Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of University Vice Chancellors has rejected a demand by students for a reduction of tuition fees. On Wednesday, Makerere University Vice-Chancellor Barnabas Nawangwe, Kyambogo University’s Prof. Eli Katunguka and Uganda Christian University’s Dr Aaron Mushengyezi met the Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga following …
Read More »Parliament passes UGX 3.7 trillion supplementary budget
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has approved a supplementary budget worth Shillings 3.729 trillion for the 2020/2021 financial year to cater for critical areas that are not covered for in the budget and an increase in the budgetary pressures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The supplementary comes just …
Read More »Parliament maintains position on beer, wines and fermented beverages tax
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has rejected a proposal by President Yoweri Museveni to increase the excise duty on beer with the aim of generating Shillings 52.5 billion in revenue. Also rejected are proposals to increase the excise duty on wines to generate Shillings 130 million as well as …
Read More »Kadaga summons health minister over idle clinical medicine interns
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament has tasked the Minister of Health Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng to explain her ministry’s failure to have students under the Clinical Medicine and Community Health program carry out internship. Speaker Rebecca Kadaga’s directive followed a matter of national importance raised …
Read More »MPs demand specific date for 2021 elections
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has faulted Electoral Commission and government for failure to gazette the specific date for the 2021 general elections. According to the Electoral Commission, the general elections will take place between January 10th and February 8th, 2020. The Commission …
Read More »Kadaga directs Internal Affairs minister to explain Mbogo clan teargassing
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of Internal Affairs Gen. Jeje Odongo has been directed to present a statement on the floor of parliament in regard to the incident where police officers fired teargas and dispersed a meeting by members of Buganda Kingdom’s Mbogo Clan. Speaker of Parliament …
Read More »Kadaga, EC bicker over extension of nomination dates
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Electoral Commission has revised the dates for nominations of Members of Parliament to October 15 and 16, to allow MPs to undertake deed polls for the reallighnment of their names. The new pronouncement by the Electoral Commission chairperson Justice Simon Byabakama does not …
Read More »Speaker warns MPs against individually engaging agencies using parliament’s name
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A new form of impersonation seems to have hit town being perpetrated by the most honourable members of society – Members of Parliament. It has prompted the Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga to warned the MPs against engaging agencies in their individual capacity on …
Read More »Kadaga wants extra nomination days for MPs
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has demanded that extra days be allocated for the nomination exercise of MPs. This is after the government said that married women will have to follow the standard procedure of the use of a deed poll if they are …
Read More »Youth urged to take lead roles in climate change initiatives
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Speaker Rebecca Kadaga has called on youth in Uganda to create legacies in climate change by planting trees when they make any achievements in a bid to improve the country’s forest cover. The Speaker said that there is need to promote stakeholder involvement in the …
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