Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has has assented to 19 Bills that were recently passed by Parliament. These include the VAT and NGO ammendment bills. He however returned two Bills to Parliament, for reconsideration. These are the National Commission for UNESCO (Amendment) Bill, 2024 and the Higher …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Prime Minister, Robinah Nabbanja, revealed that the government will table Bills next week aimed at providing for the rationalization of agencies under four sectors of the country. The proposed Bills include the Rationalization of Government Agencies (Education Sector) (Amendments) Bill, 2024 and the Rationalization …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Prime Minister, Robinah Nabbanja, has revealed that government will table Bills next week aimed at providing for the rationalisation of agencies under four sectors of the country. The proposed Bills include the Rationalisation of Government Agencies (Education Sector) (Amendments) Bill, 2024 and the Rationalisation …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Government has been given two months August to table all the necessary bills they want parliament to handle during the fourth session of the tenth of Parliament. The session started on 6th June when President Yoweri Museveni delivered his State of the Nation Address. …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni listed the same government Bills for parliament to handle in the coming year as he did in his 2018 Address. Museveni on Thursday delivered the State of the Nation address on the achievements made by the government in the past year, the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga plans to waive a requirement for a mandatory certificate of Financial Implication, to allow legislators present private members bills. Kadaga accuses the Ministry of Finance of using the requirement to deliberately frustrate private bills. Parliament Rules of Procedure provide …
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It’s an embarrassment to depend on outsiders Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & AGENCIES | Africa should start paying its own bills, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has said. The President was on March 15 speaking at the 11th General Assembly of the African Union of Broadcasting (AUB) where he held …
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THIS WEEK: Clobbered MP Zaake pleads to parliament to settle medical bills Kampala, Uganda | THIS INDEPENDENT | Mityana legislator Francis Zaake has been bedridden after the September 27 fight in parliament left him grappling with serious head injuries. Zaake who was initially admitted at Mengo hospital in Kampala was later …
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National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) has threatened to cut off water supply to several government institutions unless they clear their huge bills in the next one week. NWSC Managing Director Dr Silver Mugisha revealed Tuesday that Mulago Hospital, Ministry of Defence and Uganda Prisons are among their leading defaulters. It …
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By Joan Akello The speaker of parliament says a new checklist for human rights, the first if its kind in Uganda will guide the committee on human rights, the executive and legislators and other stakeholders on what the issues to look out for in bills, budgets, policy statements, and other …
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