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Staff Shortages, Crumbling Infrastructure And Frozen Funds: The Crisis Quietly Threatening Busitema University’s Future

Staff Shortages, Crumbling Infrastructure And Frozen Funds: The Crisis Quietly Threatening Busitema University’s Future

Busitema University has been quietly expanding its reach across eastern Uganda, establishing campuses in Namasagali, Pallisa, Mbale, and Arapai, and steadily increasing student enrolment year after year. On paper, the growth story looks impressive.But behind the numbers, a more uncomfortab

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Balaam donates motorcycle to Publicity Nateete

Balaam donates motorcycle to Publicity Nateete

Balaam Ateenyi has pledged and delivered a motorcycle to Publicity Nateete after his request during a media appearance.Minister of State for Youth and Children Affairs Barugahara Balaam Ateenyi has donated a motorcycle to Yasmin Kawuma, also known as Publicity Nateete.Balaam announc

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Rebecca Kadaga Calls for Ban on Kenyan Traders Buying Food Directly From Ugandan Farms

Rebecca Kadaga Calls for Ban on Kenyan Traders Buying Food Directly From Ugandan Farms

KAMPALA, Uganda — First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for East African Community Affairs, Rebecca Kadaga, has called for a ban on Kenyan traders purchasing food directly from farms, accusing them of exploiting Ugandan farmers and perpetuating poverty.Speaking Tuesday during a meetin

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Exclusive: Govt-NUP in Talks Over Bobi Wine’s ‘Dignified and Secure’ Return

Exclusive: Govt-NUP in Talks Over Bobi Wine’s ‘Dignified and Secure’ Return

Bobi Wine and wife Barbie Itungo in the US during Eid al Fitr celebrations last weekQuiet negotiations between the government and NUP are reportedly underway to facilitate Bobi Wine’s return to Uganda, with security withdrawn from his Magere home and several party leaders recently releas

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How Mobile Money Taxes Are Squeezing Life Ouf of Small Businesses

How Mobile Money Taxes Are Squeezing Life Ouf of Small Businesses

Rising mobile money transaction and withdrawal charges are increasingly eating into the profits of small businesses in Uganda, with traders and MSMEs warning that the high cost of digital transactions could slow the country’s push toward a digital economy.Mobile money has revolutionized

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Science Teachers On Government Payroll To Earn Shs8 Million A Month As Uganda Moves To Make Teaching One Of Its Best-Paid Professions

Science Teachers On Government Payroll To Earn Shs8 Million A Month As Uganda Moves To Make Teaching One Of Its Best-Paid Professions

For years, Uganda’s brightest university students have steered away from education degrees, gravitating instead toward medicine, law, and engineering — courses perceived to offer better financial returns. The government is now moving decisively to change that calculation.In a landmark

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Northern Bypass Attacks: Police arrest 78 in Rubigi hideout

Northern Bypass Attacks: Police arrest 78 in Rubigi hideout

Kampala, Uganda | URN | Heavy traffic caused by road maintenance on the Namungoona–Bwaise section of the Kampala Northern Bypass has created opportunities for thugs to target motorists, leading to the detention of at least 78 suspects at Natete Police Station. The Ministry of Works and Transpor

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Works Ministry on why it’s digging up ‘perfect-looking’ Northern Bypass

Works Ministry on why it’s digging up ‘perfect-looking’ Northern Bypass

The latest works are taking place along the Namungoona–Bwaise stretch, where traffic disruptions have intensified, especially during peak hours.The Ministry of Works and Transport has defended ongoing repair works on the Kampala Northern Bypass, saying that the exercise is part of a long

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Bemuga’s employee entered a Shs 1.7 bn deal without knowledge of directors

Bemuga’s employee entered a Shs 1.7 bn deal without knowledge of directors

Bemuga Forwarders has been given 14 days to defend itself in a case in which its former managing director, Ronald Kanyerezi, entered a Shs 1.7 billion deal with a global logistics firm without the knowledge of its shareholders.Justice Patricia Kahigi Asiimwe said the case raises serious is

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Child knocked dead in Nakasongola

Child knocked dead in Nakasongola

In what is beginning to look like a daily blood ritual, at least one person has died and five others have been injured in a road crash in Nakasongola district along Kampala -Gulu highway.The crash occurred yesterday at around 11:50 am at Sasira Trading Centre located in Wabinyonyi subcount

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