Daily Monitor
Tuesday March 02 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical role that scientific fields like biotechnology can play to better the human condition. However, despite decades of application in different disciplines, biotechnology use in agriculture still carries an aura of socio-political contempt.
And this is not without its pitfalls, especially considering the huge amount of resources that goes into biotech research and development.
Since 1996, Uganda has made significant investments in agricultural biotechnology research and development from multimillion-dollar facilities to hundreds of people in built human capacity.
It paints the picture of a progressive nation; committed to harnessing the potential of modern agricultural biotechnology to enhance sustainable food production, boost investment opportunities and overall national development. However, for all this investment, the principal beneficiaries, including farmers and this nation’s bulgi
Usuk county MP-elect Okiror joins race for Deputy Speaker
Friday February 26 2021
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Mr. Jacob Oulanyah has publicly stated that he will contest for the Speaker position and therefore, several legislators, including a minister, are quietly pushing to replace Mr. Jacob Oulanyah as the Deputy Speaker in the 11th Parliament. The Number of those expressing interest in the position of Deputy Speaker of Parliament has risen, the new entrant is city lawyer and Usuk County MP-elect Bosco Okiror.
Bosco joins eight legislators in the race for the post and they include, West Budama North MP Jacob Oboth-Oboth, Bukedea Woman MP Anita Among, Kampala Central MP Muhammad Nsereko, Ruhinda North MP Thomas Tayebwa, Gomba West MP Robinah Rwakojo, Theodore Ssekikubo, the Lwemiyaga County MP and State Minister for Finance David Bahati.
Daily Monitor
Thursday February 25 2021
Former workers of Uganda Christian University (UCU) whose contracts were terminated in 2019 are demanding Shs80 billion from the university staff saving scheme which they claim has accumulated as interest.
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Former workers of Uganda Christian University (UCU) whose contracts were terminated in 2019 are demanding Shs80 billion from the university staff saving scheme which they claim has accumulated as interest.
According to some of the aggrieved staff, who preferred anonymity, the accumulated interest on their savings was supposed to be given to them upon termination of their contracts, which was not done.
“They [university] could have given us our interest at the time our contracts were terminated like they did on the savings, but the accumulated interest was not paid,” one of the former workers said on Tuesday.
Daily Monitor
Thursday February 18 2021
Mr Timothy Murungi, a photojournalist with Vision Group, publisher of the New Vision newspaper sustained a head injury after the security assault . PHOTOS/ MICHAEL KAKUMIRIZI
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Ms Irene Abalo, a reporter with NMG-Uganda, writhed at the International Diagnostic Centre (IDC) Hospital on Yusuf Lule Road in Kampala yesterday where she was rushed after soldiers injured her during a crackdown on journalists.
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Dozens of soldiers yesterday beat up and injured about half-a-dozen journalists in Kampala in what the victims said was a brazen, unprovoked broad-day assault.
The attack, which the Uganda Editors’ Guild board member, Mr Alex Atuhaire, described as “intentional organised move against journalists”, and ironically happened near the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) where Opposition politician Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, went to deliver a petition about a spate of abduction
How Uganda s media has readjusted in a new changing world
February 17, 2021 UBC TV radios
Uganda Broadcasting Service (UBS) was the first radio station to be established in Uganda in 1954. It was established by the British government to accelerate colonial administration in the country.
The television branch of UBS was established the following decade in 1963, a year after Uganda attained her independence.
The two branches monopolized airwaves for about four decades. Over these years, the subject of media viability was never a serious issue since the only two broadcasting houses were state owned and all their employees were civil servants operating under the ministry of Information.