Nursery schools and Day care centers operators under the Early Childhood Development Association of Uganda have petitioned Parliament over the indefinite closure of the facilities. Recently, Government through the Ministry of Education announced that Nursery schools shall only reopen once the COVID-19 pandemic is no more which has since been viewed as unfair to both the operators and parents. The group…
Read More
Student leaders from different Universities in the country in conjunction with the Youth Line Forum (YLF) have launched a campaign aimed at reviving the student movement and spirit of activism among university students in East Africa. The campaign dubbed Generation Next (Gnext) is an initiative designed as a regional program to promote the emergence of active University scholarship. YLF revealed…
Read More
The Uganda Local Government Association (ULGA) has highlighted a number of reforms that should be implemented to cause a steady increase in local revenue collections. This was in response to the report that was early this week released by Action Aid International Uganda which revealed that there has been a significant reduction in revenue collection across all local governments in…
Read More
Hello please! Let me pose a simple question for you. How often do you blindly purchase a product or service from a company that you know nothing about? Think about the last two times you bought body Lotions. Were they of the same brand? Why is that? Because the company has built up trust, fully recommended by the whole public and…
Read More
The Cross Cultural Foundation of Uganda (CCFU) has appealed to the 10th Parliament to consider Retabling and passing of the Marriage Bill, 2017 as a gift to the marriage institutions in Uganda before their term comes to an end. The call was made during the launch and dissemination of the research report on the nexus between culture and the Marriage…
Read More
The decision by President Museveni to suspend operations of the Democratic Governance Facility (DGF) the biggest donor to Uganda’s state and non-state actors is set to affect the operations of a number of several organisations. DGF is a multi-donor funding mechanism supported by Austria, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the European Union to support state…
Read More
Rozina Negusei a wife to a music star, Akon (Aliaune Thiam) has arrived in the country to take up investment in Solar energy, Agriculture, Biosecurity and Entertainment industry. Negusei who is in the country upon invitation by the Senior Presidential Advisor on Diaspora Affairs, Amb. Abbey Walusimbi says that they look at Uganda as their next home given the enormous…
Read More
Legendary Musician, Halima Namakula Kiwanuka is set to petition Courts of law against Peninah Busingye’s victory in the race for Central Region Member of Parliament (MP) for Elderly citing voter bribery and mismanagement of the exercise. Namakula who stood as an Independent candidate was in the second position in a race of five contestants having scored nine (9) votes behind…
Read More
David Anderson the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Anderson Royal Industries an American based private and public holdings company is in the country to take up investment in Uganda’s Real Estate Industry and the Agriculture sector. The former Advance and Presidential Personnel to the US’ President Barack Obama was ushered into the country by Isaac Kigozi the Managing Director, East…
Read More