Author: Johnson Thembo

Senior commanders and directors under Land Forces of the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) have completed a two day basic and combat fitness tests conducted at Land Forces headquarters in Bombo, Luwero district The exercise was supervised by fitness experts from UPDF’s Chieftaincy of Medical Services and Directorate of Sports. The participants included the Commander Land Forces (CLF), Lt Gen Peter Elwelu with all directors under Land Forces, Division Commanders, Brigade Commanders, Battalion Commanders and other officers who came from units and other services. The participants went through a 5 Km run, push-ups and sit-ups as part of the basic…

Students that have been attending Maritime Search and Rescue have been urged to strengthen the African cooperation as they put in practice the knowledge acquired from the training. The Deputy Commander Land Force Maj Gen Sam Kavuma made this call while closing a two weeks training of 25 officers and men of the ten participating countries conducted at Imperial Botanical Beach Hotel Entebbe. The Eastern Africa Standby Force (EASF)Maritime Search and Rescue course has been ongoing from 23rd Sep 2019 with participants from Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Seychelles,Somalia, Sudan and Uganda. The Deputy Commander complemented the continued financial…

Walimu Cooperative Savings and Credit Union Limited will receive over shs7 billion in fulfilment of the  presidential pledge of shs25 billon. The State Minister for Finance, Hon David Bahati said that the money will be channeled from to the teachers’ SACCO from the Microfinance Support Centre. “The resources that were supposed to go to the teachers’ Sacco went to Microfinance Support Centre on the account that it could be administered well there,” said Bahati. He added that structures had since been put in pace under the Walimu SACCO capable of handling the money. Bahati revealed that some of the money…

The Stanbic Purchase Managers Index (PMI) for September shows that private sector activity remained in growth territory at the end of the third quarter of the year. The survey, sponsored by Stanbic Bank and produced by IHS Markit, indicates that ability of firms to secure additional customers resulted in higher new orders and a subsequent expansion of business activity. Meanwhile, both input costs and output prices continued to increase. The headline PMI was 55.7 in September, down from 57.5 in August, but still above the 50.0 no-change mark. Stanbic Bank Fixed Income managerBenoni Okwenje, commented: “Private sector activity remains solid…

Mental Health Uganda has appointment Journalist Pat Robert LARUBI as their new Communications Officer where he is expected to oversee the day to day general communication needs of the organization. Pat joins Mental Health Uganda following a successful term working as a disability blog/ media consultant with National Union of Disabled Persons of Uganda (NUDIPU) where he focused on popularizing the inclusion of persons with disability in Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), 1, 2 and 11. Prior to that, he was engrossed in his activism work with Pats Journal, an online, media and human rights Non-governmental organization working towards inclusion, ending…

Pop star and presidential hopeful Bobi Wine has denounced the government’s banning of civilian use of red berets, a symbol of his “People Power” movement that he hopes to use to oust longtime President Yoweri Museveni. The government this month gazetted the red beret and other pieces of military wear as “property of the state.” It warned people who wear or sell them that they would be prosecuted under military law, which can lead to a life sentence. “This beret ban is a sham. It is a blatant attempt to suffocate a successful threat to the autocratic status quo,” Wine,…

The UK, in partnership with Italy, has received international backing to jointly host the COP26 climate summit in 2020. This is a huge boost for our work to tackle climate change and follows the PM’s commitment at the G7 Summit in Biarritz to ensure that the COP26 Summit addresses both climate change and biodiversity as two sides of the same coin. The event will take place in Glasgow and will be the UN’s 26th climate change conference. It will bring together over 30,000 delegates from around the world, including climate experts, business leaders and citizens to agree ambitious action to…

MTN Uganda Foundation has officially handed over blood storage equipment to the Mbarara Regional blood bank under the Uganda Blood Transfusion Services (UBTS). This is in a bid to address the issue of blood shortage arising from inadequate blood storage equipment. The state-of-the-art blood refrigerator was handed over to the Parliamentary Woman Representative for Mbarara Municipality, Hon. Rosette KajunguMutambi in a ceremony held today at the Mbarara Regional Blood Bank in Mbarara district. This follows the telecom company’s pledge in July when it availed UGX. 347 million to procure the equipment that comprises of an automated plasma extractor and 3…

Members of Parliament on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have tasked officials from Mbale Regional Referral Hospital to avail clear records showing management of salary disbursement. The Hospital officials led by the Director Dr. Emmanuel Tugaineyo were appearing before PAC-Central Government on Tuesday, 1 October 2019 to respond to audit queries raised by the Auditor General in his financial year 2017/2018 report. Auditor General, John Muwanga, observed that a review of the Hospital’s financial statements for the year under review indicated that Shs 8.2 million was paid as salary to four retired staff and this was attributed to failure to…