The Minister for Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, Frank Tumwebaze is discouraging donors from giving his ministry cash. Tumwebaze said cash donations are tempting and also items to be procured could take longer because of the procedures that must be taken such as domestic and international bidding among others. He made the statement on Tuesday…
The Bank of Uganda (BoU) has granted an operating licence to I&M Bank (U) Ltd to begin operating in Uganda after changing its name from Orient Bank. The Nairobi-based financial Group announced that the rebrand comes after the I&M Group’s successful acquisition of a 90 per cent shareholding in Uganda’s Orient Bank Ltd on April,…
The Gulu district Covid-19 taskforce targets to vaccinate up to 23,496 people against Covid-19 in a month-long drive that kicked off last week. The District Health Department received 2,318 doses of the Sinovac, 2,506 doses of Moderna and 20,990 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines. Unlike Sinovac whose shelf life goes beyond a year, Moderna and AstraZeneca…
BoU lead counsel Margaret Kasule and her team are in what one would term as catch 24! because look, having signed a decree at the Court of Appeal on August 6, 2020, in which they obliged to pay in billions of shs, the legal costs for their victims Dr.Sudhir Ruparelia, the majority shareholder in the…
The Supreme Court has said it will at a later date rule on who between Bank of Uganda (BoU) and Crane Bank in receivership pays the legal costs to businessman Sudhir Ruparelia in the multibillion commercial dispute. This follows submissions by Mr Ruparelia’s lawyers led by Peter Kabatsi yesterday, asking the justices of the Supreme…
Uganda has received an additional 3.5 million doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine donated by the United States government over the last two days. These represent the largest ever donation of COVID-19 vaccines to Uganda and the third donation of COVID-19 vaccines from the United States to the people of Uganda. The United States earlier…
Recently, this website broke a story on how Bank of Uganda (BoU) wrote to the Supreme Court seeking permission to withdraw an appeal they had filed on June 23rd, 2020, against businessman Sudhir Ruparelia contesting Justice David Wangutusi’s 2019 ruling, in which he declared that BoU illegally wound up Crane Bank and sold it to…
Hundreds of people are lining up at Bulange-Mengo, where a mass COVID-19 vaccination exercise is being held, in a drive to increase the uptake of vaccines. Queues started building up from the main gate of Bulange, the seat of the Buganda Kingdom, where several mobile vaccination statutes have been stationed, as early as 7 a.m…
The Ministry of Health has directed health workers to start inoculating children aged 12 years and above with Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines. According to the ministry’s October 29 letter to all District Health Officers, eligible children are those with comorbidities such as diabetes, sickle cell disease, cancer and asthma because they are at a higher…
I was on call for hemodialysis and the coordinator at the other end sounding very frazzled, told me that she is sending a car to my compound and be ready to come to the hospital as one of our VIP patients needed an emergency dialysis. I got my bearings and got ready to be driven…
