As Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited (UEDCL) officially takes over electricity distribution from Umeme, outgoing board chairman Patrick Bitature has tasked the new management board to prioritize a zero-tolerance policy on corruption in ensuring the new...
Police in Kampala have reported a number of fatal incidents that claimed the lives of four people during Eid celebrations.
The Kampala Metropolitan Police (KMP) spokesperson, SSP Patrick Onyango, attributed these occurrences to a range of causes,...
National Institutes of Health (NIH) statistics indicate that 21 million girls aged between 15 and 19 years and two million girls less than 15 years become pregnant every year. About 16 million of these girls give birth each year, mostly 90% in low-income countries at 25%. Uganda has one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in sub-Saharan Africa.
The most efficient services come from specialized institutions whose knowledge and expertise take many decades to learn and achieve. It is unimaginable, for example, to make Mulago Hospital a department in the Ministry of Health or Makerere University a department in the Ministry of Education. The low quality of service delivery in many government departments deserves improvement, not additional work, and throwing away institutions like paper towels is very difficult to understand.
The National Union of Disabled Persons of Uganda (NUDIPU) has raised concerns over a controversial proposal by the Ministry of Education that seeks to exclude individuals with physical and mental infirmities from serving on the National Teachers Council.