President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has lashed out at the fired Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) top officials who he accused of running down the institution by engaging in corruption. The President made the remarks while addressing the nation during the 2020/2021 national budget Speech, when he warned other corrupt public servants that he is coming to clean up their entities. It…
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KCB Bank Uganda has in the latest development introduced a revamped KCB i-Bank an internet banking platform aimed at easing banking transactions and offer best services to customers. With KCB’s iBank, customers can access several services including checking account balances, viewing all accounts transactions, transfer of funds to any KCB Account with in the country and to any subsidiary in…
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World Bank has warned African countries against copying the Western policies in combating COVID-19 and has thus applauded Tanzania for employing unique approaches. This call was in latest the Africas Purse report titled as Assessing the Economic Impact of COVID-19 and Policy Responses in Sub-Saharan Africa that was released today. The report commended Tanzania as one of the best examples…
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The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Dr. Diana Atwine has clarified on the donation of empty Jerricans that was given by Coca cola beverages Company. This contribution of 467 empty jerricans was announced by President Museveni on Wednesday while reading contributions that have so far been made by several members of the public and companies towards the fight against COVID-19.…
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The Minister of Finance, Matia Kasaija has noted that the country’s economic growth projections in FY2019/2020 has been revised downwards from 6.0 percent to between 5.2 5.7 percent depending on the severity of the COVID-19 impact on Uganda. While addressing Parliament on Thursday, the Minister noted that the country’s revenue collections will register an additional shortfall of about Shs82.4 billion…
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The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has on Thursday afternoon thrown out of plenary sitting the Kilak North Member of Parliament (MP) Anthony Akol amidst scare of contracting Corona Virus. This after Akol himself complained of laxity in screening people for corona virus at Entebbe Airport giving a scenario of himself when he came back to the country from South…
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