Soroti City Council is losing more than 100 million shillings every month to non-compliant service providers contracted to collect local revenue. The findings are contained in the status report of payment of tendered revenue sources for the Financial Year 2022/2023. The report, covering the period from November 2022 to January
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MPs Defer Approval Of Shs 20Bn Request For Kiira Motors Pending Review Of Earlier Appropriation
Members of Parliament on the Budget Committee have deferred approval of a supplementary budget worth 20 billion Shillings for Kiira Motors Company to produce and deploy initial electric buses in the greater Kampala Metropolitan Area. The committee has deferred approval until it interacts with the State House comptroller and officials
Read MoreLwengo district risks losing its prime property over an accumulated debt it owes to former Member of Parliament for Bukoto West Abdul Kitatta. Kitatta is threatening to repossess seven out of the ten acres of land on which the district constructed its headquarters in Mbirizi town council, over an outstanding
Read MoreHon. Balimwezo Ronald Nsubuga- MP Nakawa East (Centre) together with officials from Uganda Breweries Ltd take a group photo with Luzira women that recieved mushroom gardens. Uganda Breweries Limited in partnership with the office of the Luzira Women Councillor LC III has offered agribusiness training and donated 2,000 mushroom gardens to Luzira
Read MoreDr. Ibembe’s Resignation Letter To Minister Milly Babalanda Leaks, Shows Pressure At Work Caused Embattled Former USPC, UPPC Board Member Health Problems
Dr. Patrick Ibembe Embattled former chairperson of Uganda Security Printing Corporation (USPC) and also as a board member of Uganda Printing and Publishing Corporation (UPPC), Dr. Patrick Ibembe threw away his job nine days after police had commenced its investigations into the alleged corruption at UPPC. It has emerged that
Read MoreThe State Minister for Internal Affairs, Gen David Muhoozi (pictured) has admitted that Police has no capacity to track stolen phones in Uganda and that such work can only be done by the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF). “Unfortunately, Police doesn’t have that capacity, it is mainly with the military maybe through
Read MoreUganda Airlines plane ready to take off at Entebbe Airport Entebbe International Airport recorded 66,565 arrivals and 73,217 departures, a total of 139,782 passengers in February 2023, Uganda Civil Aviation Authority (UCAA) has said. This is an average of 4,992 passengers per day, compared to 3,490 per day in February 2022. In
Read MoreThe UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is calling for emergency funding to broaden efforts to reach millions living across 11 eastern and southern African countries which have been hit hard by fast-spreading cholera outbreaks. Calling for USD 171 million in funds to support 28 million people suffering in the region, UNICEF
Read MoreA new report has revealed that half of the pregnancies in the Acholi Sub-region in 2022 were unintended, with the bulk recorded in the districts of Amuru and Agago. The 2022 survey report conducted by Makerere University School of Public Health indicates that 50.7 percent of girls and women between
Read MoreFortunate Kyarikunda, a Law Enforcement Officer at Rubanda district local government, has filed an application to set aside the ruling in favor of her ex-fiance Richard Tumwiine, a teacher and resident of Kambuga sub-county in Kanungu district. The court had ordered Kyarikunda to compensate Tumwiine Shillings 10 million after she
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