Parliament is among the list of government entities that owe Kampala Capital City Authority - KCCA Shillings 16billion in ground rent and property rates for the 2016/2017 financial year. The others are Uganda Police Force headquarters, National Water and Sewerage Corporation-NWSC among others. The acting KCCA Executive Director, Andrew
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Uganda Bankers Association (UBA) is set to hold the 3rd Annual Bankers Conference (ABC) 2019 under the theme: De-risking financing & Investment in agriculture to promote decent youth employment and inclusive growth. The One-day conference will be held on Tuesday 16th July 2019 at Kampala Serena Conference Center, Victoria Hall,
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The Deputy Speaker of Uganda’s Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah has lashed out at the Federation of Uganda Football Association (FUFA) for failing to manage the issues of Uganda Cranes players’ allowances better. He said that FUFA should resort to dialogue with the players in Egypt instead of dishing out press statements.
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Uganda Tourism Board (UTB) and the Ugandan Embassy in Egypt have hosted a total of 200 outbound Egyptian Tour and Travel operators to a cruise on the River Nile. On board the M/S Nile Smart Cruise Liner were Uganda Tourism Board officials, Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) Football Club chairman
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On the eve of the G20 summit, Russia's President, Vladimir Putin spoke with The Financial Times Editor Lionel Barber and Moscow Bureau Chief Henry Foy. This interview is adapted from en.kremlin.ru website. Lionel Barber: Mr President, you head for Osaka shortly as the senior statesman at the G20. Nobody has been to so many international meetings of this
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Some companies leave Uganda immediately their tax incentives expire. This is according to a new study by the Economic Policy Research Centre-EPRC, URN reports. A study conducted in April 2019 but examined tax incentives given to companies from 2010/2011 to 2018/19 financial years, shows that some companies given tax holidays
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A Rwandan man who hid his involvement in the 1994 genocide has been sentenced to eight years in jail in the US, BBC reports. Jean Leonard Teganya (in featured photo) committed "the most serious form of immigration fraud" by "lying about his status as a war criminal to win asylum,"
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The Secretary to Judiciary, Kivumbi Kagoye (in featured photo) has reportedly gone into hiding after failing to account to Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) how Shs34bn was spent by the institution. Kagoye, who led the team of officials from the Judiciary to PAC on Monday to answer queries raised in
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President Yoweri Museveni’s efforts to not only inspire commercial agriculture but also actively participate were last weekend recognised at the 3rd Annual Farmers' Expo held at Nama Sub-County Headquarters, Mukono district. Army bosses with President Museveni's award Museveni received the Lifetime Agripreneur Award from the organisers of the Expo, the
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A court in Uganda has ordered the government to pay $6,700 (£5,300) as compensation to Joyce Bikyahaga Namata, the mother of a man who was killed in police custody in 2007. Ronald Bikyahaga died as a result of the severe beating and torture he received at Nabbingo Police Post after
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