Browsing by Author "Agaba, John"

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    Activists want inquiry into murders pof muslim clerics
    (New vision, 2017-12-07) Agaba, John; Kasule, Farooq
    Rights defenders affiliated to the Muslim Centre for Justice and Law have called for an inquiry into the murders of Muslim clerics and the subsequent arrests that seem "biased".
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    Arrested cops plead for their ATM cards, mobile phones.
    (New Vision, 2017-11-03) Agaba, John
    Police officers who were recently arrested and charged with criminal offenses have pleaded with the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) to pass on their bank ATM cards and phones, which were confiscated on arrest, to their relatives, the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) said yesterday.
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    Cabinet approves sh200m for more schools
    (New Vision, 2018-06-08) Agaba, John; Amito, Petra
    The Government dreams of an ambitious project to have at least a secondary school in each sub-county and a primary school in every parish.
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    Climate change to cost sh21 trillion annually
    (New Vision, 2017-07-07) Agaba, John; Nyangoma, Christine
    A study has predicted tough times ahead and ruled that Uganda will forfeit up to between sh11 trillion and sh21 trillion annually by 2025 if the country does not take steps to protect fragile ecosystems and avert climate change. The study indicates impacts of floods on roads and buildings in urban areas would result in damages of between $69m and $429m by 2025.
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    Construction of 84 schools starts
    (New vision, 2017-11-02) Agaba, John
    After the First Lady and Minister of Education and Sports, Janet Museveni, alighted at Lutaba Chance Primary School in Wakiso district yesterday, she was given a hoe, which she used to dig a hole in the ground.
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    First lady urges medical workers not to shun hard-to- reach areas.
    (New Vision, 2017-08-07) Agaba, John
    The First Lady and Minister of Education and sports, Mrs. Janet Museveni has called on medical workers and nurses not to neglect hard- to-reach rural areas, where healthcare access is still a big challenge. " Health is so important for all of us.
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    First lady urges parents to read with their children
    (New Vision, 2017-11-22) Agaba, John
    Literacy levels remain a challenge in Uganda, with a significant portion of the population unable to read or write due, in part, to a lack of a reading culture at early stages and parents have a big responsibility to reverse the trend, she said in a statement read by state minister for higher education Dr. John Chrysostom Muyingo.
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    Government directs business schools to stop setting own exams
    (New Vision, 2017-12-08) Agaba, John
    First, it was the teaching of vocational and technical certificate courses that was banned last year. Now, tertiary institutions, mainly those that offers business education, will not be allowed to set and mark own exams.
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    Government starts registration of coffee farmers
    (New Vision, 2017-01-12) Agaba, John; Nahabwe, Saphira
    The Uganda Coffee Development Authority yesterday said it has started an "electronic registration" of farmers involved in the planting of the cash crop to maximize quality and output.
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    Government to start taxing imported drugs in August.
    (New Vision, 2017-07-11) Agaba, John; Akanshumbusha, Jill
    The health ministry yesterday said the planned 12% levy on the importation of essential medicines such as dewormer albendazole and malaria drug artemether, which are also locally manufactured, would go into effect on August 1. The move to tax importation of essential medicines is aimed at boosting domestic drug makers, as per the BUBU policy.
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    Government urged to promote farmers' interests
    (New vision, 2017-12-11) Agaba, John; Mutegeki, Geoffrey
    Experts speaking during the Uganda's Best Farmers Awards 2017 ceremony on Friday have called for a conducive environment and improved tax legislation, which can favour a sector that continues to make the backbone of the economy.
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    Govt introduces 32 disease resistant crop varieties
    (New Vision, 2018-05-17) Agaba, John
    The Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, Vincent Ssempijja yesterday said the Government had released 32 disease-resistant and nutrition-enhanced varieties to ensure increased farm productivity. Some of the crop varieties include maize, cassava and beans which farmers can now access and plant and be sure they will get better yields.
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    HIV: experts call for special attention for worst hit districts.
    (New Vision, 2017-11-29) Agaba, John
    While Uganda has made major strides in the war against HIV/AIDs, experts are calling for special attention to be accorded districts along a corridor in North, Central, and South Uganda, which still post the highest prevalence.
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    I was HIV-negative one month and positive the next, says graduate.
    (New Vision, 2017-11-30) Agaba, John
    " I was negative one month, positive two months later. I do not know what I did," Akolo narrated her story to a huge crowd of young persons living with HIV and other dignitaries who gathered at the residence of the Ireland Ambassador in Kololo on Tuesday at a function to commemorate the World AIDs day.
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    KCCA to take over centenary park
    (New Vision, 2017-01-05) Agaba, John; Waiswa, Juliet
    In a new stand off, the Kampala Capital City Authority announced yesterday that it plans to evict the managers of Centenary Park, Malongo Estates, and assume control of the block and buildings there in, after the contract binding the estates company to the park expired.
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    Makerere, Chinese varsity to exchange students, lecturers
    (New Vision, 2018-05-18) Agaba, John
    Students at Makerere University now have a chance to study part of their programmes in China, after the institution entered an agreement with Guangdong University of foreign studies, which will allow the exchange programme.
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    Measles hits 35 districts
    (New Vision, 2018-05-01) Agaba, John
    Measles a highly contagious infection that mainly targets children causing fever, dry cough, running nose and the very irritable reddish-brown rash in toddlers, has broken out in several regions across the country.
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    Men 45-49 years worst hit by HIV.
    (New Vision, 2017-08-18) Agaba, John
    A report released yesterday indicates that Uganda has made 'trenendous progress' in the war against HIV sine 2011, but it also revealed a worrying trend. This time round, men between 45 and 49 years are the worst hit compared to five years age, when it was women.
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    Mulago needs 1,350 more experts.
    (New Vision, 2017-08-11) Agaba, John
    After all civil works are completed and the facility fully fitted with medical equipment, the super specialised referral hospital at Mulago will require an additional 1,349 highly trained staff, including senior consultants, blood specialists, anaesthetists and ear, nose and throat surgeons, to supplement the existing workers.
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    Mulago to provide organ transplant, fertility centre
    (New Vision, 2017-07-12) Agaba, John
    The new Mulago specialised hospital and the Maternal and Neonatal Centre, a refined architecture has been carefully planned for posterity. This part of the project has cost the government $34m