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Nakawa Accident: Transport Minister Undertakes To Enhance Safety At Railway Crossings
The Government Assurance and Implementation Committee has questioned the Uganda Railway Corporation (URC) over its failure to ensure safety at railway level crossings. This follows a gruesome accident in the wee hours of Sunday 10, July 2022 in which a locomotive rammed into a car at its driver attempted to make it across the Nakawa…
OP-ED: Why Is Government Favouring Foreign Investors Over Local Investors?
By Ojok Smith Gulu: Will government survive fire for favouring foreign investors all the time against local businessmen? Moreover, when this is supposed to be a government by the people and for the people? Currently the government of Uganda is under heavy fire for over-pampering foreign investors and leaving the indigenous ones to wallow in…
UGX 800M Budget Shortfall Impeded UDC’s Valuation of Roko
Members of Parliament on the Finance committee have learned that Uganda Development Corporation-UDC’s move to carry out a valuation of Roko Construction Limited was unsuccessful after failing to access an 800 million Shillings budget from the Ministry of Finance. Patrick Birungi, the UDC Executive Director made the revelation on Thursday while appearing before the committee.…
Authorities Close Mandela Secondary School Over Strike
More than 1,000 students of Mandela Secondary School in Hoima city have been sent home following a violent strike. The students staged a violent strike at 2am protesting poor feeding and administration. According to some of the students who spoke to URN on condition of anonymity, they were being fed on poor quality beans and…
Big Story: Government Moves To Amend MoU On Labour Externalization
The government has started a process to ensure that Ugandans employed in the Middle East get similar terms of employment as their counterparts from other countries. This is after it was revealed that the earnings and workload for Ugandans especially those working as house maids are determined by clauses in the Memorandum of Understanding between…
Mulago Hospital Launches Non-invasive Surgery Training Center
Mulago National Referral Hospital has unveiled a non-invasive surgery simulation center, the first of its kind in the country. The hospital administrators say trainees will undergo training at the center on how to conduct minimally invasive endoscopies and laparoscopic surgeries. During such procedures, equipment is inserted into the body through the mouth or small cuts…
“You’re Incompetent”- Over 20 EALA Aspirants Sue NRM For Ring Fencing Positions
Twenty-three-23 aspirants have petitioned the High Court to restrain the ruling National Resistance Movement-NRM party from implementing its decision to ring-fence six positions of members of parliament for the East African Legislative Assembly-EALA. The applicants are part of more than 100 people who had expressed interest to hold the flag for NRM in the coming…
Crime Intelligence Officer & Family Die In Nasty Road Accident
Cleopus Bwesigye, a crime intelligence officer from the Kampala Metropolitan South headquarters at Katwe has died in a road crash together with his wife and three children on the Masaka-Kampala highway. The traffic police spokesperson, Faridah Nampiima explains that Bwesigye was traveling back to Kampala Saturday morning in a Toyota Wish UBE 756C, which got involved…
Pinetti’s Vinci Denies Being Handed a Monopoly In Coffee Business
Uganda Vinci Coffee Company Limited has denied being handed a monopoly over the coffee business in the country. This is part of the company’s defense in a suit filed by Henry Byansi and Michael Aboneka before the High Court Civil Division in Kampala. In April 2022, the lawyers sued Uganda Vinci Coffee Company Limited and…
Security Guard Robs Indian Businessman UGX 8M at Gunpoint
A private guard from Accurate Security Company Limited is on the run after allegedly robbing Sh8 million from an Indian businessman he was guarding. The suspect has been identified as Amos Ecidu. He is wanted for robbing Indian businessman, Shintole Nisnant at gunpoint in Makanga village, Central Division in, Kabale municipality around 9:30 pm on Friday night. Nisnant, who…