The Government is in the final stages of increasing remunerations for Uganda Peoples Defense Forces-UPDF soldiers, the Minister of Defense and Veteran Affairs Vincent Ssempijja has revealed. According to Ssempijja, the salary enhancement is part of the government’s broader plan of improving the general welfare and social status of the soldiers. Ssempijja who presided over as a Chief Guest at the end-of-year party by UPDF at the Armored Brigade Barracks-Kasijjagirwa in Masaka city revealed that the government has developed a proper plan which will enable a systematic increment in soldier salaries. For instance, according to him, the new army salary…
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President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has asked employees in factories not to ask for good salaries before the companies they are working for make good profits. In his New Year message to the country, the President said employees should be patient with their employers and not be highly demanding of better salaries. “We need to harmonize with our people working in the factories. Sometimes, they are impatient for good salaries from the employers. We agree that our factory and other workers should get good salaries if the employers are getting good profits. Profits are influenced by the costs of production,” Museveni…
An official of the Bank of Uganda has died in an accident along the Kampala-Entebbe Expressway. The accident occurred on Sunday morning near Kajjansi Road Toll. “Tragically, early this morning, a fatal accident occurred on the Kampala—Entebbe Expressway. The car rolled several times, the driver died on spot,” said Allan Ssempebwa Kyobe, the Spokesperson of the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA). The team in charge of the Expressway at the accident scene on Sunday morning. “I’m deeply saddened to learn of the passing of a colleague in this accident. May God comfort the bereaved family!” Christine Alupo, a senior staff…
Police in Buvuma are investigating a tragic incident on Lake Victoria, where a boat traveling from Zigunga to Zinga Island was involved in an accident, killing 5 people. The incident occurred yesterday (January 1, 2024) at around 7pm. Ssezibwa police spokesperson Ms Hellen Butoto says so far, 5 people have been confirmed dead, with an additional 14 successfully rescued, adding that an unconfirmed number of individuals remain missing. More details indicate that the ill-fated boat, reportedly overloaded, broke into two pieces while attempting to dock at Zinga Island. Eyewitness accounts suggest that the boat was carrying an undisclosed number of…
A Japan Airlines plane was in flames on the runway of Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Tuesday after apparently colliding with a coast guard aircraft, television reports said. The images on broadcaster NHK showed the plane moving along the runway before an explosion of orange flames burst from beneath and behind it. All 367 passengers on board the Airbus plane were evacuated, broadcaster NHK reported. The cause of the incident was not immediately clear, but television reports said that the Airbus collided with a coast guard aircraft. Reports said that the plane had just arrived from Sapporo airport on the northern…
State Minister for Higher Education Dr. John Chrysostom Muyingo has cautioned schools against opening the school term before the official date. According to the official school calendar from the Ministry of Education and Sports, the school term will commence on 5th February. Muyingo says that he has already received reports that many schools are preparing to start teaching before that date, which he said is illegal. Muyingo asked the District Education Officers to clamp down on schools that disregard the directive. He was speaking at a Thanksgiving ceremony at the home of Varelia Nakiwala at Busiika in Ziroobwe Town Council.…
Keddi Foundation has donated $30,000, approximately one Hundred and eleven Million Uganda shillings (111) towards the completion of Nakaloke Centre mosque. This happened during the marathon fundraising ceremony held at Nakaloke field in Mbale City on Saturday 30th Dec 2023. The funds were handed over to the organizers by the guest of honor for the Nakaloke Centre Mosque construction marathon 2023, C.E.O of Keddi Foundation, Hon. Keddi Steven Zulubah. This initiative was started by the late Dr. Hassan Galiwango together with the Salam charity. The funds were handed over to the organisers by the guest of honour for Nakaloke Centre…
By Julius Mugaga Tukacungurwa/Umoja Standard. Kampala, Uganda:“Today, I had officials from Ministry of Works and Transport in Butenja village asking them to complete Butenja-Kyamujundo stretch that connects to the district road leading to Kakumiro District. The stretch is 2kilometers from the where the 7.6KM KABARUNGI-BUTENJA Road had stopped. This stretch has a bridge with damaged drainage system making it impassable thereby paralyzing development of the area. ” She highlighted. She stressed that ‘when this stretch that connects Bugangaizi East and West Counties is worked on, it will enable transportation of goods, people and services there by boosting business in the…
By JuliusMugaga Tukacungurwa/Umoja Standard. Katikara S/County, Kakumiro: Bugangaizi East Legislator Hon. Aisa made time and visited Rodgers Omuhereza Twinomuhangyi a.k.a Rogers – an empowered farmer in Katikara LCI. Rogers has 4.5ecres of high variety maize grains, two acres of high variety coffee, piggery project, mangoes, chicken and others. I her remarks, Hon. Aisa said it’s the time that Rogers should cascade his development ideas to other people in the constituency, host them and teach them just as you’ve hosted me today.Hon. Aisa being taken through how the grow coffee by Omuhereza Rogers. Photo by Julius Mugaga. “I thank you for…
By Julius Mugaga Tukacungurwa/ Umoja Standard. Katikara, Bugangaizi East, Kakumiro: With the discovery of Oil in Bunyoro Sub Region, Uganda entered a pact with United Republic of Tanzania to facilitate the construction of the pipeline from Kaiso-Tonya in Hoima to Mutukura in Tanzania to facilitate the transportation of Crude Oil from Uganda to Tanzania for refinery. The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) will among other places transect through Katikara area but importantly, a camp of pipeline workers will be established there for a full year. While visiting her people in the constituency ON Wednesday, Hon. Aisa Agaba Black, the…