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Police grilled on over-detention of suspects, use of buckets as toilets

Uganda, May 21 -- Police top officials were on Monday asked by legislators on the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to apologize for irregularities highlighted in the last financial year's... Read More


MPs move to impeach Mpuuga, three commissioners over Shs1.7b service award

Uganda, May 21 -- At least five Members of Parliament have launched a motion to impeach the four commissioners of Parliament who allegedly shared Shs1.7 billion taxpayers' money as 'service awards'. ... Read More


Parliamentary probe links Mulago preterm deaths to non-functional machines

Uganda, May 9 -- A parliamentary probe has revealed a disturbing link between the deaths of over 200 preterm babies at Mulago Women's Specialised Neo-Natal Hospital and malfunctioning medical equipmen... Read More


MPs okay tax on gifts

Uganda, May 8 -- Manufacturers and industries will be required to pay Value Added Tax (VAT) to government for all taxable goods or services given out to their employees as donations. The new tax deve... Read More


MPs moot plan for special disaster budget

Uganda, May 6 -- As the East African region mourns the death of over 300 people who lost their lives in the flash floods that continue to ravage parts of Kenya and Tanzania, Ugandan, legislators have ... Read More


Bobi Wine asks West to sanction Museveni, Muhoozi

Uganda, May 3 -- The president of the National Unity Platform (NUP) party, Mr Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, has implored the West to place a coterie of senior government officials, including Presi... Read More


Bobi Wine makes U-turn on electoral reforms

Uganda, May 2 -- The leader of the opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) party, Mr Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, has stated that his party is not seeking any changes to the current el... Read More


Winners in govt's Shs1.1t supplementary budget

Uganda, May 1 -- Two months to the next Financial Year (FY), Parliament April 30 passed a Shs1.1 trillion Supplementary Expenditure Schedule No.2 for FY2023/2024 where over 70 percent of it will be sp... Read More


Parliament approves Shs578b bailout to private vaccine factory

Uganda, May 1 -- Parliament on Tuesday approved a Shs1.1trillion supplementary budget including a contentious Shs578billion bailout to Dei Bio Pharma Ltd, a private drug and vaccine manufacturing plan... Read More


Speaker Among lashes out at cabinet over bribery allegations against MPs

Uganda, April 30 -- The Speaker of Parliament, Ms Anita Among has accused members of cabinet of spreading allegations that MPs are often bribed during their legislation process before cautioning the m... Read More