MUSEVENI - Uganda Multimedia News & Information https://www.weinformers.com Politics, Health, Sceince, Business, Agriculture, Culture, Tourism, Women, Men, Oil, Sports Mon, 21 Nov 2022 06:47:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 Silencing the guns: Gloria’s journey from the frontlines of LRA war https://www.weinformers.com/2022/11/17/silencing-the-guns-glorias-journey-from-the-frontlines-of-lra-war/ https://www.weinformers.com/2022/11/17/silencing-the-guns-glorias-journey-from-the-frontlines-of-lra-war/#respond Thu, 17 Nov 2022 12:05:50 +0000 https://www.weinformers.com/?p=55210 By Namutebi Patricia When passion meets purpose, our lives become meaningful and then impactful. I met Gloria Laker Aciro Adiiki. She is one of Uganda’s female journalists who has covered war stories. She narrates the story to AWiM News below: Gloria narrates, “As a former war and peace reporter during the northern Uganda LRA war, this is […]

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By Namutebi Patricia

When passion meets purpose, our lives become meaningful and then impactful.

I met Gloria Laker Aciro Adiiki. She is one of Uganda’s female journalists who has covered war stories. She narrates the story to AWiM News below:

Gloria narrates, “As a former war and peace reporter during the northern Uganda LRA war, this is my peacebuilding story on how I reported the war.

As a young displaced girl back in 1997, it was challenging to enter the newsroom with no experience and no journalism training. In addition, my living condition as a displaced girl was appalling. I was exposed to sexual harassment, name callings just for being a girl holding a camera because society at the time saw news reporting as a male job. Amidst these, my living condition was pathetic, imagine sleeping on cold verandas behind tall buildings to avoid rebel abduction. During this time, nearly all social services shut down due to the rebellion.

It was a difficult period. My parents fed us on the little available relief food since we had run away from our village and got displaced in the town suburbs where we lived in a miller machine house built and roofed with only iron sheets, associated with extreme cold at night and extreme heat during the day. Inside there was a maize miller machine, which also was not safe as the rebels were raiding town suburbs hence the reason we had to always move with our beddings (local mats and blankets) to sleep on verandas of town buildings, we were called “night commuters”.

This was equally difficult for all the journalists displaced by the war yet we had to report the conflict.

Every morning, my young siblings walked back to the miller, our second home with my mum to prepare for school. I would head to the newsroom carrying a polythene bag and inside was extra cloth. I began my journalism career with New Vision. In the office, we had a good washroom and from here I was able to take a bath, dress and wait for my colleagues Pelegrine Otonga, James Oweka and Dennis Ojwee to come so that we conduct our daily editorial meetings.

  What kept her going

Despite all the challenges, I was so determined to tell the world about the human rights violations and impact of the war on vulnerable people including my family and the entire Acholi community.

The suffering turned me into a strong and determined journalist. So I courageously put in a lot of effort in learning how to write war stories from my experienced colleagues and with the support of Pelegrine Otonga who was our editor and a senior journalist. I quickly learnt nearly all the basics fast, thanks to Pelegrine who would not allow me to go to the field without James or any other male journalists. He made sure I was in the company of a male reporter for my safety. Pelegrine protected me after my dad took me to New Vision offices when I insisted I wanted to report about the war, and he told Pelegrin to train and protect me. Given my achievements today, I am proud to say Pelegrine did well.

Reporting the LRA war was associated with watching terrific scenes such as dead bodies, landmine blasts, bullet wounds, and burnt trucks and the malnourished children and child soldiers rescued from the rebels.

Imagine photographing dead bodies with flies oozing over these bodies, imagine taking pictures of malnourished rescued people from the rebels with peeling feet full of pus.

Courageously and as a youth at that time, the more I saw these pathetic conditions, the more I wanted the war known so that the international community could come to our rescue because as time went on the LRA rebels had become impossible to counter. The rebels were flamboyant, dangerously destructive and very elusive to catch.

Coining peace stories in war reporting

With all the atrocities, with no signs of the war coming to an end, my colleagues and I began redirecting our reporting from the victimizing alarming reports we were filing to angling peace stories which help in pushing parties to dialogue and this created room for subsequent peace talks. In achieving this, we became one united peace mouthpiece/voice regardless of the different media organisations, we had one goal to report the war in ways that could reconcile people.

