Author: Johnson Thembo
Before COVID-19 virus arrived in Uganda, the Tourism sector was registering a steady rise in foreign exchange from tourists. According to the Annual Tourism Sector Performance Report for Financial Year 2018/2019, revenue rose from $1.45 billion in 2017 to $1.6 billion in 2018. Owing to this growth, in the same report, the sector accounted for 7.7 per cent of the national gross domestic product and 6.7 per cent of total national employment through creating 667,600 jobs. With government committing to spend Shs181 billion in the tourism sector in the next financial year. Vivian Lyazi, The Tourism Manager at the Ministry…
Pearl Dairy Farms Limited (PDFL), Uganda’s largest Dairy processor and the manufacturer of Lato Milk branded products, has unveiled the addition of a new UGX9.25 billion Tetrapak Edge production line to its facility. The line is the first of its kind in East Africa and will help Pearl Dairy reach out to more customers in Uganda and abroad with a completely new range of UHT milk products that are durable and convenient to use for consumers. According to Mr. Bijoy Varghese, General Manager at Pearl Dairy, the new line from TetraPak aseptically packages the product, which means the milk is…
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MTN recently announced a partnership with several members of the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) which will see the telecom advance network automation using TIP’s Disaggregated Cell Site Gateway (DCSG). We had an Interview with Ali Monzer, MTN Uganda chief technical information officer to explain what the new technology means for customers MTN recently announced rollout of a Disaggregated Cell Site Gateway (DCSG) technology, what is that? To understand DCSG, you ought to know how telephone calls are made. Currently, we have towers across the country which house antennae. These towers emit radio frequencies in the air which are displayed on…
The Ministry of Health and Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) have taken the mosquito net distribution to Kalerwe Market, a Kampala suburb found in Kawempe division. Commanded by the Prime Minister Rt. Hon. Robinah Nabanja, government delivered over 2000 mosquito nets to the vendors who have been asked to sleep in the markets as a way of stopping the spread of COVID-19. Speaking at the event, the Kakumiro woman representative saluted to venders for adhering to the presidential directive on the fight of the global corona virus. Every time I pass here, I find people observing the Standard Operation Procedures,…
With over15 million Ugandan learners stuck home due to the closure of schools as a result of the second wave of Coronavirus, MultiChoice Uganda, has through Pearl Magic and Pearl Magic Prime, its local content channels revamped Learning Time, a slot dedicated to the educating of Ugandan students while in lockdown. The lessons on Learning Time will run from 9:00 am to 11:00 am every weekday and will cover all the major subjects of the Ugandan syllabus. They will also run from 10 am to 12:00 noon on weekends with the same objective. On 6th June, 2021, government re-announced closure…
At a time when hundreds of learned lawmakers that mocked Hon. Muhammad Ssegirinya over academic papers, the heart to serve our constituents has been depicted during these trying Covid-19 times. As the educated lawmakers continue to run from the voters and switching off their mobile phones, Kawempe North’s MP Muhammad Ssegirinya, the man from the Ghetto has entered in the books of good and exemplary leaders even before spending a month in the August House. Ssegirinya has bought a second ambulance to help ferry Covid-19 patients during tough times when government is struggling to evacuate locals. Mr Update said on…
Dear Countrymen and Women, Since my last two updates, the country has seen a more aggressive and sustained growth of the COVID-19 pandemic as opposed to the earlier months of April and May 2021. Over the past 3 weeks, the daily number of people testing positive for Corona has increased from less than 100 to now over 1,700. This represents a 17 fold increase in daily cases. As a result our epidemic curve is now on steep rise with increased reports of deaths nationwide. (Show Epidemic curve in figure next page). 3 Figure 1: National Covid-19 Epidemic Curve March 2020…
It’s official, Fortebet, a billion winners’ betting company has unveiled the Laugh Doctor, Alex Muhangi as its Brand Ambassador. Muhangi, the Comedy Store hero who has literally made everyone laugh via his live shows or his youtube Account and related social media platforms, will now accompany his laugh dose with all the vital information about Fortebet that you need to know. During the unveiling at Fortebet head office in Kololo, the company’s Chief Marketing Officer, Marek Mickal noted that; “The name Alex Muhangi is big in the entire East African region. It is for this reason that Uganda’s biggest betting…
Bukonzo West Member of Parliament Hon. Godfrey Atkins Katusabe has threatened to go bare knuckles with Lt Gen Peter Elwelu now that he is in August House. Elwelu who is one of the 10 army representatives in the 11th Parliament shortly after swearing in told the media that people who were killed in Kasese under his commandship in 2016 deserved it. Speaking during his swearing in victory party at Niccan Resort on Wednesday 19 May 2021, Hon. Katusabe described Elweru as a shameless son of Satan. He bitterly stated that its disheartening to find an International Criminal like Elwelu bragging…