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James Bukomba, the sub accountant of Buyaga town council in Bulambuli district is in trouble for allegedly extorting 3 Million Shillings from a women’s group. The money applied under the Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Program. Bukomba was arrested on Thursday on the orders of the Bulambuli District Resident Commissioner Stephen Bayoole

The Principal Assistant Town Clerk for Mukono Central Division Ismael Mulambuzi Ssemyalo has been Interdicted for allegedly mismanaging revenue. Since the start of the Covid-19 lockdown, Mukono like other municipalities has been complaining about difficulties in raising local revenue as well as funding the planned activities such as collecting garbage,

The installation of Archbishop-designate Paul Ssemogerere as the Local Ordinary of Kampala Archdiocese Metropolitan See has been set for January 25. The announcement was made by the Archdiocesan Chancellor Rev.Fr Pius Male on Thursday evening. According to Male, the date was chosen by the Archbishop-designate due to its significance in

Government has stopped all private and government-funded schools from increasing tuition fees. The decision comes at a time when many schools in the country had opted to increase fees as a way to raise money to pay back school loans. The Minister of Education stopped schools from asking parents to

Uganda’s public debt has risen to 73.8 trillion shillings (about 20.8 billion US dollars), according to provisional figures at the Bank of Uganda up to the month of October 2021. By the end of June 2021, the Ministry of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development reported that the debt had gone

The Ministry of Education has halted the requirement by schools for learners to undergo mandatory COVID-19 testing before being allowed to access schools as education institutions reopen next week. With the surge in COVID-19 cases registered in the country, managers of several boarding schools especially in the Kampala Metropolitan Area

The milling machines that were set up in Mbale district under the Community Agricultural Infrastructure Improvement Programme -CAIIP have remained idle for more than 10-years. The CAIIP program resulted from a comprehensive review of the agricultural sector carried out in 2009 by the government in collaboration with the African Development

The final month of 2021 saw further increases in output and new orders in the Ugandan private sector as demand continued to improve, according to Stanbic’s Purchasing Managers’ Index published today.However, the index shows, employment decreased following a rise in November and that price pressures were evident again. As a

The Minister for Works and Transport Gen. Katumba Wamala has revealed that the Old Taxi will reopen this week. Addressing journalists on Wednesday at the Media Centre, Katumba said that they have agreed with Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA to hand over the park by Friday or Saturday this week for

Makerere University staff have embraced the ongoing headcount exercise following a decision by the institution's Appointments Board. The decision according to Dr. Davis Malowa Ndanyi, the Director Human Resource in a circular follows a new salary payment method that should have taken effect last year. According to the new method,