Former Crane Bank owner and city businessman Sudhir Ruparelia should not be arrested and arraigned before court over the money that was lost before Bank of Uganda wrestled the bank from him. According to media...
The Minister of Agriculture, Vincent Ssempijja, confirmed that Uganda too is under attack by the armyworm and that it was fast destroying maize and sorghum crops and some species of pasture grass. Now Shs25 billion...
State Minister of Finance David Bahati has submitted Shs28.9 trillion proposed budget estimates 2 Parliament for 2017/18 FY. Hon. Bahati says the economy is expected to grow at a rate of 6-7% in 2017/18 financial...
The current levels of infestation and the rate at which the Striga, a parasitic weed that seriously constrains the productivity of staples such as maize, sorghum, millet and upland rice is growing is devastating, the Ministry...
Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority (PPDA) chief Mrs. Cornelia K. Sabiiti has stepped down Friday after her contract ended. Mrs. Sabiiti, was appointed on 1st April 2011 and her contract was renewed...
The Speaker of Parliament Rt. Hon. Rebecca Kadaga has praised the managing director (MD) of Middle East Consultants, Gordon Mugyenyi for being exceptional in the export of labour. With six in every 10 Ugandans are...
Government has set March 29 2017 as deadline for the ongoing SIM card registration exercise. This means that all SIM card which would have been registered by midnight tonight would be deactivated. Uganda Communications Commission boss Godfrey...
President Yoweri Museveni once again swapped the presidential motorcade for a bicycle as he returned his Kawumu Presidential Farm in Makulubita, Luweero. The presidential motorcade has, at least temporarily, been replaced by a bicycle, which...
Despite an ailing economy, Uganda has the most entrepreneurial women in the world according to a new study. The Mastercard Index of Women’s Entrepreneurship (MIWE) report released recently, revealed that 34.8 percent of businesses in...
Parliament has Tuesday declined discussing a damning report of the Committee on Physical Infrastructure on Uganda’s ambitious $12.8b (Shs46trillion) Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) and Light Railway Transit project. The report compiled by the committee of...
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