Sportsmen can still serve country after retirement - President

STATE HOUSE, ENTEBBE: President Yoweri Museveni has proposed that Government should consider supporting sports heroes who retire by offering them bursaries to study so that they are able to get employment in other professional disciplines they desire or get employment with government.

STATE HOUSE, ENTEBBE: President Yoweri Museveni has held a meeting with the EAC Political Confederation Constitution Drafting Committee that was seeking guidance from him over the consultation findings gathered from the six partner states.

The Chairperson of the committee is the former Chief Justice of Uganda Justice Benjamin Odoki.

STATE HOUSE, ENTEBBE: President Yoweri Museveni has urged a group of Radio and TV Panelists who volunteered to mobilise votes for the NRM party in the recently concluded national elections to advocate for wealth creation at the household level alongside their political mobilization to continue winning massive support for the party.

STATE HOUSE, ENTEBBE: President Yoweri Museveni has today formally marked the end of 2016-2021 cabinet business and formally dissolved cabinet at a ceremony held at State House Entebbe. 

“On behalf of NRM and government, I thank you collectively and individually for serving your country for the last five years,” he said at a luncheon hosted by the President and the First Lady shortly after ending cabinet business.

STATE HOUSE, ENTEBBE: President Yoweri Museveni has said that the countries on the course of River Nile must plan together for sustainability of the water of the Nile. 

STATE HOUSE , ENTEBBE: President Yoweri Museveni has called for more vigilance in the fight against Covid19 in the face of a new more dangerous variant that has been detected in the country.

STATE HOUSE , ENTEBBE: President Museveni has said that the government has the capacity to create 70 million jobs if the message of commercialized agriculture is taken seriously.

The President was today speaking during the commemoration of the International Labour Day at State House Entebbe. 

STATE HOUSE, ENTEBBE: French President Emmanuel Macron has sent a strong message of support to President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni ahead of his swearing-in ceremony next month pledging to work with him to strengthen the political and economic relationship between the two countries.

NALI, KYANKWANZI: President Yoweri Museveni has called on political leaders at all levels to engage in a more transparent fight against corruption saying they are the most appropriated sector of people to engage in the fight against corruption in society because they are near the voters who suffer most.

NALI, KYANKWANZI: President Yoweri Museveni has re-affirmed the cardinal mission of NRM government since 1986 as the commitment to ensuring national minimum economic recovery and expansion. 

“Today, Uganda exports 60 million kilograms of tea, 70 million bags of coffee, the production of cotton has increased and tourism has been the main national foreign exchange earner before Covid-19 outbreak,” he said.