: M7 Promotes Nakalema,Deo Akiiiki &1,298 UPDF Officers
The Commander in Chief of the armed forces General Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has promoted more than 120 UPDF officers from the ranks of Second Lieutenant and Colonel while others are set for commissioning. Notable promoted officers include Lt. Colonel Edith Nakalema,the head of the State House Anti corruption unit and Deo Akiiki who is deputy…
UPDF Seizes Posters Of Groups Threatening To Disrupt Museveni Swearing In
The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) has revealed that there are groups of people plotting violence, threatening to disrupt President Museveni’s inauguration on May 12. While addressing journalists at Police headquarters in Naguru on Monday, UPDF spokesperson, Brig Flavia Byekwaso said they have got “credible information” about a section of Ugandans planning to disrupt the…