A proposal by government to exempt the Bujagali Hydro Power project from income tax has been rejected by lawmakers who instead demanded for a report of the Auditor General on the project. The decision was reached at during the plenary sitting on Monday, 06 June 2024 as the House considered the Income Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2024. Speaker Anita Among who presided over the meeting read a letter from the Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Hon. Matia Kasaijja seeking an insertion of a clause in the Bill to give Bujagali Hydro Power a one-year income tax exemption up to…
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Rescue teams worked through the night searching for dozens of construction workers buried for more than 12 hours under the rubble of concrete after a multi-story apartment complex that was being built collapsed in a coastal city in South Africa. Authorities said early Tuesday that the death toll had risen to five, while 49 workers remained unaccounted-for in the mangled wreckage of the building, which collapsed on Monday afternoon. Authorities said a further 21 workers had been rescued from the rubble and taken to various hospitals, with at least 11 of them suffering severe injuries. The collapse happened in the…
China accused an Australian military aircraft of conducting dangerous maneuvers, escalating a dispute over a recent incident involving the nations’ two militaries. “What truly happened was an Australian military aircraft deliberately flew within close range of China’s airspace in a provocative move that endangered China’s maritime air security in the name of enforcing a UN Security Council resolution,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said at a regular press briefing on Tuesday. The Australian government has maintained the helicopter was in international waters in the Yellow Sea, between the Chinese and Korean coastlines, and strongly condemned the alleged actions of the Chinese jet…
The Chora Museum, a former Greek Orthodox religious building dating back to the 4th century, was reopened to worshippers in Istanbul as a mosque, sparking an angry reaction from Athens. The Greek Foreign Ministry condemned the official reopening as a mosque on Sunday of the Chora Museum, a former Greek Orthodox religious site in Istanbul – a move that echoed the controversial reopening of the landmark Hagia Sophia as a mosque four years ago. Turkey on Monday reopened a mosque converted from an ancient Orthodox church in Istanbul for Muslim worship, four years after the president ordered its transformation. The…
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s visit to European ally Serbia on Tuesday falls on a symbolic date: the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade during NATO’s air war over Kosovo. U.S. jets dropped five bombs on the Chinese Embassy compound in the Serbian capital on May 7, 1999, setting it ablaze and killing three Chinese nationals. Twenty other people were injured in the incident, which has burdened relations between the two powers ever since. Xi referred to the bombing in an op-ed published in Serbia’s Politika newspaper on Tuesday, saying that “we must not forget that…
Hello Uganda, I am Julius Mugaga Tukacungurwa, the CEO Umoja Standard News Agency. I am a journalist by profession with interests in public health and humanitarian spaces. I am a dweller Kawempe Division in Kampala City, the Capital of Uganda. Regarding this year’s census, I am ready to be counted in the Uganda Population and Housing Census 2024. This event comes once in 10 years and as the theme for this year’s census is, surely, ‘It matters to be counted’ because it is through that, that the government can plan for us effectively for the next 10 years. I remember…
A Pastor was recently embarrassed in his church following a failed marriage proposal. Govt Declares Friday Public Holiday, https://umojastandard.com/2024/05/06/breaking-news-govt-declares-friday-public-holiday/ https://umojastandard.com/2024/05/07/video-i-paid-doctors-to-end-my-life-but-found-myself-without-man-share-his-painfully-story/ Hmm! How can a man of God be treated like that? Denied in public? Many people are yet to believe after the pastor’s girlfriend rejected his marriage proposal inside the church full of congregation. The Pastor knelt before her and popped the question, and to his surprise, the lady seemed not ready and not happy about it. He slapped the pastor and made her way out rudely; nobody could believe what happened. https://umojastandard.com/2024/05/06/breaking-news-chinese-national-arrested-selling-sfc-military-uniforms-in-kampala/ Watch video. https://umojastandard.com/2024/05/07/prominent-ugandan-artiste-allegedly-slaps-radio-presenter-victim-demands-justice/
God is always Wonderful, Several observers at the 2019 edition of the African Cup of Nations have commented negatively about Senegalese footballer Krepin Diatta, calling him ugly. Serge Beynaud, a musician from Ivory Coast, was recently identified as “La Beaute,” a former dancer for DJ Arafat, on the Instagram page of a Senegalese player. https://umojastandard.com/2024/05/07/here-are-ugandan-mps-ministers-who-dislike-themselves-most-probably-cant-eat-on-the-same-plate/ https://umojastandard.com/2024/05/06/breaking-news-govt-declares-friday-public-holiday/ This statement infuriated his fans, especially in his home country of Senegal. The latter were not shy about telling him the truth, often at his expense. Even if Krepin Diatta hadn’t ignored the teasing, no one would have expected him to find love so…
Juventus midfielder, Paul Pogba, has decided to go into acting. Pogba was investigated for alleged doping and eventually handed a four-year ban from playing football, which he is still serving. https://umojastandard.com/2024/05/06/breaking-news-govt-declares-friday-public-holiday/ https://umojastandard.com/2024/05/07/here-are-ugandan-mps-ministers-who-dislike-themselves-most-probably-cant-eat-on-the-same-plate/ But it appears the 31-year-old is making lemons out of lemonade and using his time off well. UEFA extends squad lists up to 26 players ESPN reports that last week, Pogba filmed scenes in Paris for a new movie he will feature in. https://umojastandard.com/2024/05/06/breaking-news-chinese-national-arrested-selling-sfc-military-uniforms-in-kampala/ The movie is believed to be a sequel to a popular soccer film made in 2002, “4 Zéros”. It will see Pogba take on…
MC Kats and Winnie Success have joined a couple of other media personalities in demanding justice for Galaxy FM presenter Evelyn Mic, real name Evelyn Masika, who Alien Skin allegedly beat over the weekend. https://umojastandard.com/2024/05/07/here-are-ugandan-mps-ministers-who-dislike-themselves-most-probably-cant-eat-on-the-same-plate/ On Sunday, Galaxy FM hosted a festival in Forest Park, Buloba, where its listeners, among other music lovers, came in large numbers to watch their favorite artists perform. At the scene, Fangone Forest singer Alien Skin allegedly slapped Galaxy FM and Spark TV presenter Evelyn Mic. The presenter has yet to reveal the circumstances that led to the fight, but her fellow media personalities have…