Ministry of Finance
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Finance & Banking
Banks endorse government plans to take idle cash on dormant accounts
KAMPALA – The Uganda Bankers’ Association (UBA) has endorsed the government plans to take cash considered “idle or dormant accounts” in all banks. In the new National Payments Systems Bill 2020, the…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Otuke district returns Shs 600m for teachers’ recruitment
OTUKE – Otuke district Local Government has returned Shs 600m which was released by the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development for the recruitment of teachers and payment of their salaries.…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Hoima City Mayor demands that Ministry of Local Government expedites processes to disburse startup funds
HOIMA – The Hoima City Mayor, Brian Kaboyo, has demanded that the Ministry of Local Government expedites processes to ensure cities get startup funds. This call was sounded by Kaboyo during a…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Serere district disburses Shs 90m to quack journalists.
SERERE – Serere district Members of Parliament have raised a red flag over the criteria the district officials used to disburse Shs 90m to quack journalists under the presidential initiative on wealth…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Re-allocate Emyooga funds to local government accounts systems
GULU – The Resident City Commissioner (RCC) of Gulu, Denis Odongpiny has urged the government to re-allocate Emyooga funds from the Microfinance Support Centre to the Ministry of Finance and release it…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Staff Housing Project At Gulu Hospital Still Stalling
GULU – The construction of multibillion staff housing at Gulu Regional Referral Hospital has failed to get complete eight years after it was commissioned. The hospital had secured Shs 6.8 billion from…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Museveni To Farmers: Don’t Overprice Milk
KAMPALA – Insidious cattle diseases such as Foot and Mouth and Anthrax have diminished the quality of the country’s animal products, made farmers to overprice milk and narrowed their competitive edge in…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Women Groups Applications For Cash Drop In Lira
LIRA – Applications for cash grants by women groups to Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Program (UWEP) are on the decline in the northern district of Lira, we are told. UWEP was launched in…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Lamwo Farmers In Panic As Rains Come
LAMWO – About 520 Lamwo farmers are afraid that flooding from heavy rains could portend another bad season and harvest. Most of the apprehensive farmers are within Agoro irrigation scheme and are…
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