Following allegations of fraud in Sim card registration, especially regarding corporate bodies, Uganda Communications Commission has temporarily suspended the sale of Sim cards to companies, NGOs and public institutions pending investigations. In a letter issued last week, the UCC Ag. Executive Director Irene Kaggwa Sewankambo (pictured) directed all operators “to
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The Ministry of Health has confirmed 19 new COVID-19 cases from 2,170 samples tested on 29 June 2020. All the 19 are Ugandans. “11 of the confirmed cases are returnees from Afghanistan who were under quarantine at the time of test,” the Ministry said in a statement signed off by
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The Speaker of Uganda’s Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga (pictured) has asked the Ministry of Health to explain why no penny has been allocated to Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) despite Parliament allocating money to the institute to fight the spread of COVID-19 in Uganda. Kadaga also tasked the Ministry to explain
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A few women entrepreneurs are benefiting from UWEP The COVID-19 pandemic has left a number of beneficiaries of the Youth Livelihood Programme (YLP) and women under the Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Programme (UWEP) unable to pay back their loans. As a result, Government through the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social
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The Bank of Uganda (BoU) has taken a decision to appeal the Court of Appeal’s dismissal of the case filed by Crane Bank Limited (in Receivership) vs. Sudhir Ruparelia and Meera Investments Limited to the Supreme Court. “In exercise of its powers under sections 87(3), 88(1)(a)&(b) of the Financial Institutions
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The Uganda National Committee on the Study of Juche Idea in conjunction with the Pan African Movement - Uganda, have organized an online seminar to commemorate the 26th anniversary of the passing of H.E Comrade Kim Il Sung, Eternal Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, also known as
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The new influenza strain was identified in pigs/File photo Researchers in China have discovered a new type of swine flu that is capable of triggering a pandemic, according to a study published Monday in the U.S. science journal PNAS. Named G4, it is genetically descended from the H1N1 strain that caused a pandemic in
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Nairobi is Africa's business hub Kenya’s economy will contract for the first time in almost three decades, according to the International Monetary Fund. The lender now sees gross domestic product shrinking by 0.3% in 2020, compared with an April projection of 1% growth, according to a regional economic outlook
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The State House Anti-Corruption Unit has arrested two businessmen who were found with five land titles of land already registered in Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s name. Col. Edith Nakalema who heads the Unit, said they received a complaint that the President’s private land at Katwekambwa in Kabulasoke Sub County, Gomba District
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UPDF officer, Brigadier Jackson Tushabe Bell has passed on according to reports. R0079 Col .Jackson Tushabe Bell, breathed his last at Nakasero Hospital in the wee hours of Tuesday morning. It is not yet clear what he succumbed to but he had been recently hospitalized. Bell who participated in the
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