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URA Blames Agents for Truck Pile Up At Malaba
The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has accused the clearing agents at Malaba border for the continuous truck pile up that has caused a daily traffic jam on the Malaba-Tororo highway during morning and evening hours. URA eastern regional manager Geoffrey Balamaga said whereas the tax body has employed staff to work on 24-hour basis under the one border stop centre system, the clearing agents are ...
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Wakiso Man Admits Defiling Own Daughter
A 37-year-old man has been remanded to Luzira Prison after he admitted defiling his 12-year-old daughter. Denis Ssebugwawo, a resident of Kinawa, Nsangi sub-county, Wakiso district was on Wednesday sent back to Luzira by Mwanga II Court chief magistrate, Emmanuel Baguma, after he pleaded guilty to the offence. "I admit the case and I ask for forgiveness from all those affected, including ...
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Makerere - College of Engineering Design Art and Technology
The College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology (CEDAT) congratulates the Nordic Countries on their National Day. CEDAT is proud to be associated with the Nordic Countries which have greatly supported the College. For the last 12 years the governments of Sweden through Sida/SAREC and Norway through NORAD/NUFU have sponsored different projects at CEDAT. Sida and NUFU have sponsored PhD ...
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Former Amavubi Coach Joins Uganda Cranes
Former Amavubi coach Milutin 'Micho' Sredojevic is the new Uganda Cranes coach after signing a two-year deal. Micho was sacked last month after a poor run of results but shortly before that he had been sighted in Kampala watching a league match after the sacking of Cranes coach Bobby Williamson. This paper was the first to report that Micho had travelled to Kampala to lobby for the ...
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Tax Collections On Imports Decline
Uganda registered a revenue shortfall of sh583b against April's target of sh614b, the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) announced on Tuesday. The tax authority said it registered shortfall in taxes levied on imported products and goods. April's revenue from international trade was sh257b against a set target of sh296.91b, blamed on the decline in petroleum duty withholding taxes and ...
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Conserving Biodiversity - the Wildlife Conservation Society
The Albertine Rift, which includes Western Uganda, is one of Africa's most biodiverse regions, with a great diversity of living plants and animals in a large range of different environments. However, this area's biodiversity is threatened by growing human population, placing ever more demands on land and natural resources, as well as competing economic development priorities such as ...
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Woman Shot in URA Operation in Kyenjojo
A 25-year-old woman has been shot three times in the chest by a Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) operative. Yakin Kabasita, a mother of two is admitted at Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital in Kabarole district. Kabasita is a resident of Mabira village in Nyankwanzi Sub County. According to eye witnesses, she was shot during an operation by URA on smuggled goods in Kyenjojo. "She was ...
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Former Charges Give Thumbs-Up for Michos Choice
Former SC Villa players believe new Uganda Cranes coach Milutin 'Micho' Sredojevi will succeed in his two year term. SC Victoria University coach Alex Isabirye, his goalkeeper trainer Moses Oloya, player Nestroy Kizito and assistant coach Molly Byekwaso all describe Micho as a down to earth tactician, who values players and builds confidence in them. Isabirye, who guided URA to the ...
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Uganda Police Siege Enters Fourth Day as Forces Snub Court
Uganda 's police continued a siege at the offices of the Daily Monitor, the East African nation's biggest independent daily newspaper, for a fourth day as the authorities snubbed a court order to remove the cordon. The publication's offices in the capital, Kampala, have been blockaded since May 20 as security officers search for a letter alleging a plot to assassinate people ...
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IMF Projects Six Percent Growth Rate for Uganda in 2014
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will support a study to ascertain the extent of tax revenue missed through exemptions to investments in the country. Ana Lucia Coronel, the IMF senior resident representative in Uganda, said the institution hopes to use the study which will be concluded in the next nine months to encourage the Government to gradually reduce exemptions and widen the tax ...
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Revise Amnesty Act - Irish Envoy
Irish Ambassador to Uganda Ann Webster has urged stakeholders to critically evaluate whether Uganda still needed the Amnesty Act if all their concerns and fears are addressed in the transitional justice policy draft that is in its final formation. However, the envoy said that there was need for the Government to expressly come out with a policy on the categories of persons who are to go through ...
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Uganda Tourism Board Told to Be Creative
Tourism minister Maria Mutagamba has urged the new Uganda Tourism Board (UTB) to find alternative funding methods to promote Uganda as an attractive tourism destination. Mutagamba noted that the new board comes at a time when government funding to the sector is low. "UTB is inadequately funded. The budget for 2012/13 was reduced from sh2.0b to sh1.4b. Comparing the strategic plan funding ...
