The Member of Parliament for Kampala Central, Elias Lukwago is highly skeptical of the newly launched Kampala City Council (KCC) project to keep the city Clean. KCC recently launched the Keep Kampala Clean project that has costed KCC about 13 billion Uganda Shillings. The project aims at riding the city of filthy outlook. Lukwago told […]
A number of organizations committed to fighting HIV/AIDS have launched a campaign to have all candidates participating in the 2011 Uganda General elections to pledge their commitment towards fighting HIV/AIDS. HIV/AIDS remains one of the leading causes of deaths in Uganda, and a key development challenge as many HIV postive people spend scarce resources on […]
Police in Jinja district, Eastern Uganda have shot dead a notorious suspected robber, who has been on police wanted list. The deceased has been identified as Francis Ajere, a resident of Kakira town council in Mukono district. The spokesperson of police in charge of SouthEastern Regional, Samson Lubega says Ajere was netted from Mwiri forest […]
The Parliamentary Local Government committee wants the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) to reopen a court file against four Kampala City Council officials in which over a billion shillings was diverted from the council accounts. The Auditor General’s office found that about one billion shillings meant for the operations of departments in KCC was withdrawn […]
The Member of Parliament for Katikamu North, Eng. Ibrahim Byandala is one of the people that has been implicated in a financial scandal in which Kampala City Council (KCC) failed to account for about 79 million Uganda shillings which it purportedly used for procuring spare parts for vehicles, repairs and servicing of KCC’s vehicles. In […]
The Deputy Speaker of Uganda Parliament Rebbecca Kadaga has urged Members of Parliament to join the Parliamentary SACCO and give it a reasonable number of members to enable it grow. SACCO’s are saving and credit cooperative organizations which were started by the government of Uganda to enable people get the required start up capital for […]
The Uganda state minister for defence Gen. Jeje Odong has indicated that the new machine to destroy firearms will help control emissions and thus help in environmental conservation. Speaking at a ceremony to receive the new machine donated by the British government to help destroy unwanted firearms mostly captured by Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) […]
The founder of the Nyaka AIDS Ophans School in Uganda Twesigye Jackson Kaguri has appealed to the people of Ugandan to avoid getting married early and producing so many children they can’t provide for. He says producing few children will enable parents provide them adequate education which is the only ticket out of poverty. Twesigye […]
Ultimate Media The Uganda Women Network has recommended that the government should train judges on issues related to domestic violence if the government is to ensure that the Domestic Violence Act achieves the purpose for its enactment. This comes about eight months after the enactment of the Act which was passed by parliament on 11th […]
Makerere University in conjunction with Kenyatta University, University of Dar-es-Salaam, University of Siegen in Germany and the Capacity Building for Integrated Watershed Management in East Africa (WMNET) project are organizing a one week short course on the application of geographic information systems in integrated watershed management. The course is scheduled to take place from 19th […]