26 April 2024 Educationalists recommend that start-ups and innovators in the technological sector should come up with solutions that are understandable and address concerns of communities in order to create value. Speaking at the SWARM Summit in Kampala, the Director MUBS Entrepreneurship Innovation & Incubation Centre Diana Ntamu said innovation hubs should work and interact with community to understand their concerns and come up with the required solutions. The 2024 SWARM Summit is running under the theme , the Future is Now Emerging Trends , shaping start up eco system. “When we begin to see innovation with a national character, we are going to get our innovation down to the people, if your grandmother understand, don’t bother with innovation, forget it , it is useless , said Ntamu. Ntamu also calls for collaborative efforts between, the communities, public institutions, financing institutions and innovators to come up with viable solutions. Speaking at the same event , Audrey Akullo, an innovator and entrepreneur specialist at the African innovations Institute says Start-ups and innovations can fetch the country more foreign direct investment from the current 5 million US million dollars to the projected 102.4 US million dollars in 2024. Akullo says with the potential of the sector, more funding will be required to grow it. Akullo says the sector has a competitive advantage saying that with a huge young population, this is attainable. Story by Wycliffe Sebunya
26 April 2024 Government reveals that it is mainstreaming Alternative Dispute Resolution as one of the viable ways of resolving employment disputes that are on the rise in the country. This after a revelation that the industrial court lacks the capacity to dispose of over 2000 labour cases due to the limited resources, small number of judges and the existence of only one Industrial Court in the country. While closing the 2nd Annual National Labour Convention and Expo at the Mestil Hotel in Kampala, Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Nobert Mao says through the alternative dispute resolution mechanism will ease handling of the dispute quickly and cheaply. Meanwhile, Mao reveals that the industrial court will be allocated more judges, decentralize the court and offer more budgetary allocation, as means of handling the case backlog. He adds that plans are underway to appoint acting judges to handle the case backlog in the industrial court. For his part , Deputy Attorney General Jackson Kafuuzi warns that the country risks failing to attain a productive labour force if injustices still prevail amongst the labour force. Kafuzi says to get rid of injustices requires raising awareness among workers about the existence of the industrial court , key in arbitrating employment disputes. Kafuuzi notes that this calls for collaboration from all the stakeholders and establishing a linkage between industrial court and workers to ensure equal access to justice. Story by Wycliffe Sebunya
26 April 2024 The opposition in parliament pushes for an audit of all government land given away to investors. Shadow minister for internal affairs Betty Nambooze Bakireke has dismissed latest government proposal to giveaway Luzira prison land to an investor to put a five star hotel
This week government reiterated that this plan to relocate Luzira prison was timely given the swelling population of prisoners. State minister for internal affairs David Muhoozi presented four options including government plan to avail 400 billion for rehabilitation of the facility or allow the investor inject 930 billion to relocate and build a new prison facility at a new location reportedly in Buikwe district
Nambooze rejects this plan saying it will be putting Ugandans at ransom to either release huge sums of money in guise of prison rehabilitation or giveaway the land to the investor
Nambooze appeals to MPs and other Ugandans at large to reject the proposal saying Kirinya prison land was given away under similar circumstances.
26 April 2024 Educationalists recommend that start-ups and innovators in the technological sector should come up with solutions that are understandable and address concerns of communities in order to create value. Speaking at the SWARM Summit in Kampala, the Director MUBS Entrepreneurship Innovation & Incubation Centre Diana Ntamu said innovation hubs should work and interact with community to understand their concerns and come up with the required solutions. The 2024 SWARM Summit is running under the theme , the Future is Now Emerging Trends , shaping start up eco system. “When we begin to see innovation with a national character, we are going to get our innovation down to the people, if your grandmother understand, don’t bother with innovation, forget it , it is useless , said Ntamu. Ntamu also calls for collaborative efforts between, the communities, public institutions, financing institutions and innovators to come up with viable solutions. Speaking at the same event , Audrey Akullo, an innovator and entrepreneur specialist at the African innovations Institute says Start-ups and innovations can fetch the country more foreign direct investment from the current 5 million US million dollars to the projected 102.4 US million dollars in 2024. Akullo says with the potential of the sector, more funding will be required to grow it. Akullo says the sector has a competitive advantage saying that with a huge young population, this is attainable. Story by Wycliffe Sebunya
26 April 2024 Government reveals that it is mainstreaming Alternative Dispute Resolution as one of the viable ways of resolving employment disputes that are on the rise in the country. This after a revelation that the industrial court lacks the capacity to dispose of over 2000 labour cases due to the limited resources, small number of judges and the existence of only one Industrial Court in the country. While closing the 2nd Annual National Labour Convention and Expo at the Mestil Hotel in Kampala, Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Nobert Mao says through the alternative dispute resolution mechanism will ease handling of the dispute quickly and cheaply. Meanwhile, Mao reveals that the industrial court will be allocated more judges, decentralize the court and offer more budgetary allocation, as means of handling the case backlog. He adds that plans are underway to appoint acting judges to handle the case backlog in the industrial court. For his part , Deputy Attorney General Jackson Kafuuzi warns that the country risks failing to attain a productive labour force if injustices still prevail amongst the labour force. Kafuzi says to get rid of injustices requires raising awareness among workers about the existence of the industrial court , key in arbitrating employment disputes. Kafuuzi notes that this calls for collaboration from all the stakeholders and establishing a linkage between industrial court and workers to ensure equal access to justice. Story by Wycliffe Sebunya
26 April 2024 The opposition in parliament pushes for an audit of all government land given away to investors. Shadow minister for internal affairs Betty Nambooze Bakireke has dismissed latest government proposal to giveaway Luzira prison land to an investor to put a five star hotel
This week government reiterated that this plan to relocate Luzira prison was timely given the swelling population of prisoners. State minister for internal affairs David Muhoozi presented four options including government plan to avail 400 billion for rehabilitation of the facility or allow the investor inject 930 billion to relocate and build a new prison facility at a new location reportedly in Buikwe district
Nambooze rejects this plan saying it will be putting Ugandans at ransom to either release huge sums of money in guise of prison rehabilitation or giveaway the land to the investor
Nambooze appeals to MPs and other Ugandans at large to reject the proposal saying Kirinya prison land was given away under similar circumstances.
