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06 May '26
Parliament yesterday passed a supplementary budget of Shs1.1 trillion under supplementary schedule five, giving more money to the government to implement its activities. Of the total amount, the supplementary request that does not require prior approval from Parliament amounts to Shs586.2b. This
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05 May '26
Parliament has approved a Shs1.1 trillion Supplementary Expenditure Schedule No.5 for 2025/2026 to cater for the swearing in ceremony of President Yoweri Museveni, preparations for the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2027 and elections of local councils, among others. The Minister of State
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05 May '26
man often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it,” the French poet Jean de La Fontaine famously said. The idea is that, despite one’s best efforts to avoid a certain path in life, they end up facing it anyway.That pretty much sums up Paul Mwesigwa’s one-year tenure as Mana
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05 May '26
The Government is set to introduce a new online system for recruiting civil servants, in a move aimed at ending corruption and bribery in the recruitment process that has affected many job seekers across the country.The State Minister for Public Service, Ms Grace Mary Mugasa, said the new
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04 May '26
Ugandan man has stirred online reactions after making a public marriage proposal directed at the daughter of exiled activist Stella Nyanzi. The unusual request followed a social media post by Nyanzi celebrating her daughter’s participation in a marathon event supporting girls’ educatio
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04 May '26
Wakiso District Speaker Nassif Najja has petitioned court to overturn the LC5 election results, alleging irregular nomination records, missing academic qualifications, and lack of accountability in vote tallying.Wakiso District Speaker Nassif Najja has intensified his legal challenge again
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04 May '26
President Donald Trump took aim at his Israeli counterpart over the weekend, blasting President Isaac Herzog for refusing to grant an outright pardon to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.On Sunday, Trump spoke with Israel’s public broadcaster, Kan News, in an interview that focused heavi
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04 May '26
President Museveni is weighing between creating a full-fledged Ministry for Diaspora affairs or elevate the current Diaspora desk within the Ministry for Foreign Affairs to a Presidential Diaspora Commission.This news site understands that, the President is being requested to either create
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04 May '26
As our next leader who does not tolerate corrupt officials, and this leader is Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the Chief of Defence Forces, we do request you to start fresh investigations on the officials in the Office of the Prime Minister who shared Shs 9 billion meant for operations in Karamoja.
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03 May '26
As it is always said, the goodness of someone will not be felt until that person disappears. Mr President, that is what we are now feeling after the departure of UMEME from managing Uganda’s electricity power.At first, Ugandans hated UMEME due to its own mistakes that the supplier had co