Many states in this world have corrupt officials. In Uganda, the corrupt have a state Over the last year Uganda has latched from one major corruption scandal to another. The paradox of our nation’s corruption is that although it goes on with impunity, it does not go on with impunity. …
Read More »Competitiveness forum set for tomorrow
By Julius Businge Uganda will tomorrow-Dec. 7 host the 6th National Competitiveness Forum at the Kampala Serena Hotel starting at 8:00am, under the theme: Youth in Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Economic Transformation. The Keynote speaker for the Forum is Professor Ricardo Hausmann from the center of International development at Harvard …
Read More »Uganda starts registration of foreign traders
By Julius Businge The ministry of trade, Industry and cooperatives has started registration of all foreign traders in the Greater Kampala (Kampala Capital City Authority, Mukono and Wakiso districts), the ministry announced in a local news paper on Dec. 5. “The ministry has received persistent complaints from the business community …
Read More »Uganda expects $700million remittances from abroad
By Julius Businge Uganda, which is the third largest economy in East Africa expects to record over $700million as remittances earned by Ugandans living in foreign countries, a top Bank of Uganda official has said. Speaking to journalists at the Bank’s head office in Kampala on Dec. 4, Adam Mugume, …
Read More »Uganda participates in East African procurement forum
By Julius Businge The Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets (PPDA) Executive Director, Cornelia Sabiiti is leading a team of 19 professionals to a regional procurement forum in Bujumbura, Burundi that runs from Dec. 5 to 7, the procurement body said in a press statement released on Dec. 5. …
Read More »Uganda ranks 130th most corrupt worldwide
By Sarah Namulondo Uganda has regained its 2009 position of the 130th most corrupt country in the world. According to Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2012, Uganda scored the same as Ivory Coast and Nicaragua in the corruption perceptions index. This is a great leap by 13 from last year’s …
Read More »Eritrean national soccer players choose to remain in Uganda
By Ronald Musoke The Eritrean national soccer team comprising 18 players that has been in Kampala participating in the ongoing CECAFA Tusker Challenge Cup has reportedly disappeared. The team whose moniker is the Red Sea Boys was eliminated at the group stages on Friday, Nov. 31 after their final match …
Read More »Movember Uganda – changing the face of men’s health
By Sarah Namulondo Movember Uganda a global prostate cancer awareness and fundraising campaign has finally come to an end. The campaign was aimed at changing the face of men’s health by encouraging men to go for early prostate cancer testing, detection, diagnosis and effective treatment to cure this preventable cancer. …
Read More »Germany suspends aid to Uganda
By Sarah Namulondo Germany has finally followed suit in suspending it’s proposed on budget support to Uganda after several withdrawals from donor countries under the Joint Budget Support Framework (JBSF). The German Government, as other development partners was appalled by the level of the recent mishandling of development partners’ funds …
Read More »Uganda needs political hygiene – Prof. Nsibambi
By Julius Odeke and Joseph Were Former Prime Minister Apolo Nsibambi spoke to The Independent’s Julius Odeke and Joseph Were about the ongoing corruption investigations in OPM. The Accountant General, Gustavio Bwoch, told the Parliamentary Accounts Committee investigating alleged corruption in the Office of the Prime Minister that while you …
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