A section of Ugandans have expressed anger over the latest demand by Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Planning requiring all land owners to acquire and file with their respective district land offices their Post Office Box addresses, with many describing the requirements as archaic and diversionary from the corruption
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The Wreckage of the Helicopter Three people have been confirmed dead after a helicopter gunship crashed in Kabarole District. The helicopter crashed on Tuesday at 2:30 pm in Nyamisingiri village, Bwanika parish Kichwamba sub-county. It was headed to DR Congo after taking off from Ssaka Airfield. According to eyewitnesses, before it
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The Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development has revealed that Government is yet to disburse loans to a tune of Shs11Trn to the various projects the money was borrowed against, despite the fact that the idle loans are attracting interest from the various lenders. The details are contained in
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The Kampala City Festival used to draw crowds Government through the Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities has revealed plans to revive the Kampala City Festival in order to boost tourism in the city. The details are contained in the 2024/25 National Budget Framework Paper, where the Ministry argues that the
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Boda boda operators queue as they await their turn to be served by an attendant at a petrol station in Uganda’s capital Kampala, on January 18, 2022. FILE PHOTO | AFP Kenya is lobbying Uganda to continue using the port of Mombasa to import fuel when the neighbouring country starts
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President Museveni President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has asked employees in factories not to ask for good salaries before the companies they are working for make good profits. In his New Year message to the country, the President said employees should be patient with their employers and not be highly demanding
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The State Minister for Higher Education Dr. John Chrysostom Muyingo has cautioned schools against opening the school term before the official date. According to the official school calendar from the Ministry of Education and Sports, the school term will commence on 5th February. Muyingo says that he has already received
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The Government is in the final stages of increasing remunerations for Uganda Peoples Defense Forces-UPDF soldiers, the Minister of Defense and Veteran Affairs Vincent Ssempijja has revealed. According to Ssempijja, the salary enhancement is part of the government’s broader plan of improving the general welfare and social status of the
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The crowd consisted of young people from well to do families, as well as fun loving high-rollers December 31st 2023, Victoria Hall at the Kampala Serena Hotel was awash with busy bodies, from as early as 8pm, all the way till dawn. The crowd consisted of young people from well
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The Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, the Most Rev. Stephen Kaziimba Mugalu, has asked Ugandans not to conform to world standards but rather be transformed to do righteous. Kaziimba made the call during his New Year’s sermon to Christians at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Namirembe. “Let us have a good
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