BusinessFocus Reporter

The construction work at the Jinja based Kiira motors cooperation plant has slowed down because of delayed government funding. So far only Shillings 80billion out of the Shillings 143billion approved by the cabinet in 2018 for the construction work has been released. The Uganda People’s Defense Forces-UPDF business unit, the

The British Government has through the Council of British Agricultural Production allocated Shillings 5.1 billion for dairy production and poultry farming in Northern Uganda. The 5 years project is being implemented by the Countryside Harvester, a local Organisation based in Gulu City. Felix Omara, the Operation Manager of Countryside Harvester,

Parliament has called for an audit on sugarcane factories to establish their financial status and production capacity. Solomon Silwany, the Member of Parliament for Bukoli central in Bugiri district Solomon Silwany yesterday while raising the matter of national concern on the floor of Parliament said that farmers growing sugarcane in

The African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO), with support from the Government of Uganda through the Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office,is organizing a Diplomatic Conference for the Adoption of the Draft Protocol on Voluntary Registration of Copyright and Related Rights to take place

President Yoweri Museveni has agreed that workers should have mid-term access to their savings. Museveni has now directed the Minister for Gender, Labour and Social Development Betty Amongi to make changes to the bill and return it for consent. Using dramatic backdrops and biblical sayings, the President noted if this

The government needs to procure an additional 169 ambulances if all Ugandans are to access emergency services, according to the Health Ministry. Currently, there are 121type B and C ambulances. Type B ambulances are used for universal coverage and are equipped with medicine, medical equipment like oxygen tanks, stretchers, gloves,

Parliament’s joint Public Accounts Committee (Central and Local Government) has learnt that Government spent Shs2.8Bn in the distribution of Covid relief to the vulnerable persons affected by the lockdown.The revelation came during an interface between Ministry of Finance that was represented by Henry Musasizi, State Minister for Finance General Duties

A number of traders have been blocked from accessing shops in arcades around Kampala as landlords demand rent arrears. Many of the traders were locked out of the buildings, in June, when President Yoweri Museveni announced a 42-day lockdown to help the country deal with a new wave of COVID-19.

The government of Uganda has denied that President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is interfering in the internal politics of Kenya. Speaking to journalists at the Uganda Media Centre in Kampala today, the minister of state for Foreign Affairs, Henry Okello Oryem said Uganda’s foreign policy is that it never gets involved