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  • ‘Allow local governments to spend own revenue’

    Posted: 06 Dec 2022 Members of Parliament have expressed dissatisfaction with the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development for failing to implement the House’s resolution to allow local governments to...

  • Gov’t tables Bill to improve sports administration

    Posted: 06 Dec 2022 The Ministry of Education and Sports has introduced the Physical Activity and Sports Bill, 2022. The Bill was presented by the State Minister for Sports, Hon. Peter Ogwang at a sitting of Parliament...

  • Sports Body on spot over briefcase federations

    Posted: 06 Dec 2022 The National Council of Sports (NCS), a government body mandated to develop, promote and control sports in Uganda has come under the spotlight for allegedly registering briefcase sports federations....

  • Opposition will not submit new list of missing supporters - Mpuuga

    Posted: 06 Dec 2022 The Opposition will not submit a refresh list of its missing supporters unless there is full accountability of the names on the lists which have previously been presented before Parliament, the...

  • Muslim Parliamentary Caucus demands release of sheikhs

    Posted: 05 Dec 2022 Members of Parliament under the Muslim Parliamentary Caucus have demanded for the unconditional release of Sheikh Yahya Mwanje. Led by Hon. Asuman Basalirwa (JEEMA, Bugiri Municipality), the...

  • Strengthen local councils to fight GBV - MPs

    Posted: 05 Dec 2022 Members of Parliament have urged government to strengthen local councils and cultural leaders as key players in elimination of gender based violence. Legislators said that the two groups have in the...

  • Tayebwa, South Sudan VP close EAC games

    Posted: 02 Dec 2022 The East African Community Inter-Parliamentary Games have come to a close in Juba, South Sudan, with Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Thomas Tayebwa, joining South Sudan’s, Vice President, Dr James Wani...

  • Members call for improved funding to Uganda's foreign missions

    Posted: 02 Dec 2022 Members of Parliament have called on Government to provide adequate funding and other necessary support to Uganda’s missions abroad, to ensure their smooth operations. The MPs were debating a Report...

  • US City honours Speaker Oulanyah

    Posted: 01 Dec 2022 The Board of Aldermen, the legislative body for the City of St. Louis, Missouri in the US has paid a memorial tribute to former Speaker of Parliament, Jacob L’Okori Oulanyah, who died in March this...

  • Protect SACCOs in new MDI law – Speaker Among

    Posted: 01 Dec 2022 Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among, has instructed the House Committee on Finance scrutinizing the Microfinance Deposit-Taking Institutions (Amendment) Bill, 2022 to ensure inclusion of laws that...

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