Monthly Archives: July 2018
Uganda revises mobile money tax
Uganda’s finance ministry has revised the controversial mobile money taxes, adopting the reduction of the levy from 1% to 0.5%, adding that it will...
Uganda stockpiles coffee for price growth
Uganda's coffee growers holding onto their stock until global prices climb back up.
Global prices have continued declining even in the first few weeks of...
FG recovered $2 trn corruption assets
With the pitching of the war against corruption losing voice and the court battles paced out, the disclosure of Yakubu Dogara, Speaker of the...
UN envoy says herdsmen conflict deadlier
The Special Representative of UN Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel, Mohamed Ibn Chambas, says the conflicts between herdsmen and farmers in Nigeria...
Dogara warns against huge China steel buy
Inspite of recent developments by the Federal Government to revamp the steel sector and resurrect a morbid Ajaokuta Steel Rolling Mill, the Speaker of...
Bloodless test to reduce malaria diagnosis time
As undergraduate students at Makerere University, Brian Gitta and his classmates regularly missed classes because of malaria.
Even when they went to a health facility,...
Musa’s goal listed for Tourney’s best
Super Eagles striker, Ahmed Musa's goal against Iceland in their group D World Cup match has been nominated along 16 others for the goal...
Nigeria footballers dare FIFA ban
The National Association of Nigerian Footballers (NANF), has urged the Nigerian Government to ignore the threat to ban Nigeria by FIFA, saying that is...
Kevin leads S/Africans to Wimbledon attention
Three South African tennis players who come from quite diverse backgrounds, achieved so much in the space of a week at Wimbledon. Kevin Anderson ranked 5th...
Ugandans MPs to enjoy military-style protection
By Peter Olorunnisomo - The travails that plague Uganda will seem little when the import of President Yoweri Museveni approval for increased security spending...