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On December 16, 2022, Uganda sent its first silk yarn brand samples, branded Usilk, for testing in European market. The target was to meet the specifications for Grade 6A, the best quality silk globally, as a basis for commercial production. Usilk did not make it to the highest grade, which accounts for only between one and three per cent of global silk production.
Uganda’s National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) has revealed that a little over 30 private universities risk closure over lack of substantive charters. The universities have been operating on provisional charters and NHCE now wants them to expedite their efforts to be chartered.
President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni has met officials regarding the controversies surrounding the management of KCCA markets. The president issued guidelines on governance of the markets. The President hosted the officials led by the Prime Minister, Robinah Nabbanja to State House Entebbe for a follow-up meeting to discuss the KCCA markets.
Ugandan singer Edirisa Musuuza aka Eddy Kenzo is in more tears after a court law banned him from performing or organizing a music show or concert anywhere in the country until a pending case filed by an events manager, organizer and promoter has been disposed of and determine by a judge.
Starting July 2023, Allen Catherine Kagina’s Uganda National Roads Authority (Unra) is one of the 70 agencies of President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s government that will cease to exist. Unra and the other agencies will be scrapped off in a rationalization process meant to promote efficiency in the delivery of government services by reducing duplication of roles and cutting unnecessary government expenditure.
Nigerian singer Ikuforiji Olaitan Abdulrahman aka Oxlade has revealed why he refused to perform during last night’s flopped show headlined by Jamaican dancehall star Anthony Moses Davis, popularly known as Beenie Man. The show was held at the Lugogo Cricket Oval in Kampala.
A diplomat in President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s government says that 2021 National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine has stolen his land near his Busabala Beach in Wakiso District.
There has been public uproar after Kampala International University (KIU) after the administration of the higher education institution demanded that all student nurses and midwives should take pregnancy tests before being allowed to sit their examinations.
Youthful Kampala city tycoon Hamis Kiggundu aka Ham has sued Buganda Kingdom monarch Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II over the controversial issue of the ownership of land in Kigo. Months ago, Ham seemed to have given up on the 140 acres of land in Kigo.