The Uganda Sugar Manufacturers Association (USMA) has petitioned parliament seeking for its intervention into the ongoing construction of sugar mills in what they call illegal distances. According to USMA chairman Jim Mwine Kabeho, much as the National sugar policy species zoning, several new mills have violated this. He says the existing sugar policy specifies a […]
Members of parliament on Public Accounts Committee have grilled officials from the Directorate of citizenship and Immigration control militarization of immigration officers and 98 million shillings is spent. This came after mps leant that immigration officers are taken at Butyaba military training ground for military skills including the officers who are about to retire from […]
Uganda is still a member of international criminal court and is not about to withdraw as it has been alleged by many Ugandans. The assurance was made by the prime minister also leader of government business Amama Mbabazi while responding to mps concerns raised following the president’s statements on ICC. Mbabazi said that Uganda respects […]
BUIKWE NATURAL RESOURCE OFFICER DECRIES CONTINUED TREE CUTTING FOR WOOD The natural resources officers for Buikwe district is strongly decrying the continued cutting down of forests by locals in the district which has left the area without any green cover to trap green gas emissions from factories and the residents. Buikwe is one of the […]
National council for higher education has finally recognized 10 Kampala International University PHDs out of the 19 that were submitted to scrutiny last year following reports that they were not up to standard. According to the chairman of the council, Prof. Asubo Opuda, the university did a lot of work to this effect which saw […]
The chair person on the committee of human rights Jovah Kamateka has revealed that her committee has produced a check list for human rights compliance which is aimed for anyone who wants to make plan or bill on rights of people that is to come to parliament. According to Kamateka, this is first of its […]
The chairperson of the education committee of parliament also Mityana woman mp Sylvia Namabbidde has advised Government to temporally close down Kyambogo University in order to sort out the mess their. In an interview with the legislator at parliament, Namabidde said that Government has no option now for the university after the lectures have failed […]
The British high commissioner to Uganda Allison Burney and the head of department, Africa in east and west Africa foreign and commonwealth office, Mathews Harriet are calling on the Ugandan govt to make faster strides in improving the national infrastructure system if the country is to register fast cross border trade growth. In a meeting […]
As the trend of setting up orphanage homes in the country continues to take center stage, more challenges awaiting the children being helped come along but govt is clear on the orphanages by stamp its feet on them to show them the right way to do things. The gender minister, Karoro Okurut warns those manning […]
Teacher through their union UNATU are strongly demanding that govt pays their October salaries by tomorrow or else they are not going to go to class starting Wednesday this week. Addressing a news conference at their head offices in Kampala today, the union’s general secretary, James Tweheyo confirms that teachers have not received their October […]