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Finance & Banking
MPs approve over Shs 355bln loan for INVITE project
KAMPALA – Government’s request to borrow up to US $96 million [Shs 355.5bln] to finance the Investment for Industrial Transformation and Employment [ INVITE ] project has been okayed by Parliament. The…
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Finance & Banking
Winners and losers as MPs okay Shs 52.7 trn national budget
KAMPALA – Parliament on Thursday passed the Shs 52.7 trillion national budget for the financial year 2023/2024 in a sitting chaired by Speaker Anita Among. Shs 21.4trn of the total budget is…
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Energy & Mining
Gov’t seeks approval of US$ 638 mln to power households
KIRYADONGO-The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development is pleading with Parliament to approve a US$ 638 million [Shs 2.4 trillion] loan from the World Bank to connect 1,700 households to the national…
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News
Road construction: Contractors’ debt rises to over Shs 580bln
KAMPALA-Road works across the country are being constrained by a Shs 585 billion debt to contractors, according to the Minister of Works and Transport, Gen. Edward Katumba Wamala. Gen. Katumba was responding…
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International
Shock as Truss resigns as UK Prime Minister
LONDON-Prime Minister Liz Truss has resigned as UK prime minister in a statement outside Downing Street, says the BBC She said she could not deliver the mandate on which she was elected…
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News
Butaleja leaders divided over wetland demarcation
BUTALEJA – Leaders in Butaleja district have disagreed over the ongoing demarcation of wetlands in the area. Government has embarked on boundary demarcation of Nakwasi wetlands in Butaleja district amid protests from…
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Energy & Mining
Bujagali Hydropower audit: Furious MPs kick minister out of parliament
KAMPALA – The State Minister for Energy Sidronius Opolot alongside other officials were yesterday sent away from parliament by the legislators on the Parliamentary Adhoc Committee investigating the financials of Bujagali Energy…
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Cooperatives & Communities
MPs urge journalists to engage in business
KIBAALE– Members of Parliament from Greater Kibaale have advised journalists to establishing business ventures that can supplement their meager salaries. The call was made by the Members of Parliament from Kibaale, Kakumiro,…
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News
MPs quiz Masaka hospital boss over Shs 2.5bln inflated contract
KAMPALA-Legislators on Parliament’s Committee on Public Accounts-Central Government have tasked the former director of Masaka Regional Referral Hospital, Dr Nathan Onyachi to explain why he spent an extra Shs Shs2.5 billion not…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Stanbic Bank Uganda courts MPs in push for women’s financial inclusion
KAMPALA – Stanbic Bank Uganda has sought the support of the Members of Parliament as it popularises in the country its women’s financial empowerment programme dubbed, Stanbic for Her, aimed at providing…
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