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Tullow oil changes presentation on currency figures from Pound Sterling to US Dollar

United Kingdom based Tullow oil plc has announced a change in the currency in which it presents its results from Pound Sterling to the US dollar. The company in a statement on Tuesday said the change takes effect from January 1st 2010. Tullow says since the majority of Tullow’s activities are in Africa where oil […]

Nambooze angers Democratic Party leadership

The Democratic Party (DP) is bitter with its members like Merdad Lubega Seggona and Betty Nambooze who have chosen to work with Ssuubi 2011 as party officials. This follows a rally in Masaka where the promoters of DP members were introduced as DP officials in the absence of party president Norbert Mao. This also prompted […]

Uganda health ministry dispatches 200 beds from DANIDA, UNDP

The ministry of health has dispatched over 200 beds to 15 districts around the country. The districts include Nakasongola, Masindi, Gulu, Kitgum and Teso, Arua, Tororo, Yumbe, Katakwi and  Dokolo. Other beneficiaries are Butalejja, Amuria,, Kaliro and Maracha among others. The consignment is part of the 340 hospital beds procured by the ministry of health with […]

Makerere lecturers petition court over MUBS boss Balunywa

Former lecturers of Makerere University Business School (MUBS) Nakawa have petitioned court challenging the appointment of the school’s principal, Prof. Waswa Balunywa. The lecturers are seeking orders directing the principal Waswa Balunywa to vacate office on grounds that his appointment was nullified in 2008 on the orders of the Inspector General of Government. Dr. James […]

60 people murdered in Buganda

  The police have today released alarming statistics on the new wave of murder that has hit the country in the last one month. The statistics released by police today indicate that over 60 people have been murdered in Kampala and other districts of Buganda region alone in the last one month. The political commissar […]

Minister Otafire urges women to embrace co-operatives

  The Minister for Trade and Tourism Kahinda Otafire has urged women in Uganda to embrace co-operatives as they are a tool that can foster women’s quick progress in enterprise development. Ottafire has told Journalists at Parliament that enterprises provide an equitable form of enterprise development for both urban and rural areas. He says enterprises […]

SPLM appeals to East Africa to support Southern Sudan's cause of becoming an independent state

The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement has appealed to the East African community to support the cause of the Southern Sudan people to help Southern Sudan become an independent state. The Chairperson of the SPLM Youth League, Paul Akol Kordit has told Journalists that it is just in the interest of the East African Community that […]

Sudanese students in Uganda want Southern Sudan separated from the Khartoum Government

The South Sudanese Student’s Union in Uganda has held a march through the city of Kampala that was meant to show their support for the separation of Southern Sudan from the Khartoum Government led by President Omar El Bashir. The march which attracted over 2000 Southern Sudanese living in Uganda had some of the marching […]

Museveni hails Bundibugyo on Allied Democratic Forces rebels

The President of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has hailed the people of Bundibugyo in western Uganda for their contribution in the defeat of the Allied Democratic Forces rebels that once terrorized western Uganda, especially the Rwenzori sub-region. Museveni says the people of Bundibugyo refused to support the rebels and always reported their activities to security […]