Addressing the media on Friday at Parliament, Moses Mulondo the UPPA President said that the attack on the media by security personnel has been consistent and is deliberate.
The draft outlines 18 action points for promotion and protection of Human Rights. It will be taken to the Assembly of Heads of States of the African Union for endorsement and subsequent enactment of implementation protocols.
Parliament’s Forum on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene is pushing for the enactment of a National Community Works Bill that envisages promoting public hygiene and sanitation.
A total of 695,793 candidates have been registered by the Uganda National Examinations Board to sit for the examinations from a total of 13,475 examination centres across the country.
In an October 28 letter to the used car dealers association chairman Syan Sajjad Pervaiz, URA Commissioner for Customs Dickson Kateshumbwa said bonds that stay with the cars will not be licensed to operate next year.
The lawyer succumbed on mob injuries on October 19 at Case Hospital in Kampala after spending five days in the Intensive Care Unit–ICU. He had been beaten five days earlier by a mob that suspected him of stealing a phone from a mobile money outlet in Mutungo, Nakawa Division.
The university has been the theatre of violence and the use of excessive force by law enforcement agencies, as students challenged a 15 per cent cumulative increment on tuition and functional fees. The increment, which started this academic year, will affect all first-year students, for the next five years.
Parliament has resolved to honour gold medalists, Halimah Nakaayi and Joshua Cheptegei for flying the Uganda flag high at the recent Doha World Athletics Championships.
The order, which became public on Wednesday issued by commissioner domestic taxes Henry Saka, had raised dust among entities with some saying the threshold was small. Also that requiring tax certificate means an extra layer of bureaucracy.
Benson Turamye, the executive director of Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets authority (PPDA), said on Thursday that the system, which was expected to start running on 1st August, 2019, has only achieved 67% in terms of development.
