Kampala, Uganda – Deputy Speaker of Parliament Thomas Tayebwa and his wife joined Belgian Ambassador H.E. Hugues Chantry and...

The Parliament of Uganda has cleared the government to borrow €183.3 million from Standard Chartered Bank, alongside  UGX 120.4...

Catching an ice-cold bottle of your favorite beer brewed using local raw materials will, in the next financial year,...

An Act to emend of the National Coffee Act 2021, Act 17 of 2021, aims to dissolve the Coffee Development Authority and transfer its functions to the Ministry responsible for agriculture. 

In the recent months, UBOS has been under scrutiny by the public, citing significant errors in tribal population data from the 2024 census provisional report, which the Bureau admitted, saying figures for the Bagisu and Bakiga tribes were mistakenly interchanged.

The Parliament of Uganda is set to hold four regional sittings, with the first one starting on August 28, 2024, at Kaunda grounds in Gulu, and they are to hold other sittings in Mbarara, Mbale, and Masaka. Each sitting is to cost over UGX 5 billion, and many people have criticized the relevance of these regional sittings as they seem not to have a direct impact on the constituents. 

Like the usual benchmarking trips abroad that turn into merry-making festivities without any substance, the regional parliamentary sittings are just extravagant feel-good parties for these MPs and their girlfriends or boyfriends as they waste taxpayers’ money—a Marie Antoinette financial virus consuming taxpayers’ money.

Despite a recent report disclosing  that Uganda has lost over UGX 12 trillion in the past five years through similar tax waivers, the government asked the Parliament of Uganda to exempt eight companies  and individuals from paying taxes worth UGX 13.391 billion due to various reasons like COVID-19 effects that affected businesses, and ill health.