President Yoweri Museveni used his time at the sidelines of the ongoing 4th Global Business Forum on Africa to reach out to various investors based in Dubai, urging them to exploit the great investment opportunities Uganda and the region offers to do business with the continent. “Since you are business people, we must be talking […]
Government has today launched a new approach to service delivery code named monitoring camps in the areas of health, education and agriculture in the rural communities. The Economic monitoring State minister Kasirivu Atwooki said the directorate of socio-economic monitoring and research directorate under the office of the president identified monitoring camps as the new approach […]
The ministry of water and environment has adopted various strategies to enhance farmers’ resilience to climate change. Speaking at a high level meeting with scientists over issues of climate change at Hotel Africana in Kampala, the Principal climate change officer at the ministry, Bob Natifu, said that key strategies have been the improved delivery of […]
The legal and parliamentary Affairs committee scrutinizing the presidential age limit bill has given the medical experts two weeks to produce a report determining age impact on leadership. The committee request came while meeting the members of the Uganda medical Association over the bill led by the Association’s president Dr.Ekwaro Obuku. The committee chaired by Jacob […]
Government has been urged to move quickly to help farmers in the areas affected by Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) as the attack has spread to 25 districts in the country. This was revealed during a meeting between farmers and the minister of agriculture, animal industry and fisheries, Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja in Nakasongola District. Canon […]
Financial Sector Deepening Uganda (FSDU) has asked government to have a strategic approach of increasing mobile phones hand sets to the poor to facilitate the financial inclusion strategy that seeks to reduce financial exclusion from 15 to 5% by 2022. This call was made by Joseph Lutwama, the policy, legal and regulatory specialist at FSDU […]
Okoth said that the delay could be the intention to sabotage Uganda to join the SGR in Kenya quickly when the Uganda’s SGR reaches malaba after the Exim bank gets the funds for this project. Kenya’s standard gauge Railway was built from Mombasa to Nairobi and its second phase is to stop at Kisumu leaving […]
Some opposition members of Parliament have returned the money given to them by parliament for consultation on the Presidential age limit bill amendment fronted by Igara west member of parliament Rapheal Magyezi . This after parliament gave each mp 29 million shillings to consult on the age limit bill. Mps who withdraw the money from […]
Ugandan President Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has today( 26th Oct 2017), commissioned Iran-Uganda medical center at Naguru, a Kampala suburb. “I want to start by thanking the Islamic Republic of Iran for this gift of a high tech healthy center , it will help deal with health issues of the police personnel , and other […]
Government has started a registration exercise for all Small and Medium Enterprises operating informally across the country, with a total of 157 registered in the last three months. The 5th 2009/10 informal sector survey conducted by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics indicates that there over 1.8 million informal businesses in the country This was revealed by […]