The appointment of five ministers from the Busoga sub-region to Uganda’s new Cabinet has sparked optimism and heightened expectations among residents and leaders, who are now demanding greater focus on youth employment, infrastructure development, education, agriculture and the recovery of Buso
confidential dossier pieced together by covert intelligence shows that State actors put Anita Among under surveillance as early as 2021, when she was Deputy Speaker of Parliament.The voluminous collection of documents, a copy of which Weekend Monitor has seen, discloses that “a reliable
The High Court has ordered the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) to refund more than Shs 73.5 million to the Pentecostal Assemblies of God (PAG) after ruling that the tax body illegally collected Value Added Tax (VAT) on humanitarian food aid imported for South Sudanese refugees.In addition,
Residents of Makota Village in Kagoma Town Council, Jinja District, were left stunned after local leaders stepped into a domestic dispute where a woman had been living with two men in the same house and bed.The case involved 46-year-old Judith Babirye, who spent 10 months living with Steve
Kampala hair shop has been linked to the fraudulent use of a Singapore woman’s credit card, resulting in the theft of UGX 13 million through three unauthorised transactions.The victim, a Singapore citizen identified as Roxanne, says her credit card information was stolen and later used w
KAMPALA — The Tax Appeals Tribunal has upheld a Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) decision to treat Shs3.16 billion claimed by Java House Coffee Shop Uganda Limited as unsupported shareholder loans and reclassify the money as undeclared income, in a ruling that sharply criticised the company’s r
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
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
A Shs97 billion adjustment has reshaped Uganda’s FY 2026/27 budget, exposing planning errors and sparking sharp criticism from lawmakers over timing and transparency.The National Budget for the 2026/27 financial year has been revised to Shs84.39 trillion following a last-minute adjustmen
Government has quietly converted a Shs7.78 trillion temporary advance from the Bank of Uganda into long term public debt, a move that will see taxpayers commit to years of repayments amid rising pressure on the country’s finances.According to the Parliamentary Committee on Finance report
