Members of parliament hailing from West Nile have expressed their disappointment over Uganda Revenue Authority enforcement officers methods of collecting tax . The MPs accuse the officers of subjecting people to ‘inhuman methods’ of collecting tax in the West Nile sub region and the entire country. This follows last week’s incident were UPDF officers attached […]
President Yoweri Museveni has assured crime preventers in the country that they will maintain their duties as they are now regarded as a Reserve Army of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF), State House Uganda reports. “A few weeks ago, I saw in the papers and somebody said that the fate of the crime preventers […]
The public Accounts committee of parliament has grilled the officials led by the undersecretary in the Ministry of Defence, Edith Buturo, over 718 billion shillings arrears that remained unpaid at the close of the financial year 2015/17. The funds were meant to clear delayed payment of over 8,000 retired army officers their gratuity and pension, land compensation […]
Police in Arua are investigating cases of aggravated robberies and murders which have been occurring since November 2017 along Arua Ogoko road around Luku hill, Olevu village, Olevu parish, Ajia Sub county, Arua district and at river Ala area, Anzuu village, Anzuu parish, Vurra Sub county, Arua district in which 10 suspects have been arrested […]
President Yoweri Museveni has assured Bibanja holders living on Mailo land that their land tenure is legally protected and no one should evict them.Those chasing them from their land were doing so illegally, said the President, adding that it was in contravention of the law and that they are taking advantage of their ignorance of […]
President Yoweri Museveni yesterday held bilateral discussions with his visiting Rwandan counterpart, President Paul Kagame at State House, Entebbe. According to the Presidential Press Unit, the Rwandan leader who is new African Union (AU) Chairman, was in the country on a one-day day working visit to brief President Museveni on the recent AU Summit in Kigali […]
29% of women in Kigezi region still prefer to give birth from their homes at the expense of giving birth from health facilities, according to the statistics released today by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics. The statistics released by George Kawage, a senior statistician with Uganda Bureau of Statistics, during the dissemination seminar of findings […]
Government is final stages to build renewable energy plants in five Districts of Arua, Jinja, Mbale, Mbarara and Masaka in a bid to increase access of energy. The plants which will operate using human waste are expected to contribute 400 kilo watts to the national grid. According to the Assistant commissioner renewable energy John Tumuhimbise, […]
New Inspector General of Police, Okoth Micheal Ochola has in a stunning move shuffled police officers, dumped his predecessor’s cronies and redeployed senior officer’s that had been sidelined for long. In a message to all police units and signed off by Ochola himself, AIGP Abbas Byakagaba is appointed the new police director in charge of […]