Tag: Parliament

Uganda's National Teachers Bill, 2024, introduces strict penalties for unlicensed teaching, including fines up to Shs14 million. The Bill seeks ...

Retired Ugandan politicians seek special privileges, sparking debate over entitlement and public responsibility. Former RDCs and legislators request continued financial ...

Opposition leader Kyagulanyi's claims, including a discreetly inserted Shs55 billion, prompt heated debates on government spending ethics. Despite the controversy, ...

Members of Parliament, led by Deputy Speaker Mr. Thomas Tayebwa, have strongly condemned a new proposal from Health Ministry officials. ...

Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among, has informed the 11th Parliament that the performances of its members during the last session ...

Anyone who partakes in same-sex conduct or "holds out" as LGBTQ might be sentenced to up to 10 years in ...

A cross-section of legislators is proposing penalties against drivers who splash water on pedestrians. Such incidences have been common, in ...

More than 100 lawmakers have been listed as perpetual absentees from meetings that were scheduled in Parliament between the month ...

Parliament yesterday adopted a report recommending that the Minister for Security, Gen. Elly Tumwine, be reprimanded for verbally and emotionally ...

The State House Anti- Corruption Unit (SHACU) is probing the Bufumbira County South Member of Parliament and former minister, Sam ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, directed the House’s human rights committee to investigate allegations of torture in two safe ...

The Attorney General (AG) has cleared the air on the proposed electoral reforms, saying none of the five Bills tabled ...

MPs have no powers to increase their salaries and other emoluments without going through the Government, the Supreme Court has ...

A bitter exchange among lawmakers yesterday ended with Parliament unanimously demanding that the security minister, Gen. Elly Tumwine, appears before ...

President Yoweri Museveni has said any decision involving the process of identifying a suitable investor in the effort to revamp ...

The Leadership Code Act was amended two years ago, removing a provision providing for politicians to declare the assets and ...

The National Resistance Movement (NRM) caucus yesterday voted to throw out the Administration of Parliament Bill, 2019, saying it weakens ...

Six years since the National Bank of Commerce (NBC) was closed, the stakeholders and directors believe the Central Bank acted ...

Members of the public have attributed the increased poor service delivery by local governments to corruption and embezzlement of public ...

MPs on the ICT committee have directed the ministry to furnish Parliament with an assessment report on the impact of ...

Opposition MPs have called for abolition of the advanced level (A’level) of education, saying it is unnecessary. They want A’level ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) has said t they do not have funds to conduct elections in the newly created districts, ...

The Leader of Opposition in Parliament, Betty Aol Ocan and Speaker Rebecca Kadaga have agreed to have Abdu Katuntu’s term ...

A top law firm has appeared to contradict the former executive director of supervision for commercial banks at Bank of ...

Parliament will recognize Miss World Africa Quiin Abenakyo for being crowned Miss World Africa in the 68th Miss World contest ...

MPs on the sectoral committee on Presidential Affairs have made several recommendations that left the main protagonists in the city ...

As an inquiry by the parliamentary committee on commissions, statutory authorities and state enterprises (COSASE) into alleged irregularities in the ...

Parliament’s presidential affairs committee has backed various changes to the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) law which, among other things, ...

The Government has finalized the formulation of the draft budget (Budget Framework Paper) for the 2019/2020 financial year, with greater ...

Legislators on both the NRM and Opposition sides on Thursday vehemently opposed the stopping of Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi’s ...

This week, the change in the chairmanship and the deputy to the COSASE committee has caused mixed reactions from the ...

Yesterday, the speaker of the Ugandan Parliament, Rt Hon Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga met music promoters and events managers who petitioned ...

Bank of Uganda deputy governor Louis Kasekende has written to the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, demanding that disciplinary action ...

Hon Kyagulanyi was asked whether Parliament was his last hope? Parliament is not my last hope. There is hope everywhere. ...

The Tenth Parliament has lawyers, doctors and businessmen juggling their duties as lawmakers with their professions and trade without much ...

MPs investigating the closure of seven defunct banks have asked Bank of Uganda (BOU) to account for sh478b that was ...

Senior officials from the now defunct Global Trust Bank(GTB) that was closed by the central bank have demanded compensation for ...

A section of lawmakers have made a strident case for the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sam Kutesa to be investigated ...

The fate of over 1,000 people that were two months ago evicted from Lusanja following a process Attorney General (AG) ...