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The Uganda prisons service stack with shortfall of 18 billion of the budget meant for foods. According to the undersecretary Uganda prison service Simon Kimono, in the current budget 2015-2016, they had budgeted for 50 billion to procured food for inmates, but government gave them only 32 billion. He explained […]

Over 3500 students have so far applied for loans under the government university loan scheme. This is way above the government target of 1200 students and above 2125 students who applied year. The Executive Director Higher Education Students’ Financing Board, Micheal Wanyama says the technical team is currently scrutinizing the […]

Members of the East African Legislative assembly have overwhelmingly supported a motion for introduction of the East Africa community Electronic Transactions bill 2014. Objective of this bill to make provision for the use, security, facilitation and regulation of electronic communications and transactions to encourage the use or e government service […]

Economic experts have cautioned government against continued excessive borrowing. This comes as various stakeholders express concern over the increasing country’s debt which has reached more than 14 Trillion shillings now. Speaking at a high level multi stakeholder’s public symposium on debt dynamics and debt management, development economist Fred Muhumuza has […]

The Uganda Police Force is set to restructure its training course to emphasize practical skills. The move comes as the force reviews its training programs to effectively fight organized crime. While commissioning a week long investigation course on Narcotics at Forensic Laboratory today, the director training Andrew Felix Kaweesi said […]