Members of Parliament are divided over a clause in the Tobacco control bill 2014 seeking to force a smoker to buy a whole packet of cigarette as a deterrent for youth not to smoke. A number of MPS while at a meeting organized by Uganda National Health Users’/Consumers’ Organization at Serena Hotel in Kampala some say they want a […]
The NRM Secretary General Kasule Lumumba revealed that the party is in the final stages of compiling its voter’s register to be used in the party’s internal elections. Lumumba says they have eight data entry points where data documented during the party’s registration is being retrieved from the yellow books into the party’s computerized system. […]
Persons living with disabilities have called for consideration for the posts of Resident district commissioners. The disability community that gathered at Tal cottages in Lubaga, Kampala over electoral process awareness said that in about 180 RDCs and assistant RDCs there is no one with disability saying that this could be discrimination. Members of Parliament for persons […]
State Minister for Agriculture Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja says focus should now be put on organizing farmers to be able to produce goods accepted on the international market. This comes after reports that most agricultural produce from Uganda exported to the European market has harmful organisms such as African Cotton leaf worm, false codling moth, and fruit flies […]
A new project has been initiated to enable citizens in Uganda and Zambia to report suspected corruption and misuse of public funds using web and mobile tools. The Action for Transparency (A4T) Project has built an app and website that gives the opportunity for anyone who can connect to the Internet to report on suspected corruption […]
All is not well in NRM after president Museveni’s blued eyed girl, Dora Byamukama failed to takeover speakership of EALA. It is rumoured that Dora Byamukama was beaten by the rebel NRM members under the umbrella of captain Francis Babu, the former state minister for housing and works. We are told by sources in NRM […]
The workers strike began today, 04th June, 2012. The workers are demanding for the minimum wage, industrial Court, workers involvement in NSSF affairs and the amendment of the NSSF Act to cater for workers” interests, among other demands. Many workers have kept around Kampala in the City Centre and waited for instructions from their […]
The Nakawa Magistrate court has dismissed all charges against the people who have been on remand in connection to the murder of the former inspector of Police, John Bosco Ariongo. Ariongo was hit with an object along William Street in Kampala and died on spot during a peaceful protest that was organised by the […]
Five top city criminal lawyers in Kampala have left the country to the International Criminal Court (ICC) on sponsorship of an International human rights group/ organisation. Caleb Alaka (30th March) and Samuel Muyizzi Mulindwa (2nd April) are among those who are set to leave the country to the to the pre trial chamber of […]
The Director of Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) ms Jenifer Musisi Semakula is a member of the ruling National Resistance Movement as well as a civil servant. As you may know the political hatred in Uganda amongst political parties is high, no one would expect that Ms Musisi would sit in a corner with […]