Practically, one of the things we did was to choose our words carefully and built good relations with the government soldiers because they were our only sure and safe means of transport to rebel-infested areas. “However, this did not compromise our reporting principles of objective journalism.” At this time the government army needed us as much as we needed them.

As time went on the rebels also began speaking to us on realising the power of the media in conflict.

However, to improve on my reporting, I had to do several short causes in line with war and peace reporting, thanks to my mentor Ms Margaret Sentamu, Executive Director of Uganda Media Women’s Association who identified me and covered my fees and I was able to do a diploma in journalism. I am proud of Ms Margaret because her sacrifices and efforts in bringing up female journalists have turned me into the journalist I am today, she boosted my commitment to war and peace reporting and this laid a strong foundation for me, first as a war reporter then as a peace journalist and later I was able to go to the university and studied a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Towards the period of the peace process, more young girls emerged and they did cover the conflict and post-war errors extremely well. They had more advantages with the coming of the internet, unlike our time when we had to walk every evening to the only fax machine in the district at the post office, line up and fax our story for the day hence this challenge moulded me to a strong and determined female journalist.

My experience and my colleagues made me become a more confident female journalist in reporting conflict areas and promoted peace journalism work in Uganda.”

Gloria
Gloria was awarded by Ugandan President Museveni for her peace journalism initiative. Photo/Courtesy

As a result, Gloria has received recognition and awards for her peace reporting. In 2022 October, she was one of the six finalists for the United State Institute for Peace, 2022 Women Building Peace finalist, and in 2019 Gloria was honoured and awarded with a presidential Golden Jubilee Medal by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni for her contribution to peace in northern Uganda.

In 2016, Gloria was honoured and featured on BBC Outlook as an inspirational journalist for risking her life and covering the LRA war. In 2008 Gloria won a BBC communicating justice project in Uganda as the best journalist.

In April 2011 Gloria was awarded by Centre for Global Peace Journalism at Park University USA for outstanding performance in the implementation of peace and electoral project.

Gloria now uses her experience to train and mentor young African journalists on the roles of the media in peacebuilding and conflict management. Her effort is geared towards preventing media-induced violence and encouraging peace reporting and she is doing this through the Peace Journalism Foundation she established.

The passionate journalist is amplifying UNESCO’s vision of achieving lasting peace and security all over the world.

She has influenced several journalists in Uganda that can advocate for peace. The city of Gulu where the war had broken out is getting peaceful bit by bit as people resettle in.

Different Organisations like War Victims and Children’s Networking have also come up to ensure that returnee victims and children are completely resettled back into the community. After ten years there are still several challenges as said by former LRA abductee Stella Lanaam. She said the war victim’s children cannot access national identity cards as most of them were as a result of rape, or unwanted sex and others were deserted by their parents. She called upon the government under NIRA (National Registration Authority) to be flexible for these children to access national Identity cards.

 

This story is part of African Women in Media (AWiM)/UNESCO Peace and Security Journalism Programme

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President Yoweri Museveni has described fallen former Kenyan head of state Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi as an icon who supported the East African Community and its integration.

Museveni on one of the visits to late Moi at his home in Kenya

“I learnt with sadness about the death of Mzee Daniel Toroitich arap Moi, the former president of Kenya. Him, Mzee Hassan Mwinyi and I revived what had become the defunct EAC”, Museveni said in a statement.

Museveni said that it was no doubt that Kenya, East Africa and the entire continent has lost a great leader.

The President said he first met Mzee Moi in 1979 after the defeat of Amin.

He said he later, when we waged the Liberation Struggle, he was critical and we kept him abreast of our struggle. He actually worked as a mediator in the 1985 Peace Talks.

Museveni said Moi was a true Pan-Africanist, who worked closely with the masses. He was also a deeply religious person.

“My condolences and that of Ugandans to His Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta, the Moi family and all Kenyans on the passing of this icon,” he said.

 

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As Uganda is preparing for the 2021 election, there are three outstanding candidates eyeing the Presidential Post; President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Honorable Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Bobi wine and Warren Kizza Besigye Kifefe.

Can online audience (social media) determine the next president of Uganda? According to global stats anlysis,49.33% of Ugandan use facebook,17.3% twitter and internet(google).

