Women’s rights groups oppose proposed tax hikes on essential goods
KAMPALA, Uganda — A coalition of women’s rights organizations led by the Forum for Women in Democracy is calling on the government to halt proposed tax incr...
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Video: Journalist severely injured by van carrying murder suspect Christopher Okello
Videos shared online showed the Prisons van reversing down a steep ramp near the mobile court venue moments before it appeared to lose braking power and speed downhill in...
South Korean grandmother, 90, jailed for laundering drug money
She was accused of laundering money for her son serving a prison sentence in Cambodia on drug trafficking chargesA court in South Korea sentenced a 90-year-old grandmothe...
NIRA Launches Nationwide Mobile ID Clinics to Fast-Track Issuance of 10.3 Million National IDs
The National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) has announced a nationwide road drive clinic aimed at accelerating the issuance of 10.3 million national ide...
Gov’t Refuses to Reduce Tax on Mobile Money
Ugandans using mobile money platforms will continue to contend with the 0.5 percent tax to withdraw cash, a tax that has been blamed for the high cost and low uptake of d...
Centenary Bank, Office of the Supreme Mufti Partner to Scale up Financial Inclusion
Centenary Bank, the leading microfinance bank in the country and the Office of the Supreme Mufti (OSM) partnered to roll out the OSM Digital Payments Platform, a transfor...
Archbishop Odama's vehicle knocked dead mobile money operator near Lacor
Retired Archbishop John Baptist Odama's vehicle reportedly lost control and crashed into a young boy operating a mobile money stall near Kati Kati Lacor.According to eyew...
Breaking: Christopher Okello denies murder charges
The presiding judge, Justice Alice Komuhangi Khaukha listed four counts of murder, each relating to the death of one of the four infants allegedly killed at Ggaba.Christo...
Trial of Ggaba Daycare Killings Suspect kicks off at Scene of Crime
The trial of Christopher Okello Onyum, the prime suspect in the killing of four children at Ggaba Early Childhood Development Centre, commenced on Monday during a High Co...
Breakthrough: 11 Arrested Over Soroti Mobile Money Murder, Police Recover Gun & Cash
Police have arrested 11 suspects in connection with the aggravated robbery and fatal shooting of Soroti City businesswoman Kokunda Patricia.The 36-year-old mobile money o...