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The government is targeting to vaccinate 2.6 million people in the Central region during a mass Covid-19 vaccination exercise. The districts are Butambala, Gomba, Kayunga, Mpigi, Buikwe, Mukono and Wakiso. The Director-General of Health Services, Dr. Henry Mwebesa says that the vaccination exercise targets everybody aged 18 years and above. He says children aged 12 [...]
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The curfew restrictions imposed on the boda boda sector will come to an end today at 6:00pm. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni made the pronouncement while presiding over the Uganda People’s Defense Forces Tarehe Sita celebrations yesterday at Malukhu grounds in Mbale City. In his address on December 31, 2021 President Museveni reopened the economy from [...]
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The Minister of Local government Raphael Magyezi is calling for a ban on both public and civil servants from possessing market stalls in public markets. MAGYEZI tabled the proposal before parliament's committee on public service and local government while presenting the ministry's views on the markets bill 2022. Magyezi says the law banning politicians, civil [...]
Government failed to spend 3.1 trillion shillings in the last financial year. This was revealed by the auditor general John Muwanga while handing over the audit report for the last financial year to the deputy speaker of parliament Anita Among. The acting assistant auditor general in charge of audit Edward Akol says failure to spend [...]
Deputy Speaker Anita Among has sent a warning to all committee chairpersons who have failed to produce reports on bills under their scrutiny. She says all the bills that have delayed at the committee stage will be passed and approved without the recommendations of the respective committees. Committees are supposed to scrutinize a bill and [...]
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The Public Accounts Committee – PAC has recommended the Auditor General conducts a forensic audit in the Shillings 53.5 billion distributed to vulnerable Ugandans as COVID-19 relief. This follows a joint report by the Central and Local Governments Committee on Public Accounts indicating mismanagement of the COVID-19 relief cash. The Committee was tasked to verify [...]
Government has unveiled a plan to impound imported counterfeit mobile phones currently sold in shops around the country. The State minister for ICT and National Guidance Godfrey Kabbyanga Baluku made the disclosure while appearing before the parliamentary committee on ICT chaired by Budiope East member of parliament Moses Magogo. The committee is handling a petition [...]
Through this partnership, MTN Pulse and VU will provide 5 full and 5 partial scholarships to Pulsers to commence studies in the University’s March intake. The these scholarships are targeting creative and innovative teens with transformational ideas that can be developed and implemented to solve society's problems and positively impact society. Through this partnership, both [...]
The Uganda Young Democrats has announced plans to reclaim its position as one of the strongest youth organizations on the African continent. Among the plans to rediscover its past glory is the strengthening of its student organizations by launching the UYD Students Union as an umbrella of all UYD Chapters in educational institutions in Uganda.
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Members on the defence committee of parliament have objected to a cut in the police budget for crime intelligence gathering. The Police presented their budget proposals to the committee for the financial Year 2022/23 totaling Shs840 billion. Currently, the force needs Shs304 billion annually for crime intelligence but only gets Shs 42.7 billion. MPs on [...]
