The Eastern region youth MP Peter Ogwang has appealed to parliament to increase on the number of youth representatives in parliament from 5 to 23. Ogwang made the appeal while appearing before parliamentary committee on legal affairs to give views on parliamentary elections amendment bill 2015. He says that youth, women ,PWDs and Army MPS are all in […]
The National Union of coffee Agribusinesses and farm Enterprises (NUCAFE) has launched the 1st Uganda national coffee festival and exhibition to promote youth and coffee innovations through facilitating increased exposure to opportunities and networking for increased job creation in the coffee value chain for the youth. This is aimed at promoting and building of strategic business […]
The Government chief whip Ruth Nankabirwa Sentamu said that the youth should stop complaining about the increase in nomination fees for parliamentary and presidential seats, saying that it does not favour them financially. Nankabirwa said that the youth and other people who can afford nomination fees should seek sponsorship from political parties of their choice and […]
Youth have demanded parliament to urgently amend the National youth council to provide a legal framework under which the youth are elected as Members of Parliament so as there is no vacuum for their existence in parliament. The youth told journalists in Kampala that parliament should prevail over government to table amendments related to how […]
YOUTH under Generation for Growth and Development call parents and Guardians to encourage children to take up vocational skills as they get academic knowledge. This as the youth were unveiling a mindset project known as chinalizing Uganda, intended to create jobs for youth in Kawempe as pilot area and later in other parts of the […]
Drama ensued at Makerere University yesterday after a group of students attempted to block a meeting convened by embattled Makerere university LC 5 Councilor to pronounce his decision to contest for the same seat. During the same meeting, Benard Luyiga intended to clear the air on recent media reports that he was arrested for failing to clear a 10 million shillings […]
Youth have vowed to shun whoever wants to lead this country in 2016 unless he or she agrees to their demands. The demands were contained in what they called the youth manifesto authored by youth organizations in conjunction with Uganda parliamentary forum on youth affairs led by the female national youth MP Monica Amoding. Among […]
Youths Under their umbrella Organization Worldwide African Congress has petitioned parliament asking it to pass to bill entitled “Made in Africa Bill 2015” to ban the importation of secondhand underwear and bras. The youths who have displayed the secondhand underwear at Parliament say that they want a law that will prohibit the sale and exportation […]
Government is concerned about the mushrooming unemployment levels among the youth and need to address the problem permanently. The Minister of Defence Dr Chrispus Kiyonga, while on the floor of Parliament said unemployment is a structural problem in Uganda and therefore needs time to resolve it as one way of creating jobs for the youth. He […]
The key to unlocking the East African Community potential lies with its leaders and the people, President Uhuru Kenyatta has said. Addressing the Kenyan diaspora in Kampala, Uganda, President Kenyatta said Kenyans and Ugandans need not look at each other as competitors but rather as complementing each other to compete favourably with the rest of […]