Tag Archives: State House

Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has today resumed official work as Head-of-State, a day after confirming his recovery from COVID-19. In a statement issued by the Presidential Press Unit, Museveni chaired the weekly cabinet meeting at State House Entebbe on Monday. Museveni has been under self-isolation …

  How State House, Office of the President, Ministry of Defense use the slush fund Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | It is hard to ascertain for sure how much Uganda spends on its defence every year as the government routinely asks for supplementary budgets from parliament on top of the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni said he will institute a specialized Unit attached to the Statehouse, which he says will safeguard investors from corruption tendencies, fronted by both politicians and technocrats to fleece investors when they solicit bribes. Museveni notes that the unit will be a …

Kanungu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Council for Higher Education has been instructed by the State House to intervene in the ownership and management wrangles involving education institutions that are managed by the Kanungu-based Child to Family Community Development Organization-CHIFCOD. The Non-Government Organization is managing Kirima, Nyamirama, Nyakabungo, Rutenga …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | State House has requested an additional budget allocation of 95.5 billion Shillings to procure vehicles for the President and Vice President, security equipment, and others. The request is carried in the State House Budget Framework Paper for the next financial year 2023/2024 that was presented …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Leader of the Opposition (LOP) in Parliament, Mathias Mpuuga has questioned the planned move by members of Parliament’s Trade Committee to present the report on the controversial coffee agreement to State House on Friday. Mpuuga raised the issue as a procedural matter during the Thursday …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni met with a group of Muslim leaders at State House Entebbe to report to him about their success in the reconciliation efforts that started over five years ago. Among them were leaders from Old Kampala, Nakasero and former leaders from Kibuli. The …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The interdicted Executive Director of Mulago National Referral Hospital Dr. Baterana Byarugaba, wants court to throw out the evidence and charges brought against him by the State House Health Monitoring Unit on the basis of lack of jurisdiction. This comes after the hospital director was this …

Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Grade One Magistrate Court in Lira has allowed the withdrawal of charges of impersonation and obtaining money by false from two state house impersonators. The accused persons Denis Olwa and Elly Apenyo allegedly claimed to have come from the State House Anti-corruption Unit, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The office of the President is seeking a budgetary allocation of 12.33 billion Shillings to renovate the State House in Entebbe and 23 upcountry State lodges. Constructed in 2007, the State House in Entebbe has had no major rehabilitation works and needs a retouch, State …