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Uganda: MPs Approve 43 Trillion Budget For 2022/23
MPs have unanimously approved the Budget Framework Paper for the financial year 2022/23 to FY 2026/27, after harmonising positions in the minority and majority reports of the Committee on Budget. Section 9(8) of the Public Finance Management Act requires Parliament to receive and process the Budget Framework Paper (BFP) by the 1st of February. The…
Operation Shujja: 420 UPDF Soldiers Graduate At Mountain Warfare Training School Karugutu
Four hundred and twenty soldiers drawn from Mountain Division units and Special Forces Command (SFC), have completed a four months Mountain Warfare Technical course at Mountain Warfare Training School (MWTS) – Karugutu. The vigorous mountain technical training involves maneuvering the harsh terrain, thick forests, gorges, valleys, escapements and river crossing while advancing to the enemy…
Tears As Former BOU Governor Mutebile Laid To Rest
Hundreds of mourners on Sunday thronged Kigezi High School Primary playground to attend the final send-off of the departed Bank of Uganda Governor Prof . Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile. Mutebile passed away on Sunday morning at Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, at the age of 72, after suffering multiple organ failures. Prime Minister Nabanja interacts…
Police Warn Bodaboda Operators Organizing Protests Against Gov’t Decision To Keep Curfew Restrictions
Kampala Metropolitan Police have warned a group of people disguising as motorcycle (boda boda) operators who are planning to stage demonstrations to disrupt government systems to ease the boda boda curfew hours that they will be dealt with accordingly. According to Patrick Onyango the Kampala Metropolitan police spokesperson, they received credible information that opportunistic people…
How Uganda’s 10% CPO Tax Has Enabled Tax Free, Illegal Products On The Market-John Nakku
Ever since Government of Uganda introduced the unpopular among industrialists a UgX200 levy on each litre of Cooking Oil and the 10% import duty on Crude Palm Oil products in July 2021 despite the fact that Crude Palm Oil is a critical raw material for processors of Oil and Oil Products in Uganda, key sector…
Bomb Blast: 13 Killed In Bus At Eastern Kenya Border
Kenyan police say one suspect has been arrested after an improvised explosive device killed at least 13 passengers and injured others in a bus traveling in northeast Kenya near the border with Somalia. Kenyan police in northeast Mandera county say the 14-seat bus was heading to Mandera town early Monday when it drove over the…
Campaign To Raise Shs 210M For Kusasira’s Kidney Transplant Kicks Off
A campaign to raise USD 60,000 (approximately Shs 210,001,860), which is needed to fly Ivan Kusasira, 39 years, out of the country for urgent kidney transplant has kicked off. The fundraising campaign that is being conducted by friends, relatives and Good Samaritans, is at flying Kusasira to India such that can have a kidney in…
President Museveni Appoints Brig Gen Felix Kulayigye UPDF Spokesperson
President Yoweri Museveni, the Commander in Chief of the army, has reappointed Brig Gen Felix Kulayigye as Defense and Army Spokesperson, a position he served in, between 2005- 2013. He replaces Brig Gen Flavia Byekwaso who is set to attend a one-year course at National Defence College, Jinja. Byekwaso has served for one and a half years.…
Jinja NRM Leaders Demand Chairperson Autopsy Report Before Burial
A section of Jinja district National Resistance Movement-NRM leaders want responsible authorities to produce a conclusive autopsy report, detailing the death of their fallen acting chairperson, William Kato Kaziba, ahead of his burial. Kato succumbed to undisclosed illness on Tuesday night. Kato is reported to have collapsed in his seat while watching news at his…
Entebbe Chief Magistrate Stays Pastor Bugingo’s Bail
The Chief Magistrate of Entebbe, Juliet Nakitende, has dismissed lawyer Male Mabirizi’s application for the cancellation of Pastor Aloysius Bugingo’s bail. Bugingo, the lead pastor at House of Prayer Ministries, is accused of committing bigamy and contracting marriage with Suzan Makula Nantaba, breaching sections of the Marriage Act and the Penal Code Act. On January…