Uganda Registration Services Bureau – URSB, the national business registry, has this morning launched its mass business registration campaign aimed at promoting formalization among entrepreneurs and small business owners. In a news release dated Sept.26, the bureau said this initiative seeks to simplify the registration process, raise awareness about the benefits of formalization, and drive…
The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) hosted its 11th Annual Members’ Meeting, an event that showcased the Fund’s outstanding performance, the challenges it overcame, and its vision for the future. The meeting brought together key figures in Uganda’s financial and social development sectors and provided an opportunity to reflect on the achievements of the past…
President Museveni has questioned officials at the Health Ministry over delays in finalizing the signing of a memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with an Austrian firm for the construction of a specialized Teaching Hospital at Gulu University. Early last year, a team from VAMED Engineering Gmbh from Austria during a meeting with President Museveni proposed to…
The National Identification Registration Authority (NIRA) and Police have started operations against money lenders confiscating National Identify Cards. Osborn Mushabe, the NIRA spokesperson said many money lenders have continued to defy warnings and have continued taking National IDs as security for loans. Mushabe said a decision to raid money lending shops has been taken after…
The High Court has awarded Hajara Nakitto sh50 million for the loss of her 15-year-old son during the November 2020 city riots. In a ruling delivered on Friday, Civil Division Judge Musa Ssekaana declared the death as unlawful and an arbitrary deprivation of the right to life, holding the government accountable for its actions. The…
March 4, 2023 marked 5 years since Retired General Kale Kayihura, a once powerful Police chief was removed from office he had carried for 13 years. The high-ranking UPDF officer was sacked by his Commander-in-Chief on social media platform Twitter, marking his downfall from the echelons of power. A man who formerly sneezed and the…
The National Unity Platform (NUP) party President Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi alias Bobiwine, while discussing matters of national importance at the US State Department in Washington, DC, showed a lack of grasp on the issues he presented, leaving his hosts in shock. In a statement released by Dr. Daniel Kawuma on September 21, 2023, the US…
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni yesterday received a Special Envoy from the Republic of Somaliland, Dr. Jama Musse Jama at State House-Entebbe. During the engagement, President Museveni agreed to be the unification facilitator between Somaliland and Somalia. Somaliland, officially the Republic of Somaliland, is an unrecognised sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, recognised internationally as…
The Head of the Economic Department at the Embassy of France in Uganda, Gregory Sidrac and the Commissioner General of Uganda Revenue Authority (URA), John Musinguzi, have initiated talks to sign a bilateral taxation agreement that will improve trade between the two countries. During the meeting held at URA offices in Kampala on September 22,…
Four-time presidential candidate, Rtd. Col. Dr. Kizza Besigye, has said Patrick Oboi Amuriat was a last option to run as the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) flag bearer, calling him a last-five-minute decision conceived in his sitting room at Kasangati by some party members, a choice he did not support. According to Besigye, FDC leadership…
