PhD Scholarships for Candidates from Developing Countries: The Special Research Fund of Ghent University allocates yearly a certain budget for students from developing countries in order to obtain a PhD at Ghent University. The candidate has to be a national of a country on the VLIR-UDC country list and have permanent residence in a developing […]
In order for the youth of Buruli to internalize and conceptualize ‘Buluri culture emancipation,’ and promote their talents, the cultural leader of Buluri Mwasansozi Mwogezi Butamanya has organised a football tournament for all sub counties in Buluri sub region to compete. The winning team will take a Buduuli cup and other gifts, also teams […]
The government ofUgandahas agreed with commercial banks to fix interest rates to be charged on money given out to the youth in form of loans. The minister ofUgandafor Finance Minister, Maria Kiwanuka says that the banks will charge 15% for a period of six months. Some of the banks the government has agreed with include […]
The budget running KCCA now was not debated by the appropriate organ called the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) which was supposed to make what they call a budget break down according to priority areas of the city. The figures that came from the central government as conditional grants were instead broken down by the […]
The Uganda police force is set to start growing its own food due to high cost of food across the country. We have heard that the inspector general of police Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura has instructed the force’s director for research, Julius Sharita to find land on which all police officers and men will be […]
Parliament has today learnt that Uganda Broadcasting Corporation, Uganda Peoples Defense Forces (UPDF), Uganda Prisons and Uganda Police do not pay for electricity they consume. Talking before the parliamentary ad hoc committee investigating the alleged saga in the energy sector, the Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Managing Director Joseph Katera said that these four government organs […]
Grade B hospital in Entebbe town has failed to reopen due to the long hours of load shedding. The hospital’s medical superintendent, Dr. Martin Okmal says that the hospital has failed to handle complicated cases like operating on delivering women due to lack of electricity in the hospital. He says that they recently closed the […]