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Rubaga North MP, Hon. Abubakar Kawalya, has warned against pushing boda boda riders out of business. He says this will create more trouble for the country when riders run out of work. “When you force these young boys out of town, we are going to face a bigger problem in the country resulting from unemployment. We don’t want these young ...

The Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has launched a food safety testing laboratory for Gulu in Northern Uganda. VODP through the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) and Trade Mark East Africa (TMEA) donated the lab equipment. However, the Danish government supported all of this financially.UNBS said this laboratory equipment is worth $ 988,470 while Trade Mark ...

The National Unity Platform under Bobi Wine, has donated food relief to the famine-hit Karamoja sub-region. The contents of the aid were 2,500kgs of maize flour and 2,500kgs of beans making it 5 tonnes of food relief. According to reports, a number of areas in the Karamoja sub-region continue to experience continued food insecurities. This is sadly expected to continue ...

Joseph Kabuleeta, the Principal Of National Economic Empowerment Dialogue (NEED), has advised the government to stop leasing out forest reserves to investors. Much as they are doing this in the name of enhancing sugarcane growth, he says it’s affecting the locals. Kabuleeta says only a few people are benefiting from this program which is not right. “The farmers of sugarcane ...

Kampala Lord Mayor, Erias Lukwago, has said the Boda Boda registration is just a cash Bonanza for certain people. He says the amount of money they are asking is too much for the cause. “They are collecting UGX 65,000 from each boda boda rider with no sanctioning of the law. Nobody’s approval. And they have not gotten any mandate or ...