Stories :: User: Olive Nakatudde :: Accepted date: November 2020
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Parliament Starts Scrutinizing Amendments to Leadership Code Act
23 Nov 2020, 16:16 Comments 259 Views Kampala, Uganda Parliament ReportThe proposed new legislation says that a leader shall be taken to have an interest where an income or asset is owned or developed by the leader, jointly owned or developed by the leader with another person, is acquired or developed by the leader for another person and others.
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COVID-19 Shouldn’t Be Used to Violate Rights - Kadaga
19 Nov 2020, 19:19 Comments 442 Views Kampala, Uganda Parliament 2021 Elections ReportThe Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has warned against using the Covid-19 pandemic to violate different human rights during the ongoing election campaigns. Kadaga made the statement during the Thursday afternoon plenary session in which legislators took to the floor to condemn arrests of different political players and subsequent violence and killings in protests across the country.
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Parliament Approves UGX 5.4 Trillion Loan to Finance Budget Deficit
19 Nov 2020, 19:04 Comments 284 Views Kampala, Uganda Parliament Business and finance ReportParliament approved up to 5.4 trillion Shillings loan to finance the budget deficit for the current financial year 2020/2021.
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Religious Leaders Demand Immediate Release of Kyagulanyi
19 Nov 2020, 16:44 Comments 298 Views Kampala, Uganda Presidential Race Religion ReportLed by the Chairperson of the IRCU Council of Presidents, Sheikh Shaban Ramadhan Mubaje, the religious leaders told journalists on Thursday that if those arrested committed crimes, they should be presented to the courts of law as the law stipulates.
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Mayiga Condemns Harrassment of Presidential Candidates
19 Nov 2020, 07:16 Comments 277 Views Kampala, Uganda Presidential Race 2021 Elections ReportMayiga says that the killing, use of teargas and other brutal acts should stop since they cause unrest in the country.
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Kyagulanyi Arrest: Gen. Muntu Suspends Campaigns
18 Nov 2020, 21:52 Comments 398 Views Kampala, Uganda Presidential Race 2021 Elections ReportThe Alliance for National Transformation- ANT presidential candidate Gen. Mugisha Muntu has suspended his campaign tour until the matter of his counterpart Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu is resolved.
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Budget Committee Rejects UGX 336Bn Radio Procurement Deal Top story
18 Nov 2020, 18:07 Comments 600 Views Parliament Education ReportParliament’s Budget Committee has declined to approve a 336.8 Billion Shillings supplementary budget request by government to purchase 9 million radio sets for Ugandan homes to facilitate the long distance learning program during the Covid-19 lockdown.
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Muntu, Mao Demand Immediate Release of Kyagulanyi
18 Nov 2020, 17:13 Comments 260 Views Presidential Race 2021 Elections ReportAlliance for National Transformation (ANT) presidential candidate, Gen. Mugisha Muntu says that they condemn the act and that his party joins NUP and all fair-minded Ugandans in calling upon the immediate release of Kyagulanyi. “The impunity with which security operatives are operating in the continued harassment and now arrest of Hon. Kyagulanyi is leading this country closer towards a breaking point. If a presidential candidate can be arrested in that manner, the population should ask themselves…what happens to people that are not at that elevation,” says Muntu.
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Four Foreign Firms Awarded Ballot Printing Contract
18 Nov 2020, 15:49 Comments 313 Views Kampala, Uganda 2021 Elections Parliament ReportAccording to a press statement issued by the EC Chairperson Justice Simon Byabakama Mugenyi, the Abu Dhabi-based United Printing and Publishing firm will be responsible for the printing of ballot papers for the Presidential and Directly-elected Member of Parliament.
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Buganda Kingdom to Set Up Committee to Study Revival of Cooperative Unions
17 Nov 2020, 17:31 Comments 262 Views Kampala, Uganda Agriculture Parliament ReportThe Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga explained that the committee will examine the advantages that can be exploited by the Kingdom and the already existing cooperatives to ensure that the cooperative movement is strengthened within the Kingdom.
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BoU Starts Final 'Burial' of Crane Bank Limited
13 Nov 2020, 18:24 Comments 481 Views Kampala, Uganda Parliament Business and finance ReportWhile in receivership there remains some hope of the company recovering and resuming operations, now the liquidation means Crane Bank's complete and permanent closure, a move that will see the defunct lender's chapter closed for good. The Central Bank as a liquidator issued a statement on Friday. A liquidator is an officer or entity who is appointed to wind up the affairs of a company when it is closing and this usually happens when the company has gone bankrupt.
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MPs Appalled by State of Firm Fronted to Supply Radio Sets Top story
12 Nov 2020, 16:47 Comments 791 Views Parliament Updates“There is a total disconnect between what we saw and what the team from Ministry of Education was telling us. First of all, they were saying that they went there and found that there is a company, which is making radios…We didn’t find that. The company doesn’t manufacture radios, they can only assemble but even the assembly plant is not there,” Othieno told Uganda Radio Network-URN.
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EC Warns Presidential, Parliamentary Candidates on Violation of Guidelines
12 Nov 2020, 12:05 Comments 292 Views Kampala, Uganda 2021 Elections Politics ReportOn Monday 9th, campaign meetings for Presidential, Parliamentary and Local Government councils elections kicked off across the country with candidates trying to woe voters ahead of the 14th January 2021 general election.
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MPs Yet to Agree on Proposed Radio Procurement
11 Nov 2020, 15:50 Comments 472 Views Kampala, Uganda Parliament Education ReportGovernment recently requested for the appropriation of Shillings 336.8 billion supplementary budget to purchase 9 million radio sets for all homesteads in the country.
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Why Museveni Must Go - Gen. Muntu
10 Nov 2020, 17:47 Comments 497 Views Kampala, Uganda Presidential Race Politics ReportGen. Mugisha Muntu says that the least Ugandans must do is to sideline the incumbent leader Yoweri Kaguta Museveni since he has failed the people and is drunk with power.
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Gen. Muntu Launches Modest Presidential Campaign
9 Nov 2020, 19:04 Comments 502 Views Presidential Race Politics ReportHe pledged to institute a National Health Insurance System as well as low cost housing in the city that will deal with slums.
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EU Delegation to Meet President Museveni over Environmental Conservation
5 Nov 2020, 23:21 Comments 469 Views Gulu, Uganda Environment Parliament ReportDr Roswitha Kremser, the Head of Austria Office in Uganda, said that there should be options and alternatives to the destruction of natural resources.
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