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Should a Ruling Political Party Have Power to Sack the President
When the NRM expelled some of its MPs from the party, I didn't expect the kind of controversy that has arisen as to whether they should or shouldn't vacate their seats. I thought that it was clear from the current legal provisions and the existing precedents that the MPs would retain their seats. However, a lot of interesting legal and political arguments have been presented by many ...
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Presidential Banana Project Suspended
Parliament has suspended funding for the Presidential Initiative on Banana Industrial Development (PIBID) over accountability queries. Both the parliamentary finance committee and the budget committees have refused to approve sh10b, which the Government had allocated to the banana initiative in the next budget. In the report to the budget committee last week, the finance committee observed ...
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Madhvani Giving Hope to Thousands of Students
He is now a minister in charge of higher education and is one of the best head teachers the country has ever had. This is Dr. John Chrysostom Muyingo, whose education career was coming to a halt since his father, who was a primary school teacher, could hardly foot his school fees. But, as luck would have it, Madhvani Foundation paid his tuition fees, which has made him who he is today. Like ...
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Manufacturers Warn Unbs Against Laxity in Goods Inspection
Local manufacturers have expressed fear that laxity in the inspection of the quality and standard of imports might drive them out of business since many substandard goods are sold at lower prices. "We wish the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) subjects imported goods to the same standards that we go through so that we can compete favorably in the market," said Mohamed Lalani, ...
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Uganda Today in Parliament Decision On Kampala
Parliament is expected today afternoon to take a decision on whether President Yoweri Museveni should take over Kampala management for six months or not. This followed a directive yesterday night by house Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah to the clerk of Parliament, Jane Kibirige, to investigate minutes of the controversial report by the Parliament's committee on public service and local ...
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Uganda Norway Pledges Funds for Forests
Uganda loses nearly 100,000hectares of forest cover annually through encroachment, exposing the population to the risks and costly consequences of climate change. It is therefore for this reason that the Norwegian Embassy has pledged continued support to Uganda in form of increased funding in forest restoration, environment management and conservation as part of their micro-development projects ...
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Crane Bank Opens 28th Branch
Crane bank last week opened its 28th branch at Entebbe airport, and immediately announced plans to fly its services abroad, with a fully-owned subsidiary in Rwanda and operations in DR Congo (DRC) and South Sudan. These plans particularly pleased Bank of Uganda Governor Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile, who said: "This is a clear demonstration that the bank has a strategic vision, which is ...
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UPDF Now Seeks to Unseat MP Sejusa
Under-fire Gen David Sejusa is fighting to retain his seat in Parliament following reports that the army is planning to declare him a deserter and effectively unseat him, The Observer has learnt. Sejusa's lawyers say they have information to the effect that the army's High Command, set to convene soon, is likely to make that move, among others. Gen Sejusa, aka Tinyefuza is holed up in ...
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NRM Regime Losing Control - Gen Muntu
FDC President Mugisha Muntu has said the latest government crackdown on the independent media sends the unmistakable signal of a desperate regime which is losing control. "Because of the accumulation of errors, the [intimidation] methods that have served them are coming to an end. You can see MPs not easily giving in to the manipulation within the party. It is now filtering into state ...
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Five Ugandan Youth to Attend Women Deliver 2013
Five Ugandan youth are among 100 youth leaders from all over the world selected to attend Women Deliver 2013, a global conference that will bring together over 5,000 leaders, experts and advocated from 160 countries in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia next week. Women Deliver is the decade's largest global conference focusing on girls' and women's health and empowerment. The conference ...
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Promotion of Small Power Plants Over Big Power Plants Better for Uganda
On May 21, 2013, the new vision news paper carried a story entitled "focus shifts to small power plants as fate of Karuma remains uncertain". First, we thank the Government for taking the initiative and deciding well on what is good for our electricity sector and our country at large. Small-scale micro hydro power is both an efficient and reliable form of energy most of the time. It ...
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Butebo - Nrm Wants Rebel Aspirant Out
The National Resistance Movement (NRM) party has petitioned the Electoral Commission (EC), challenging the candidature of Lt. Richard Oseku, who was nominated as an independent candidate in the Butebo parliamentary byelection. Oseku was defeated in the NRM party primaries by Dr. Patrick Mutono. The Butebo MP seat fell vacant, following the death of Dr. Stephen Mallinga, the former disaster ...
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Muhakanizi Is New Secretary to Treasury
Keith Muhakanizi has been appointed as the new Permanent Secretary in the ministry of Finance, while Patrick Ocailap becomes his deputy. Ocailap has been director of Budget, while Muhakanizi was deputy to the outgone Permanent Secretary Chris Kassami. The appointments come less than two weeks after the long-serving Kassami, retired after more than three decades in public service. Asked about ...
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