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Kampala Salt Set To Oust Imported Pearl, Habari Out Of Ugandan Market

A local company named Kampala Salt will start making salt when its manufacturing plant being developed in Lugazi Town, Buikwe District is completed, Evelyn Anite, the State Minister of Finance for Investment and Privatization, said in a statement. The minister said the

April 24, 2020

Crime·ENERGY & MINERAL RESOURCES·Hot Take·News·Trending

Energy Mafias Debunked Part I: Billions Swindled, Min. Of Energy Stuck With The Untouchable REA Mafias

By the Capital Times Investigative Unit Two key officials of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) under the Ministry of Energy have deceitfully kept themselves in their offices despite being found guilty of causing serious financial losses to the Agency over the past

April 22, 2020

Crime·News·Security

High Court Orders Military To Produce Political Activist Kakwenza Dead Or Alive

High Court has ordered Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI), Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF), Police and Attorney General to produce City Lawyer and activist Kakwenza Rukira in court on April 27, 2020, at 11 am without fail. Kakwenza was reportedly arrested from

April 20, 2020

Health·News·Politics

Gov’t Defies Kadaga’s Order On Distribution Of Covid-19 Relief Food In Kampala,Wakiso Districts

The government of Uganda has defied parliament’s directive to blocking the distribution of relief food to people around Kampala and Wakiso districts. In the Thursday Parliamentary sitting, both Speaker Rebecca Kadaga and lawmakers raised issue that there was a need for government

April 3, 2020

Business·News

Coronavirus: Why Uganda Gov’t Must Subsidize Fourth Estate To Succeed In Fight Against The Pandemic

Media fraternity have proposed ways through which the fourth estate can keep operational as Uganda comes to terms with the global Covid19 pandemic. In relation, a state rests on four pillars for it to armpit several anniversaries; Executive,Judiciary, Legislature and the Fourth

April 2, 2020

Health·News·Politics

COVID-19 Crisis: BobiWine Criticizes M7 For Ordering Police To Charge Opposition Leaders With Attempted Murder For Distributing Relief Items

Kyadondo East Member Of Parliament Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobiwine,leader of People Power pressure group,has trashed president Museveni’s directives to police banning politicians, business persons from distributing relief items like ambulances, face masks, sanitizers , food and drugs saying such restrictions put

March 31, 2020

Crime·News

Coronavirus Effect: Crime Rate Increase As Thugs Kill Security Guard To Steal Food

Uganda Police Force in Tororo District is hunting for a yet to be known thugs that broke into a residence and killed a security guard. The thugs also stole a 50kg bag of rice stocked by a tenant to take his family

March 30, 2020

Health·News

MP Anifa Kawooya Refutes Escaping COVID-19 Quarantine, Donates Testing Machine

Honourable Anifa Bangirana Kawooya aka ‘Yellow Girl’, who is the Sembabule District Woman Member of Parliament and Mawogola South aspirant, has heartily donated a double testing machine for respiratory and other illness, as a way of supporting the ministry of health in

March 30, 2020

Business·News

Last Nail! Museveni Appoints Dr. Michael Atingi-Ego New BoU Deputy Governor As Dr. Kasekende Go Cursing

The President of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has appointed Dr. Michael Atingi-Ego as the new Deputy Governor, Bank of Uganda (BoU). Mr Museveni, announced the appointment in a Sunday March 29, 2020 tweet, a day after the Central Bank board of directors

March 29, 2020

Business·News

Who Is John Musinguzi Rujoki The New @URA_CG?

The President of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta announced the appointment of John Musinguzi Rujoki as the Uganda Revenue Authority Commissioner General, replacing Doris Akol who has been in Office for five years and five months. “By virtue of powers granted to me by

March 29, 2020

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