The Ministry of Finance through the Permanent Secretary Ramathan Ggoobi (pictured) has threatened not to approve supplementary budgets of entities that failed to utilise up all their allocated budgets. Ggoobi sounded the warning on Thursday during a Local Governments Budget Consultative Workshop held in Masaka, where he assured the Local Government leaders that
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Minister Anite and other UIA officials are visiting various parts of the country Patriotic Ugandans have ‘gifted’ government with over 4000 acres of land that will be given out to investors to set up industries in industrial parks across the country. The revelation was made by State Minister for Investment and Privatisation, Evelyn Anite,
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Some of the farmers who participated in the recently concluded PostBank agricultural forum pose for a photo at Bomah Hotel in Gulu district. PostBank, a financial institution that is committed to empowering lives has today concluded a series of agricultural forums that sought to enhance farmers’ skills and capacity in
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An online Illustration of the Digital Economy A study on the digital economy in Uganda shows that only 26% of Ugandans are included and the rest are largely left out of the digital-aided services and economic activities. This is mainly because of the low penetration of digital-aided communication gadgets, the
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Rubbles of the Makindye building that collapsed in May 2020 A five-floor building that collapsed in Lukuli, Makindye in May last year, killing 13 people was being constructed by an “engineer” by whose highest qualification is a certificate in bricklaying. This revelation that URN is making public for the first
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The health ministry is organizing a campaign to increase the uptake of COVID-19 vaccines. According to figures from the health ministry, over 10,000 doses of vaccines are expected to expire at the end of September. Now with a few days left to the end of the month, officials at the
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Gloria Ayebare's Ugandan national identity card Two Ugandan teachers have been arrested in Rwanda. Gloria Ayebare and Annet Kabanyena both residents of Kibumba village in Rwingwe parish in Kisoro district are teachers at Maranatha Nursery and Primary School in Rubavu, north-western of Rwanda’s Rubavu district. According to Kabanyaena’s close relative who
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Foreign Affairs Minister, Gen. Abubaker Jeje Odong, and Martin Tlapa, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Czech Republic Thursday held bilateral discussions at the Foreign Affairs Headquarters in Kampala. Key on the agenda was forging a way to strengthen the bilateral cooperation between the two countries. Gen. Odongo welcomed
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Chris Baryomunsi, the Minister of ICT & National Guidance Government has blamed the poor network of telecoms on the refusal by Ugandans to give up their land to install masts in fear of catching strange diseases. The revelation was made by Chris Baryomunsi, the Minister of Information, Communications, Technology (ICT) and
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Beatrice Anywar, the Minister of State for Water and Environment The Minister of State for Water and Environment, Beatrice Anywar, is concerned about the rapid rate at which Uganda is losing its forest cover, saying if it is not mitigated, the consequences could be dire. Anywar, who was presenting a
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