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Here Is How Cannabis Growing Can Create Over 6200 Jobs In One Year, Transform Uganda Into Middle Income State

Marijuana is a lucrative business – or at least, it could be if allowed to flourish within a favorable legal climate. If legalized at all levels, cannabis has the potential to generate billions in revenue, provide millions of jobs, and save billions

August 3, 2022

Business

How Richard Omongole Predicted Bank of Uganda To Kill The Ugandan Economy

Uganda’s post coronavirus economic failings are going to come from the IMF/world bank supervised theoretical economist at bank of Uganda. You borrow $ 491.5 million, then $151m will go to budget support and UDB . A whole $340m just for bank of

August 2, 2022

Hot Take·Trending

Fight Against Corruption: Gov’t Knifes All REA Employees In Bid To Boost Service Delivery

The Government of Uganda have fired all the staff of Rural Electrification Agency (REA), The Capital Times have learnt. This follows a notification from the Ministry of Energy that their contracts which end in October will not be renewed. Energy minister Ruth

August 2, 2022

Business

Is Atingi-Ego Not Creative Enough To Have Own Methods Of Supervising BoU Than Relying On What The Late Mutebile Left

Since being appointed the Bank of Uganda (BoU) Deputy Governor and has been acting as Governor, Michael Atingi-Ego has now raised the indicative Central Bank Rate (CBR), twice to the current 8.5 per cent, encouraging commercial banks to also raise interest rates

July 28, 2022

Business

Big Story: Leadership Crisis Hits BoU As Museveni Fail To Appoint New Governor

President Museveni’s failure to appoint a new Governor for the Bank of Uganda has left the institution exposed. Deputy Governor Michael Atingi-Ego has reportedly failed to stamp his authority on the institution which has been running under the leadership of the late

July 26, 2022

Health

Gov’t Earmarks UGX 300M For Installing X-Ray Machine At Buliisa Hospital

The government has through the Ministry of Health earmarked Shillings 300million for the installation of a brand new digital X-ray machine at Buliisa general hospital. The digital X-ray machine has been lying idle for two years since it was procured by the

July 21, 2022

Health

WHO Applauds Uganda For All Round Immunization Programme

The World Health Organisation-WHO has applauded Uganda for maintaining the numbers in the routine vaccination exercise despite the COVID-19 pandemic, which affected vaccination in many countries. This follows the findings of a new report that shows that while 25 million children globally missed

July 17, 2022

Business·Uganda

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

July 15, 2022

Education

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

July 15, 2022

Hot Take·Uganda

Deputy Speaker Tayebwa Warns Accounting Officers Against Bribing MPs To Increase Project Funds

The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Thomas Tayebwa has cautioned Accounting Officers of government Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) against acts of securing higher budgets than what the Finance Ministry allocates for projects by promising to give out kickbacks to legislators sitting on

July 8, 2022

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