Daily Monitor
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Mr Allan Chekwech and Mr Robert Madoi will co-head the Production Desk, which will pool all producers and news sub-editors in order to centrally repurpose content for different platforms.
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Mr Tabu Butagira has been appointed Managing Editor of Nation Media Group Uganda (NMG-U) as part of a re-organisation of the company’s editorial department.
Mr Butagira will in the new role oversee the day-to-day editorial operations of all NMG-U platforms, including Daily Monitor newspaper, NTV Uganda, Spark TV, and KFM, among others.
In a communication announcing the changes, the NMG-U General Manager Editorial, Mr Daniel Kalinaki, said: “…as we continue developing a paid for-content business, it is necessary to keep converging our operations to allow us use our resources more effectively and respond to changing audience needs.”
Daily Monitor
Tuesday May 11 2021
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President Museveni has justified his stay in power on democracy while constitutional amendments have also given him leeway.
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When the National Resistance Army rebels took power in 1986, President Museveni reiterated the statement.
“The problem of Africa in general, and Uganda in particular, is not the people but leaders who want to overstay in power,” he said.
Mr Museveni said what they had brought was not only a mere change of guard, but a fundamental change.
He also promised to hand over to a civilian government after four years. But 35 years later, Mr Museveni is still in power.
Daily Monitor
Wednesday May 05 2021
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Cabinet resolved that the Uganda People’s Defense Force (UPDF) will take charge of the construction of the infrastructure needed for the parks.
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Cabinet has approved a proposal to establish 25 industrial parks in all sub-regions in the country. The paper was presented by the State minister for Investment and Privatisation, and outgoing MP for Koboko Municipality Evelyn Anite.
A source, who attended the Monday meeting chaired by President Museveni, told Daily Monitor that the President welcomed the strategy that is aimed at taking Uganda to the middle income status.
In an interview with this newspaper, Ms Anite said: “I presented a paper on industrialisation and manufacturing being a mechanism to take Uganda to middle income status. My paper, which was adopted and approved, was putting industrial parks in all the zones of the country. In every sub-region, which makes a zone, there is clearly going to be an indu