By Our Reporters. The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has announced a 12.15 percent interest payment to its members for the Financial Year 2020/21. This is an increase from the 11.3 previous paid up having dropped from 15 per cent in 2018. Finance Minister Hon Matia Kasaija said the current interest rate, equivalent to UshS1.52…
By Our Reporter. Ugandan Medical practitioners, who had vowed to shut down all hospitals throughout the country if government did not effect their salary increment as directed by President Museveni, will not implement their plans. This follows positive response from government after the Health Ministry officials and the Parliamentary Committee on Health services held a…
By James Wafula in Nairobi. Tuskys only surviving branch along Tom Mboya street in Nairobi’s CBD is a tale of good old days that have gone sour. Depressed and apparently unmotivated staff go around near empty shells trying to poke life into a fire that has long since brought down the once prosperous giant super…
By Hon. Charles Bakkabulindi. The emerging challenges on the labour market and the scourge of Covid-19 pandemic that is straining Labour unions from offering protection to a bigger number of workers. Jobs that had been increasingly created within the informal sector and private sector that employs the bulk of workers, has been adversely affected, and…
By Our Reporters. Joint Parliamentary committees comprising the Public and Local Government Accounts committees have taken to task officials from Post Bank Uganda Limited,Airtel and MTN to provide convincing accountability for Ushs 2.854b reportedly spent on administrative costs to send Covid-19 relief cash to vulnerable Ugandans. This development comes following reports of several targeted vulnerable…
By Stephen Ouma Bwire. Ugandan athletes Joshua Cheptegei and Peruth Chemutai, who reaped gold medals at the just ended Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, have helped to redeem police image. Police Officer Joshua Cheptegei rewrote history books when he won gold in 5,000metres plus a silver medal in 10,000metres to become the first Ugandan athlete to…
By James Wafula Correspondent Nairobi. The storm that is brewing in Nairobi over the cancelled private visit of Deputy President Mr. William Ruto to Uganda may have a heavy bearing on Kenya’s 2022 election. And in the eye of the storm is long serving Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. The Ugandan leader is now being…
By Our Reporters. The Union of Kenya Civil Servants has opposed plans by the government to review rent of its houses upwards by up to 10 times. The plan, according to government online sources, is designed to impose rent that reflects “current” market prices. The union has further rejected plans by EACC move to “blacklist”…
By Stephen Ouma Bwire. World champion and four world records holder Joshua Cheptegei has gone in history books as the greatest Ugandan athlete after he won gold in the men’s 5,000m and silver in the 10,000m at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games. The Police officer becomes the most decorated Ugandan athlete since the country made…
By Margaret Nakazibwe. It is 30 years this year since Uganda Civil Aviation Authority (UCAA) was established in 1991. At UCAA’s establishment in 1991, Entebbe International Airport handled 118,000 passengers and the figure rose to 1,980,000 in 2019, but reduced to 565, 541 in 2020 owing to the effect occasioned by the COVID -19 pandemic….