The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee has quizzed the officials of Makerere University Business School (MUBS) led by the University’s principal Prof.Waswa Balunywa over gross mismanagement of the university funds. The committee presided over by the Woman MP for Soroti district Angelina Osege observed that MUBS accounting officers caused the diversion of 259 million shillings to […]
The parliamentary committee on trade and tourism has urged the government to put in place a sugar cane research Institute to address sugar scarcity. This was after the committee met the smallest players in the sugar industry like Ssezibwa sugar and seven star sugar limited to give them their views on the sugar bill 2016. […]
Ntugamo Municipality Member of Parliament, Gerald Karuhanga, and the Kabweri County MP, Gonahasa Francis, want the auditor general to audit the performance of the court of appeal of Uganda in respect to election petitions. Karuhanga says that election petitions are supposed to be heard with in a period of six months but is surprising that […]
The Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) have revealed that they have never issued a certificate standard to certify the equipment used by SGS company that has been inspecting the vehicles in Uganda. Appearing before the Physical Infrastructure Committee of Parliament chaired by Luwero Woman MP, Eng Lillian Nakate, the acting executive director UNBS, Patricia […]
Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) councilors have moved a motion to support the three children of the vendor who died last Friday after she was running away from the authority enforcement officers. The motion follow a 35 years Olivia Basemera who drowned and died in Nakivubo channel after it was alleged that the enforcement officers […]
A section of district leaders of the sugar growing districts want some of the clauses in the proposed sugar bill dropped because they are anti-business especially to the farmers. Clause 22 of the sugar bill proposes that the zoning of sugar growing in a radius of 25 kilometers which they describe as detrimental and restrictive […]
The Ministry of Health on Wednesday confirmed the outbreak of measles in Kampala and Wakiso districts. Health Minister Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng says that their surveillance and case findings indicates that a total of 67 cases so far been identified and of these, seven have been confirmed by the laboratory tests within the month of July. Measles is an airborne disease that […]
The Central Executive Committee of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) has told that party members to abandon the advocacy for the lifting of the Presidential age limit in the constitution. Speaking to journalist at NRM offices in Kampala some of the NRM central executive committee members attacked some of the party members advancing the amendment […]
The Member of Parliament for Rubaga North in Kampala district, Moses Kasibante, has warned religious leaders against being used to entrench political leaders over stay in power. This after St. Luke Church of Uganda, Kinoni in Mbarara district unveiled records showing that President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni was born on August 3rd in 1947, which gives him life […]
The total number of refugees coming to Uganda from South Sudan has hit one million people and the UN refugee agency says that, it needs more funds to support them. The refugee agency, UNHCR say it has received only 29% of the funds required to settle refugees from South Sudan this year. UNHCR’s Assistant field officer attached […]