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MPs to investigate labour export companies
Posted: 23 Nov 2022 The Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among, has tasked the Committee on Gender, Labour and Social Development, to work with the line ministry to investigate companies involved in the export of labour to... -
Planning Authority asks MPs to clip supplementary requests
Posted: 23 Nov 2022 The National Planning Authority (NPA) has beseeched the finance committee of Parliament to discourage the use of supplementary budgets, as it undermines budget credibility. The NPA team led by the... -
Speaker receives special audit report on COVID-19 spending
Posted: 23 Nov 2022 The Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among, has asked the Office of the Auditor General to shift focus to value for money audits, which she said makes more accountability sense in light of the shift to a... -
Bill granting MDIs wide-ranging services presented to MPs
Posted: 22 Nov 2022 The Minister of State for Finance, Planning and Economic Development (Microfinance), Hon. Haruna Kasolo Kyeyune, has presented to Parliament the Microfinance Deposit-Taking Institutions (Amendment)... -
US$331 million loan for electricity access approved
Posted: 22 Nov 2022 Parliament has approved a request for government to borrow up to US$331.5 million, from the International Development Association of the World Bank Group, upon which it will obtain a grant worth US$... -
Parliament to pay tribute to Democratic Party's Dr Ssemogerere
Posted: 22 Nov 2022 Parliament observed a moment of silence in honour of the late Dr Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere, who was the Democratic Party (DP) leader for 25 years. Ssemogerere died on Friday, 18 November 2022 aged 90... -
House to debate maiden Gov’t action-taken report on Thursday
Posted: 22 Nov 2022 Following the tabling of government’s maiden report on actions it has taken on resolutions of the 11th Parliament, MPs have been put on notice for its debate. The report, tabled during the plenary... -
Northern Uganda Social Action Fund to stay - Prime Minister
Posted: 22 Nov 2022 The Prime Minister, Robinah Nabbanja, has assured MPs that the Northern Uganda Social Action Fund (NUSAF) will not be abolished. Nabbanja made the assurance during plenary on Tuesday, 22 November... -
Defence committee to probe new firm over digital National IDs
Posted: 22 Nov 2022 The Committee on Defence and Internal Affairs is considering investigating a new firm contracted by the Government to print ‘smart’ and ‘digital’ national identity cards. In 2018, government entered... -
Gov’t losing Shs342 million per day to unpaid road contractors
Posted: 22 Nov 2022 The Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) says that it is paying up to Shs342 million daily in interest to project contractors who have not been paid for their work. This revelation was made by the...