Indian authorities are holding two female Ugandans for alleged possession of 1.85kilograms of cocaine. According to a tweet from the Customs department in New Delhi, the suspects were picked up shortly after arrival on May 26, 2022, aboard Ethiopian Airlines 686 flight from Addis Ababa. The department notes that
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President Museveni is yet to fulfill the 48 Billion Shillings pledge to Kabale University for face-lifting. Edison Kakuru, the Chairman University Council says that in 2016, Museveni who was the guest of honor during the graduation ceremony pledged the money to help in face lifting infrastructure. Kakuru says that the
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The Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development has collected 7 Billion Shillings since October from labour export companies. According to Hillary Talemwa, the head of Labour Externalization at the Ministry, the money was collected from October 19 2021 up to May 1st, 2022. Talemwa says the money is mainly
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Kiruhura District Farmers have petitioned the Minister of Agriculture for immediate intervention over the milk prices. In the letter addressed to Minister Frank Tumwebaze, the farmers in Kiruhura say the reduction of milk prices from 1,600 to 800 shillings in 7 days has left them worried amidst skyrocketing prices of
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The Land Division of the High Court has issued an interim Injunction blocking the Uganda Investment Authority-UIA and two other companies from operating on a contested five acres of land in Namanve Kampala. The ruling stems from a court case in which Twed Property Development Limited sued UIA, Victoria Nile
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The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) canine unit last night - arrested a Yemen national identified as Al-Maamari Maged Mutahar Ali at Entebbe International Airport. The suspect was arrested with 26 pieces of Rhino horns weighing 15 kilograms. According to UWA Communications Manager Bashir Hangi, Ali was arrested at 03:10 hours
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For the last 25-years, Lillian Kihumuro has lived with HIV/AIDS and described her walk as the longest and hardest journeys of her life. Kihumuro revealed that at the age of 3, she could frequently fall sick prompting her uncle who had adopted her to seek medical check-up, and later it
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The Ministry of Education and Sports is working on a National Menstrual Hygiene Plan to regulate the price and quality of sanitary pads. Currently, the price of disposable sanitary towels ranges between 3,500 and 7,000 shillings for popular brands like Always. Rosette Nanyanzi, the Gender Technical Adviser at the Ministry
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Afriland First Bank Uganda will go into Uganda’s history books as the first commercial bank to voluntarily close shop and quit the market. The move by the shareholders of the bank also makes it the shortest journey of a business entity in Uganda’s banking industry, having launched operations in 2020
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The Uganda Revenue Authority-URA has revealed that more than 40 billion shillings of VAT have not been remitted by the different retail businesses since the electronic fiscal receipt invoicing system -EFRIS system was instituted. In the bid to maximize tax mobilization in the country, URA introduced EFRIS, and it started
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