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 initiative will help “boost local production” as well as “significantly” reduce the import…
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 several years. An investigation report by the Office of the Inspectorate of Government…
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 his home in Iganga on Tuesday, April 14, by security agents, citing cyber…
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 to consider all parts of the country. Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda’s attempts to…
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 Estate-Media. However, due to COVID-19, the media, as all other businesses, will be…
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 in place will make lives of most Ugandans unbearable due to high poverty…
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 through the period of coronavirus partial lockdown. As soon as the country reported…
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 the fight against Coronavirus. The machine is to be dispatched to the office…
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 unanimously picked the Director of Research at Bank of Uganda, Dr Adam Mugume,…
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 the Constitution, I have appointed John Musinguzi Rujoki as the new Commissioner General…
