A total of 98 shortlisted candidates in Rukungiri District will next month (July) sit for interviews that if passed will allow them to join the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF). The Rukungiri Deputy Resident District Commissioner (DRDC), Wilberforce Ongom Ahimbisibwe told our reporter that the interviews will commence on 1st July... Read More
Gulu: The Minister for Energy and Mineral Development, Ruth Nankabirwa has revealed that the government plans to enter into a partnership arrangement to operate the country’s national grid when Umeme Limited’s concession ends. Umeme Ltd, a private power distributor has been running a 20-year power distribution concession since 2005 with... Read More
Rukungiri: Members of Rukungiri taxi owners, drivers and conductors cooperative society limited have elected new leadership after six years of irregularities in their cooperative. The voting exercise which attracted 189 voters was on Wednesday June 12, 2024 conducted at All Saints Church Rukungiri in Rukungiri municipality and was presided over... Read More
Rukungiri: The Rukungiri district secretary for social services Claire Keledonia Bakironda has appealed to the residents of Rukungiri to embrace the upcoming National population and housing census. Keledonia was speaking to our reporter shortly after the district advocacy committee for the national population and housing census at the district headquarters... Read More
Rukungiri: Rukungiri municipality authorities on Monday April 8th 2024 signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Uganda Prisons Service (UPS) to receive 6 hectares of land where they will construct a modern lorry parking yard and cemetery. The said land is found opposite Taso Rukungiri branch in Kagunga cell,... Read More
Ntungamo: Millions of shillings were on Sunday 10th March 2024 lost in property after PK fuel station at Ikona trading centre in Kagongi parish, Rugarama sub-county, Ntungamo district caught fire. Eye witnesses say the vehicle that had brought fuel to refill the fuel station went ablaze and fire later spread to the surrounding... Read More
Mbarara: Fresh fish vendors in Mbarara Central Market have protested against the high rental fees. The protests came on Wednesday 06th March 2024 during a meeting with Members of Parliament on the Public service and local governments committee. The MPs are currently on an oversight tour of the 12 Markets constructed... Read More
Kampala: President Yoweri Museveni has asked the European Union to invest in Ugandan instead of lecturing the country, saying the latter is a non-trade barrier to business. The president was on Wednesday 06th March 2024 addressing the third edition of the Uganda-European Union business forum at Speke Resort hotel in Munyonyo. He... Read More
Kampala: Finance minister Matia Kasaija has said they are speeding up the merger of government agencies to fight corruption which continues to eat into the core of service delivery. He made the remarks yesterday during the civil society organisations’ pre-budget dialogue in Kampala. The minister, who was speaking as a... Read More
Ntungamo: The ban imposed on beef trade in Nyamunuka town council, Ntungamo district has left many meat dealers in worry over where to get school fees for the first term of academic year 2024 which begins next week on Monday 05th Febuary 2024. The ban was instituted recently in Nyamunuka... Read More