By Charles Katabalwa/Umoja Standard. Director of the World Sustainability Organization, Paolo Bray has made an urgent appeal to the government and farming community in Uganda, for coffee farming and production to be made more sustainable. He stressed Uganda risks losing its position as one of the world’s major coffee producers, if immediate action is not taken. WAIT FOR CUE VOCoffee is one of the world’s most consumed drinks, with a higher global market value than tea.It is the most widely traded tropical product, with up to 25 million farming households globally accounting for 80 percent of world output.99% of all…
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The CEO of BLB, Omuk. Simon Kabogoza at the invitation of the UNDP country representative Ms. Elsie Attafuah, has participated in a UNDP organized workshop themed,” sense-making workshop on frontier challenges for smart cities” at Protea Hotel-Entebbe as UNDP seeks eliminate slums and create smart cities in Uganda. The CEO told the workshop participants about the interventions BLB, under the guidance of Ssaabasajja Kabaka has undertaken to address the challenge of housing in the country; facilitating the building of affordable houses in Ssentema, high end houses in Kigo, securing tenancy for bibanja holders on Kabaka’s land, enabling people to get…
By Charles Katabalwa/Umoja Standard. Kampala, Uganda: The Minister for East African Affairs Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga together with other delegates from East African Community (EAC) has launched Swahili as an Official language for Uganda and urged Ugandans embrace it to ease cross border trade and communication. Speaking to journalists at African hotel in Kampala today during the 2nd East African Community (EAC) Kiswahili Language Day cerebrated under theme : Kiswahili and Multilingualism: Achieving More Together, Kadaga called upon Ugandans to embrace Swahili language saying knowing more than one lauguage is healthy and can help someone to do business in any part of…
By Charles Katabalwa/Umoja Standard. Kampala, Uganda: The call was during the during the 2nd East African Community (EAC) Kiswahili Language Day cerebrations symposium held at hotel under theme : Kiswahili and Multilingualism: Achieving More Together. Swahili day is cerebrated every 7th July. Kadaga called upon Ugandans to embrace Swahili language saying knowing more than one lauguage is healthy and can help someone to do business in any part of the world., ” I know Swahili which help me to do business in east Africa, Africa and some parts of the world, I know French, English, Luganda and my Mother tongue…
By Julius Mugaga Tukacungurwa/Umoja Standard. Kampala, Uganda: On Tuesday July/4th/2023, while weighing in on the recently passed FY2023/24 Budget, Dr. Fred Muhumuza, a Scholar from Makerere University Business School (MUBS) and renown Ugandan economist stated that for the budget to be effective must be answering the following questions for Ugandan citizens and farmers; Are you in the budget?, Are your conditions in the budget? Are the issues that matter to you in the budget? “Are issues that matter to the community in the budget? The government is allocating huge sums of money on unnecessary things instead of allocating it to…
By Charles Katabalwa. UK in it’s terrorist warning said that the attacks should be discriminated or against places frequented by foreign nationals adding there is a high threat of terrorist attack globally affecting UK interests calling upon it’s nationals to be vigilant at all times. Today the DP National Vice president Fred Mukasa Mbidde while addressing journalists at party Headquarters City house in kampala said that it’s good that UK has warned Uganda security organs are going to be more alert as well as the general public. ” since the warning has come there is a need to re-build people…
NBS television presenter Kawalya Isaac aka Kayz recently relocated to the United States of America after struggling to find Visa. He has been working on it for so many years and last month it was approved as he got ready to finally travel. It is everyone’s dream to move to the United States of America for greener pastures although it is difficult to secure the right documentations for that. People have been wondering why Kayz would leave his juicy job at NBS television to go to America. According to Jenkins Mukasa, Kayz has been working so hard but he had…
Pretty Nicole has finally spoken on her trending social media video claiming the person in the video is not her. Credit: Buzznation. The video was posted on social media days ago and it was claimed to be her in that video. But the video, her face wasn’t showed and people were wondering if it was true she is the one or another per. According to Pretty Nicole, she has never recorded herself with any man and she will never record herself. She said people who are claiming to have seen her just want to turnish her name nothing else. According…
Annually, Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry organizes Lagos International Trade Fair (LITF) and this not different with this year. From November 3, 2023 – November 12, 2023 there will be a Trade Fair to showcase different items not limited to Agriculture, Construction, Equipment, Oil and Gas, Mining and Energy, Automobile, Telecommunications, Data Processing, Printing, Security, Banking, Personal Care, Furniture, Fashion and Textile, Food and Drinks. The Lagos International Trade Fair is the largest International Trade Fair in Nigeria. The spectacular 10-day event, usually begins on the first Friday in November of every year, since 1981. The Lagos Chamber of…
By Charles Katabalwa. The state minister for Kampala and Metropolitan affair Kabuye Kyofatogabye have asked men to desist from carrying out Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) tests on their children. While addressing believers of the Faith of Unity at Muhororo, Kagadi District yesterday (July 2) at Kapyemi healing centre during the flower day, ( Children’s day) Buyaga West constituency MP Barnabas Tinkasimire said when a baby was born, his or her birth was celebrated by family and friends but right now is so sad to see those children suffering outside the once happy families. “Because of the increasing numbers of fathers that…