Four Officials in the Office of the Prime Minister accused of irregularities in the procurement of the Covid-19 relief food appeared before the Anti-corruption court in Kololo on Monday to answer 24 counts that include; Abuse of Office, fraudulent false accounting and Corruption. However, they did not taken plea before
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The Uganda Heart institute failed to utilize an allocation of Shillings 420m for the recruitment of specialist doctors. The matter came to light when the institute’s director Dr. John Omagino was interfacing with MPs on the Public Accounts committee of parliament on Monday. Dr. Omagino was tasked by the committee
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Rtd Maj Gen Matayo Kyaligonza The National Resistance Movement (NRM) Party Vice Chairperson- Western Region, Rtd Maj Gen Matayo Kyaligonza is set to face off with Chris Baryomunsi, the Kinkizi East MP in the hotly contested position currently held by the controversial General. However, Baryomunsi, who doubles as Minister of
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Orient Bank head offices in Kampala Orient Bank is optimisticthat the proposed acquisition by 1&M Holdings PLCwill enable its customers to benefit from the synergies through the group’s regional infrastructure. In a telephone interview, Orient Bank Communications Manager, Ms. Ronnie Zalwango said that the completion of the acquisition process
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The 2020 Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) (https://AfricaBusinessHeroes.org) prize competition, a flagship philanthropic program established by the Jack Ma Foundation’s Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI), has shortlisted the top 50 finalists from stage one of the selection process (https://bit.ly/2OWWGWa). The fifty entrepreneurs will continue their journey in the competition, for a chance to become one of
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An online survey conducted by NRM UPYM alongside UGANDA COALITION FOR POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY TO WOMEN, COPAW, GAMU, THE ALTERNATIVE, PARLIAMENTARY ADVOCACY FORUM (PAFO), COALITION OF THE WILLING and other researchers has published it's results. The team led by Mr. Sempala Zayid indicates that Hon. Bonnie Kashaija, Amb Robert Mwesigwa Rukari,
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The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund on Sunday approved a $31.6 million COVID-19 Crisis Response Support Program (CRSP) to Uganda to support the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The funds are designed as budget support within the framework of the Bank Group’s COVID-19 Crisis Response Facility.
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Technology offers the best opportunity for Africa’s advancement, and African countries have the right to choose which countries and companies they partner with in charting the technological development of their people. This was one of the messages emerging from a webinar hosted by the University of Johannesburg yesterday. Titled, “Gearing
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By Sylver Kyagulanyi The entertainment or creative arts industry is as old as humanity. It is one of the ways through which people demonstrate ingenuity and craft to make our lives more beautiful and worthwhile using creative arts, including music, dance, drama, painting, poetry to mention but a few. This
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Uganda has a sea of opportunities that leaders should tap into to serve their communities, President Museveni has said. The President's counsel was made on Friday at State House Entebbe as he launched two books authored by the Secretary to the Judiciary, Mr Pius Bigirimana. The books are; ‘The Corona
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