Society & Leisure

Arua’s Reverand Drandrua passes on at Nsambya hospital

Arua’s Reverand Drandrua passes on at Nsambya hospital

DEATH ANNOUNCEMENT Thursday, 1st September 2016   The Chairman of Uganda Episcopal Conference, Most Rev. John Baptist Odama, together with the Bishop of Arua Diocese, Rt. Rev. Sabino Ocan Odoki, with deep sorrow announce the death of Rt. Rev. Frederick Drandua, Bishop Emeritus of Arua Diocese. Bishop Frederick Drandua passed on today, Thursday, 1st September […]

Ugandans gear up for International Cultural Fair

Ugandans gear up for International Cultural Fair

Preparations for the Uganda International Cultural Fair are in top gear at the Uganda Museum in Kampala that is slated for the 29th to 31st July 2016. As a way of drumming up support for the event, the Uganda Tourism Board late last week organised the Uganda international cultural fair Schools’ cultural quiz media briefing […]

Speaker urges Ugandans to pick interset in local tourism

Speaker urges Ugandans to pick interset in local tourism

HE speaker of parliament Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga has urged ugandans to get interseted in visiting tourism sites in the country as  a way to promote domestic tourism. Kadaga said this while launching a charity run known as Twegaite Source of the Nile run Jinja which is aimed at attracting people to learn more about the source […]

World Bank report says Ugandans & Ethiopians more productive than Kenyans.

World Bank report says Ugandans & Ethiopians more productive than Kenyans.

The odd saying that one Kenyan can do a job worthy six Ugandans is about to change if we are to go by a new World Bank report on productivity in a work place. According to the The East African newspaper,the  World Bank report indicates that Kenyan workers are less productive than their counterparts in […]

Musumba kicks rival out of Parliament for inadequate papers.

Musumba kicks rival out of Parliament for inadequate papers.

In a series of losses to electoral petitions coined around inadequate academic papers, the High Court sitting in Jinja has nullified the election of National Resistance Movement (NRM)’s Hajat Rehema Watongola as a member of parliament for Kamuli municipality. Kamuli Municipality was created as part of the 12 municipalities approved by parliament and became effective […]

Sematimba thrown out of Parliament on account of academic qualifications

Sematimba thrown out of Parliament on account of academic qualifications

Busiro south elected Member of Parliament Peter Sematimba  of the ruling NRM party has been thrown out of Parliament for lack of academic qualifications, by the high court. One of Sematimba’s political rivals in the February elections Steven Ssekigozi  of the opposition  Democratic Party-DP, dragged him  to the courts of law challenging his papers. In his  petition  Sekigozi asked court to  nullify […]

Museveni names new cabinet; See full list

Museveni names new cabinet; See full list

The long anticipated cabinet list that has been the talk of the 10th parliament in the corridors of power has been released. President Yoweri Museveni in this post election reshuffle named the new cabinet that retained the prime minister and other major ministers like the finance and energy ministers. In a fresh twist he appointed […]

Minority Groups Drag URSB to court over registration

Minority Groups Drag URSB to court over registration

Minority groups in the country have petitioned the high court challenging the Uganda registration service bureau for failure to register them as a company limited by guarantee. The executive director Sexual Minorities Uganda, Frank Mugisha states that the URSB gave them reasons that they could not have them registered since they are not legally recognized by […]

Who is the ‘Samwyiri’ in the midst of the #FreeSamwyiri outrage?

Who is the ‘Samwyiri’ in the midst of the #FreeSamwyiri outrage?

Tusiime Samson alias ‘Samwyiri’ a blogger and founder of Veritas Interactive has up until now been best known as proprietor of SchoolPlus, a new generation school Information system. The former Makerere University Business School student, now detained by Uganda Police for allegedly wearing and distributing T-shirts with Kizza Besigye’s image, is the center of attention […]