President Museveni has directed Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) to suspend all EFRIS related penalties to give room for wider consultations between government and city traders. Museveni made the directive in a meeting with city traders aimed at resolving their standoff with URA. The meeting followed a strike by traders who closed their businesses. The discussions…
A blood donation drive has been launched by the Non-Resident Nepali Association in Uganda to support efforts to have enough stocks of blood in Uganda’s health system. The drive will be held at Kampala Parents School on Sunday, April 28th, 2024 from 8 am to 6 pm. The Honorary Consul of Nepal to Uganda, Sudhir…
As the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) struggles to widen the tax base and increase revenues, Speaker Anita Among has given them a suggestion: “Put a tax on cattle.” In a plenary sitting to debate the grievances of the striking city traders, Among said URA had squeezed formal businesses for taxes while ignoring informal ones. Giving…
They are very powerful and influential women. They all serve President Museveni. If you attack the president, they attack you. If want to keep put of trouble, you do not cross their paths. They are “Museveni’s Women.” Bbeg Media profiles some of the women who will do anything to keep Museveni in power. ******************************************************* Janet…
The Uganda Manufacturers Association (UMA) has urged government to sit down with traders to resolve the dispute over the Electronic Fiscal Receipting and Invoicing System (EFRIS). The dispute has led traders in the city centre and other parts of the country to close their shops. Addressing the media, Deo Kayemba, the chairman of UMA said…
President Museveni has commissioned the newly built Supreme Court and Court of Appeal buildings at the Judiciary headquarters in Kampala. During the commissioning, Museveni congratulated the Judiciary and the government for funding and putting up the two modern structures. “This was all done with the government money. It was not a grant from some place…
Kenya’s Chief of Defence Forces, Gen Francis Omondi Ogolla, has died after a military helicopter crashed in the west of the country, the president has announced. Gen Ogolla was in the helicopter alongside eleven other military personnel. Only two people survived. In a news conference, President William Ruto said it was a “moment of great…
On November 19, 2003, the late Second Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, James Wapakhabulo wrote to Museveni advising that he should use PARLIAMENT not a REFERENDUM to amend Article 105 (2) and remove presidential term limits. Sadly, Wapakhabulo died in March 2004 before Museveni received his letter. Nonetheless, Museveni insisted and replied…
Former Inspector General of Police, Gen Kale Kayihura is minting millions of shillings from his agro-processing business empire in Kasagama, Lyantonde. The general may have gone out of public view after he was sacked as police chief but privately, he is working his butt off. Kayihura runs and manages Katebe Business Farm in Kasagama, a venture he…
Rev Canon Jacob Ateirweho has been elected the sixth Bishop of the Diocese of Bunyoro Kitara by the House of Bishops. He was elected at a sitting at Daniel Uganda Missional Centre in Lweza on April 17. He will be consecrated and enthroned on August 11 2024 at St Peter’s Cathedral, Hoima. Rev Canon Jacob…