FACEBOOK PERFORMANCE

According to the server carried out on Facebook, Honorable Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Bobi wine is leading with 55%(1,071,238) likes,55.2%(1,104,141) followings, followed by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni with 30.5%(593,925)likes and 30.3%(606,107) followings and lastly Warren Kizza Besigye Kifefe with 14.4%(280,661) likes,14.4%(287,912) followings .These figures keep changing.

Clustered Pyramid Showing People Who Have Liked The Facebook Page For Honorable Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Bobi Wine (1,071,238), President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (593,925) And Warren Kizza Besigye Kifefe (280,661)

1,071,238 people have liked honorable Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Bobi Wine Facebook page

593,925 people have liked President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Facebook page

280,661 people have liked Warren Kizza Besigye Kifefe Facebook page

 

Clustered Pyramid Showing People  Following The Facebook Page For Honorable Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Bobi Wine (1,104,141), President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (606107) And Warren Kizza Besigye Kifefe (287,912)

1,104,141 people follow Honorable Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Bobi Wine Facebook page

606,107 people follow President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Facebook page

287,912 people follow Warren Kizza Besigye Kifefe Facebook page

 

HONORABLE Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu BOBI WINE FACEBOOK PAGE

PRESIDENT YOWERI KAGUTA MUSEVENI FACEBOOK PAGE

WARREN KIZZA BESIGYE KIFEFE FACEBOOK PAGE

 

TWITTER PERFORMANCE

On twitter, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is leading with 59% (1300000) followers followed by  Honorable Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Bobi wine with 21%(464030) followers and lastly Warren Kizza Besigye Kifefe with 19.8%(437070) followers

A pie chart showing people following the twitter account of, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (1300000), Honorable R Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Bobi Wine (464030) And Warren Kizza Besigye Kifefe (437070)

RESULTS

1,300,000 People are Following President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Twitter account

464030 People are Following Honorable Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Bobi Wine Twitter account

437070 People are Following Warren Kizza Besigye Kifefe Twitter account

 

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Twitter Account

 

Honorable Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Bobi Wine Twitter Account

Warren Kizza Besigye Kifefe Twitter Account

Google Searches

According to Google Trends, Honorable Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Bobi wine is the most searched person among the three candidates followed by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and lastly Warren Kizza Besigye Kifefe

In Uganda, Honorable Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Bobi wine is the most searched followed by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and lastly Warren Kizza Besigye Kifefe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Worldwide Honorable Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Bobi wine is the most searched followed by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and lastly Warren Kizza Besigye Kifefe as shown;

 

A Line Graph Showing Google Trends In Uganda  Between President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni ,Warren Kizza Besigye Kifefe Honorable Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Bobi Wine For The Past 12month

According to the results obtained from Facebook, twitter and Google trends, Honorable Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Bobi wine is performing better than President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and Warren Kizza Besigye Kifefe on Facebook and Google searches while President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is leading on twitter.

Kizza Besigye Kifefe is not performing well online, but remember the figures we have today are not Permanente they keep changing with time.

Will online performance make any impact on the 2021 elections? Let’s wait and see.

 

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Behind the Wheels: Uganda Airlines pilots https://www.weinformers.com/2019/04/29/behind-the-wheels-uganda-airlines-pilots/ https://www.weinformers.com/2019/04/29/behind-the-wheels-uganda-airlines-pilots/#respond Mon, 29 Apr 2019 10:14:35 +0000 http://www.weinformers.com/?p=54576 Uganda has procured two CRJ900 Bombardier planes and two more are expected by September. The revival of the Uganda airlines has been received with both excitement and uncertainty from the Ugandan population. Much as most believed the airlines will render economic growth to the country, some were pessimistic about its durability and alo ineadquate resources […]

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First Lady Janet Museveni (left) with Museveni and other government officials inside one of the Bombardier planes. PPU picture

Uganda has procured two CRJ900 Bombardier planes and two more are expected by September.

The revival of the Uganda airlines has been received with both excitement and uncertainty from the Ugandan population.

Much as most believed the airlines will render economic growth to the country, some were pessimistic about its durability and alo ineadquate resources including quality labour.

However, from the information gathered by the Newvision, Uganda airlines is endowed with enough quality pilots, most of whom have been operating in big companies in Europe and outside Uganda.

Over 14 pilots and 30 stewardesses have already been recruited. 200 Staff members have also been secured of the 400 that is needed for the airlines.

