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ICT Ministry Calls Innovators To Apply For Support With Solutions To Fight Coronavirus
The Ministry of ICT and National Guidance through its project dubbed National ICT Initiatives Support Programme (NIISP) is calling innovators to submit proposals if they have digital solutions that can help support the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. According to Vincent Waiswa Bagiire, the permanent secretary at the ministry, NIISP is looking for digital solutions…
Kadaga: The Maria Antoinette Of Uganda In The 10th Parliament Exposed By Coronavirus
By Mbabazi Hanning Gonzaga There is no better replay of the “Affair of the Diamond Necklace” as it happened under the French Bourbon Monarchy than what has transpired in the halls of the Ugandan parliament these last two weeks. During the reign of Louis XV between 1784 – 1785, he offered to have the most…
7 More People Discharged As Uganda’s Covid-19 Recoveries Rise
Seven more coronavirus patients have been discharged from Mulago Specialised National Hospital as the number of Uganda’s virus recoveries rise. The number of patients that have recovered from covid19, the respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus – is now at 20 in Uganda. On Thursday, Robinah Nabbanja, the state minister for Health-General Duties, oversaw the…
Covid-19: Uganda Lawyers Launch Self-Help Emergency Relief Fund
A section of Ugandan advocates led by Counsel Isaac Ssemakadde the Executive Director of Legal Brains Trust has launched a campaign to collect relief fund for lawyers who are struggling and yet they have no one to run or turn to amidst Covid-19 unprecedented times. In a statement this website has landed on, Counsel Ssemakadde…
MPs Exempt Agricultural Inputs From Value Added Tax
Parliament has widened tax exemptions to mechanized agricultural inputs, in a bid MPs said will give the sector the much needed post Covid-19 boost. The Chairperson of Parliament’s Committee on Finance, Hon Henry Musasizi said the removal of Value Added Tax from mechanised agricultural inputs will incentivize investment in the sector. Continued charging of Value…
Parliament Blocks Export Of Unprocessed Tobacco
The Parliament of Uganda has passed the Tobacco Control (Amendment) Bill, 2020 scrapping taxation on processed tobacco restricting it on the unprocessed leaf for export. The Chairperson of the Committee on Finance, Hon. Henry Musasizi, in his report to Parliament said that the tax measures are meant to restrict the export of raw tobacco leave…
Africa: Life Will Not End With Coronavirus
By Simonetta Nambo Mukwana Kampala: In this first quarter of the year 2020, the world is overflowing with news about the daily deaths as a result of the deadly Coronavirus (COVID-19). The beginning of this year was a joyous time in Africa as usual, with all but exhilaration that a new year had come and…
Court Orders Vision Group, Journalist Etukuri To Pay Min.Otafiire Shs200M For Defamation!
Seasoned journalist Charles Etukuri, who works with the New Vision, a government owned newspaper, is in deep trouble after court ruled that he defamed Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs Gen. Severino Kahinda Otafiire. Buganda Road court ruled on Tuesday that Etukuri defamed Gen. Otafiire when he and the New Vision, which is headed by…
Exposed! Ugandan MPs Secretly Shared Shs 10Bn COVID-19 Cash Bonanza
The Parliament of Uganda recently allocated Shs 10bn, from the COVID-19 supplementary budget, to facilitate Members of Parliament in the committees, discreetly. It is alleged that Members of Parliament secretly chopped off a percentage of the supplementary budget money meant for Ministry Of Health towards coronavirus to themselves to facilitate committees established by Parliament to…
Covid-19 Crisis: Gov’t Officials At Test As Min.Magyezi, OPM Pin UNBS In Relief Food Scandal
The Covid-19 pandemic is putting government officials to test on their degree of commitment to serve Ugandans. While some have shown unparalleled devotion and will emerge as heroes, others will, no doubt, be dragged down whether legitimately or illegitimately. Reports recently emerged that the relief food distribution had been temporarily suspended. Lots of reasons were…