Ten economists and financial experts are in the lead for appointment as the next Bank of Uganda (BoU) governor amid frantic below-the-surface lobbying for the top job, Daily Monitor has learned. Sources familiar with the matter intimated to this newspaper that the candidates were vetted by security a few months ago and the names were forwarded to President Museveni to make the pick. However, nine months after the passing of the previous officeholder, Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile, the President is quiet about the choice of the next governor. Tumusiime-Mutebile, who died on January 23, held the position for slightly over two decades. The prerogative…
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President William Ruto now says that every Kenyan citizen in possession of a national identity card (ID) will be required to have a Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) pin number. Speaking on Friday during the KRA’s Taxpayers event held at KICC, President Ruto said the directive would help to scale up tax compliance measures by the Authority in a bid to increase tax income. He cited data by Safaricom Telco Company where about 30 million people are registered under M-Pesa against 7 million people who have KRA Pin numbers saying that his government would leverage technology to increase the tax base…
Uganda Christian University Mukono (UCU) is morning the sudden death of its graduate Belinda Birungi, a daughter to State Minister Sam Mayanja who succumbed to a motor accident on Friday, October 28, 2022. The 22-year-old Belinda received her Bachelor of Arts in Industrial and Fine Art in July this year from UCU and had started working barely for 3 months. According to reports, the accident happened after the trailer failed to climb the Ntinda stretcher hill prompting it to reverse and bump into cars and the safe-boda bike she was on. The Boda-Boda rider died on the spot whereas Belinda…
UPDF Marines under the fisheries protection unit have captured, and confiscated illegal fishing material from more than 20 different Congolese nationals that were engaging in the practice on Lake Edward. The Unit instituted by President Yoweri Museveni on the shores of all Lakes across the country is mandated to fight against all bad and illegal fishing methods. However, while in Kasese, Rukungiri, and Rubirizi Districts, patrolling fishers and lake users, the unit met a number of fishermen from the nearby Democratic Republic of Congo which shares Lake Edward with Uganda. The fishermen were engaging in bad practices including the theft…
Otim Jacob, 28, a Prison warder NO. 16734 attached to Bugungu Y.0 Prison in Buikwe district shot to death two fellow staff on Monday morning. The deceased have been identified as NO. 16699 WDRSS Abwot Eunice (25 years) and NO. 18061 WDR Namanya Edward (29 years) of the same station. Frank Baine, the Uganda Prisons spokesperson said Otim signed a gun to go for general duties only to head to the Sentry where WDRSS Abwot Eunice was working and shot her dead instantly. On hearing the sound of the Gun, the second sentry, WDR Namanya Edward came to establish the…
By Julius Mugaga Tukacungurwa/Umoja Standard. Kampala, Uganda: Uganda’s Financial Intelligence Authority (FIA) on Monday launched a goAML system where accountable persons will be able to register with the Authority online. The initiative will help break barriers that were associated with physical registration as approval of documents will take a space of one to two days and there will be no costs associated with the new system. The platform will assist the authority to have automation of other processes, including the issuance of Electronic Certificates of Registration. Dr. Sydney Asubo the Executive Director of Financial Intelligence Authority-Uganda appends his signature to…
The State House has trashed the letter which has been viral on social media, signed by Sandra Ndyomugyenyi on behalf of the Principal Private Secretary to the President concerning non-payment of services rendered by cyber security experts who were hired to hack into top opposition social media accounts during the 2021 elections. The letter summoning the chief executive officer for Atrox Security Company, Sulaiman Kabangala Mbuga alias SK Mbuga to appear before the state house legal department on 25th October 2022 to discuss allegations of not paying the hacking team, yet the money in question was already paid by the…
State minister for lands Sam Mayanja’s daughter has been pronounced dead after involving in a fatal accident when a speeding truck rammed into the Boda-Boda on which she was traveling. The accident is said to have happened on a Friday night at around 8 pm, along Stretcher Road in Ntinda, not far away from Minister’s Village residence where the daughter was staying. Minister’s daughter identified as Belinda Birungi is believed to have recently graduated from Uganda Christian University Mukono (UCU) and had just been employed barely 3 months back. Belinda has pronounced dead at around 11:00 pm in the hospital…
Kikuube, Albertine-Uganda: Musaijamukuru village Chairperson Julius Irumba, 43, killing has been married to land issues in the area. The village is foung in Buhimba sub-county one of those that make up Kikuube district in the Great Albertine Region. He was last week hired by unkown people last week to transport sand to Masindi and killed. At reaching Kinyara sugar plantation, unknown persons emerged from the sugar plantation and intercepted him. The assailants who were armed with a panga, a knife, and a hammer reportedly pounced on him hacking him to death. Irumba’s body was found in vehicle registration number UBE…
By Julius Mugaga Tukacungurw/Umoja Standard. Kampala, Uganda: Uganda’s Ministry of Health yesterday issued a statement ordering all schools in Uganda not to hold visitatation days for their children as well end of year parties. This comes after Ebola cases were registerd in some schools across the country which may cause quick spread of the virus. EBOLA OUTBREAK STATISTICS 2022 Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a deadly disease with occasional outbreaks that occur mostly on the African continent. EVD most commonly affects people and nonhuman primates (such as monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanzees). It is caused by an infection with a group…