The Education Service Commission (ESC) has released the program showing names of teachers shortlisted for government payroll jobs for the Kampala Centre and dates when these candidates are expected to go for oral interviews. 

Former 2021 presidential candidate and National Economic Empowerment Dialogue (Need) president Joseph Kiiza Kabuleta has gone into hiding after operatives of the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) failed to locate him at his pressure group’s office in Bugolobi, Kampala.

Parliament of Uganda, through its director of communication and public affairs, Chris Obore, has dismissed a pay slip whose author(s) claim that Nakawa West MP Joel Ssenyonyi earns millions of Shillings and donates a good amount of the same allowance package to National Unity Platform (NUP) principal Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine. 

Uganda’s national army, the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF), has released the list of recruitment centres and dates for interviews where applicants from each district are expected to show up for consideration. 

First lady and education minister Janet Kataaha Museveni is expected to hold a meeting with leaders of the Uganda National Teachers Union (Unatu) following the start of their strike demanding salary increment to the level of their science counterparts. 

Uganda’s Parliament has spoken out on allegations that it handed Shs40m in cash to each MP, with Speaker Anita Among, the Bukedea District Woman Representative, said to have been directly involved. 

All Ugandan districts, municipal councils (municipalities) and cities will share Shs5.1tn of the country’s national budget for the 2022-2023 Financial Year which starts next month.

Arts teachers and other disgruntled teachers in primary and secondary schools across the country have begun their strike demanding salary increment a day after finance minister Matia Kasaija confirmed that science teachers, health workers and all scientists will have their salaries enhanced in the 2022-2023 Financial Year. 

Gordon Bafaki, the former Kazo County MP, has been pronounced dead after being involved in a nasty accident along the Northern bypass last night.