Members of Parliament sitting on the parliamentary committee on ICT have asked the Ministry of ICT and the Uganda Communication Commission to procure the sophisticated technological machines to eliminate fraud associated with technology mobile money . The committee chaired by Tororo county MP Annet Nyakecho made the demand while meeting the Director Rural communication Development […]
Two days to the Kenya elections, across section of Ugandans are worried of the impact this is going to have on the economy. Ugandan businesses are expected to head into a serious problem as Kenya heads to election for the country’s president on Thursday this week . Traders Worries are more focused on the flow of goods […]
Uganda’s representative at the Pan Africa parliament Veronica Babirye Kadogo says that government should stop relying on politicians in enforcing and implementation of the controversial laws. This came barely few days after the pan African Parliament resolved to compel African governments where FGM is being practiced to put more emphasis on ending this practice which […]
About 430 Police Officers have today started sitting for the United Nations Assistance Mission serviced (AMS) interviews at Mandela National Stadium Namboole an exercise that will run for a week . “The interviews are prepared by the department of Peace Keeping Operation in New York in collaboration with the countries that requested .” said the […]
The mayor of Jinja municipality, Majid Batambuze is calling on the Central Government to consider increasing the budgetary allocations for the tourism sector as this will facilitate faster growth for the sector. Mr. Batambuze now refers to Kenya which he says has for a long time been investing in its tourism sector which has now […]
A section of members of parliament have criticized the Pan African parliament demand for African countries to legalize abortion. The Pan African Parliament Permanent Committee on Health, Labour and Social Affairs recommended that African countries that are signatories to the Maputo Protocol have been urged to safeguard reproductive health rights of women by permitting abortion […]
Members sitting on the parliamentary committee on gender, labour and social development have issued demands to the ministry of labour to enter into bilateral agreement with Arab countries where Ugandan workers are exported illegally. The MPs demands are following the reports they got from the Ugandan mission at Abu Dhabi indicating that 48 Ugandan workers […]
The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives and Financial Sector Deepening Uganda have signed a Memorandum of understanding to facilitate the growth of the Micro Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME). This Memorandum of Understanding aims to strengthen the Micro Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) sector in Uganda by collaborating with the Ministry to increase capacity […]
The health monitoring Unit has revealed that since its inception it has made recoveries of medicine, health supplies, equipment and cash embezzled worth over Shs 15 billion. Addressing journalists at the media center the director health monitoring unit Dr. Jackson Ojera Abusu added that shs 3billion of hard cash was recovered and has since been remitted to the consolidated fund. Abusu says that […]
Uganda Wildlife Authority will ultimately have to destroy all the impounded Ivory. Concerns have been raised over the continued storage of such contraband which stakeholders argue does not serve any purpose challenging Uganda to emulate neighboring Kenya to have the stockpiles destroyed According to the Authority’s acting Executive director John Makombo, ivory impounded now amounts […]