general elections

Manifestos and the children of Kenya

Manifestos and the children of Kenya

With the Kenyan general elections less than a month away and campaigns in full gear, the eight presidential candidates have prepared manifestos outlining their agendas for the next five years. The candidates are hoping to convince the people to stand by them and assure them a victory in the August 8th elections. Two of these […]

Besigye nominated to contest for FDC party presidential flag bearer

Besigye nominated to contest for FDC party presidential flag bearer

Former FDC president Dr. Kizza Besigye has handed in his nomination forms and been nominated to contest for the party presidential flag bearer. Chairing the nomination committee, Maj. Mugarura has accepted the papers of their former party boss and declared him a candidate for the post.  Besigye was handed the party constitution and agenda to follow as he […]

MPs to lift ban to allow people aged over 75 years to contest for president

After only 11 months since last years general elections, the MPs in Uganda’s 9th parliament want to lift a ban on presidential age limits in order to allow people aged over 75 years to contest for president. The debate follows an argument in parliament that NRM and president Museveni won last year’s elections overwhelmingly with […]

MPs to lift ban to allow people aged over 75 years to contest for president

After only 11 months since last years general elections, the MPs in Uganda’s 9th parliament want to lift a ban on presidential age limits in order to allow people aged over 75 years to contest for president. The debate follows an argument in parliament that NRM and president Museveni won last year’s elections overwhelmingly with […]

Mufti Shaban Mubajje to leave office in 2025

  It seems the rivals of Mufti Shaban Mubajje will develop ulcers and high blood pressure when they read this shocking information. The spokesman of Uganda Muslim Supreme Council Nsereko Mutumba says that Mufti Mubajje will leave office in 2025. He told news informers that the elections Uganda Muslim Supreme Council is organising next month […]

Mufti Shaban Mubajje to leave office in 2025

  It seems the rivals of Mufti Shaban Mubajje will develop ulcers and high blood pressure when they read this shocking information. The spokesman of Uganda Muslim Supreme Council Nsereko Mutumba says that Mufti Mubajje will leave office in 2025. He told news informers that the elections Uganda Muslim Supreme Council is organising next month […]

Ian Clarke quits Uganda politics

  Dr. Ian Clarke Busulwa, the LC3 chairperson of Makindye division has quit active politics. Busulwa says he will not seek reelection as LC3 chairperson for Makindye division after his term of office in 2016. Ian Clarke has quit politics at a time when the ruling NRM party was persuading him to accept to contest […]

Why FDC calls some of its MPs ‘rebels’?

In our first news report we told you that FDC has branded some of its MPs in the Uganda ninth parliament as rebels. The rebel MPs in FDC we are told are those FDC members who criticise the party president Col. Kiiza Besigye whenever he goes wrong. Like in NRM, Besigye doesn’t want people to […]

Elections in Uganda to be cancelled’

Propaganda is spreading in some political parties inUganda, especially in the Democratic Party (DP), Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC), Conservative Party (CP) and Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) that there will be no general elections in 2016 because president Museveni’s government would be topped in 201. FDC president Col. Kiiza Besigye has told his supporters in […]

MP Betty Nambooze prepares to contest for Lord Mayorship

Most people would expect that Mukono Municipality MP, Betty Nambooze must seek re-election as MP of the same area during 2016 general elections. Others would think that perhaps Nambooze could contest as Mukono district woman MP or LC5 chairperson. But this is not true. We have been told that the flamboyant Mukono Municipality MP is […]