Under the arrangement, the Ministry of ICT intends to buy devices, particularly computers, to give parish chiefs and train them and other government leaders on how to collect information and feed it to the central database for monitoring.
Read more ...Collection of VAT from these companies is starting effective 1st July 2022 and will focus on all electronic service providers, including Netflix, Amazon, Uber, and the like.
Read more ...Museveni says that he will defend the minister who is a decorated and a world-renowned scientist. Museveni told legislators and invited guests at the budget reading that he will defend the minister until everyone against her will be forced to go into hiding.
Read more ...They include Cai Jiashun, Zong Bo and Lin Yangbin. Early this week, the trio petitioned Nabbanja explaining that irregular power supply in the area has slowed down production at their factories while several machines have been rendered faulty due to erratic power.
Read more ...Uganda has one of the highest per capita alcohol consumption rates in sub-Saharan Africa. Records from UAIA show that 65% of the alcohol consumed in Uganda is from informal sources, and has led to a lot of Alcohol Use Diseases.
Read more ...Prof. Echodu of Gulu University told Uganda Radio Network in an interview on Monday that the innovation is in response to the risk tsetse flies pose to livestock and humans, especially in areas surrounded near national parks.
Read more ...Mohamed Ismail, the mayor of Moroto Municipality, says that they have registered an influx of street beggars most of them have been flushed from the mining sites in Rupa sub-county. "Am worried of burglary hitting the Municipality because we are receiving people including children who have been surviving from mining they are now all begging in the Municipality streets which dangerous," he said.
Read more ...Scientists hope to use nuclear technology through irradiating cassava tissue to increase the diversity of varieties, including some with new traits. The method is about to yield positive results says Dr. Emmanuel Ogwok, a Senior Research Officer at the NaCRRI of the National Agricultural Research Organisation in Uganda and a lecturer at Lira University.
Read more ...Dr. Zac Anywaine, the lead researcher based at the UVRI research center in Masaka, says it is the first time the ChAdOx1 RVF vaccine is tested on humans in Uganda. The same clinical trial is concurrently being conducted at the University of Oxford.
Read more ...NFASS is an online platform that provides statistics on crops, animals, fisheries, land use, number of farmers, quantity, and quality of products collected directly from the farmers themselves in real-time from all over the country.
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