By Gerald Businge on September 2, 2016
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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 […]
By Lucy Kiconco on July 28, 2016
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Pope Francis stumbled and fell on a step of the alter but was quick to get back to his feet seemingly uninjured during a mass in Poland The pontiff was walking on stage to speak to awaiting crowd. Polish media broadcast images of the 79-year-old Argentine pontiff stumbling, then falling down out of view before […]
By Samuel Wamuttu on July 25, 2016
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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 […]
By Isaac Senabulya on July 1, 2016
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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 […]
By Samuel Wamuttu on June 28, 2016
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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 […]
By Samuel Wamuttu on June 28, 2016
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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 […]
By Isaac Senabulya on June 13, 2016
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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 […]
By Gerald Businge on June 7, 2016
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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 […]
By Isaac Senabulya on June 1, 2016
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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 […]
By Tumwine Edward on May 30, 2016
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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 […]