Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Secondary and primary schools in different parts of the country are luring teachers to classes with the promise of increasing the Parents, Teachers allowances. At many of the secondary schools that Uganda Radio Network visited, learning was taking place despite calls by the Uganda National …
Read More »MPs query expenditure of intern doctors’ allowances
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lawmakers have put the former Executive Director (ED) Mulago National Referral Hospital, Dr. Byarugaba Baterana on the spot over the expenditure of Shs206 million meant for allowances for medical interns and senior health officers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Government remitted Shs3.8 billion for allowances for …
Read More »Health workers in Mukono demand allowances for mass polio vaccination exercise
Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ten medical workers in Nama sub-county in Mukono district who were involved in the mass polio vaccination campaign in January this year are yet to receive their allowances. The sub-county chairperson, John Bosco Isabirye says that the ten health workers were denied their allowances despite …
Read More »Soroti district councilors protest delayed payment of Covid-19 allowances
Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Soroti district councilors are protesting the delayed payment of the Covid-19 and polio mass vaccination allowances. On Thursday, the councilors had been presented with a supplementary budget of more than one Billion Shillings. However, they realized that more than 200 Million Shillings passed as supplementary …
Read More »Muni University students protest over delayed allowances
Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government-sponsored students at Muni University have staged a strike to protest the delayed payment of their first semester allowances. The students are demanding living out allowances, clinical allowances and faculty allowances which they say haven’t been paid by the University. The angry students marched from the …
Read More »MUST students protest delayed release of school practice allowances
Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mbarara University of Science and Technology-MUST students on Wednesday protested the delayed release of their school practice allowances. The more than 400 students stormed the office of the Mbarara Resident City Commissioner demanding his intervention. Musa Nalugooda, the President of the Mbarara University Faculty of …
Read More »Gulu city struggling to clear UGX 3.8Bn debt
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu city is choking on unpaid debt of 3.8 Billion Shillings. The money is meant for the payment of utility bills like electricity and water supplies for the various offices, allowances for elected leaders, and fuel among others. Alfred Okwonga, the Gulu City Mayor says …
Read More »UPDF contingent in Somalia not paid allowances for 10 months
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Peoples Defence Forces troops serving under the African Union Mission in Somalia have not received allowances for the last 10 months. The matter came up during a meeting between a team from the Defence Committee of Parliament and the Ministry of Defence and Veteran …
Read More »Gov’t asked to increase funding to public universities
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Public universities have asked government to increase funding for the living out allowances for government sponsored students. In a meeting with the Committee on Education, the Senior Planner for Lira University, Tom Richard Atim said that since the inception of the university in July 2015, …
Read More »Councilors protest unexplained reduction of allowances
Lamwo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lamwo district councilors are protesting the unexplained reduction of their sitting allowances and emoluments. The matter took center stage during the council session held on Wednesday. The councilors demanded the payment of Shillings 400,000 as a sitting allowance for the previous three council sittings and …
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