Among the crew that brought the planes home included; Capt. Clive Okoth, Capt. Stephen Ariong, Capt Michael Etiang and Capt. Patrick Mutayanjulwa.

(Information from the newvision)

Capt Michael Etiang

Etiang is a Uganda Airlines captain and business executive, who serves as the chief pilot of Uganda Airlines. A member of Uganda Airlines task committee, Etiang was born in Tororo district.

He went to Bentham Grammar School. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in law and politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. Etiang has over 18 years of flying experience, with over 12,000 flying hours on his record.

He has served as a training manager (CRJ Aircraft) at RwandAir, where he has been employed since 2012. He has also served as training captain at Fly540 and Jetlink, both in neighbouring Kenya.

He played the same role at Garuda, Indonesia, the national airline of Indonesia. As chief pilot at Uganda Airlines, he is responsible for making sure that all pilots are trained and are up to date with their competence and skills.

He also manages flight and ground personnel, schedules flights and coordinates aircraft maintenance. He serves as a member of the airline’s senior management team.

 Ivan Massa

Ivan Massa

Ivan Massa is a commercial airline Pilot, born on November 25, 1990 in Mbale district.

He went to London College of St Lawrence for and trained at the East African Civil Aviation Academy in Soroti, Epic Flight Academy in Florida, CAE Aviation Training and Services, Toronto, Canada and American Airlines Flight Training Centre, Phoenix Arizona.

Passionate about aviation, he enjoys travelling and hiking. “You get to love and respect the world around you each time you fly and view the world from a different perspective.

At the same time, you must be passionate, focused, hardworking, disciplined and safety conscious as all these contribute towards being a professional pilot,” he said. Massa said sports is part of his life mainly Rugby, football and chess to keep him healthy and in shape.

Tina Drazu

From Arua, Tina Drazu, a line pilot at Uganda Airlines, worked as a line pilot at Aerolink Uganda from July 2012 to April this year. She had earlier worked with Asante Aviation for a year and three months in South Sudan. She graduated from Cape Flying Services.


Capt. Patrick Mutayanjulwa

He has been a pilot since 2007 and worked with Air Uganda and Das Air Cargo. Mutayanjulwa studied at St Mary’s College Kisubi before he trained and became a pilot. He likes playing cricket and tennis.

 Vanita Kayiwa

Vanita Kayiwa

Kayiwa, a line pilot at Uganda Airlines, worked with Air Serv which upgraded her from pilot to captain.

A graduate of the East African Civil Aviation Academy, Kayiwa was the first female Ugandan Captain in Air Serv’s 32-year history.

“You have to work twice as hard as your male counterparts,” Kayiwa said in an interview talking about her accomplishments in a traditionally male-dominated field. “We women can do it, even the sky is not the limit!

Flying is very exciting but to succeed you need to love it, dream it, and live it,” she advised young girls according to an interview at Air Serv website.


Rashid Cheboy

His picture went viral when he chanced on a selfie with President Yoweri Museveni on Tuesday at Entebbe.

In the picture, President Museveni is seen holding Cheboy’s right hand to check the picture.

He worked at Air Serv as a line captain and check airman from 2015 to this month.

He also worked with East African Civil Aviation Academy Soroti as a senior flight instructor. He studied aviation and aeronautics at the East African Aviation Academy.


Capt. Kenneth Kiyemba

Kenneth Kiyemba, according to his Facebook account, went to King’s College Budo before joining Epic Flight Academy located at Municipal Airport in Florida, US.

He was part of Uganda Airlines crew that recently completed flight training on the CRJ900 (CL-65) at US Airways Flight Training Center.

Kiyemba serves as director of administration in Uganda Professional Pilots’ Association. The body is charged with promoting and safeguarding the interests of pilots and aeronautic engineers in Uganda.

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Former Forum for Democratic Change presidential candidate Dr Col. Kizza Besigye has insisted that stopping him from reaching his people via radio stations won’t deter him from sending his message to people.

Besigye said this on Saturday while in Kitgum district after the Kitgum Resident District Commissioner, Mr Christopher Omara reportedly ordered his talk that was to take place on the Mighty Fire FM cancelled.

Besigye says that the party will do all what it takes to establish communication channels at the grass root level to pass the message to people and for easy coordination.

