The director of ICT, Science and Technology Division at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) Aida Opoku-Mensah has indicated that the newly formed African Science, Technology and Innovation Endowment Fund (ASTIEF) will get Africa out of poverty because it will help operationalise scientific research and ideas. Speaking at the recently concluded African conference […]
Members of the Uganda Parliamentary Press Association have tasked the Uganda parliament speaker Edward Ssekandi to give a date when the Uganda Parliament will debate misappropriation of the 2007 Uganda Common Wealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). The report prepared by the Uganda Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee and completed in early 2010 implicated top government […]
The African Youth Development Program has appealed to the Uganda government to come up with a national youth policy to help fight unemployment in the country. An official from the organization, Ahmed Hadji told journalists in Kampala that the policy will among other things help to ensure the proper management of the recent fund created […]
The Executive Director of the Science Foundation for Livelihoods (SCIFODE) Arthur Makara has appealed to the government of Uganda to step up its efforts in developing innovation, science and technology to ensure quick economic development of Uganda. He says the Uganda Government continues to ignore the development of the science sector through it’s policies […]
The Uganda workers Member of Parliament, Hon. Sam Lyomoki has appealed to the government to consider further increasing the salaries of Health workers because the 30 percent salary increment in the 2010/11 Uganda national budget is not enough. The MP told journalists in Kampala that government had promised to increase health workers salary to international […]
The Northern Uganda Youth Member of Parliament, Dennis Obua has hailed the Uganda 2010/11 budget for allocating funds to fund school leavers saying it will help reduce the problem of unemployment. The Uganda Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic development, Hon. Syda Bumba while reading the Uganda 2010/11 Uganda budget at Kampala Serena Hotel indicated […]
The government of Uganda is planning to set up a special fund targeting the youth in a bid to curb unemployment in Uganda. The Minister of Uganda for Finance, Hajjati Syda Bbumba said this during the budget reading on Thursday this week. Bumba says that the government of Uganda in its effort to create more […]