Kampala, Uganda: Speaking during Stakeholders’ engagement on value addition organized by Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) on Tuesday, Jacklene Arinda a.k.a Madam CEO the Chief Executive Officer of Jada Coffee urged fellow players to handle two matters with care if the sub sector is to thrive. Today’s engagement at Protea Hotel Kampala Skyz was focused on how players can tackle the challenges faced in the value addition journey, opportunities for youth in the sector and ways to grow domestic coffee consumption. Important to note. Coffee is the Uganda’s leading cash crop. Uganda exported 6.26 million bags of coffee in the…
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Kampala, Uganda: There are high chances that Uganda’s President, Yoweri Museveni will be addressing countrymen and women tomorrow for the first time ever since the outbreak of Ebola which has since chained 23 people. Newly appointed Senior Presidential Press Secretary, Sandor Walusimbi confirmed that President Museveni will be speaking at 8pm on Wednesday, 27/09/2022. According to ministry of Health Tweet, yesterday, Tweet See new Tweets Conversation Ministry of Health- Uganda @MinofHealthUG Ministry of Health- Uganda @MinofHealthUG CURRENT #EbolaOutbreakUG update: As of 25th September, 2022 New Confirmed Cases: 2 Cumulative cases: 36 (18 confirmed and 18 probable cases) New deaths: 2…
By Julius Mugaga/Umoja Standard. Kampala, Uganda: Stakeholders in Financial Technology (FinTech) have today engaged media regarding it as an indispensable partner in shaping the industry. Organized under Financial Technology Service Providers Association (FITSPA), these thought engaging media will help draw them into the entire Fintech eco-system as key stakeholders in steering the narrative around the industry. This has come at a time when Financial Technology Service Providers Association (FITSPA) is organizing the FITSPA Annual Fintech Conference under the theme “Investments and Partnerships” – How to Thrive in Uganda’s FinTech ecosystem and beyond, on 12th and 13th October 2022. Important to…
By Julius Mugaga/Umoja Standard II Exclusive. Kampala, Uganda: Around 10:15pm on Sunday, a small private car that was driving at a terrible speed had a head-on collision with a Boda Boda at Kampala Northern Bypass. A car, number plate UAG 094W was heading to Northern Bypass, Masanafu Round About from Sentema Road failed to stabilize on the Road just like 10m to the Round About. The car then instantly crossed from its lane to the other where it found a Boda Boda Man heading to Sentema Road and knocked him. The car face crashed terribly and the motorcycle. For fear…
By Julius Mugaga/Umoja Standard. Kampala, Uganda: TUKO Super App is Uganda’s new One Stop e-transaction Application with vast solutions, (one is able to access every service by logging into the App say, Boda Boda services, breakdown of vehicles, food, shopping, electronic services, security etcetera and follow the steps). The Application enables them to deliver services 24/7 and for Kampala where they are operating from currently, services are delivered in 30 minutes to enable convenience. Dr. Climate Wiseman, Chairman of TUKO Group and the Co-founder of TUKO Super App speaks to press when they visited the App’s Head Office in Mengo, Kampala Uganda.…
Taking to his Tweeter Account @mkainerugaba tweeted; ”Happy to announce that I will be visiting my uncle, H.E. Paul Kagame, soon to get more tips on cattle keeping. Look forward to meeting with more friends in Kigali. God bless Uganda and Rwanda!” It should be remembered that Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba last visited Rwandan President Kgame in March 2022 in what was codenamed “visit to settle bi-lateral relations” between Uganda and Rwanda but since then he had not gone back. Indeed this was followed by reopening of the boarder between two countries in March which ended the three year impasse. After…
Fort Portal: Yesterday the country went into a shock after receiving news of UPDF gunship helicopter crash in Fort Portal. Everyone thought that the incident could have claimed or injured lives of both occupants of it and on the ground. It is said that the helicopter crashed into a mud and a house of an old woman in the morning of yesterday after just like 500m of take off according to officials from the UPDF. Locals around the scene reported that they witnessed UPDF soldiers struggling to get out of the helicopter however UPDF Mountain division spokesperson, Maj Peter Mugisa…
By Metedio Iceta Moyo, West Nile: A section of leaders in Moyo district have rejected the plan by government to phase out Erepi Primary Teachers’ College PTC. Erepi is among the among the 23 PTCs, which are on the verge of being closed indefinitely as the government officially phases out Grade III and Grade V teaching qualifications in favor of a bachelor’s degree in Education. There are 46 PTCs in Uganda, 23 of which are core institutions that run both pre-and in-service programs. The remaining 23 are non-core institutions that only offer pre-service programs. Teachers with Grade III and Grade…
Kampala, Uganda: Prof. Dr. K. M. Mathew the Vice Chancellor of ISBAT University said that ever since National Council for Higher education (NCHE) introduced Open Distance e-learning (ODel) system, they converted their lectures and video notes into Enterprise resource planning, ERP system to suit the demand of the initiative. Prof. Mathew made these remarks in line with this year’s National Council for Higher education (NCHE) 13th Blended Higher Education Institutions Exhibition theme; (Enhancement of teaching, Learning and Assessment with Open Distance e-learning, (ODel) in Higher Education). (R-L)Prof. Dr. K. M. Mathew the Vice Chancellor of ISBAT University matches with Rt.…
By Julius Mugaga/Umoja Standard. Kampala: Hon. Kabbyanga Godfrey Baluku, Uganda’s Minister of State for Information Technology and National Guidance (ICT & NG) noted that government is aware that such businesses use a lot internet as their channel of trade and they need costs to reduce in order for them to favorably carry out transactions. It is against this background that Mr. Kabbyanga revealed that in the next six months or a year, government is looking forward to reduce internet costS to about UD$20mbs/sec. Important to note. Currently the cost internet stands at US$35mbs/sec from recent US$70mbs/sec. E-Trade gained reputation during…