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By Adiga Julius. Commissioner of employment services in the ministry of gender, labour and social development, Lawrence Egulu has appealed to Ugandans seeking for labour abroad to verify with the line ministry to ensure that the company they are paying, have job orders from the contractor to avoid losing their admission fees to ghost employment firms. Egulu says before people enter employment contracts and subsequently make payments, they should make back up-checks first with ministry of labour to get right information about the recruiting firm  claiming to be legally registered and licensed to recruit and export labour. …

Source BBC Barcelona’s dream of going a whole La Liga season unbeaten ended in their penultimate game as they were beaten by lowly Levante in a remarkable match . The hosts moved into a 5-1 lead, with Emmanuel Boateng scoring a hat-trick and Enis Bardhi netting twice. Barca’s Philippe Coutinho scored a hat-trick of his own and Luis Suarez netted a penalty to set up a tense finale. But the champions could not find an equaliser as they fell to a first La Liga defeat in 44 games. Ernesto Valverde, beaten in the league for the first time as Barcelona…

By Agencies. Pesident Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is regretting delays in compensating families of 300 victims of the 1995 Atiak Massacre.  The massacre perpetrated by combatants of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) allegedly commanded by former deputy commander, Vincent Otti happened on April 20th. Huts were burnt down and several children abducted, many of whom are still missing to date.  Vincent Otti, himself born in Atiak sub county was reportedly killed by his boss Joseph Kony following disagreement over the direction of the rebel group during the botched Juba Peace process.  Speaking in Atiak technical School on Saturday, President Museveni said…

By URN The spokesperson of Uganda Peoples Defence Force (UPDF) contingent serving in Somalia under the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) has said Ugandan media should always discard alshabaab reports. Maj Caesar Olweny says alshabaabs use a lot of propaganda, reporting anything without facts. He made it clear in an interview with URN in Somalia a week ago that Ugandan media should trust the factual reports sent to them by AMISOM rather than seeking alshabaab reports quoted by the international media. When alshabaab recently attacked UPDF’s Forward Operating Base at Quoroyole, Buulo Mareer and Golwen in Lower Shabelle Region…

Roger Nkodo re-elected PAP President MIDRAND, SOUTH AFRICA: Cameroonian legislator, Roger Nkodo Dang, has been re-elected President of the Pan African Parliament (PAP). Nkodo, who becomes the fifth PAP President, beat his competitors Hon. Fortune Charumbira (Zimbabwe) and Hon. Mustapha El Gendy (Egypt), garnering 133 votes out of 224 votes cast. This is the third time the Central Africa Region, and in particular Roger Nkodo Dang, is serving at the helm of the presidency having been President of the foregoing 4th Parliament and Vice President in the 3rd PAP Parliament. This brings to nine years the Central Africa Region…

URN The United Nations (UN) has reportedly withdrawn the proposal to relocate the Entebbe Regional Service Centre. This was revealed by the Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga who was presiding over plenary on Thursday evening. The Speaker who announced the development as good news from the UN, said it was a relief and thanked Government for the spirited fight. A move by United Nations Secretary-general Antonio Guterres to relocate the base from Uganda to another capital drew concerns among Ugandans and the political leadership. The Kenyan Capital of Nairobi, Budapest in Hungary and Mexico City had been among the locations…

By URN. President Yoweri Museveni has extended the term of the Commission of Inquiry into Land Matters for the next 18 months. This was after the Commission’s initial one year term ended yesterday 9th May 2018. In December 2016, President Museveni appointed Court of Appeal judge, Catherine Bamugemereire to head the seven-man committee to probe into land matters but the Commission had been held up for several months due to lack of funds hence starting its work in May 2017. While addressing Journalists today at the National Archives Center, Justice Catherine Bamugemereire communicated the President’s decision to renew the term of her…

