The Ugandan Government has embarked on an initiative to curb the moral decay among her citizens through ethical studies. According to the National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC), an ethics subject will be taught on a national level and an individual value assessment tool shall be developed. NCDC also adds that two certificate; academic and moral […]
According to the Internal Affairs ministry’s Permanent Secretary,Dr Benon Mutambi‘s tweet on Friday, the Ugandan government is to start issuing electronic (biometric) passports beginning January 2019. “Uganda is ready to migrate from the current machine-readable passports to e-passports in January 2019,” Dr Benon Mutambi tweeted. Dr. Mutambi stressed that the already stored data in the […]
Uganda is committed to developing its petroleum sector across the entire value chain, and clear strides to move the country’s key assets from the exploration phase into the development phase have been made. The country offers opportunities for companies looking to explore, develop and utilise its petroleum assets. Hon Irene Muloni, the Minister of Energy and Mineral […]
The Ugandan government has signed a memorandum of understanding with the German government, together with Inter- Governmental Authority on Development IGAD for the Drought Resilience Initiative for Karamoja. The Head of Division for East Africa in the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development Dr. Ralf-Matthias Mohs ,reveals that about 48 billion Uganda shillings has […]
In a bid to eliminate the transmission of river blindness in the country, the World Health Organization is reminding the Ugandan government to invest much in research to see that the disease, among other neglected tropical diseases, is fully and effectively combated. Speaking at the 8th river blindness strategic committee meeting in Kampala today, Dr. […]
Let me join the fray on the LRA rebel Leader Joseph Kony ‘2012.’ Why am I not getting as angry as most people around the world seem to be about the documentary on the atrocities Joseph Kony and his rebels have reportedly committed against humanities? In the documentary Russell does mention that Joseph Kony has […]
The Jinja district leadership has called upon the government of Uganda to promote food security in country in a bid to fight the incidents of hunger in the country and avert the malnutrition among younger children through enacting bi-laws in all local councils in the country. The leaders want a bi-law requiring every home to […]
The Uganda human rights commission has ordered the government of Uganda to pay 25 million shillings in compensation to the family of late James Mugaru. Mugaru was shot by security operatives on March 27th 2004 at Kalekere in Budaka but died late at Mayo regional referral hospital where he was admitted. His father 70 year […]
The government of Uganda has pledged to support and protect refugees within the countries boarders. The commitment was made by the minister of state in charge of disaster preparedness Musa Ecweru during celebration to mark world refugee day that was held at old Kampala senior secondary school. Latest figures show Kampala is host to 38000 […]