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Jumia Food customers can now pre-pay for their food deliveries, as the online food delivering company commences online pre-payment options (credit cards and mobile payments) in Uganda and Kenya. This new payment option leverages the prominence of online payments in Africa, a continent that boasted 100 million active mobile money accounts in 2017. “In addition to the existing post-payment options like cash on delivery and MTN mobile money, the process for paying for food just got seamless and easier with the introduction of online pre-payments. The process of paying for your food just got a lot easier, with the introduction…
Mityana Municipality Member of Parliament Hon. Francis Zaake is still stranded at the Entebbe International Airport. By press time, the ailing lawmaker was still guarded in the VIP launch without any medical assistance. According to the civil Aviation Police, Zaake is unable to fly to the India since he still has issues to sort with the security operatives. The Uganda police spokesperson Emilian Kayima said that Zaake is a criminal suspected to be plotting to run away from being prosecuted in disguise of getting medication. Kayima says Zaake first escaped from police in Gulu and was resisting arrest at…
Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah wants accountability Committees to focus their efforts on queries involving huge sums of money. Oulanyah, who opened the annual Accountability Sector Review in Munyonyo, said it is unnecessary to pursue minor inquiries. “The problem is that the Committees want to interrogate every query, yet you have the query of billions of shillings,” said Oulanyah. “Is it possible for Parliament Committees to set the threshold of the queries they want to deal with? If you want to shake everybody, you shake nobody,” he added. Oulanyah said this will be the new magic wand to fight corruption and…
Former Buikwe South Member of Parliament Hon. Lulume Bayiga has said that Ugandans are fully tired of President Museveni’s endless lies and fully committed to see his back out of State House. Speaking while appearing on CBS FM on Tuesday night, Dr. Bayiga said for a long time the regime has been hood-hocking the Youth and making empty promises especially during election season that never come true. “Look at our society, the biggest percentage are youth, what have they benefited from the ruling party? Most of the programs introduced by government still end up going back to the privileged families…
Besides for the efforts launched by the family of the bedridden lawmaker Francis Zaake, immigration officials have denied him from taking a flight to India for better medication. According to the Airport Authorities, Zaake is supposed to get clearance from the Police Director of Crime and Investigations Grace Akullo. However this directive has been opposed by his family members who say they have done the necessary paper work that enables their son to fly abroad adding that Zaake has no known charges to answers therefore creating a situation to deny him chance to access better medication is an injustice. It…
All is set for Mityana Municipality Member of Parliament Francis Zaake fly out of the country for better treatment in India. According to Zaake’s family members, the necessary paper work has been undertaken to see that the youthful lawmaker gets back on his legs. Mr Zaake and 32 others were arrested and reportedly tortured by security agents in Arua on August 13 in the violence that marred the by-election where Mr Kasiano Wadri emerged winner. Since then, Zaake has been admitted at Lubaga Hospital where he was dumped by unknown people in critical conditions.
Qalaa Holdings, an African leader in energy and infrastructure, announced today that energy subsidiary TAQA Arabia, the largest private sector energy distribution company in Egypt, is well on its way to completing construction on its first solar energy project — a 50 MW photovoltaic power plant project in Benban, Aswan constructed in partnership with Hassan Allam Holding. Commissioning and testing on the project is expected to take place before the end of the year, with the plant anticipated to become operational as soon as January 2019 and generate annual revenues of c. USD 10.8 million. It will be part of Benban Solar park, the world’s largest solar park consisting of a…
The Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Hon. Betty Aol Ocan has called for stringent laws to hold human rights offenders personally culpable for the violations. Aol noted that there has not been an elaborate process to enable the victims of human rights violations in the country to pursue offenders, in the courts of law as well as get appropriate court settlements. “The law should realize that there are indigent citizens who cannot afford services of lawyers yet their human rights are fundamental and should be respected,” Aol said. She made the remarks while meeting the Committee on Legal and…
The Deputy Speaker, Jacob Oulanyah, has clarified that Parliament has not given an ultimatum to the President following Tuesday’s plenary sitting of the House. Oulanyah said that the story published by the New Vision, a government owned daily on Wednesday 29 August 2018, was not only alarmist but also misleading. “People will be misled into thinking that there is a fight between MPs and the President,” said Oulanyah after the swearing in of the new Arua Municipality MP, Hon. Kassiano Wadri. “That story is alarmist; I never gave the President any ultimatum. It’s not right; it’s misleading and dangerous for…
Kumi district Women Member of Parliament Hon. Monica Amoding has said that President Museveni should be thinking about peaceful transition of power not how to become ruler. Speaking to the Media at the August House on early this week, Amoding says the age group most Ugandans are in is much committed on witnessing change of government. “We need to sit as a country and decide on what is good for our nation. President needs to prepare for retirement. 85% of our community are youths and all they want to see and hear is change of power from one person to…