Participants in a group photo after the business workshop Coffee and cocoa exporters have been urged to put in place risk management strategies to protect their business from volatile currency, and commodity prices, and ensure business stability, to achieve sustainable growth and expansion. This was during the Absa Bank Business Banking
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A passenger bus, Buscar from Kenya, registration number KDG 377G, that plies the Kampala Nairobi route, was impounded on Friday 13th September with over UGX 32 million worth of undeclared currency of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The bus was also found in possession of several undeclared assorted goods made
Read MoreDeputy Speaker, Thomas Tayebwa Deputy Speaker, Thomas Tayebwa, has asked the government to impose hefty fines on telecom companies in Uganda that are selling unregistered SIM cards as part of their punishment for harboring fraudsters that end up defrauding and committing crimes with their unregistered SIM cards. He cited a
Read MoreCoffins being displayed for sale near St. Marys' Hosptal Lacor in Gulu. At St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor in Gulu, the scene is a poignant reminder of the intersection between life and death. Close to the hospital’s entrance, approximately 40 meters away, youths aged 20 to 33 can be seen crafting
Read MoreMurchison falls park gate Travelers to the West Nile and Northern Uganda will be exempted from entry fees to the Murchison Falls National Park while Karuma Bridge remains closed for repairs. Uganda Wildlife Authority on Thursday issued a statement saying there will be no fees for vehicles transiting through Tangi-Bugungu
Read MoreMinister Musasizi listening to the construction committee The State Minister for Finance, Planning and Economic Development (General Duties), Henry Musasizi has expressed surprise at the low cost of the planned building project for the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Uganda (ICPAU). Minister Musasizi, who presided over the groundbreaking event,
Read MorePresident Museveni shows Former Nigeria President Olusegun Obasanjo some of the powder milk products being made by Pearl Diary factory in Mbarara during his tour of the milk plant on Wednesday. PPU Photo Nigeria will start importing milk and Coffee from Uganda. This was revealed on Wednesday as Olesegun Obasanjo,
Read MoreFollowing complaints by MPs that they have been reduced to digging latrines and buying pens and boxes of chalk in schools in their constituencies, Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa has tasked the Ministry of Education to produce a report on the status of UPE schools in Uganda. Tayebwa’s directive followed
Read MoreURA Commissioner General, John R. Musinguzi Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has since July 2024 been implementing the waiver of interest and penalty to taxpayers who have paid principal tax outstanding as at June 30, 2023. This is after the Government of Uganda introduced a tax amnesty through waiver of interest and
Read MoreCoffee farmers from Busoga attending a sensitization workshop about EUDR Ssabalangira wa Busoga Kingdom, Moses Woira Mitala Kitimbo, who oversees the three Kingdom Counties of Bugabula, Budiope, and Buzaaya, has urged coffee farmers in Kamuli District to embrace the ongoing coffee registration exercise. Speaking during a regional stakeholders engagement
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