“We are now going to create our own radio stations within the community,” Dr Besigye said. “This is through networking with the locals and leaders at the grassroots. This grassroots radios will help us to pass information from bottom to top and vice versa; it is what the People’s Government is intending to do.”

“We need to establish our leaders’ network so that we don’t only rely on the radio stations. We cannot cause change if we don’t have coordination, we should have leaders from top to bottom, we need to stand up and rise against this government because power is in our hands,”Besigye added.

The four time Presidential candidate was accompanied by the FDC party president Patrick Oboi Amuriat and FDC national Mobiliser Ingrid Turinawe while in Kitgum.

The FDC party was on a move of opening a new office within Kitgum which was constructed by the Chua West County Member of Parliament, Mr Philip Okin Ojara.

While contacted by Daily Monitor in an interview, the Kitgum Resident District Commissioner, Mr Christopher Omara denied being behind the cancellation of a talk show that Besigye had planned to appear on.

“I think the station management didn’t want to host the FDC leaders because of reason they best know, I didn’t give them any directives,” he said.

Besigye has been on several occasions denied chance of talking to his people while on radio stations. Several radio stations in Kabale, Jinja and Mubende have been switched off for hosting him.

Tembo FM was switched off on Thursday after official from the FDC Party were passing a message to people of Besigye going to appear in the district on Saturday.

The FDC  Presidential also said that President Museveni is already defeated and that’s why he moved from barracks to barracks country wide because he has no support of the army.

“Museveni is cornered, he is actually defeated, he no longer has the support of the army. That is the reason why you saw him moving in all the barracks around the country trying to convince soldiers by promising them better housing facilities, improved salaries. You cannot keep promising people for more than 30 years,” he said.

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Putting sanctions on African countries is the act of cowardice- President Museveni https://www.weinformers.com/2019/04/27/putting-sanctions-on-african-countries-is-the-act-of-cowardice-president-museveni/ https://www.weinformers.com/2019/04/27/putting-sanctions-on-african-countries-is-the-act-of-cowardice-president-museveni/#respond Sat, 27 Apr 2019 12:32:52 +0000 http://www.weinformers.com/?p=54542 President Yoweri Museveni has disagreed with the idea of putting sanctions on African countries particularly Zimbabwe calling it the act of ‘cowardice’. President Museveni is in Zimbabwe for a two-day visit as the chief guest on the official opening of the 60th Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) in Bulawayo. Museveni, called the act of putting sanctions […]

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President Yoweri Museveni has disagreed with the idea of putting sanctions on African countries particularly Zimbabwe calling it the act of ‘cowardice’.

President Museveni is in Zimbabwe for a two-day visit as the chief guest on the official opening of the 60th Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) in Bulawayo.

Museveni, called the act of putting sanctions as cowardice the fact that Zimbawe has been under sanctions from United States of America close to two decades, Britain and other countries from the European Union.

 “I want to condemn the sanctions which have been put on Zimbabwe for such a long time,” Museveni said, referencing the close to two decades that Zimbabwe has been under sanctions from the United States, Britain and other countries in the European Union.

“The idea of sanctions is cowardice,” continued Museveni. “If somebody is wrong, leave him. He will fail by his own mistakes. Why do you have to put sanctions,” queried Museveni.

Also this is a problem of us Africans, we don’t work closely together. If somebody puts sanctions on one of us, we also put sanctions on them. I don’t agree with those who say Africa is much weaker to work together. OAU and the frontline countries worked together to support the struggles for freedom in South Africa. If we discussed closely and cognately we can have a greater impact,” he added.

Various calls have been made by various leaders and certain groups asking U.S, Britain and EU to lift the sanctions on Zimbabwe. Contrary to the call, all have extended the sanctions to one year pending the implementation and adoption of certain reforms including respect for human rights, rule of law and freedom of the press.

President Museveni also hinted on the idea of working together as African Countries and pledged support to Zimbabwe in case of need.

“I want to encourage you to be steadfast in the challenges imposed on you by external factors. We shall stand by you. Zimbabwe is a rich country; let’s work together and develop this huge potential of Zimbabwe,” he said.

“We had died and been buried. But we rose again. Uganda now has got one of the fastest growing economies in the World, Zimbabwe can do the same.

“we should work together to exploit the big potential of Zimbabwe particularly the wide range of minerals available in the Southern African country,” Museveni added.

