West Nile Riders Demand for Extension of Registration Exercise
The voluntary motorcycle registration exercise is scheduled to expire on June 30th, 2013. URA'S Godson displays copy of the petition...
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Investment Authority Defends Allocation of Disputed Ssembabule Land
The land is at the center of a dispute between Kerren Kayonga, a local investor and more than 2500 squatters...
Tullow Wins 800 Billion shs Tax Case Against Heritage Oil
The London High Court has finally ruled in favour of Tullow Oil in the multi-million dollar tax dispute raised by...
NAADS to become Agri-business Secretariat – Kiwanuka
Out of a total of 13.16 trillion shillings in the budget, Agricultural sector was allocated 394.4 billion shillings. An additional...
2 Arrested at Sudhir’s Farm Over Enroachment
Two Rosebud Flower Firm Managers have been arrested in an operation by the Wetland Inspection Division, Ministry of Water and...
Licensing of Fishing Boats Hits Snag
However the exercise short lived and the ministry abandoned it without issuing permanent vessel identification number plates even to few...
Experts Warn Farmers On Selling Crop Gardens
Agricultural experts in Jinja district have expressed fear over the now common practice of farmers selling their crops in the...
Nankabirwa Declines to Fire Fisheries Enforcement Officers
Nankabirwa says some political leaders in both districts are opposed to the operations because they are also engaged in illegal...
Sudhir to Invest 390 Billion shs in Uganda
Top business man Sudhir Ruparelia plans to inject another whooping 390 billion shs into his Ruparelia group of companies within...
Amelia Warns standards Body on Corruption
The Minister of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives Amelia Kyambadde has issued a stern warning to inspection officials at the Uganda...
Tour Companies Fight over Gorilla Tracking Permits
Up country Tours Safaris Companies are demanding for the relaxation of procedures and costs of acquiring Gorilla and Chimpanzee tour...
Civil society organisations want Agriculture Budget increased
A coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) are calling on government to increase funding of upto 6 percent to the...
NSSF to offer Free Legal Services to Members
NSSF will offer number of services to its members free of charge, especially those who are poor and are unable...
Traders Continue to oppose PVoC, call for 2 Month Boycott
Kyambadde argues that KACITA’s boycott threat is uncalled for as the importers have been accommodated in the scheme. Trade Minister...
Cage Farming Boosts Fish Stocks on Lake Victoria
Between 400 to 500 young fish per cubic meter are stocked in a 25 square meter mesh cage. Rack fish...
China unveils New supercomputer
China has developed a new supercomputer, which is twice as fast as US and Japanese systems, early tests show. The...
Govt Reinstates Pre-Verification Programme To Curb Counterfeits
The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives has re-introduced the Pre-Export verification guidelines to deal with the explosion of products...
BOU Slashes Lending Rate To 11%
Bank of Uganda(BOU) has reduced the commercial bank benchmark lending rate from 12% in May to 11% for June ,2013....
Investors shun Uganda’s Flower industry
Speaking at the Economic Policy Research Centre Forum today, Musoke provides a comparison of Ethiopia, a recent entrant in the...
Uganda Could Earn $50b From Oil
Aidan Heavey Chief-Executive-Officer Uganda's Government can expect to earn 50billion Dollars on behalf of its people from its oil reserves...