Stanbic Bank won an unprecedented five accolades including the overall Gold award at the 2017 Financial Reporting awards held at the Serena Hotel in Kampala. This was a record the fourth time for Stanbic to win the Annual Report of the Year. Some of the accolades won by Stanbic Bank were, Best Banking Services Category, Best Listed […]
Members sitting on the parliamentary committee on gender, labour and social development have issued demands to the ministry of labour to enter into bilateral agreement with Arab countries where Ugandan workers are exported illegally. The MPs demands are following the reports they got from the Ugandan mission at Abu Dhabi indicating that 48 Ugandan workers […]
Scientists who invented the virginal ring that prevents women from contracting HIV have expressed happiness as their research on the ring has yielded results as expected with the ring able to reduce 31% of new HIV infections among women according to the research findings. Releasing the results, Dr. Clemensia Nakabiito, a senior consultant obstetrician and gynecologist who is also […]
Currently, more than 100,000 people (12,500 households) are at a risk of landslides in the Mt. Elgon and Rwenzori sub-regions. As stated above, upto 20,000 of them are likely to be displaced between November 2015 and February 2016. According to a World Meteorological Organization report Uganda and other East African Countries would experience an El […]
Wildlife law enforcement actors from Natural Resource Conservation Network (NRCN), Eagle Network together with police mounted an operation on 22nd September, 2015 in Bulisa in which they seized 30Kgs of Hippopotamus Ivory and arrested one person who had illegally got the Contraband. The suspects identified as Chris Wendi is currently detained at Masindi police station waiting prosecution. His other accomplice identified as Kadogo however managed to […]
A team of Natural Resource Conservation Network (NRCN) officials and the Police have seized 6 African Grey parrots from Entebbe at Kigungu landing site in Wakiso district. A joint team of Police, NRCN, in collaboration with UWA, mounted an operation on Saturday 5th , following a tip off that some wildlife traders from Kalangala are holding parrots destined […]
Kibanda county MP Sam Otada demands the Uganda wildlife Authority give accountability for the people going missing in the districts of Kiryandongo and Nwoya. Otada and Nwoya district woman MP Lily Adong stated this while raising a matter of national importance in parliament over killings of poachers by rangers. The two reported to parliament that on […]
The disaster preparedness and Refugee stores have run out of food for relief food. This has been revealed by the Minister of disaster preparedness and Refugees, Engineer Hilary Onek, while appearing before the Human Rights committee of parliament chaired by woman MP for Mitoma district. Onek said that for the last five months disaster preparedness stores […]
“We can no longer stand before the public and assure them that the security is being beefed up,” were the words of Mandera County Governor Ali Roba in an address on March 16, 2015 in Nairobi. In the conference, Roba had no better words for the Kenya security operatives whom he accused of neglecting the […]
Al Shabaab rebels plan to start key abductions in Kenya, Uganda, Ghana and Burundi Senior government officials in Kenya, Burundi, Ghana and Uganda are worried after intelligence information indicated that Al Shabaab rebels are planning to start kidnapping them. Security sources in Uganda told one of our security reporters yesterday that Al Shabaab fighters are […]