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Over 30,000 beneficiaries, big stride for skilling Uganda fund https://www.weinformers.com/2019/04/02/over-30000-beneficiaries-big-stride-for-skilling-uganda-fund/ https://www.weinformers.com/2019/04/02/over-30000-beneficiaries-big-stride-for-skilling-uganda-fund/#respond Tue, 02 Apr 2019 15:11:39 +0000 http://www.weinformers.com/?p=54477 The 120 billion shilling skilling Uganda fund has already registered 30,000 beneficiaries seven years of existence after its launch in 2012. The projects targets 60,000 beneficiaries by 2020 and is aimed at facilitating competitiveness, productivity and employment for self reliance among the Ugandan youth. The Assistant Commissioner for Vocational Education, Mr. James Mugerwa during the […]

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The 120 billion shilling skilling Uganda fund has already registered 30,000 beneficiaries seven years of existence after its launch in 2012.

The projects targets 60,000 beneficiaries by 2020 and is aimed at facilitating competitiveness, productivity and employment for self reliance among the
Ugandan youth.

The Assistant Commissioner for Vocational Education, Mr. James Mugerwa during the launch of the National skills fair on Tuesday in Kampala revealed that the Ministry of Education and sports has worked closely with Enabel and PSFU to skill Ugandans through the Skills development Fund and the skills development facility.

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Janet Museveni and other Officials at Skilling Uganda consultative meeting at Hotel Africana in Kampala(Photo by PMPU)

Mr. Mugerwa further revealed that the fair will offer a platform to exhibit skills among Ugandans.

“The national skills fair is an opportunity for us to showcase the achievements of both funds.” Mugerwa said.

The three-days fair will take place from 7th to 9th May 2019 at the UMA multipurpose hall.

According to the SDF manager Christine Karungi, the fair will connect producers and manufacturers , employers and training institutions for more training and work opportunities.

“The innovative approaches employed in training have enabled several SDF beneficiaries to get employed while others have started their own businesses,” Ruth Byinzika Musoke, the Head SDF at PSFU said.

The skilling Uganda fund develops skills for the youths in the fields of manufacturing, construction, oil and gas, ICT and agriculture.

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The ban on betting is only for foreign companies-Minister Kasaija https://www.weinformers.com/2019/01/22/the-ban-on-betting-is-only-for-foreign-companies-minister-kasaija/ https://www.weinformers.com/2019/01/22/the-ban-on-betting-is-only-for-foreign-companies-minister-kasaija/#respond Tue, 22 Jan 2019 14:16:21 +0000 http://www.weinformers.com/?p=54356 The Finance Minister Matia Kasaija has supported the move by President Museveni to ban Sports Betting in Uganda. Kasaija however clarified the matter that the move is not to ban gaming in the country but rather foreign betting companies who repatriate their profits back home. The minister was speaking to a number of journalists at […]

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The Finance Minister Matia Kasaija has supported the move by President Museveni to ban Sports Betting in Uganda.

Kasaija however clarified the matter that the move is not to ban gaming in the country but rather foreign betting companies who repatriate their profits back home.

The minister was speaking to a number of journalists at Imperial Royale Hotel on Tuesday during the launch and dissemination of a report on compliance of national budget framework paper.

“We’re not banning gaming. We’re saying this activity should be limited to only Ugandans. We have said that licensees that are running will not be renewed and new ones will not be issued to foreigners because we’ve discovered so much of our money is being exported through that gaming thing which as far as I am concerned has little value to the economy.

“It ends up by taking our very scarce foreign exchange which we earn through very difficult circumstances like growing coffee and other crops,” he said before encouraging youth to work hard,” the minister added.

According to the State Minister for Finance in charge of Planning, Mr David Bahati, President Museveni directed a ban on betting and ordered not to renew or issue licenses. This will encourage the youth to work hard.

Source: Daily Monitor.

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Museveni commissions 22 floor-UGX139 billion URA complex https://www.weinformers.com/2019/01/22/museveni-commissions-22-floor-ugx139-billion-ura-complex/ https://www.weinformers.com/2019/01/22/museveni-commissions-22-floor-ugx139-billion-ura-complex/#respond Tue, 22 Jan 2019 11:55:47 +0000 http://www.weinformers.com/?p=54349 President Yoweri Museveni has commissioned the iconic Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) Tower, with a call on the on the institutions in Government to renew their strength towards fulfilling their main mission which is to see the economy grow. “Your role is to assist the economy to grow. This is our survival and you have absolutely […]

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President Yoweri Museveni has commissioned the iconic Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) Tower, with a call on the on the institutions in Government to renew their strength towards fulfilling their main mission which is to see the economy grow.

