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Members of Parliament have expressed mixed reactions about a new service by MTN to provide loans to its customers while enabling them to make savings using their mobile phones. The new service launched on August 10, 2016 and dubbed MTN MOkash, will be managed in partnership with the Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) and is […]
Odonga Otto, the Aruu South County Member of Parliament has demanded for measures that will make it difficult for the President to make pledges when the budget has already been passed by Parliament. Otto’s remarks come shortly after the Executive Director to National Planning Authority, Dr.Joseph Muwala told a Parliamentary Committee on Budgets that they […]
Government anticipates that non-teaching staff at the public universities will call off their strike and return to work by Thursday this week. Janet Kataha Museveni, the minister of education and sports, while addressing parliament on Tuesday August 09, 2016 said that one of the demands the of non-teaching staff was for government not to use part […]
President Yoweri Museveni has returned the Excise Duty (Amendment) Bill, 2016 back to Parliament for reconsideration duty on incoming international calls. The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga informed parliament that the President noted that the removal of excise duty would not lead to an increase of incoming international calls but will target the illegal operators who […]
Two independent members of parliament joined the race for the deputy speakership for the 10th parliament this week. Kampala central member of parliament Mohammed Nsereko and west Budama south member of parliament Jacob Oboth Oboth say that they have the required experience to deputize the speaker and chair parliament. Mohammed Nsereko says that he will look […]
Government has decided to relocate the payment of court awards from Attorney general Chambers to Ministry of Finance. This is in an effort to clear all outstanding court awards. State Minister of Finance in charge of planning David Bahati while appearing before the Committee of Finance said that 425 billion shillings is a huge bill and Government […]
Members of parliament on the parliamentary committee on finance have grilled Bank of Uganda and the ministry of finance officials over missing accountability of 200 billion shillings given to bank of Uganda for recapitalization in the ending financial year. This was discovered by members of parliament while meeting the minister of state for planning David Bahati […]
Members of Parliament have condemned government for overlooking the parliament resolution which banned the export of domestic workers. The speaker of parliament said that government is exporting domestic workers to Saudi Arabia yet it will not be able to supervise them. She questioned whether government is filling the gaps of countries which have stopped supplying […]
Parliament has tasked the ministry of public service and local government to explain why pensioners have not been paid for the months of July and August. The matter was brought forward as a matter of national importance by Mbarara Municipality Member of Parliament Medard Bitekyerezo who told parliament that these pensioners have aged and most of them […]
Development partners are strongly cautioning government on the continued behaviours of increased borrowing which they say will, in the long run, fail faster economic and social development as government will then be engaged in servicing the debts. Speaking in a meeting organized to discuss the way Uganda borrows and the way it uses its resources, […]