President Yoweri Museveni has agreed with cabinet to change the sitting day for their meeting so as to ease minister’s work in parliament. Cabinet sittings have been shifted from Wednesday to Friday of every week. This was approved by the cabinet in the meeting held last week at state house in Entebbe chaired by the […]
The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has described this financial years revenue collection target is stretching and ambitious. In the 2017-2018 budgets the URA is expected to collect 15 trillion on assumptions over 6% GDP growth, stable inflation rate, increasing private sector credit growth above the current 4.4% and others. Speaking to media today, Doris Akol, […]
State minister for energy Simon D’Ujanga says that his ministry plans to extend power to the two border towns of Nimule and Kaya in the Karamoja sub region to help improving on the lives of refugees. D’Ujanga also Okoro County MP, says that he is to travel to Juba this week to discuss with his […]
Civil society organizations (CSOs)in Uganda have out rightly dismissed the proposed constitutional amendment on article 26 of the land act to enable government acquire private land even without due prompt compensation. CSOs led by Irene Ovonji, the executive director FIDA Uganda said amending this article is unconstitutional because it’s not human rights based yet it […]
The Leader of Opposition, Hon.Winfred Kiiza, has threatened to take legal action against the state minister for lands, Persis Namuganza, over accusations that Kiiza is a land grabber. Kizza told Parliament that Namuganza in a recently televised statement said that there is a powerful FDC Woman MP from Kasese, who grabbed land from the school, […]
The ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM)party says it is planning to take disciplinary action against its members who would be found guilty of breaching electoral laws. This comes in the wake of the numerous court cases in which NRM MPs were sued for various irregularities in the 2016 elections. Speaking to media in Kampala, the […]
Government has urged the banking sector to design friendly loans that can be accessed by farmers and informal sectors in Uganda. Currently many banks are offering short term loans which do not favor farmers who have long term investments. Speaking during the Annual banker’s conference recently, the Vice president, Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi, said that much […]
Standard Chartered Bank has re-launched some of its services to enable its clients access financial solutions with ease. Some of the services re-launched include visa infinite debit card usage and advising the customers on their wealth and property management. The Head of Retail Banking, Israel Arinaitwe, says that the visa infinite debit card offers complementary access to over […]
Parliament has amended section 34, sub rule (1) of the Rules of procedure pushing the Prime Minister’s question time to Thursday of the week from Wednesday on justification that the Minister cannot beat the traffic jam on Entebbe road to attend the Parliamentary proceedings in time. The proposal was moved by the government Chief Whip, […]
Kampala Capital City Authority and the Solicitor General’s office are at loggerheads over the payment of property tax by educational institutions endowed by government. An interpretation by the Solicitor General in September last year of the local governments rating act 2005 established that institutions that receive endowments from the government are exempted from paying tax.. […]