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Day: April 20, 2022

Former Tororo MP aspirant gets 50 years in Prison for Murdering NRM Registrar

Former Tororo MP aspirant gets 50 years in Prison for Murdering NRM Registrar

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The High Court in Tororo has sentenced Richard Ojore, a former MP aspirant for Tororo North County to 50 years in jail after being convicted for murdering Sinambio Oketcho, the Mukuju sub county National Resistence Movement (NRM) Registrar during the NRM party primaries in 2020. Accordingly, police arrested Ojore, in the NRM primaries, Moses Emojong and Geoffrey Imai and charged them with murder, aggravated robbery and attempted murder. According to prosecution, on September, 4, 2020 at 1pm during the NRM primaries, the deceased arrived at Akoret B polling station in Akoret zone in Tororo district as his routine was to check on various polling agents deployed at polling stations. However, here, the registrar who was together with Thomas Emukurut, a boda boda rider was attacked by the ...
MTN prepares youth to tackle the unemployment gap

MTN prepares youth to tackle the unemployment gap

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In a market with too many applicants and not enough jobs, getting experience is a catch-22; you need it to get jobs, you need a job to get it. It is not once that employers in Uganda have voiced their grievance of employing youth armed with theoretical knowledge and no practical experience. It gets worse when the lack of experience blocks job opportunities for the youth, further exacerbating youth unemployment in the country. In an effort to curb youth unemployment, MTN has taken a deliberate effort to equip youth with practical knowledge that is required in work places.  Graduate trainee program Through the MTN Graduate trainee program, hundreds of youth in Uganda have undergone on-job training that has elevated their knowledge beyond the theoretical education attained at learning insti...