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The finance minister, Syda Bumba, has asked Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority (PPDA) to give special consideration to small-and-medium size firms to compete for public contracts.
THE education sector stands to benefit from the ongoing economic growth and oil discovery, the new director of Kampala International School (KISU) has predicted.
A CODE of ethics for manufacturers, meant to curb corruption in the business sector, is in the offing.
BUSINESSES, especially small-and-medium enterprises, need to embrace strategic marketing to be competitive, attract demand and sustain growth, a marketing consultant has said.
Oblivious to most people, the East African Common Market Protocal was signed by the five participating presidents in Arusha on November 20.
While addressing people in Kalita, Nakapiripirit district, on November 13, Col (rtd) Dr. Kiiza Besigye, promised to give guns to the people in that district. This pronouncement aims to reverse the achievements so far registered by the disarmament programme.
One Sunday morning, I was going to church when I met a lady who was so skimply dressed, one would think she was a sex worker. I initiated a conversation with her, only to find out, she was going to church.
THE Islamic University in Uganda has gone to court to block the cancellation of their land allocation at Nakawa housing estate by the Government.
THE Police have arrested the parents of a 15-year- old boy who was discovered abandoned in a chicken house.
OVER two million Ugandans are thought to be diabetic, an official has said.
THE American Embassy has advised its nationals in Uganda against using boda bodas, following crime incidents in which its citizens have been targeted.
UGANDA has been urged to develop its vocational training system to make students more productive in life.
A senior Bank of Uganda official has called for the joint effort in the fight against fraud in the economy.
THE Education Service Commission is to recruit about 4,000 teachers and other staff for secondary schools as well as business, technical and vocational institutions this financial year.
Kenyan men and women are continuing to have unprotected sex with multiple partners - despite numerous national media campaigns to sensitise the public to the dangers of sex without a condom and multiple partners.
Are you planning to go out partying or to attend a kesha (overnight prayer vigils) this weekend? If yes then you may just be forced alter these plans.
The freed journalists have reached in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, just as they few from the international airport of Aden Adde in Mogadishu on Thursday.
Celebrated music preacher Pastor Wilson Bugembe, will tonight host worshippers in a night-long worship gathering under the dub Worship Night '09. The night, which has previously attracted a mammoth crowd, mostly of the born-again, is bringing together a number of names in the gospel music circles as well as top church choirs.
Barely two weeks have passed since the day when Nakivubo War II Memorial Stadium was thrown into darkness and filth after Umeme and National Water & Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) disconnected utilities due to failure to clear spiraling bills.
Opec Prime Properties Ltd, the company that won a tender to re-develop the Naguru/Nakawa housing estates insists it will carry on with its suit against the government if they do not get their 56.1 hectares of land in the disputed area as per the contract.
Kawempe will face Kazo Kasolo in today's City Tyres-sponsored Idd Cup final at Kazoo Sports ground at 4pm.
Recent press reports that FDC leader Kizza Besigye was blocked from appearing on a Karamoja radio station, allegedly by the Resident District Commissioner, have re-opened the debate on whether Uganda is yet a multiparty democracy as it was widely thought. At around the same a Bukedde TV scroll read: "abebibiina bawakanyizza etteeka lye ttaka..." Now Abebibiina under the disguised NRM's single ...
For several weeks, it's been a matter of when and not how MTN Heathens will win this year's Broadband Sevens circuit title which will complete a remarkable clean sweep of the season.
Is the UPDF a tribal army because most of its senior Generals are mainly from southwestern Uganda? There is need to define what tribal and national institutions are. A national institution is one whose aspirations and actions serve the broader national good. Conversely a tribal institution serves parochial tribal interests.
Civil society activists have piled pressure on the government to make public all agreements it has entered with companies prospecting in oil that has been discovered in the Albertine region in western Uganda.
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