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Daily Monitor Thursday February 04 2021 The education sector has been reeling since the forced shutdown of schools in March last year when the first cases of Covid-19 were registered in Uganda.  Government schools and institutions of higher learning have been partially shielded from the scourge because payroll kept coming, but the situation in private schools was worse as many schools (big and small) shed their payroll, leaving teachers without any resort, or assistance.  Scene of the day everywhere in the country is the same - quite humanising. Young children in the village telling you: �...

URA shakes off Covid-19  with surplus in revenue Tuesday December 29 2020 Customers shopping in Kampala ahead of Christmas Day. Currently, the country funds only 47 per cent of the national budget and the balance is sourced externally through borrowing whose terms and conditions are not usually favourable. Photo | Eronie Kamukama Summary Despite being in the midst of lockdown, URA in the first quarter FY 2020/21 (July to September) collected Shs4 trillion against a target of Shs2.9 trillion, resulting in a significant surplus of Shs1 trillion,  Ismail Musa Ladu writes.  Advertisement Ismai...