May 14
Uganda: Police Upbeat Over High Turnup in Constabulary Recruitment
In beefing up law enforcement in Uganda, the Uganda Police Force has proudly announced it has reached an impressive milestone in its recruitment efforts for the Police Constable… Read more »
Uganda: Police Investigate Theft of Census Gadgets
Three days into Uganda's first ever digital National population and housing and census, the exercise has been hit by a major setback. Read more »
Uganda: Probationer Police Constable Interviews Conclude in North Kyoga
The rigorous selection process for Probationer Police Constables (PPCs) in the North Kyoga Region concluded with the final interviews held in Amolatar and Otuke Districts Read more »
Uganda: Yo-Waste - Innovator Tumusiime Makes Final Shortlist for Shs230m Prize
Ugandan innovator Martin Tumusiime is among the four finalist competing for a £50,000 (About Shs235 million) Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation. Read more »
Uganda: Tororo to Lose Billions to Slow Seed Schools Construction
Tororo District risks losing billions of shillings meant for the construction of seed schools by the end of this financial year. This as most projects remain behind schedule Read more »
May 10
Uganda: Sorry State of Road to Lake Bunyonyi Worries Authorities
Leaders and tourism stakeholders with in the Kigezi sub-region have decried the state of Lake Bunyonyi road. Read more »
May 09
Uganda: URA to Deploy Drones On Smugglers At Border Points
The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) will not leave even a rat squeeze through to evade taxes and the latest after the hullabaloo over EFRIS is the deployment of surveillance drones… Read more »
May 07
Uganda: How Flooding, Landslides Are Soaking and Submerging Economy
One of the most immediate economic impacts of flooding and landslides is the destruction of infrastructure such as roads, bridges, buildings, and utilities. Read more »
May 06
Uganda: Speaker Among Presses for Expedited Repair On Karuma Bridge
Parliament has urged the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) to prioritise and expedite the repair work on Karuma Bridge to minimize delays faced by road users during the… Read more »
May 01
Uganda: Jobs Are There but People Lack Vision - Museveni
President Museveni has revealed that the current problem in Uganda is not jobs but rather attitude and a lack of vision among citizens who don't listen to the National Resistance… Read more »
Uganda: Chinese Factories Change Fortunes for Mbale Locals
The life of a number of Mbale locals has changed for the better, thanks to Chinese factories under in Sino-Uganda Mbale Industrial Park. Read more »
Africa: All Is Set for Africa CEO Forum 2024 in Kigali
Organisers have set that all is set for the forthcoming Africa CEO Forum in Kigali, Rwanda later this month. Read more »
April 30
Uganda: Govt, Islamic Development Bank Sign U.S.$295 Million Deal to Finance Roads
Finance Minister Matia Kasaijja who is attending the 2024 Islamic Development Bank Group annual meetings in Riyadh,Saudi Arabia has signed a financing agreement with the president… Read more »
April 27
Uganda: Uganda's 1.1 Trillion Shilling Supplementary Budget Raises Eyebrows
The Ugandan government's latest supplementary budget request of 1.1 trillion shillings (approximately $318 million) has sparked controversy among Members of Parliament (MPs) who… Read more »
Uganda: Broken Promises and Barren Fields - Serere Farmers Vent Frustration
Discontent simmers among farmers in Uganda's Serere region. Their primary targets? The underperformance of the NASA Research Institute (NASA RI) and a long-defunct soil testing… Read more »
April 25
Uganda: Kanungu Breaks Ground for Construction of District Administration Block
Kanungu has broken ground for the construction of an administration block at the district headquarters. Read more »
Uganda: Mubende Launches Construction of Juvenile Detention Facility
Mubende District has launched the construction of a juvenile reception centre whose first phase will cost Shs94 million. Read more »
April 24
Uganda: How Unra Survived Being Merged With Ministry of Works
Uganda boasts of a total of over 6,000km of paved roads, others implemented under different programs like Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development (USMID) and a network of… Read more »
April 25
Uganda: Muntu Blames 'Selfish Interests' for Low Cane Prices in Busoga
| The President of the Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) party, Major-General Mugisha Muntu, has attributed the fluctuations in the prices of sugarcane to absence of… Read more »
April 24
Uganda: Why You Should Consider B.O.U Treasury Bonds in May
Financial and investment experts say that the bond market is likely to guarantee good returns and investors should be looking forward to buying the upcoming treasury bond by the… Read more »
April 23
Uganda: Equity Bank Admits 110 Students to Its Leaders Programme
Equity Bank Uganda has selected 110 high-performing students from the 2023 Uganda National Examination Advance Certificate of Education for its Equity Leaders program. Read more »
April 25
Uganda: Develop Precise Strategy for Economic Transformation
The current impasse between the two tax collecting agents of the government -the traders and the URA, is a result of a structural problem to explain. Read more »
April 22
Uganda: New Tax Regime Is a Recipe for Disaster, Says Civil Society
Civil Society Organisations under the Tax Justice Alliance have warned that if passed in their current form, the new tax bills proposed by will become a recipe for disaster for… Read more »
Uganda: Traffic Diverted As Kampala - Masaka Road Section Caves in
Police have advised motorists to use alternatives routes to enable ongoing works to repair the section of Kampala-Masaka highway that caved in on Sunday continue smoothly. Read more »
April 17
Uganda: Magistrate Says Husband Killed in Horrific Entebbe Accident
Raphael Okiot, a lawyer, has been a teaching assistant at the Law School of his alma mater, Uganda Christian University Read more »