Monday, June 29, 2015

Village extension services improve peasant farmers’ fortunes


Efforts geared at promoting innovative interventions to enhance productivity in the agriculture sector have started bearing fruits, with farmer reporting improved performance over the past few years.

Nirda boss Dr Joseph Mungarulire
Nirda boss Dr Joseph Mungarulire

Firms given 60 days to surrender Namanve Park land

 

The Uganda Investment Authority (UIA) has issued a 60-days ultimatum to the firms that have not established businesses on plots of land leased to them in 2009 in the Kampala Industrial and Business Park in Namanve to set up enterprises or relinquish them.

The Executive Director of Uganda Investment Authority (UIA) Dr. Frank SSebowa (right) revealing the plan of Namanve Business Park during the stakeholders meeting at UIA Offices Namanve. Photo by Ramadhan Abbey

Manji says his companies were cleared on CIS


Yusuf Manji

Tanzania: Billions stuck in tax disputes


About 1tr/- was disputed between 2002 and 2014 while 168bn/- has been tied up in cases which are pending for years due to lack of knowledge of taxpayers’ role, a prominent tax expert has said.