Eng. Joel Kuteesa Mulwana said the industry sits on a one-hundred-acre expanse and with a production capacity of 11 buses a day, translating into 2,500 buses annually under the hand of close to 900 employees. BY HENRY NSUBUGA AND MIKE MUSISI MUSOKE Gains of NRM Governance: Kiira Motors Corporation Buses Get Off the Production Line […]
Among others, UCU’s researchers showcased robotics designed to aid in disaster search and rescue, agricultural innovations, health and AI- related solutions. Uganda Christian University (UCU) has showcased a number of research and innovation outcomes which have been running since 2021. According to Dr. Elizabeth Kizito, the Director of Research, Partnerships and Innovation, the two-day research […]
A team of researchers from Uganda Christian University (UCU) have come up with a development through which they are processing food waste materials into feeds for house crickets (obunyeenyenkule) and pigs. Dr. Geoffrey Ssepuuya, the principle investigator said that between 2021 and 2023, with the funding of sh108m provided by the Uganda National Council for […]
The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Thomas Tayebwa, has applauded a multi-billion government programme that seems to connect more than 1.3 million rural households to the national power grid. According to officials in the Energy ministry, this will be achieved through the Electricity Access Scale-up Project (EASP). At the launch of the project in Mitooma District […]
Kiira Motors Corporation has launched the new Uganda Airlines Coach, a 10.5m Kayola Diesel Coach which is destined for Uganda Airlines. The pre-delivery inspection took place at Kiira Motors Corporation Luweero Industries at Nakasongola. Paul Musasizi, the Kiira Motors Chief Executive Officer said that Uganda Airlines is their first customer for the Kayola EV coaches.
UVRI, which started the research project in 2016, says it is in the process of returning the mosquito species from a US laboratory. As most Ugandans continue to worry about contracting the deadly HIV/AIDS, whose fight has over the time been prioritised by government and civil society organisations, citizens have been reminded that malaria is […]
“Taxing innovations? Whoever taxes them, should go to Luzira. Who is he? Why tax innovations? There’s no logic because even when a product is not a result of innovation, we give tax a holiday of 10 years. Something already well known but you are putting it here in Uganda for the first time, we give […]
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on Friday commissioned Uganda’s first ever railway concrete sleeper Factory in Kawolo, Lugazi, Buikwe district. During the ceremony, President Museveni applauded the proprietors of the factory- Imathia Construction, headed by the company’s Chairman Julian Garcia Velverde for helping Uganda achieve part of its vision of building an economy which is integrated, […]
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on Tuesday started his three-day tour to Masaka District. Museveni visited and pledged to support Kyesiiga Green Village farming Center at Lwemonde village, Kyesiima parish, Kyesiiga sub-county in Masaka district. He said he will accord them all the necessary support including giving them a Canter Truck to help them in their […]
By Kyaggwe TV The transition from the use of 100% firewood for preparing food for the pupils to biogas is one of the wise decisions the headteacher for Mukono Boarding Primary School, Susan Wamala Sserunkuuma has ever done. Wamala says that move has helped the school save millions of money which she used to spend every […]