The state minister for Lands Sam Mayanja has decried the rampant incompetence and corruption at the ministry of Lands, citing it as Uganda’s biggest cause of land wrangles and evictions. The minister made the remarks...
Parliament’s Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (Cosase) has discovered alterations in Seyani Brothers’ bid to upgrade facilities at the Entebbe International Airport, where taxpayers could have lost Shs1 billion. MP Richard Ssebamala...
The Commercial court on January 27 issued a week’s ultimatum to lawyers representing Dei Minerals International and its managing director Mathias Magoola to explain why their client has not remitted $72,437,850 (approx. Shs 268 billion)...
Lance corporal, John Nabinoli, the weapons director at the non-commissioned officers academy (NCOA) located in Gaddafi barracks has confessed to have masterminded six separate shooting incidents within Jinja city, in a spate of two years....
MPs have unanimously approved the Budget Framework Paper for the financial year 2022/23 to FY 2026/27, after harmonising positions in the minority and majority reports of the Committee on Budget. Section 9(8) of the Public...
Parliament has approved the appointment of an auditor to audit the accounts of the Office of the Auditor General for financial years 2021/2022, 2022/2023 and 2023/2024. The Deputy Speaker, Anita Among, had tasked the Parliamentary...
Rwanda will re-open on Monday a border crossing with Uganda that was shuttered nearly three years ago, even as tensions rise between the central African neighbours, fuelled by accusations of espionage and support for each...
There is no doubt that the fallen Bank of Uganda governor Emanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile was an iconic figure, having spent at least 30 years as a top economic and financial technocrat of the government of Uganda.For...
The Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) has reportedly arrested Maj Alpha Okua over the shooting of a traffic policeman Robert Mukebezi last Saturday. Uganda People's Defense Forces (UPDF) acting spokesperson Ronald Kakurungu says that Okua...
Parliament’s Budget Committee on Tuesday questioned the discrepancies in figures under the National Budget Framework Paper presented by the Ministry of Finance. Officials from the Ministry of Finance led by the Minister of State for...
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