Jinja Hoteliers Selling Uninspected Meat – Town Clerk
Hotel operators in Jinja municipality have resorted to suppliers of cheap but uninspected meat, a mean survey conducted by Uganda Radio Network has revealed. A number of hotel and restaurant managers...
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Uganda Nordics Business Expo In High Gear
Uganda Nordics Business Expo chairman Eddie Bazira addressing the business community during their sensitisation tour last week in Jinja Uganda Nordics Business Expo is in high gear. Currently they have...
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GROWING STRONG: Threeways Saliently Firm
Most statistics in Uganda show that either most of the indigenous local businesses will fail within the first 2 years of their existence or will only grow within the limits of local business market and...
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KCCA To Cut Expenditure After DACCA Court Victory
Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA is considering cutting down on its expenditure following a court ruling blocking taxi operators from paying shillings 120,000 each month in operational fees. KCCA...
View ArticleChina’s Huawei Unveils ‘world’s fastest smartphone’
Huawei has unveiled what it claims is the world’s fastest smartphone and announced a 60% annual rise in shipments of its mobile devices. The device can download high definition (HD) films in minutes...
View ArticleUmeme Loses 61% Power in Eastern Uganda to Theft
Power Distribution Company, Umeme says it loses at least 61 percent of the power consumed in Bugisu and Bukedi region to theft. Richard Lubega, the company’s Eastern Regional Manager attributes the...
View ArticleBUDGET FRAMEWORK: Parliament Goes on Recess Again
Hardly a month after legislators were sent on recess to consult their constituents on the marriage and divorce bill, the speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has again adjourned plenary and committee...
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COMPUTER ILITERACY: Lands Officials Given 60 Day Deadline
Minister of Lands Housing And Urban DevelopmentDaudi Migereko Officials in the lands registry under ministry of Lands are at risk of losing their jobs come June 2013, unless they perfect skills needed...
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Bank of Uganda is Too Powerful And Unaccountable – Suruma
Bank of Uganda Governor Prof. Tumusiime Mutebile A move to stop government officials such as the finance minister from ordering Bank of Uganda to print more money has caused more problems, Ezra Suruma,...
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Presidential Investors’ Round Table Opens Today At State House
President Museveni with Total Vice President Jacques Marraud des Grottes and other officials at Kisozi The Presidential Investors’ Round Table which was launched by President Yoweri Museveni as a...
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Oil Waste Accumulates As Firms Mess up Treatment and Disposal
Tullow oil workers. Oil companies continue to pile waste generated during the oil drilling exercises conducted over the past years without treating and disposing it, which has raised health and...
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Quality Chemicals Nominated for 2013 Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur of the...
Emmanuel Katongole CEO Quality Chemicals ARV drug manufacturer quality chemicals Uganda limited has been nominated for the Ernst& Young World Entrepreneur of the Year award. The awards will be held...
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South Sudan Won’t Pay Ugandan Businessmen – Gen Kuol
Gen. Pieng Deng Kuol South Sudan’s IGP Ugandan businessmen, who are crying foul over failure by the South Sudan government to pay for the goods and services rendered to it, will have to wait longer for...
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Uganda Floats Oil Refinery Shares In EAC States
The Government of Uganda is floating shares amongst the East African Community states to generate funds for the construction of the proposed oil refinery. An oil rig in western Uganda Irene Batebe, a...
View ArticleKACITA Plans Demo Over None Payment by South Sudan
Kampala City Traders Association-KACITA is threatening to stage a demonstration to protest the failure by the South Sudan government to pay its members for the goods and services offered to government....
View ArticleRevenue Authority Impounds Contraband Batteries
Operatives attached to Uganda Revenue Authority at Kamdini enforcement base have impounded contraband batteries worth 56 million shillings. The tiger head batteries from Tanzania were impounded in an...
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MEGA! Umeme Records Huge Profits, Shareholders To Bag Shs24B In Dividends
Over 1200 Umeme shareholders stand to gain after the electricity company announced a 57 billion shilling profit after tax at their annual general meeting held at Serena hotel on Thursday. Umeme...
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EA Assembly Calls For Elimination Of Work Permit Fees
Margaret Zziwa the Speaker of the East Africa Assembly The East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) has passed a Motion for a Resolution pushing for the elimination of work permit fees for citizens of...
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Kenya Gives Uganda License To Mombasa Freight Station
Kenya has issued a five-year licence to Uganda for a container freight station built at the port of Mombasa to ease delays caused by congestion. Kenya Revenue Authority spokesperson Kennedy Onyonyi...
View ArticleUTL Dragged to Court Over Shs17bn
ZTE Corporation, a Chinese firm has sued Uganda Telecom over failure to pay more than $6.7 million. The money was for designing, planning, integration, operation and maintenance of the back bone link...
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