New Rugby Africa Gold Cup perpetual trophy unveiled ahead of Rugby World Cup qualifiers The Rugby Africa Gold Cup will be played across seven match days between 16 June and 18 August 2018 DUBLIN, Ireland, May 10, 2018/ — The 2018 Rugby Africa Gold Cup, which doubles as a Rugby World Cup 2019 qualification tournament, has launched a new trophy and brand at the AIPS congress in Brussels on Tuesday 8 May.The Rugby Africa Gold Cup will be played across seven match days between 16 June and 18 August 2018 and features Africa’s top teams that have not already qualified…

Ministry of Education Sets out Strategy to curb Drunkenness Among – Teachers By Damba Rogers. Following reports of teachers conducting lessons under the influence of alcohol in the western districts of Uganda, the education ministry has embarked on a strategy where it refers drunkard teachers to medical and counseling experts. According to the senior education officer in the guidance and counseling department ministry of education,Ssemakula Henry, most teachers across the country have developed a habit of consuming alcohol, a bad act which slowly but steadily moves on to the students who are not supposed to consume it. On…

MPs Collect Signatures Over Proposed Mobile Money Tax By URN  section of Members of Parliament have started collecting signatures to reject the proposed taxation on mobile money.In a new tax policy for the financial year 2018/2019, the Government proposed a 1 percent tax on mobile money transactions and expect to collect 122 Billion shillings from it.Records from the central bank indicate that mobile money transactions increased by about 10 trillion Shillings in 2017 from transactions worth 44 trillion Shillings recorded in 2016.However members of the public, some civil society organizations and politicians are opposed to the move. So far…

Source  Reuters. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Tuesday pulled the United States out of an international nuclear deal with Iran, raising the risk of conflict in the Middle East, upsetting European allies and casting uncertainty over global oil supplies. Trump said in a televised address from the White House that he would reimpose U.S. economic sanctions on Iran to undermine “a horrible one-sided deal that should have never, ever been made.” The 2015 agreement, worked out by the United States, five other world powers and Iran, lifted sanctions on Iran in exchange for Tehran limiting its nuclear program.…

By URN. Parliament has directed Security Minister, General Elly Tumwine to vacate Nommo Gallery for alleged nonpayment of rent. It came after the Tumwine ignored summons issued by the Gender, Labour and Social Development Committee to explain his failure to pay rent for using the gallery.  The management of the Uganda National Cultural Centre-UNCC accuses the minister of failing to pay rent. By last year, Tumwine had accumulated rent arrears to the tune of Shillings 1.6 billion. Nommo Gallery was established in 1964 by an Act of Parliament as Uganda’s National Art Gallery and a component of the Uganda National Cultural…

Cassava Farmers in Northern Uganda Ripe Big in New Technology By Damba Rogers. Farmers engaged in cassava value addition in Lango region are smiling home after an upgrade from open-air processing to use of high precision indoor modern cassava flash dryers, a technology that offers the best answer to weather challenges especially during wet seasons when cassava processing comes under burdens of rains, thus affecting the quality of the end product as it takes longer to dry and is also exposed to contamination of all sorts. The flash dryer is a state of the art machine designed to dry wet…

HIMA Cement Asked to Support Former Child Laborers By Damba Rogers. After employing over 250 children in its mines in Harugongo- Kabarole district for over a decade, child labour and rights activists are now putting pressure on HIMA cement demanding that it provide support to the children it laid off who are not living a dangerous life.   Two years after the child scandal in Uganda was uncovered, LafargeHolcim and its suppliers have done nothing to help the former child labourers and now Twerwaneho Listeners club together with HURINET-Uganda are reminding the cement group at today’s general assembly in Switzerland to finally assume its…

6th Ordinary Session of the Pan African Parliament opens MIDRAND, SOUTH AFRICA: The sixth ordinary session of the fourth Pan African Parliament (PAP) has opened, Monday, in Midrand, South Africa, with the swearing in of 72 new MPs to the continental legislature. The session, under the theme, “Winning the Fight against Corruption: A Sustainable Path to Africa’s Transformation,” is running from 7-18 May 2018 and will discuss the role of Parliament in realising health and achieving health targets for Africa. The MPs will also deliberate on issues of press freedom; the report on the African Union on combating corruption and the…