Ultimate Media In order to solve the increasing water needs of cattle keepers, the government of Uganda is planning to set up a bulldozer tractor hire scheme in cattle keeping areas of Nkole, Karamoja, Ntungamo and Nakasongola among others. The tractors are going to help herdsmen to dig their own valley dams. The State Minister […]
Ultimate Media He used to be the governor of Mubende district. The district was three years ago broken into two to formMityana district. Now Col. Kasirye Ggwanga wants to be the governor of the smaller Mityana district where he expects to do bigger things that he didn’t when the district was bigger. Col. Ggwanga also […]
By Gerald Businge March 2010 There is currently a big debate in the US about the survival or not of traditional media like newspapers, radio and television due to the increasing popularity of online forms of news and information access. I come from a different environment in Uganda where the disruptions on traditional media and […]
By Alfred Odong, Ultimate Media Many people have for long known Jinja as Uganda’s most industrialized town, which in addition accommodates the country’s only power dam and the source of the worlds’ longest river, the Nile. But after the 1970s turmoil under Idi Amin who chased Asian businessmen who had developed the town and established […]
Ultimate Media Crop cultivation forms the largest activity pack of most people in Africa who are engaged in agriculture, which is the backbone of most African economies and livelihoods. Cultivating crops and ensuring that they grow up to harvest of satisfactory yields is an activity or yearning of many African farmers. Since time immemorial, farmers […]
Ultimate Media The Minister of State for Fisheries, Fred Mukisa has warned that improper fishing methods will wipe out fish in Lake Victoria. Mukisa says the current fish shortage in lakes will worsen in the near future due to continued illegal fishing and use of illegal nets that trap immature fish. He says that most […]