Fort portal city council is seeking Shillings 80 million to relocate Timber dealers from the central business district to pave way for re-development. This comes as the city is preparing to rehabilitate Kahunga Bunyonyi and water supply road under the Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development- USMID project slated to
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The Fisheries Protection Unit -FPU has impounded and destroyed illegal fishing gears valued at shillings 447 million. The gears that included monofilament nets and hooks were destroyed at Bugonga landing site, Entebbe Municipality on Monday. Entebbe Grade One Magistrate Naomi Sikoya presided over the exercise. She ordered for the the
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Bugisu Cooperative Union-BCU has unveiled plans to sue the government over the controversial multi-billion coffee concession with Uganda Vinci Coffee Company Limited. This comes almost two weeks after the Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Matia Kasaija signed an agreement granting Uganda Vinci Coffee Company Limited, which is led
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Jailed: Ssekamwa James Kulubya. A city accountant and the proprietor of JSK Consultancy has been convicted and sentenced to three years in prison over charges of abetting Value Added Tax (VAT). Ssekamwa James Kulubya, was also ordered to pay Shs 21 million to Uganda Revenue Authority (URA). Prior to his
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Uganda’s financial industry risks being blacklisted by international systems for failure to put in place measures that can effectively prevent financial crimes like money laundering. This is a requirement by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global inter-governmental organisation on the initiative of the G7countries to develop policies
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The Civil Division of the High Court in Kampala has declined to order an injunction against ongoing procurements in the oil and gas sector. Blocking the procurement would halt the ongoing efforts to develop the infrastructure needed to get oil out of the ground. The court in a ruling
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The CMA says the licensed broker is Chipper Technologies Uganda Ltd The Capital Markets Authority (CMA) has said Chipper Cash International Ltd is not licensed or approved by the Authority as a stock broker contrary to some media reports. The CMA says it’s Chipper Technologies Uganda Ltd that was licensed
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Beti Kamya, the IGG MPs on Parliament’s Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee have questioned the Inspector General of Government (IGG) on her proposed life style audit as a measure to curb the rampant corruption in Uganda. A section of lawmakers say the audit be used to witch-hunt civil servants.
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A farmer at Kyampologoma village pointing at maize plant which has been attacked by the African Army worm Farmers in Luwero district have been warned against wrong dosages of pesticides as they struggle to contain the fast spread of African Army worms in their gardens. The African Army worms were
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Masaka Deputy Resident City Commissioner, Ahmed Kateregga has instructed police to investigate money lenders who are confiscating the National Identifications (IDs) of borrowers over petty loans. He issued the directives after receiving complaints from several people after failing to recover their National IDs from the loan sharks. According to
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