Deputy Governor, Michael Atingi-Ego. The Bank of Uganda Deputy Governor Michael Atingi-Ego has tasked commercial banks and other financial institutions to sensitize farmers about the availability of the Agricultural Credit Facility–ACF to enable them to access favorable loans. He also wants commercial institutions to prioritize support for green jobs that
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Job seekers wait to hand in their documents at County Hall, Nairobi, on May 26, 2017. File | Nation Media Group The number of Kenyan graduates fruitlessly searching for jobs after leaving school has increased even as many more give up on the job hunt, reflecting a tough economic environment. A
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Assistant Commissioner Public and Corporate Affairs, Ibrahim Bbossa Starting March 2023, Withholding Tax (WHT) agents and employers will have to accompany their monthly returns with tax identification numbers (TINs) of persons they are withholding tax from. This is contained in a URA public notice issued on Thursday 23rd February 2023
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Vincent Ssempijja The demand for compensation litigation costs in an election petition by the Minister of Defence and Veterans Affairs Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja has stirred controversy among leaders in Kalungu district. Early this week, Ssempijja went to Masaka Chief Magistrate’s Court seeking compensation of 94.3 million shillings from Kalungu East
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On a red-soiled coffee plantation some 170 miles northeast of Uganda’s capital city of Kampala, a young woman sorts coffee beans headed for a Trader Joe’s in Milwaukee. Endiro Coffee, a collective coffee firm made up of 518 Ugandan women in the mountainous Mbale region of eastern Uganda, just struck
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The Sembabule district leadership has tasked the Resident District Commissioner Caleb Tukaikiriza to institute investigations into alleged embezzlement of Emyooga programme funds through ghost enterprise groups. Sembabule received over two billion shillings which was lent out to 73 enterprise groups in the four constituencies under the Presidential Initiative for Wealth
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President Yoweri Museveni spoke to FPJ at a special press conference for international journalists in Gulu recently. The UK and other European countries are missing opportunities to import fresh produce from Uganda as the East African country turns its focus to export markets and invests in new cold storage facilities
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By Linda Tamale Employee Welfare is put simply; an array of services, facilities or amenities established at the workplace to enable employees execute their roles in healthy and conducive environments. It is availing facilities that improve employee’s health, boost morale, and make them feel proud to associate with the organization.
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Released: Male Mabirizi Lawyer Male Mabirizi has been released from Luzira Upper prison after serving an 18 months jail term handed to him for contempt of court. The Spokesperson of Uganda Prison Services Frank Baine has told Uganda Radio Network that Mabirizi has been released on Saturday morning after finishing
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A Mathematics teacher at Mulusa Academy Wobulenzi and Luwero Seed Secondary School both in Luwero District who went missing last Thursday, has been found killed. As per his daily routine, the teacher Nathan Ssebugulu on Thursday afternoon, rode his motorcycle a Bajaj Boxer Reg. No. UFT 066Z from Mulusa Academy
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