Officials from the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) on Tuesday laboured to explain how they spent cash irregularly deposited on their personal accounts.
Speaker of parliament Rebecca Kadaga has given the Rules Committee of Parliament 10 more days to finish their investigation into the disruption of parliamentary proceedings by the Members of Parliament on Tuesday last week.
Two international firms have applied to operate in the opened up credit reference bureau market. Dr Charles Aguma, the director in charge of financial stability at Bank of Uganda, told Uganda Radio Network that the two firms are Metropol and Credit Reference Services (CRB) Africa, all Kenyan firms.
James Asubu, the officer in charge of criminal investigations Gulu district says that they are investigating reports that the fire was started by one of the staff of the regional blood bank.
Government is looking to remittances from Ugandans working abroad to cushion impacts of aid cuts by the country’s major donors over grand corruption.
Mutebile said one of the ways the government can mitigate the impact of the gloomy economic outlook and aid cuts would be to reduce on expenditures and directing monies to critical areas.
MPs opposed to clause say that they are ready to push a referendum if the need arises should the executive insist on granting the powers to the minister instead of the authority.
He claims that UOC only paid US$2,196 and leaving a balance of US$37,923 that is yet to be cleared. In another suit he has filed through Coin Uganda Limited, Ddungu is seeking 226,790, 064 million shillings that his company allegedly incurred in renovating the UOC premises in Lugogo.
The Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA) has today announced that security agencies have launched a serious search for the 18 Eritrean football players who absconded and disappeared in Uganda after they were eliminated from the on-going Cecafa Tusker senior Challenge Cup.
They were picked up this afternoon from Nyendo market where they had convened to celebrate the president’s birthday in defiancy of the Police warning that the party was illegal.
Prosecution led by Capt. Ketigan Mugisha, told court that on October 16th, 2012 while at Natopojo village in Rupa Sub County in Moroto district the suspect was found in possession of a Sub Machine gun No. 56-3528247.
Nalongo Naziwa, the mother of Kamya searched for his son’s where abouts for two days in vain, forcing her to report the matter to the local authorities.
Government on Monday held a hurriedly-organized dialogue on oil and gas in an apparent move to help salvage a stalled process to pass the Petroleum Bills now before parliament.
