Mbale, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Hearing of the Age-limit petition at Mbale High Court entered day three with the petitioners still battling with the case as to why the amendments done to Article (102)b regarding the Presidential age limit should be declared unconstitutional. One of the petitioner’s lawyer James Byamukama …
Read More »LC Chairman quizzed over grabbing church land
Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | A Local Council leader of Ntawo Village in Mukono District, Moses Male Byekwaso, who was recently implicated in grabbing acres of land belonging to the Church of Uganda in Mukono District, has appeared before the Land Probe Commission. Byekwaso was summoned to defend himself on …
Read More »Age limit amendment law was passed ‘unconstitutionally’- Petitioners’ lawyers
Mbale, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Hearing of the Constitutional Court petition challenging the amendment of Article 102(b) to remove presidential age limits resumed on Tuesday in Mbale. A panel of five judges led by the Deputy Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo heard the petitions at Mbale High Court. The other justices …
Read More »Court grants bail to suspects in Finish national murder case
Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Buganda Road Court has granted bail five people accused of causing the death of a Finnish National at Pearl of Africa Hotel in Nakasero within Kampala city. Chief Magistrate James Eremye Mawanda Tuesday granted them bail on condition that four of them each pay ten …
Read More »Seven experts to scrutinize Isimba Dam works
UEGCL remains optimistic that official launch of the project is set for August Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | On Monday, April 02, another step towards having a high-tech, well built 183MW Isimba hydro power plant was demonstrated by its main overseer– Uganda Electricity Generation Company Limited (UEGCL). The Dam …
Read More »Local transformer manufacturers to benefit from BUBU
Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Government has taken a decision to prioritize local manufacturers of transformers in government procurement processes as one of the moves to promote Buy Uganda Build Uganda. This was agreed on during a meeting convened by the Ministry of Trade with local companies that manufacture transformers, …
Read More »Umeme’s profit drop threefold to Shs 35bn
Company managers say recent concession talk not threat to its future Kampala,Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Uganda’s power distributor, Umeme Limited, has recorded a surprise performance in the year ended December 2017, with the net profit dropping threefold to Shs 35bn compared with the previous year. The less than expected …
Read More »HRM Professionals bill, 2017 to be tabled before Parliament
Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Government has finalized the drafting of a new bill aimed at regulating Human Resource practitioners and putting in place new measures to professionalize the human resource industry and protecting it from errant officers. This was revealed by the outgoing president of The Human Resource …
Read More »NGO tells government to up game on accountability
Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Africa Freedom of Information Centre (AFIC), a local non-governmental organization based in Kampala has urged government to further engage the public on vital information on matters of service delivery. While releasing results conducted under the project ‘Financing for development’ at Golf Course Hotel on April …
Read More »Ministry of Finance unveils plans to curtail growth of domestic arrears
Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Government is working on a strategy to curtail accumulation of domestic arrears, according to Kenneth Mugambe, the director for budget at the Ministry of Finance Planning and Economic Development. Mugambe, who was responding to budget related questions from Civil Society Budget Advocacy Group (CSBAG) at …
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