Ms Diana Ondoga, the Manager Corporate Social Investment Stanbic justifies the move saying 80% of Uganda’s population is young people below the age of 15 stressing the need to prepare them as they graduate to adulthood.
Author: By Nelly Nelsons Otto
He's TND News Snr Correspondent based in Jinja City, Eastern Uganda. Mr Otto also covers other towns in the sub-region. He has more than 15 years in journalism (media).
Posted inLango / Profile
Renowned educationist starts mobile theater group to address mindset-related challenges in Lango
Charles Ayo holds a BA (Geog) and a PGDE obtained from the oldest university in Uganda having gone through the now defunct Ikwera Boys Primary School, Aduku, Lango College and Old Kampala SS.
Posted inLango / News
LPG asks religious leaders to organise regular engagements with followers outside the region
“…it’s my humble appeal to every person in Lango to rise and fight corruption by denouncing and speaking against the vice which frustrates service delivery in the country…” Alyek urged.
Posted inChurch News
Bishop of West Lango cautions believers against sacrificing faith on the altar for negative foreign cultures
After the service, members gathered in the Church Gardens for an agape meal which climaxed with the launch of the Lango Community Fellowship by the visiting Bishop.
Posted inEastern News / Politics
Uganda’s “Triple A” to preside over triple functions in Mayuge
The ceremony will take place at Buluta Primary School, Buluta Parish in Malongo sub-county which gave the highest number of votes to Isabirye in the 2021 parliamentary polls.
Posted inCrime / News
RCC Kagabi calls on citizens to embrace dialogue for sustainable national peace and security
The deputy RCC paid glowing tribute to President Yoweri Museveni for ushering in peace and tranquillity which is being enjoyed by Ugandans and foreign nationals who find Uganda one of the best countries in the world.
Posted inCourt / Eastern
Fury as fmr. partner drags Jinja city council to court over unpaid money
Jinja city council spokesperson Kitto Rajab declined to comment on the matter in respect to the sub judice rule which restricts public discussion of matters pending before the courts.
Posted inEastern
Stanbic Bank donates items worth shs10m to Mpumudde orphanage
Last year Stanbic Bank gave clothes, shoes, basins, buckets, mattresses, beds, and an assortment of food items like milk, sugar, maize flour, cooking oil, and wheat flour, among others to the facility.
Posted inBanking / Eastern
‘Back to my roots’, Stanbic Bank’s new look at Busoga square
For almost a decade, Stanbic Bank, alongside several others in Jinja had migrated from their traditionally known locations at Busoga Square that also served as the district headquarters to the busy Central Business District(CBD) along Scindia Road also known as Lady Alice Muloki Road.
Posted inNews
Family of missing Wakiso FDC activist tells govt to produce her dead or alive
The government has always maintained that there is no abduction in Uganda and that the police together with other sister security organs always carry out lawful arrest.
Posted inEastern News
Custodian boss breaks silence over property saga in Jinja City, clears Iganga DEO
Jinja City is one of the urban centers in the country with the highest cases of property (land and buildings) related conflicts involving former Asian properties in which locals as tenants, DAPCB, and some people claiming to be owners play against each other.
Posted inCourt / Eastern News
Jinja’s highlight property saga takes another twist as tenants join the case
The highlight tenants do not pay rent, neither do they carry out any repair on the building whose owners and the government also benefit nothing as far as ground rents and revenue are concerned.