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A radio manager in the South Western Ugandan District of Kanungu is in trouble after he was filmed beating up a female employee over business commission cash. Nelson Twinamatsiko, the station Manager for 91. 5 Kanungu FM, is said to be the man filmed in a viral video beating a woman believed to be Anita Tumuramye.

Ugandan President Gen Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni has described as ‘pigs,’ all government officials, including members of District Service Commissions, who sell jobs for money and sex. 

With just a few weeks to the start of the first term of the 2023 school calendar, arts secondary and primary school teachers have put government on notice, threatening to go on strike if their salaries are not increased significantly. 

Still energetic, Asan Kasingye has now teamed up with like-minded individuals to start a private security firm. AIGP (Rtd) Kasingye is the director of operations at Tayari Security Ltd, a company that is promising ‘professional and robust security services.’

Uganda Police Force (UPF) has released the list of nearly 1,300 successful candidates who have been selected to join the law and order agency. The successful candidates are among the thousands who had applied for probationer police constable (general duties) and probationer police constable driver jobs. 

Makerere University’s Vice Chancellor Prof Barnabas Nawangwe has interdicted a lecturer who was filmed slapping a student, Uganda’s oldest and largest higher learning institution has announced. 

Oscar John Kihika, a Ugandan lawyer who has been serving as the Director of Legal Affairs at President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party, will soon be a Justice (judge) of the country’s Court of Appeal. 

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. 

A little over 1,500 Ugandan government employees (civil/public servants) will lose their jobs starting in the next financial year (2023-2024) which begins in July 2023 when a number of agencies will be scrapped of as part of efforts for the rationalization of government agencies and public expenditure (Rapex) initiative.