Speaker Anita Among has threatened to implement budget cuts for lazy Committees that haven’t produced any reports since their inception, one year down the road. The Speaker made the threat in her communication during the plenary sitting where she noted that although President Museveni announced 62 bills that Parliament
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The Ministry of Works and Transport is seeking for Shs600Bn to reduce road carnage in Uganda within the next five years. The revelation was made by Fred Byamukama (pictured), State Minister for Transport while appearing before Parliament’s Committee on Physical Infrastructure who had been summoned to explain steps government is
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Mundeyi addressing the media The Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control (DCIC) has cancelled 260 Diplomatic Passports. These had been applied for by Ugandans who whose status does not warrant such travel documents. The Ministry of Internal Affairs Spokesperson Simon Peter Mundeyi says that many Ugandans used the
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Parliament has tasked the Ministry of Education and Sports to formally table before Parliament the guidelines on how music concerts will be held in schools following numerous public complaints on raunchy videos of artists and students dancing controversially during the concerts. “You need to bring those guidelines on Thursday (4th August
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Makerere University VC, Prof Barnabas Nawangwe/ Courtesy photo Makerere University Vice Chancellor, Prof Barnabas Nawangwe has suspended Sulaiman Namwoza, a third-year student pursuing a bachelor of Medicine and a Bachelor of Surgery at Makerere over alleged indiscipline. In a letter dated 1st August 2022 to Namwoza, Prof Nawangwe alleged that
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A farmer tends to his coffee bushes in Nyeri town on November 9, 2021. PHOTO | JOSEPH KANYI | NMG Kenya risks losing the KSh1.5 billion (UShs48.8bn) Japanese coffee market after the authorities in Tokyo raised a red flag over the use of non-recommended pesticides in the produce.
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A Stanbic Bank branch on Kimathi Street, Nairobi. FILE PHOTO | NMG South Sudan’s central bank has threatened to revoke the license of Stanbic Bank Limited South Sudan in a move set to deny the lender a piece of the market that was once the most profitable among regional subsidiaries
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A plantation of bananas in Busanjabwankuba along River Namatala has also been swept away A mini report by the Mbale Regional Emergency Response Operation Center shows that 80 homes were washed away by floods that hit Mbale City over the weekend. The report also shows that the floods displaced 5600 people, some
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Clement Kisinde, a farmer at Kibanvu village in Luwero sub county checking on his pig. Kisinde sold most of his pigs due to high costs of feeds Several piggery farmers in Luwero district have stopped using maize as a key component of pig feeds citing the high prices. Families in at
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Karamoja has many tourist attractions The Uganda Wild life Authority (UWA) has advised tourists interested in visiting Karamoja wildlife-protected areas to be careful as they cross the flooded seasonal rivers in the sub-region. Mr. James Okware, the senior warden in charge of Pian Upe and Matheniko Bokora game
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