Month: January 2022
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The Gulu District Education Department has allocated 78 Million Shillings for procuring personal protective equipment for the government-headed schools as the schools reopen next week. There are 47 government-headed Primary Schools and 5 government-headed secondary Schools in the district. Each of the learning institutions shall receive 1.5 million shillings. Caesar Akena, the Gulu District Education […]
Mukono District Education Officer Rashid Kikomeko has directed all schools intending to operate both day and boarding sections to apply for compliance certificates. Those that will not have the certificates risk closure immediately after their re-opening. Kikomeko says that school inspections undertaken by the district authorities at the end of last year established that many […]
The National Social Social Security Fund -NSSF together with the Ministry of Gender have pledged to expedite a statutory instrument that will ease access to savings by Ugandan workers. The commitment follows the enactment of the NSSF (Amendment) Bill which was assented to by President Yoweri Museveni on Tuesday. The Bill will grant midterm access […]
Security personnel in Gulu City have arrested 48 street hawkers suspected to be criminals operating in Gulu City. The suspects were picked from various locations within Gulu city center by the police and the army during a two-day swoop that commenced on Tuesday night. David Ongom Mudong, the Aswa River Region Region Police Spokesperson says […]
The Association of Teachers of French in Uganda has petitioned the Ministry of East African Community Affairs to lobby for a functional foreign languages policy. The association, an umbrella body for over 300 French language speaking adherents, delivered their petition through the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for East African Community Affairs Rebecca Kadaga. […]
Commercial banks, Microfinance institutions and smaller money lenders are swarming schools and other educational institutions in search of new customers for loans to clear tuition and procure educational materials, among others, as the education sector reopens. The competition for new customers by the lenders coincides with the fact that many parents would like to take […]
The Minister for Works and Transport Gen. Katumba Wamala has revealed that the Old Taxi will reopen this week. Addressing journalists on Wednesday at the Media Centre, Katumba said that they have agreed with Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA to hand over the park by Friday or Saturday this week for the Works Ministry to demarcate […]
The joint anti-terrorism operations team has held 59 terror suspects for more than 70-days without trial. In his address on November 20, President Yoweri Museveni said that up to 106 terror suspects had been arrested for their involvement in subversive activities. Out of 106 mentioned by Museveni, only 47 have been charged in different courts, […]
The wife of novelist Kakwenza Rukirabashaija has sued the Special Forces Commander over the continued detention of her husband. In an application filed before the Civil Division of the High Court, Kakwenza’s wife Eva Basima is suing the SFC Commander Brigadier General Peter Candia, the Director of Criminal Investigations Directorate Grace Akullo, the Inspector General […]
According to survivors and the Convention for the Respect of Human Rights (CRDH), an organization that monitors security in the region, the rebels attacked the area on Sunday night emerging from the nearby hill identified as Israel and started shooting at locals, killing 17. They also say that many were arrested and taken hostage. The […]
