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Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has missed its target for the first quarter of the financial year 2021/22 by Shs 499.49bn. Out of the projected Shs 4.959 trillion target set by the government, the tax body managed to collect only shs 4.459 trillion. However, there has been a registered revenue collection growth of shs 389.7 billion from the 2020/21 collections of ...

Lawyer Male Mabirizi has taken the high way to challenge the bail reforms proposed by the president. He has run to the civil division of the High Court in Kampala for an application for judicial review against the cabinet decision to derogate the right to bail and bond for suspects. According to him this was illegal and didn’t follow the ...

The Statehouse has warned the public against the fraudsters that pose as workers from there. They say these want to fleece unsuspecting Ugandans. “Our attention has been drawn to a letter written to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Canada purportedly by the Deputy Principal Private Secretary to the President Janet Mbabazi. This is to warn the public against fraudsters ...

A team in the US has successfully attached a pig kidney to a person in a temporary transplant that has been called a ‘potential miracle’. The main surgeon named the procedure. The surgery carried out on September 25 involved a genetically modified donor animal and a brain-dead patient on a ventilator. The family of the patient had given permission for ...

Former POTUS (President of The United States) Donald Trump, announced plans on Wednesday of his latest push to reclaim his internet dominance. This comes after Twitter and Facebook banned him from the sites in the wake of the violent Capitol insurrection. Trump intends to release a new social network that will be called TRUTH Social. It will be owned by ...