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By URN. The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has said she has started a process of identifying ministers and MPs who abscond during plenary sessions. Kadaga made the statements on Monday during the Parliament live tweet chat aimed at updating members of the public on the progress of Parliament as the second session ends. She said she has spent some time compiling the list of absentee MPs and Ministers and she is writing a warning letter to them. She however declined to reveal what action she would take in relation to the absentee legislators. According to Kadaga, the legislators are…
Story Agencies. The government has declared three days of mourning following Friday’s bus accident which claimed the lives of 22 people. The accident involved a Gaaga bus and a Lorry and a tractor at Nanda, in Kiryandongo district. The three days of mourning start today Sunday and will end on Tuesday. The government will also compensate the injured and the families of the dead. According to a communication from the Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda, President Museveni directed that all the families of the 22 people who perished be compensated with 5 million each while those who are critically injured be…
Source CNN. Washington (CNN)A US delegation traveled to North Korea on Sunday for preparatory talks ahead of a potential meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, three senior US officials with knowledge of the situation tell CNN. The group included US Ambassador to the Philippines, Sung Kim, and is a clear sign the summit is back on track. The Washington Post previously reported on the team entering into North Korea. A team of US officials focused on the logistics of a summit left this weekend for Singapore. The delegation that entered North Korea on Sunday…
By Kasigwa Rose. State Minister for Northern Uganda Grace Kwiyucwiny has appealed to people in the region, to make use of northern Uganda social action fund (NUSAF) 3 program to fight poverty. in an interview with journalists ,Minister Kwiyucwiny says that the special affirmative program (NUSAF) three is ongoing and it is specifically looking at eradicating poverty in the region. Kwiyucwiny who is also Zombo district woman MP reveals that close to 900,000 families in the region are living in poverty,she therefore urges the communities in the region to take NUSAF activities seriously to get them out of poverty. Kwiyucwiny…
African Leaders Stop ,Bragging With Stolen Wealth-Diplomats. By Damba Rogers. African leaders are being asked to stop bragging around with having too much wealth most of which has been acquired from engaging in acts of corruption and illicit trade with wrong elements. It is estimated that Africa losses between USD.60 to USD.150 Bn annually to graft and illicit business with over 75%of the continents’ earning are repatriated back to the home countries of the malti national companies through illicit trade well known by African leaders and then 5% of the funds meant for development is being swindled by African…
Speaker Kadaga mourns Gaagaa bus accident victims The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, is saddened to learn about the tragic accident that claimed over twenty Ugandan lives, leaving many injured. “The pain of losing dear ones to road accidents is becoming very common on our roads, yet recent accidents are evidence that the country seems not to be picking lessons from such tragedies,” Kadaga said. A developing nation like Uganda, said Kadaga, should not lose the desperately needed human resource that will anchor the progress the nation deserves. Being a country of many deaths on the road, observed the…
By Damba Rogers. The Electoral Commission has released a road map for election of village and women council’s slated for July this year. The elections were meant to take place in November last year but they were halted by a court case filed by one James Tweheyo who challenged the polls on grounds that they were going to leave out students who were eligible to vote and were still in school. However, the two parties settled their matter out of court hence the case was withdrawn giving Lee way for the electoral process to continue. In this Electoral commission has scheduled registration…
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Source BBC. US President Donald Trump has cancelled a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, saying the world had “lost a great opportunity for lasting peace”. He said his decision was because of “tremendous anger and open hostility” in a recent North Korean statement. In a letter to Mr Kim, he said he was still looking forward to meeting him “some day”. It came hours after North Korea said it had dismantled tunnels at its only nuclear test site. Foreign reporters at the Punggye-ri site in the north-east said they had witnessed a huge blast. Live updates N Korea nuclear…
By URN. Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has refuted media reports indicating that Parliament wants an additional Shillings 90 billion to cater for MPs’ salaries. at Shillings 24 million every month from 11 million. Kadaga who also doubles as the Chairperson of the Parliamentary Commission said that there have been no attempts to increase or adjust salaries for MPs. He advised the MPs and members of the public to ignore the reports. Kadaga was this afternoon responding to Dokolo North MP Paul Amoru who sought clarification about a story published in the Daily Monitor indicating that MPs had moved to double…
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) (www.Philips.com), a global leader in health technology, and the governments of Ethiopia and the Netherlands, today signed a seven-year agreement to build Ethiopia’s first specialized Cardiac Care Center to address the critical shortage of cardiology services in Ethiopia. Under the terms of the agreement, valued at approximately Euro 40 million, Philips will be responsible for the full turnkey design, construction, equipping and commissioning of the hospital location, as well as staff education and equipment maintenance for five years after completion. The new center will be developed within the compound of the existing Tikur Anbessa…
By URN. Ssezibwa region police headquarters has dismissed all the reported cases of kidnap in the area as fake. The Ssezibwa Region Police Commander, Susan Nalwoga, says they have recorded more than six kidnap cases of kidnap in Buikwe district since this month began. Three of the alleged kidnap victims are Mary Namayanja, Zaina Mwagale and Gonza Nasimu. Namayanja was recovered from Bweyogerere while Nasimu was traced to her boyfriend’s residence in Kawempe in Kampala. According to Nalwoga, Police investigations show that the victims faked their kidnap to meet their lovers. Nalwoga says they have since picked up Mahad Kiyonga…
By Parliament Press. The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has tasked Members of Parliament on the Budget Committee to ring-fence shs10 billion meant for the Women’s Fund in a bid to support projects like the Uganda Women’s Entrepreneurship Programme (UWEP). The Speaker made the call while presiding over a meeting to update MPs on the progress of UWEP regarding the implementation of program goals and how best to lobby for more funding. The meeting took place at Parliament on Wednesday, 23 May 2018. “The women have so little but it is our Fund that is attacked. We need to protect…
NRM Buganda Youth Recognize Namuganza As Best Performing Young Minister By our reporter. The NRM Buganda youth leaders’ caucus has asked the Party President to stop appointing poor people in cabinet because they are using public offices for their own benefit. Speaking at the ceremony were this caucus recognized the best performing ministers and heads of government agencies, the chairperson of the Buganda youth leader’s caucus sewava mukasa said that when poor people are appointed in public offices they do all sorts of things to enrich themselves citing lands minister Betty Amongi who has been involved in the number…
The Bank and the Republic of Korea also signed an agreement with the intent to provide up to $600 million towards the energy sector BUSAN, Republic of Korea, May 23, 2018/ — The Government of Korea and the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) have issued a Joint Declaration following the conclusion of the Ministerial Roundtable of the Korea-Africa Economic Cooperation (KOAFEC) Conference taking place during the African Development Bank’s 53rd Annual Meetings in which Korea announced a $5-billion bilateral financial assistance package for Africa.The Ministerial Roundtable is the signature event of the biennial KOAFEC Conference, gathering a peer group of African Ministers…