Five out of the 15 students who were arrested last week and remanded for protesting against the increasing prices of various commodities in the country have been granted bail by Buganda Road Magistrates Court. The group is jointly charged together with ten others for staging an unlawful assembly at the
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Namboole Stadium Parliament has given the Minister of Public Service two months to discuss with cabinet the Ad hoc Committee on Government rationalization of agencies that recommends the creation of a Sports Authority. If adopted, this will see merging of National Council of Sports, Namboole National Stadium and Nakivubo War Memorial
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President Museveni and President Samia Suluhu of Tanzania pose for a photo at State House Entebbe on Tuesday. President Suluhu is in Uganda on a two day state visit. PPU Photo Tanzania has pledged to buy at least 10,000 tonnes of Ugandan sugar and an unspecified amount Anti-Retroviral drugs-ARVS from
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(L-R) Musa Jallow - Absa Uganda Retail Director, Tetteh Ayitevie - Prudential Uganda CEO, Michael Segwaya - Absa Uganda ED & CFO & Sheila Sabune - Prudential Uganda CCO Absa Bank Uganda and Prudential Uganda have today launched the Absa Family Protection Plan, a life insurance policy, designed to help
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CCBA Management Team led by General Manager Melkamu Abebe pose with the new clear Sprite bottle The Coca-Cola system in Uganda has today unveiled a new iconic look of its leading sparkling lemon-lime flavored soft drink Sprite in a clear polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic bottle packaging. This shift from its
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dfcu Team led by Jude Kansiime, Head Marketing dfcu Bank holding the placard alongside the Bugada Katikiro Owek Charles Peter Mayiga dfcu Bank in partnership with the Buganda Kingdom yesterday unveiled the 2022 Kabaka Birthday Run Kit during a press conference held at Bulange, Mengo, Buganda Kingdom Headquarters. The kit
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Awel Uwihanganye - CEO Makerere Centennial Celebrations, Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe - MUK Vice-Chancellor, Mumba Kalifungwa - Absa MD & Michael Segwaya - Absa ED & CFO Absa Bank Uganda Limited has today announced a commitment worth UGX 65million towards Makerere University’s centenary celebrations. The commitment will go towards supporting
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Rice importers especially from Tanzania have paused their operations following the reinstatement of the 18 Value Added Tax-VAT levy. For the past two weeks, no single rice truck entered the country pushing a kilogram of rice to Shillings 4000 from Shillings 3500. On Monday, Uganda Revenue Authority-URA allowed 10
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Speaker Anita Among (pictured) has denied claims that Parliament is trying to suffocate a debate on the report on the controversial coffee agreement signed between Ministry of Finance and Uganda Vinci Coffee Company (UVCC). The Speaker called for calm, saying Parliament will debate the report by the Trade Committee, but
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Members of the Civil Society addressing the press Civil society activists have asked Parliament to reject a request by Ministry of Finance to gift Bujagali Hydro Power dam another tax exemption of five years, saying Uganda’s struggling economy can’t take on any more tax exemptions. The plea was made by
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