By Sarah Achen Kibisi. The Speaker of Uganda Parliament, Hon. Anita Among has directed the Rt. Hon. Prime Minister also Leader of Government Business Hon. Robinah Nabbanja to consider taking a final position on the plight of teachers, detailing long term plans by Government in addressing the matter holistically and sustainably. She said there is…
By Sarah Achen Kibisi. Speaker Anita Among has emphasized the need for lawmakers to conduct research while carrying out their core roles of legislation, oversight and appropriation saying that it will enrich their input in the legislative process. “Your input should be evidence based and reports should have quantitative and qualitative research,” Among said. She…
By Hon Agnes Kunihira, MP. As government transits from addressing the immediate crisis to focusing on economic recovery, integrity violations may continue to rise and undermine recovery efforts. It is therefore imperative that fundamental safeguards of public integrity are not weakened or disregarded in both the immediate response as well as the longer-term recovery from…
By Sarah Achen Kibisi. Government tasked the Ministry for Finance to urgently provide Shs135 billion for the procurement of food to alleviate the hunger crisis in Karamoja Sub-region, amid complaints of inadequate interventions by area Members of Parliament. Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja this month told Parliament that the funds will be used to procure food…
By Dorothy Nekesa. The National Sports Forum of Federations/ Associations convened for the quarter four meeting of the financial year 2021-2022 on June 27, 2022 at the Lugogo based Copper Chimney Restaurant. The Honorable Minister of state for Education and Sports Denis Hamson Obua chaired the 4 hour meeting speaking harmonization and streamlining in accordance…
By Erick Matovu. The Unions of the Construction Sector of Greece express our solidarity with the Roofers Local 36 of Los Angeles, USA, the workers and the unionist Cliff Smith, the Business Manager of the union. We condemn the practices of the AFL-CIO, a member of the ITUC, against our colleague and his union, which…
By James Wafula in Nairobi. Long serving Kenya’s Central Organisation of Trade Unions (COTU) Secretary General Mr Francis Atwoli has once again repeated his Labour day appeal to Kenyan workers to vote for former Prime Minister Raila Odinga in the August 9, 2022 General elections. Atwoli was commenting on the high cost of living in…
By James Wafula in Nairobi. By the time Kenya’s founding president Jomo Kenyatta was dying in August 1978 having ruled for 15 years, he was one of Africa’s richest political elite with a vast fortune that include 1 million acres of prime land to multi-million shilling princely properties and businesses spread across the country. Yet…
By Our Reporter. The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) welcomes release of journalists Mohamed Abdi Sheik and Abdijabar Mohamed Hussein from Hargeisa Central Prison, after spending nearly three months in custody. The release of the two journalists, which took place on Saturday 2 July 2022, follows a presidential pardon granted to them by Somaliland…
By Sarah Achen Kibisi. Parliament has rejected the selective salary enhancements for science teachers and wants salary pay rise for all public servants in the country to avert strikes from other sectors. Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among while presiding over the House said that on the Issue of salary enhancements “You cannot give what you…