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NIRA was created by the Ugandan parliament on 26 March 2015 in the law known as the Registration of Persons Act 2015.Before then, registration of personal vital data was gathered under various laws by different government agencies, including the Uganda Registration Services Bureau, the Electoral Commission, the Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control, the Uganda Revenue Authority ...
Rosemary Kisembo, is a Ugandan software engineer and corporate executive, who serves as the Executive Director of the National Identification and Registration Authority of Uganda (NIRA) effective 14 May 2021. She took over from Judy Obitre–Gama, a lawyer, whose contract ended in 2020 and was not extended. [1]
For three years, ending December 2009, she served as the Head of Legal & Surveillance and Company Secretary at the Uganda Securities Exchange. [3] Between July 2012 and June 2015, she served as the Board Secretary of Uganda Registration Services Bureau. [4] [5] She was sworn in as the new Executive Director of NIRA on 15 July 2015. [6]
NIRA's responsibilities include creating and maintaining a database of personal identities for citizens and legal residents. [3] The agency issues a unique identification number, known as the National Identification Number (NIN), [ 4 ] which is intended to facilitate the recognition of individuals and their access to various services.
The influx of Indians throughout Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and other neighboring countries contributed to numerous Ugandan-Indian unions in Uganda--especially in small towns located along the Railway. Traders--who were mostly Indian and male--married local Ugandan women, thus birthing a visible emergence of mixed Ugandan-Indian people.
Persons born in Uganda who belong to one of the sixty-five indigenous communities defined in the constitution of Uganda by virtue of having a parent or grandparent who lived in the territory on 1 February 1926; or [13] [14] [Notes 1] Foundlings or orphans under the age of five whose parents are unknown. [16] [17] [Notes 2]
artist and sculptor (*1897) ♀ . artist sculptor: 1897 Q84498032: 0 Rose Christine Adikini: She is an activist from Uganda for people living with disabilities. She is a beneficiary of the National Union of Women with Disabilities of Uganda (NUWODU) who is now serving as a lead Councillor of Persons Living with Disabilities.
Ik people in Eastern Uganda, 2020. The Ik people are an ethnic group or tribe native to northeastern Uganda, near the Kenyan border.Primarily subsistence farmers, most Ik live in small clan villages, or odoks, in the area surrounding Mount Morungole in the Kaabong district.