Japan’s planned release of wastewater from the Fukushima power plant raises concerns in Pacific Island nations that are still grappling with the legacy of nuclear testing decades ago. Pacific Island nations have urged Japan to delay the release of wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant over fears it could contaminate fishing grounds. The appeal…
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Kisaka Explains Cost of AFDB Funded City Roads
The Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) Executive Director Dorothy Kisaka has come out to clarify on the alleged inflated cost of its ongoing Roads Rehabilitation Project (KCRRP) road works. Funded by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the project costing $288m will see a total of at least 30 roads across the city rehabilitated. As we…
FULL LIST: Govt orders 30 universities to acquire charter status
The National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) has asked all universities across the country who are still operating on provisional charters to present their roadmaps for acquiring full ones by March. Currently, the country has 11 private chartered and 32 private provisionally licensed universities.Addressing journalists in Kampala yesterday, the executive director of NCHE, Prof Mary…
Kenya seeks to address challenges facing migrant workers in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia is one of the key destinations for Kenya’s domestic workers. Data from the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection shows that in 2022 alone nearly 80,000 domestic workers secured jobs in the Arab country. These migrant workers have also formed part of the largest pool of diaspora remittances. In 2021, the East African…
Nepal air crash: Indian passenger’s video caught plane’s last moments
By Zoya Mateen In the hours after Nepal’s deadliest plane crash for 30 years, a video went viral in India – it showed one of the victims, Sonu Jaiswal, livestreaming from the plane just seconds before the crash. He was part of a group of four friends from Ghazipur in India who were visiting Nepal,…
Opposition MPS Draft Alternative Budget for FY 2022/24
By Our Reporter The Opposition in Parliament has adopted a new approach towards the national budget by developing a completely different alternative national budget. The Leader of the Opposition in Parliament (LOP) Mathias Mpuuga has made the announcement while speaking to Opposition MPs during their 3 day retreat in Entebbe. “It is our duty to…
Former NRM cash controller Galiwango passes on
The former director of finance at the National Resistance Movement secretariat Dr Hassan Galiwanga has died. According to Rebecca Kadaga, the minister for East African Community Affairs, Galiwango died on Monday morning. At the time of his death, Galiwango was Uganda’s High Commissioner to Kenya. The cause of his death has not yet been announced.
Golola Moses a Self-made International Kick Boxer
HICGI News Agency – Updated 1742 EAT on Sunday 15th 01 2023 In our Special Series “Senior Citizens” we today we bring you Golola Moses (born 22 May 1980) a Ugandan self-made celebrity, entertainer,kickboxer, actor, philanthropist, businessman and investor known for building his personal brand. While his actual accomplishments as a kick boxer have been…
