Month: January 2025

The Minister of Finance, Matia Kasaija (pictured) has admitted that the deplorable housing conditions where Police and Prisons officers are sleeping like pigs shames him and focus has now been put on ending that shame. Kasaija made the admission while appearing before Parliament’s Human Rights Committee where he had been summoned to

Otafiire   The minister for internal affairs, Maj Gen (rtd) Kahinda Otafiire, has said he is determined to take drastic measures to ensure that Ugandans going for external labour are protected from illegal extraction of their internal organs.   Otafiire who was responding to our reporter’s enquiry why of all hospitals

Children fetching water in Rakai. Water shortage has hit various parts of Uganda A section of lawmakers have tasked the Ministry of Water and Environment to come up with a water policy, so as to stop the practice of dragging students from classes to go fetch water for school use.

The Minister of Finance, Matia Kasaija (pictured) has said that Uganda won’t sink into the financial crisis Sri Lanka is battling as long as he is still in charge of Uganda’s economy.   Kasaija made the remarks while appearing before Parliament’s Human Rights Committee where he had been summoned to

The Government of the Republic of Uganda will host the Inaugural Session of the Joint Permanent Commission (JPC) with the Federal Republic of Somalia from 6th - 7th August 2022 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kampala. The main purpose of this Meeting is to strengthen the existing excellent

Uganda Manufacturers’ Association-UMA and Uganda Plastic Recyclers Association have asked the Finance Committee of Parliament to reject the government's proposed tax on plastics. The proposed tax was contained in the Excise Duty (Amendment) Bill, 2022, which was passed by parliament on May 18, 2022, shortly before the start of the

An Ad hoc committee of Parliament has unveiled inconsistencies in the ownership and registration of Bujagali Energy Ltd, the company that owns and operates a 250MW hydropower plant on the River Nile. The power plant was commissioned in 2012 and has been supplying energy to the Ugandan grid. But the

A senior four student has died as she allegedly attempted carry out abortion. Brighter Chekwemoi aged 17years, died on Thursday at Bukwo general hospital where her parents rushed her after she took drugs and started vomiting, losing a lot of blood. Goretti Chemutai a friend of the deceased at school

The Uganda Development Corporation -UDC is undertaking a feasibility study to pave way for the establishment of a cocoa processing factory in Bundibugyo district. The proposed factory that will be managed by Bwamba Cooperative Union is meant to enhance capacity for the cocoa production to increase its quantity and quality

Private buses at Namayiba bus terminal in Kampala. The World Bank, which is expected to provide funding for the implementation of a Bus Rapid Transport-BRT in Kampala wants government to have an agency in charge of mass public transport. Speaking at the Public Transport symposium organized by the School of