Month: February 2025

The agriculture sector’s value to the economy has remained largely unchanged and in some areas, increased during the one year of the Covid 19 pandemic. This resilience has given the authorities more incentives to focus on the sector in the development programs like the National Development Plan III and the

President Yoweri Museveni The Parliamentary Committee on Government Assurance wants Parliament to halt the new presidential pledges until President  Yoweri Museveni clears old ones. Addressing the press, the committee chairperson, Betty Nambooze Bakireke and her deputy, Joseph Gonzaga Ssewungu said that old pledges now stands at Shs75 trillion. Nambooze asked Parliament to allow

The lawyers representing eight people who were arrested by the security forces in relation to the murder of a driver and a daughter to Works and Transport Minister General Katumba Wamala have filed an application  demanding  for their production in court. The eight are:  Kamada Walusimbi alias Mudinia alias Ogema,

Parliament of Uganda A section of Members of Parliament have questioned the continued payment of legislators without working. The MPs forming part of the Opposition leadership led Government Assurance Committee, Betty Nambooze representing Mukono Municipality and Kalungu West MP Joseph Ssewungu say that the payments of their allowances without work

Agnes Igoye, coordinator of anti-human trafficking at ministry of internal affairs The Internal Affairs Ministry has warned blacklisted labour export firms against withholding the passports and National Identity cards of the people they had planned to send out before their suspension. Last week, the government suspended eight labour export firms.

Wakiso District has received an additional 3,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. The District Health Officer, Matthias Lugolobi, says the National Medical Stores-NMS delivered the additional doses on Friday last week. This brings to 8,370, the number of doses received by the district to vaccines health workers and people

Fuel stations have maintained prices of fuel even after the new fuel tax of 100 Shillings that took effect on Thursday having been approved by parliament for the 2021/22 budget. Government increased the fuel tax per litre of petrol and diesel by Ush100 for the financial year 2021/22 as a

A pig in Rakai district has mauled a one and a half-year-old baby. The incident occurred at Kateera village in Ddwaniro sub-county on Friday. The baby’s mother, Peace Tukwasibwe, the baby’s mother was in the kitchen preparing breakfast, while the minor was sleeping on the mattress in the house. The