Some police officers have gone for two years without pay, Mukono South MP, Muyanja Senyonga has claimed. He has asked Parliament to intervene into Government’s failure to pay the said officers. Senyonga made the plea during yesterday’s plenary sitting where he revealed that there are police officers who have not
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The Stanbic Purchase Managers Index (PMI) survey report for April shows there was deterioration in business conditions following the lockdown that started on 24th March 2020. The lockdown was brought in to try and prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Uganda. The headline PMI registered 21.6
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The Kira Municipality MP, Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda (pictured) has castigated government over poor distribution of food to vulnerable Ugandans during the COVID-19 lockdown. While raising a matter of National Importance during today's plenary sitting, Ssemujju also decried comments by President Yoweri Museveni, depicting MPs as greedy for allocating themselves Shs10bn
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Mengo Magistrate Court Tuesday granted controversial Evangelist, Augustine Yiga (pictured) of Revival Christian Church Kawaala-Lubaga Division in Kampala, a non-cash bail of Shs2M after spending a month in prison at Kitalya Government prison for uttering statements disputing the existence of Coronovirus in Uganda and Africa. While delivering ruling on Yiga's bail
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The Permanent Secretary of the Health Ministry, Dr Diana Atwine has heaped praise of city recording studio BrandPoint Experts for an offer to help in the fight against COVID-19. Diana made the remarks on Monday as the audio studio made a donation to the country's efforts fight the spread of
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The Speaker of Uganda’s Parliament Rebecca Kadaga (pictured) has expressed concern over the health of Mityana Municipality MP, Francis Zaake, noting that he was beaten and battered by the Police. “During the weekend, I visited Hon. Kato Lubwama at hospital. He underwent surgery and he’s recovering. I also visited Hon.
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They want to study three drugs in the treatment of coronavirus Kenyan researchers have joined their international counterparts in the search for a cure for Covid-19, with plans for clinical trials for three drugs, Daily Nation reports. A clinical trial is when medicine is tried on human beings to determine
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged people not to put their faith in local untested remedies for coronavirus. The advice comes at a time when at least three African heads of state have said they are importing large quantities of a herbal tonic which the president of Madagascar claims
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Drug maker, Cipla Quality Chemical Industries Limited commonly known as Quality Chemicals, has issued a profit warning, informing shareholders and people who intend to buy its shares that it recorded a loss in the first quarter of 2020 compared to a profit posted over the same period in 2019. In
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Tropical Bank boss, Abdulaziz Mansur The Bank of Uganda has revealed that Tropical Bank Limited is well capitalized after its shareholders injected Shs3.8bn into the financial institution. In a press statement issued this morning by Adam Mugume on behalf of BoU’s Deputy Governor, the Central Bank acknowledged that Tropical Bank
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