The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has launched the Busoga Livestock Transformation Project of the Kasolwe Stock Farm in the eastern district of Kamuli. Presiding at the launch on Wednesday, 30 October 2019, Kadaga said that the project was timely and would teach the indigenous people how to practice farming
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Tanzanian billionaire Mohammed Dewji (pictured) has said that he asked his kidnapper to shoot him six days into being held captive. His abduction, 12 months ago, outside a hotel gym in the country's main city, Dar es Salaam, sparked a huge manhunt. Speaking to the media for the first time
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There is panic among traders and investors who transact in millions after Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) ordered all banks and Forex bureaus to ensure that money going abroad in excess of Shs50m is cleared by the tax body. In a letter to bank CEOs, Henry Saka, the URA Commissioner Domestic
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Imagine the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs suing a government he serves! This is exactly what Uganda’s Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Kahinda Otafiire (pictured) has done. Asked by Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga to explain circumstances under which he came to take possession of square miles of
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The Speaker of Uganda’s Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga is shocked that both the Ministry of Foreign and Ministry of Education have failed to ensure that Ugandans take up scholarships offered by Russian Province of Siberia and India yet many bright students fail to make it to Universities and others drop out
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Uganda’s public debt is set to soar further if Parliament approves a request to borrow USD456.370M (Shs1.68 trillion) from the Exim Bank of China to finance the upgrade and construction of national oil roads project in Masindi, Hoima and Buliisa districts. The request is expected to be tabled before Parliament
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Government is set to legally start collecting toll fees on the multi-billion Kampala-Entebbe Expressway after President Yoweri Museveni signed the Road Bill into law. The latest development was communicated by Government spokesperson and Uganda Media Centre Executive Director, Ofwono Opondo via his official twitter handle. “President Kaguta Museveni has assented
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Ugandans living in Southern Africa have requested Parliament to interest itself in the fate of its members languishing in jails in Zimbabwe and Zambia. The Ugandans, arrested mostly for attempting to cross into South Africa without valid entry visas through the two countries have been detained for several months without
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The Uganda National NGO Forum and the civil society organizations fraternity in Uganda have condemned the highhanded and violent response to the students’ peaceful protest against the fifteen per cent (15%) tuition increment issued by the management of Makerere University. In a statement dated 29th October 2019, Richard Ssewakiryanga, the
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A Ghanaian 12 year-old prodigy has won a spot at university to study public administration. Viemens Bamfo (pictured) is the youngest out of nearly 3,000 students who have just been enrolled at The University of Ghana. He passed entrance exams with flying colours after being home-schooled by his father Robert
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