Author: Derrick Asaba
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The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has launched a tax education mobile office aimed at supporting tax education and outreach programmes in support of the national agenda of Domestic Revenue Mobilisation. This project comes shortly after URA revealed a registration of a growth in revenue and tax to GDP ratio, the highest growth registered in the […]
The Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) has today officially released the 2020 Primary Leaving Examination (PLE) results of 736,942 candidates who registered and sat for the examinations between March 30 and 31. Speaking at the ceremony held at the State House in Entebbe, the Executive Director of Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB), Dan N. […]
The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has registered a growth in revenue and tax to GDP ratio, the highest growth registered in the last four years according to the revenue performance report. In the FY 2020/21, URA collected net revenue of UGX 19,263.00 billion and posted growth in revenue of 14.99% in comparison to the FY […]
By Derrick Asaba The Uganda Police Force has announced the arrest of yet another shooter in the attempted murder of General Edward Katumba Wamala and his bodyguard, Sgt Khalid Kuboit on June 1. This was made known by the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Maj Gen Paul Lokech in a Press release dated July 13 […]
With outrage and condemnation of torturous acts by police against Katumba assassination suspects, the Uganda Law Society (ULS) has called for issuance of a court order for further treatment of these suspects. This follows the arraignment of Sserubula Hussein Ismail, Nyanzi Yusuf Siraji, Kagugube Muhammad, Walusimbi Kamada, Kisambira Siriman Ayuub, Abdulaziz Ramathan Dunku, Habib Ramathan […]
The prestigious Pearl of Africa (POA) Star Search continues to reveal more light that lives in most of the Ugandan talents. This campaign was designed to basically promote Uganda’s musical talent whereby the overall winner stands an opportunity to walk away with UGX 60M. This includes a cash prize, recording contract, music video production, professional […]
The Retro Records artist, Victor Wajja alias Victor Ruz is one of the artists that have reaped finely from their daily sweat and with just a short while in active music, has a thing to cast an eye onto as for prosperity ― a recording studio. Just recently, before the lockdown was imposed, the Kikomando singer, […]
The Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGLSD) has vowed to delete all the names of persons who do not qualify for the COVID-19 relief fund and replace them with qualifying persons. This was revealed by the minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development, Betty Amongi, on Saturday as she delivered an update on […]
The minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, Frank Tumwebaze has advised farmers across the country to harvest only fully mature and ripe vanilla to improve the quality and profitability of Uganda’s vanilla. Due to the fact that vanilla prices are high, Tumwebaze noted that there are several malpractices along the vanilla value chain including […]