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    Uganda Ready to Make Final Investment Decision on Oil Resource -Makerere Don

    URNBanking & Financial ServicesJuly 3, 2020July 3, 2020

    Uganda seems to be ready to make a final investment decision for her first oil and gas production, Dr. Eria Hisali, the Principal College of Business and Management Sciences at…

    President’s Office Returns UGX 2.9b COVID-19 Cash to Treasury

    URNBanking & Financial ServicesJuly 3, 2020July 3, 2020

    The Office of the President has returned UGX2.9 billion to the treasury after failing to spend it on activities, for which it was allocated. The money is part of an…

    No Money to Pay South Sudan Traders, Kasaija says

    URNBanking & Financial ServicesJuly 2, 2020July 2, 2020

    The Minister for Finance Matia Kasaija has told Parliament that the government does not have money to pay Ugandan traders who supplied goods to South Sudan. In 2019, Parliament approved…

    PAC Questions State House on Acquisition of Okello House

    URNBanking & Financial ServicesJuly 2, 2020July 2, 2020

    A State House official has said their former landlord at Okello House on plot 10A, Nehru Road, in Nakasero, Alexander Okello lost his property after he was duped by some…

    UCC Pursuing Regional Policy to Regulate Online Businesses

    URNBanking & Financial ServicesJuly 1, 2020July 1, 2020

    Uganda Communications Commission-UCC is examining Information and Technological-ICT structures under the Northern Corridor Integration Project so as to come up with a policy to facilitate and regulate online businesses.  …

    Ugandans Paid More for Pork, Eggs in June as prices of Matooke, vegetables dropped

    URNBanking & Financial ServicesJuly 1, 2020July 1, 2020

    The Uganda Bureau of Statistics has revealed that Ugandans were in June charged high prices for some food items compared to May 2020. This is according to the Consumer Price…

    Gov’t to Write-off UGX 108B Youth Livelihood Program Loans

    URNBanking & Financial ServicesJuly 1, 2020July 1, 2020

    The government has unveiled plans to write off loans to a tune of UGX108 billion that were given out under the Youth Livelihood Program. This follows a failure by the…

    Mbarara Municipal Authority to Remove 2000 Boda bodas

    URNBanking & Financial ServicesJune 30, 2020June 30, 2020

    Mbarara Municipal Council has embarked on a process to eliminate over 2000 Boda boda riders from the Central Business District as part of its efforts to streamline public transport and…

    National Drug Authority Impounds Smuggled Drugs in Teso

    URNBanking & Financial ServicesJune 30, 2020June 30, 2020

    The National Drug Authority has impounded hundreds of unregistered and smuggled drugs sold in Pharmacies in Soroti and Serere districts. The impounded drugs include herbal concoctions like Super Mulabe, which…

    Delayed Compensation Slows Construction works on Rukungiri-Kanungu-Ishasha Road

    URNBanking & Financial ServicesJune 30, 2020June 30, 2020

    The delayed compensation of over 1,000 residents of Kikongi parish in Bwambara sub-county in Rukungiri district has slowed the tarmacking of Rukungiri-Kanungu-Ishasha road.  President, Yoweri Museveni commissioned the tarmacking of…

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