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Minister Frank Tumwebaze urges leaders to make sure Agriculture Extension work tools are put to good use

The Minister of Agriculture Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) Hon. Frank Tumwebaze has appealed to all Leaders ( MPs, LC5 chairpersons, RDCs, Disos, councillors etc) to ensure that these 100 double cabins and 1000 motorcycles deployed to districts for Agriculture Extension work are put to good use. The Minister said this yesterday during the flagging […]

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How 50m From World Bank-Funded GROW Project Enabled Mbarara Perfect Touch Salon Proprietor Ms Racheal Become a Diversified Entrepreneur

For now 15 years, Mbarara City-based Perfect Touch Salon owner Racheal has been a renowned salon operator in Western Uganda’s busiest and fastest growing metropolis. She relies on her 26 employees to keep quickly attending to hundreds of women who keep flocking her much sought after salon to have their hair worked on. She always […]

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World Bank Regional Director hails Uganda’s anti-tick vaccine breakthrough

Nakyesasa: The World Bank Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa, Mr. Daniel Dulitzky, has commended the National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) for its groundbreaking innovations in animal health, particularly the Anti-Tick Vaccine, which he said elevates NARO into a flagship entity in innovation. Speaking during a visit to the vaccine production facility at the […]

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KIU hosts 9th UVCF Conference tagged Higher Education in Uganda

Kampala International University (KIU) today hosts the 9th Uganda Vice-Chancellors’ Forum (UVCF) Conference, under the theme ‘Higher Education in Uganda’. The event which is being held at the Iddi Basajjabala Memorial Library (IBML), in her main campus in Kansanga-Ggaba Road, Kampala, had Vice-Chancellors and other management staff from various universities (including public and private universities) […]

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World Bank announces lifting of suspension of disbursements to two road infrastructure projects In Uganda

On June 6, 2017, the World Bank lifted the suspension of the civil works components of the North Eastern Road Corridor Asset Management Project (NERAMP) and the Albertine Region Sustainable Development Project. The decision resulted from an assessment of progress made by the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) in addressing issues that led to the […]