Author: Johnson Thembo
Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has called on parents to support their children in school so as to groom a future generation that can take Uganda’s economy to an international scale. Kadaga emphasizes the need for youth to engage in practical skills throughout their academic lives, so as to be well grounded for the labor force. “We need to attach more value to our technical institutions because they give our children hands on skills, which protects them from the burden of unemployment because they can set up their own enterprises,” Kadaga says. The Speaker made the remarks while donating over…
Legislators have recommended an overhaul of the education curriculum, saying that the current one does not address the skills gap. The MPs made the call while responding to a statement by the Minister for Youth, Hon. Florence Nakiwala Kiyingi, ahead of the International Youth Day slated for 12 August 2019. Nakiwala told the lawmakers that the Youth day celebrations would be held in Jinja district under the theme, ‘Transforming education for responsible citizenship and employment creation’. The MPs suggested that the current education system should move away from being examination based and instead focus more on skills. Hon. Spellanza…
President Yoweri Museveni has appealed to all people and organisations working to promote trade and investment in Uganda to put more efforts towards uplifting the 68% of Uganda’s population who are still living the subsistence way of life so that they join money economy. He said that failure to do that would tantamount to all the country’s efforts towards promotion of trade, investment and industrialisation, not yielding meaningful results. The President made the remarks this afternoon while closing the two-day West Nile Investment Symposium 2019 at Muni University in Arua City in West Nile Sub-Region. The symposium that run under…
Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda has said security personnel involved in alleged human rights violations will suffer the consequences of their own actions. Rugunda was responding to MP Robert Kyagulanyi (IND, Kyaddondo East), who said his supporters are suffering unexplained abductions and tortures, allegedly at the hands of security officials. MP Kyagulanyi singled out the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI), which is the army’s intelligence arm, and the Col Frank Bagyenda – led Internal Security Organisation (ISO) as being behind the alleged abductions and tortures. “My question to the Prime Minister is why ISO, CMI and Military Police are taking over…
The East African Development Bank hosted two events to develop the East African extractives industry in Nairobi in August 2019. From the 2nd to 3rd August, the East African Development Bank hosted Permanent Secretaries and other senior government officials from across East Africa to a workshop that offered capacity building in better negotiating contracts pertaining to natural resource management in the extractives industries. Lawyers from DLA Piper implemented the workshop. From the 5th to the 9th August, the EADB will host public sector lawyers and legal professionals to a second workshop that will also provide capacity building in better negotiating…
He quit his job from mainstream media to go undertake his activism work with Pats Journal – The Albinism News Network an online story telling platform where people come to discover, learn and share inspiring stories of persons with albinism and those making a difference around the world. Here Larubiservices as Director Communications and Head of Strategies besides working as a freelance travel and events photographer, video producer and a disability right activist. In a one on one interview with the press Larubi shares how and why he became an advocate, what he loves about his new role and what…
Egocentric demands are nothing new on Hollywood sets but producers of the Fast & Furious franchise have revealed its stars have gone so far as to refuse to lose fights against one another. Members of the team behind the movie series told the Wall Street Journal (paywall) that actors including Jason Statham, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Vin Diesel have contract demands that limit the amount of punishment their characters take in fights. Diesel, who has been with the long-running franchise from the beginning, reportedly devised a complicated rating system tallying how many times each actor was kicked, punched or headbutted to ensure violence was being doled…
Ndorwa East MP, Hon Wilfred Niwagaba has sought the leave of Parliament to table a Constitution Amendment Bill which seeks to scrap the position of Vice President and Prime Minister, among a cocktail of other proposals. The objects of the Constitution Amendment Bill 2019, outlines its ambitious intentions. Key in the proposed amendments is the creation of the position of Deputy President, who unlike the current provision in article 99 of the Constitution will be chosen by a candidate for president as a running-mate. The Deputy President proposed will swallow up the Office of the Prime Minister and be the…
The State Minister for Kampala Capital City Authority, Hon Benny Namugwanya, has announced that government is abandoning the proposal to have the Kampala Lord Mayor voted for by councillors. Minister Namugwanya’s position is in support of the report by the Committee on Presidential Affairs, which in its recommendations on the contentious Kampala Capital City Authority (Amendment) Bill, rooted for the scrapping of the proposal. “Government has reconsidered its position on the issue of election of the Lord Mayor by councillors…we are maintaining the position in the current law in the spirit of not disenfranchising the people of Kampala,” said Namugwanya.…
Parliament has laid down available inducements by government meant to attract Turkish and other foreign investors to the country. The Chairperson of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Hon. Hood Katuramu, told members of the Turkish private sector that they can benefit from the huge incentives in place to invest in various fields including oil and gas, tourism, construction and agro-processing. “In order to attract investors to the above sectors, government has put in place various initiatives and incentives to ensure a favourable environment in Uganda,” he said. Katuramu made the remarks at the start of the Uganda – Turkey Business,…