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URA sends messages to importers

Walakira — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:22:13 +0000

In order to further improve accountability, the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has informed the public that URA has started sending out SMS messages to importers whose mobile phone numbers are in the URA database.

URA boss, ALlen kagina

The SMS messages indicate provisional taxes assessed, final taxes assessed where amendments to the declarations have been made, amount of taxes paid in the bank for the specified transaction and amount credited on and debited from gloss payment accounts for companies that operate such accounts.

The URA commissioner in charge of customs, Richard Kamajugo says that other messages will include debit and credit of bond security accounts for transit and warehousing transactions for customs agents and warehouse keepers respectively.

Kamajugo says that the URA clients that receive messages which are not intended for them or those that might wish to update their mobile phone numbers are requested to advise URA immediately.

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HIV positive thief rapes woman, children

Gerald Businge — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:22:48 +0000

Tears rolled down the faces of a woman and her daughter when the police medical report revealed that the man who raped them on Wednesday was HIV positive.

The thief broke into their room on Wednesday and tied her on the bed she was sleeping on and raped her. The thief then turned to her 10-year-old daughter and gave her two times as the terrified mother looked on.

The thief afterwards walked away with the woman’s money and mobile phone. The police detectives visited the home of the victims after the woman reported the matter to aKampalabased police station.

The police investigations led to the arrest of the woman’s neighbour, Robert Niyonzima. The suspect confessed having rapped the woman and her daughter while claiming that he acted under the influence of drugs and alcohol.

However the woman broke down and cried bitterly after the man who raped them was discovered to be HIV positive. The doctors who tested the woman and her daughter said that the thief might have impregnated them because the woman and her daughter were found ripe to be pregnant.

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HIV positive thief rapes woman, children

Gerald Businge — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:09:22 +0000

Tears rolled down the faces of a woman and her daughter when the police medical report revealed that the man who raped them on Wednesday was HIV positive.

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Besigye does not call people on MTN

Gerald Businge — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:52:43 +0000

FDC president, Col. Kiiza Besigye has amazed Ugandans when he told his pals in FDC that he does not call persons on MTN numbers. He says that if the call is a must he uses a call box to do so but never on his mobile phone.

Besigye has an airtel line. He barred what is on the crevasse of his heart at his home in Kasangati (Kampala) on Tuesday when he met his FDC party youth from Kampala branch. He said this because the FDC ‘boys’ complained that he doesn’t call them and when they call him he doesn’t pick their phones. Besigye reportedly said that he calls almost every members of his party.

He went further and explained. “The only members I don’t call are those on MTN. This is not because MTN is bad but because the company hurries to give the government the details of the peoples’ calls whenever asked to do so.

He says that other companies like warid, orange, and utl don’t give all the details contained in peoples’ calls.

By James Okello

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Microsoft innovation center opens at Makerere University

Gerald Businge — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:10:57 +0000

The first Microsoft innovation center in Uganda has been launched at the faculty if Information Technology at Makerere university Uganda the second country in the sub-Saharan African to have it.

The center will encourage ICT innovations in Uganda, Software development for agriculture and mobile phones technology.

Launched by the ICT minister Dr Ruhakana Rugunda, the center will also provide ICT innovations to support the small and medium Enterprises among others.

Rugunda has further attributed the fairing economic activity to the recent technological innovations like the mobile phone technologies which he should be supported more.

Ultimate Media

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