By Our Reporter. Fellow Workers, I take this opportunity to welcome you back from the annual International Nurses Day Celebrations that were hosted in Arua City. It was an honor to speak to you all, as we celebrated the invaluable contributions of nurses towards the health and well-being of individuals, families, and communities. This year’s…
National Council of Sports (NCS) general secretary, Patrick Ogwel has been ordered to pay Shs 100 million to the Uganda Netball Federation (UNF) within seven days. Ogwel and UNF President Sarah Babirye Kityo have been at loggerheads for the past months after Kityo accused Ogwel of asking for bribes whenever disbursing funds to facilitate the…
By Silvano Kibuuka. For the longest time, sports federation leaders have succumbed into administrative wrangles from amongst themselves, especially over leadership. Everyone assumed that matters of sports would never warrant dragging culprits into prison cells and all the warring factions would settle the matters outside the courts of law and at most through arbitration committees…
By Our Correspondent in Lusaka. The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), an affiliate of the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ) and its parent body the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has won the bid to host the Third African Media Convention in Accra, Ghana in May 2024. The successful bid of the GJA to host the…
By Hon. Agnes Kunihira Abwooli The labour market in Uganda is characterized by a fast –growing working – age population. The 2009 Uganda National Household Survey estimated Uganda’s working age population at 11.0 million, up from 9.3 million in 2005. The labour force participation rate of those aged between 14 and 64 years was high,…
By James Wafula in Malindi. Kenya President William Ruto has set up a commission of inquiry to probe the more than 100 people killed in the coastal Shakola mass graves but opposition leader Raila Odinga has criticized the government for blocking the media from the scene. Odinga’s motorcade was on May 5, 2023 also blocked…
By James Wafula In Nairobi The NGO council of Kenya has welcomed the decision by the Azmio opposition suspending street protests for one month to give bipartisan talks a chance to iron out the political differences with the government. In a press statement issued Thursday May 4 2023 at his Nyayo house headquarters in Nairobi,…
By Sarah Achen Kibisi. In a bid to improve the welfare of workers, a section of companies that recruit for labour export have formed a new association. External Labour Agencies of Uganda (ELAU) parted ways with Uganda Association of External Recruitment Agencies (UAERA). Over 70 companies have joined ELAU on realizing that UAERA has fell…
By Hon. Charles Bakkabulindi. The report further reveals that people in informal employment are estimated at 93%. The unemployment rate is 9.4% implying that as at 2014, 1.6 million of the working age population was unemployed. The percentages of people in employment are given as follows; • 64% of working population is engaged in subsistence…
By James Wafula in Nairobi. The NGO council of Kenya has welcomed the directive by Nairobi governor Johnson Sakaja that the county will employ 3500 youth to help clean up the city, open drainage and blocked sewers saying the move was a step in the right direction for the nearly 5 million long suffering residents….