It was a new brighter day for the innovators of Yaaka Digital learning Network after winning a cash prize of $1,250 and a seed fund of $3,500 during ACIA 2015 Awards. Yaaka competed in the digital content category where the innovation turned first runner-up after PM live that emerged winner in the same category. Yaaka […]
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Watch the live coverage of the second edition of Uganda National Journalism Awards 2015 being brought to you by Ultimate Multimedia Consult. The awarding ceremony is taking place in Kampala, Uganda this Wednesday 8th, April 2015. A total of 50 journalists were shortlisted for the awards organised by African Centre for Media Excellency with support […]
President Yoweri Museveni has announced a new cabinet with Maria Kiwanuka and Peter Nyombi thrown out. Minister Jim Muhwezi, the Bujumbura Member of Parliament is back in the cabinet as the new Minister for Information and National guidance, replacing Hon Rose Namayanja. Mary Karoro is now the new Security Minister replacing Muruli Mukasa who has […]
Gerald Kankya, an activist working with the Twerwaneho Listeners Club (TLC), a community based governance organization in Fort-Portal, Western Uganda and a host of other activists were allegedly attacked, assaulted and battered by about 30 club wielding men along Lugard Road in Fort Portal town on the afternoon of 23rd January 2015. Kankya says that […]
The President of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has told farmers to abandon their traditional ways of farming saying they have no place in the modern age. While flagging off the construction of Andibo Valley Dam in Pakwach, Nebbi district Museveni cautioned people from the West Nile Sub-Region against sticking to old farming methods which are […]
President Yoweri Museveni has congratulated the leaders of the South Sudan political Party, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), for signing a reunification agreement. “I congratulate the SPLM group for signing the agreement to re-unite your party,” he said adding that the act makes the peace process in Addis Ababa even better. The President paid […]
President Yoweri Museveni has said that a special package of economic activities will be promoted in urban areas that are much different from those in rural areas in the new Wealth Creation Campaign that aims at getting rid of poverty from the population. The President made the revelation while addressing a public rally at Rukungiri […]
President Yoweri Museveni has disclosed that the Government will use gas extracted from the Lake Albert Region in Western Uganda for processing iron ore into finished products. The President was addressing a public rally that was held in Rubuguri Town Council in Bufumbira North Constituency in Kisoro district. The President is currently on a tour […]
Irish oil giant Tullow oil Uganda has this Wednesday been ordered to pay the $407,095,366 (about four hundred and seven million US dollars) to the government of Uganda in Capital Gains Tax by the Tax Appeals Tribunal. Tullow had challenged a capital gains tax assessment of $472,748,128 by the Uganda Revenue Authority with the oil firm citing […]