The iconic URA structure

“Your role is to assist the economy to grow. This is our survival and you have absolutely no right to frustrate business because if it doesn’t grow, how will you collect more revenue? This is to create jobs for our children, to get out of dependency and if you are not able to help, please go and do other things,” he said.  

He, therefore, urged the staff of URA to step up their game by facilitating business in the country adding “one of your missions is to facilitate business and investment. Don’t waste time anybody`s time, these are people who are adding to the national wealth.”

The President was speaking during the official commissioning of the Uganda Revenue Authority Tower in Nakawa Division Kampala District. The 22-floor building has been constructed at a total cost of UGX139 billion.

The President who toured the complex reiterated that government is planning to put up office structures in a move that will see government cut cost on rent.

“We are going to build a government campus although we have delayed because of some corrupt people. Government has been losing Shs.96 billion per year to pay rent for Central Government offices only,” he noted.

He advised URA staff to remain patriotic if the institution is to achieve the expected results. He warned that government will not tolerate any corrupt officials now that so many young educated Ugandans are readily available to take up those positions.

He said that all the country’s borders must be scanned adding that measures must be put in place to close the gaps. He commended URA for the measures that have been put in place so far citing the electronic Monitoring Unit as an example.

Mr. Museveni revealed that Government spent more time in revamping URA by recruiting people with integrity. He was, therefore, optimistic that with integrity, patriotism, technical training and technology, URA is destined for great performance.

State Minister for Planning, Hon. David Bahati, said the President’s commissioning of the complex spelled an endorsement of the work that URA has been doing. He said the building will save Government approximately Shs.7 billion in rental fees. He added that this is in line with the policy of consolidating Government resources where it is envisaged that Government institutions should have their own office accommodation at Bwebajja along the Kampala – Entebbe highway.

URA Board Chairman, Dr. Simon Kagugube thanked President Museveni for the support and partnership in building URA house. He observed that this will go a long way in improving service delivery to the public.

Commissioner General of URA, Ms Doris Akol, lauded President Museveni and the Government of Uganda for fully committing funds to the project which, she said, will offer infrastructure for better service delivery and reduce the cost of doing business for both taxpayers and URA in one stop service centre. She pledged commitment and better services to the country.

President Museveni was among the people who were given awards for outstanding contribution to URA.

Source: State House Uganda

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PLE Results Set to be Released on Thursday https://www.weinformers.com/2019/01/14/ple-results-set-to-be-released-on-thursday/ https://www.weinformers.com/2019/01/14/ple-results-set-to-be-released-on-thursday/#respond Mon, 14 Jan 2019 14:17:03 +0000 http://www.weinformers.com/?p=54309 Minister of Education Janet Museveni will on Thursday January 17, 2019 release the Primary Leaving Examination (PLE) results. According to the Ministry of Education spokesperson, Mr Patrick Muinda, the Uganda National Examinations Board (Uneb) will present results of pupils’ performance before Ms Museveni on Wednesday at the State House Nakasero,  “Uneb officials will brief the  […]

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Minister of Education Janet Museveni will on Thursday January 17, 2019 release the Primary Leaving Examination (PLE) results.

According to the Ministry of Education spokesperson, Mr Patrick Muinda, the Uganda National Examinations Board (Uneb) will present results of pupils’ performance before Ms Museveni on Wednesday at the State House Nakasero, 

“Uneb officials will brief the  on the performance of last year’s Primary Leaving Examinations on Wednesday January 16, 2019 at 11am and later release them on Thursday January 17, 2019 at 11am at President’s Office,” Mr Muinda said.

Last year, UNEB registered a 3.9 per cent increase with 671,923 candidates registered to sit 2018 PLE from 13,072 centres across the country compared to 646,041 from 12, 751 in 2017. 

According to the executive Secretary of Uganda National examinations board Dan Odongo Of the total candidature, 476,131 were from Universal Primary Education (UPE) schools and 195,792 private. 

346,963 candidates were females while 324,960 were males.

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