The cabinet of Uganda has agreed to retain the taxes that were imposed on social media and mobile money and only a revision in the latter will be considered. According to the Uganda minister of information and communication technology, Frank Tumwebaze, the mobile money tax is to be reduced from 1 to 0.5 percent charged […]
President Yoweri Museveni and his visiting Sudanese counterpart Omar Hassan Al-Bashir have reiterated their commitment to strengthen and enhance trade and investment between their two countries, Uganda and Sudan. The two leaders reiterated this while addressing a Business Forum yesterday at State House, Entebbe where the two leaders held talks at the start of President […]
Sad news reaching our desk this morning indicates that local singer Denis Galiwango popularly known by his stage name as Dizzy Nutts has been knocked dead at Kireka along Kampala –Jinja highway. Online reports say that the faded singer was knocked down by a hit and run driver in Kireka on Sunday at around 2am. He […]
The first time Terry had to travel after having her baby was an interesting time; there was a lot of preparation that had to go into the trip. One of the things she needed to check off the long list was getting a passport for her boy; four months old and she had to have […]
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 […]
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 […]
Interim Uganda cranes coach Moses Basena has named a provisional 35-man squad for their 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Ghana on 7th October, 2017, at Mandela National stadium in Kampala Uganda. The Cranes will play in Lira-Northern Uganda on 30th, September ahead of their clash with the Black Stars. ”The training will start on Wednesday 27 September, 2017 at 4pm at […]
The health minister Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng is urging all health workers to use the revised Uganda clinical guidelines 2016 and essential medicines and health supplies list for Uganda 2016 books as they go about their daily duties, saying these will help provide them guidance when treating patients. Officiating at the launch of the two guidelines in […]
The Member of Parliament for persons with disabilities Safia Nalule has asked security agencies to stop arresting and keeping suspects in custody beyond the 48 hour rule. Safia Nalule who is also the vice chairperson on the parliamentary committee on Human Rights said that it was absurd for police to torture and keeping the mayor […]
YAOUNDE, CAMEROON: There is renewed interest by academics, civil society and legislators over the continent’s extractive sector and want a common mining law. The legislators are concerned over natural resource governance and economic development on the African continent and are pushing for legislation that addresses issues of transparency and accountability by the governments and mining […]