Education
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UNOC and Stanbic Bank to help farmers produce quality foodstuffs
KIRYANDONGO– Uganda National Oil Company [ UNOC ] and Stanbic bank Uganda are partnering to establish an incubator to support farmers in producing foodstuffs that conform to the standards of the oil…
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Africa and the Caribbean to firm cooperation via regional development banks
KAMPALA– Economic ties between Africa and the Caribbean took a strong upward turn this week as the regions’ premier financial institutions—the African Development Bank [AfDB] and the Caribbean Development Bank—came together to…
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Tayebwa urges German MPs to woo home investors to Uganda
KAMPALA– The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Thomas Tayebwa has asked legislators from Germany to encourage the European country’s investors to come and invest in Uganda, saying the latter has immense investment opportunities.…
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Lango MPs urge govt on affordable education
LIRA– Members of Parliament [MPs] under the umbrella of Lango Parliamentary Group [LPG] have asked government to intervene and make secondary school education affordable to the children of poor parents in the…
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Natural disasters: URCS, Weatherman partner to reduce losses
KAMPALA – The Uganda Red Cross Society [ URCS ] and the Uganda National Meteorological Authority [UNMA] have entered into a partnership, through which the latter will share weather and climate information…
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Museveni tags teachers as ‘greedy’, priotises free and compulsory primary education
KAMPALA– President Yoweri Museveni is not happy that teachers in government-aided schools continue to damand salary enahncements and has instead acused them of being “greedy”. Instead, Museveni wants the Members of Parliament…
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Teachers to stage industrial action on Wednesday
KAMPALA– Teachers under the umbrella of Uganda National Teachers Union [UNATU] have promised to lay down their tools on Wednesday if government does not confirm their salary increments in the budget for the…
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Masindi Municipality receives Shs 329mln, over 12,000 iron sheets
MASINDI– Ten Groups from Masindi Municipality and Bigando Primary School days ago received Shs 329 million from the Office of the Prime Minister [OPM]under the micro-projects and Parish development associations programme. Jeneffer…
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Lira City: Govt releases Shs 3.9bln to clear salary arrears of teachers
LIRA– The government has released Shs 3.9 billion to pay and clear accumulated salary arrears of secondary and primary school teachers in Lira City. About 1,200 teachers in Lira City recently went…
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Acholi youth ask Museveni to intervene in Apaa land dispute
GULU– A section of youth leaders from Acholi Sub-region yesterday called upon President Museveni to intervene and end what they referred to as the continuous attacks and violence as the Apaa land…
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