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Speaker Among Calls Value For Money Implementation Of Budget
The Speaker of Parliament Rt. Hon. Anita Among has urged accounting officers in ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs) to ensure proper expenditure of the 2022/2023 budget. Parliament approved the Shs48.1 trillion budget for the financial year 2022/2023 on 20 May 2022. “All eligible accounting officers should ensure that value for money in whatever expenditure is…
French Army To Train UPDF On Mountains Fighting
The Ambassador of France to Uganda H.E Jules Armand Aniambossou has met with Uganda’s Minister of Defence and Veteran Affairs (MODVA) Hon Adolf Mwesige. The meeting, held at the Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs in Kampala, focused on how to strengthen and improve on the existing relationship between Uganda and France, most especially in…
Serial Killer Arinaitwe Life Imprisonment Quashed To 24 years
Convicted Serial Killer Richard Arinaitwe’s Life Imprisonment Sentence has been reduced to 24 years! In February, Arinaitwe petitioned the Court of Appeal to quash his life sentence. He has spent more than 20 years in Luzira prisons for the murder of an American Volunteer Cecilia Goetz, at Hotel Equatorial in Kampala, on July 28th 1998.…
Nakalema Arrests Two For Stealing President Museveni’s Land
The State House Anti- corruption unit led by Lt. Col Edith Nakalema has arrested two gentlemen for encroaching on private land belonging to President Museveni. According to Nakalema, the suspects are SSegane lPeter and Suuna Jimmy and their arrest came after a complaint from Museveni that unknown people had got tittles over his land located…
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Unearthing Rot In BoU: How BoU Continues to Waste Taxpayers Money on Fighting Sudhir
City businessman Sudhir Ruparelia, who is the proprietor of Ruparelia Group of Companies, is having the last laugh after five Supreme Court judges dismissed its application challenging a High Court ruling in favour of Sudhir Ruparelia. The defeat at the Supreme Court comes as the latest blow in a myriad of cases that the central…
UNBS Employees Cautioned Against Corruption, Unauthorized Releases
The Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has cautioned clearing agents and consolidators against unauthorised releases and corruption tendencies, which frustrate UNBS efforts of curbing substandard imports on the market. The remarks were made by the UNBS Imports Inspection Manager, Mr Martin Imalingat, during a sensitization meeting with clearing agents and consolidators held at the Entebbe International Airport. “A good number of clearing…
Meet Tycoon Hamis Kiggundu, The 37 Year Old Investor Transforming Uganda Through Real Estate
When Ugandan businessman Hamis Kiggundu, started his first business years ago, he could not have imagined that he would ascend to become one of the most successful business moguls in Africa, let alone Uganda. At just 37, Kiggundu, famously known as Ham in his home country, owns a number of buildings in the heart of…
Nu Look Pressure Cleaners Unveil Great Services To Make Your Home & Business Marvellous
Nu Look Pressure Cleaners is a leading provider of specialist contract cleaning services for interior and exterior for homes, major retail, industrial business centres across Uganda. The company’s staff are trained to perform their duties with the utmost attention to detail even when working in high-traffic areas. If your roof is looking a little weathered,…
Marvelous: Ugandans Can Now Invest In Global Companies With As Little As $1
As Africans, land and real estate are often our most popular investment options. And that’s okay. Followed closely by more formal options such as good old stocks, treasury bonds, T-bills, and fixed deposits. Now here’s the thing. These investment options are often big-ticket investments and require a significant cash outlay from investors. This means first-time…
UIA Partners With USAID,MTN To Launch First MSMES Portal
The Uganda Investment Authority (UIA), in partnership with USAID’s Feed the Future Uganda Institutional and Systems Strengthening Activity (ISSA) and telco MTN Uganda. has today (September 15) launched www.mybusiness.go.ug a platform dedicated to boosting micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). The portal is an innovation by UIA to respond to the business and investment needs…
