Entebbe International Airport is undergoing expansion Uganda Civil Aviation Authority has rubbished what it termed as unsubstantiated and recycled claims addressed to various bodies, including the Public Accounts Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises, among others by a former employee, Pascal Jabbe Osinde, whose services were terminated following a
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Fuel prices have increased to a record high Fuel prices in Kampala and Uganda at large have hit a new high, with a litre of petrol going for as high as 4,450 Shillings while diesel was quoted at 3,999 Shillings at some stations on Monday. This is an increase of an average
Read MorePegasus Technologies Becomes First Indigenous Ugandan Fintech To Get BoU License For Mobile Payments
Ronald Azairwe, the Managing Director, Pegasus Technologies Pegasus Technologies Limited, an indigenous Ugandan company, has become the fifth, company to receive a license from the Bank of Uganda to operate as a Payment Service Operator (PSO), having fulfilled the rigorous requirements of the National Payments Act, 2020 (NPS Act 2020)
Read MoreTrade Union leaders Peter Werikhe on the right, Usher Owere and other COFTU and NOTU members Trade Unions want Parliament to scrap off the 0.0256% equivalent to 6 billion shillings in annual levy by Uganda Retirements Benefits Regulatory Authority (URBRA) on workers savings held by the National Social Security Fund
Read MoreThe Retired Justice of the Supreme Court Professor George Kanyeihamba has said if Parliament pushes throw President Yoweri Kaguta Musveni’s proposal of scrapping bail for capital offenders, it would be an affront on the constitution that must be resisted by all Ugandans. Speaking to the media today at his home
Read MoreStanbic Bank Chief Executive Anne Juuko (left) together with Dr Diana Atwine, the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Health signing the partnership agreements at the Ministry of Health headquarters in Kampala on Oct.18. Stanbic Bank has signed a partnership with the Ministry of Health which will see the bank offer a range of low interest loans to government health workers across the country. The loans range from personal unsecured salary loans to secured loans, mortgages, vehicle and asset financing loans (VAF), said Anne Juuko, Stanbic Bank Chief Executive at the launch of the partnership event held at the Ministry
Read MoreTeenage mothers that lined up for free Medical services and essential supplies by Rotarians at Bunjako landing site A free medical camp organised at Bunjako landing site in Buwama sub-county, Mpigi district attracted hundreds of teenage mothers bringing to fore, the problem of teenage pregnancies that has spread across the
Read MoreAs the country continues battling the COVID-19 outbreak, the environment has equally been hit hard by the pandemic. In Bunyoro sub-region, most of the people who lost their jobs resulting from the closure of certain companies and offices turned to Mother Nature for survival. Most of these people have invaded
Read MoreRural communities in Lamwo and Pader districts are living in fear of experiencing new cases of nodding syndrome due to an upsurge of blackflies. People living along the belt of the fast-flowing river Aswa, says that since November last year the population of black flies has been growing significantly. Although
Read MoreImpounded fish Fish traders whose trucks are being held by Uganda government authorities have sued the head of the Fisheries Protection Unit-FPU on Lake George and Edward, the Director of Fisheries Resources in Entebbe and the Attorney General for illegally confiscating their fish. On October 3, 2021, Uganda Revenue Authority
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