Makerere university authorities are not about to change their stand on the tuition payments system. The students yesterday started a demonstration protesting a new requirement for private sponsored students to pay 60% of the tuition fees by the sixth week of the semester if they are to continue to attend classes. University spokesperson, Ritah Namisango […]
It is not yet over. Members of parliament behind the petition to recall parliament have decided to go to the constitutional court seeking legal interpretation on the withdrawal of signatures by the members who had appended signatures on the petition. Speaking to the press after a long closed door meeting the MPs say they have […]
Children with neurological defects have petitioned the Deputy Speaker of parliament Jacob Olanya asking the government to urgently act on inclusive Education, accessibility, treatment and prevention of Spina bifida and hydrocephalus in the country. In their petition the children also want Government to ensure that all schools have facilities that promote learning for children with special needs, reduce prices for assisting devices like wheel chairs, […]
Muslims want to remove the pictures of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) from the wikipea website, Walakira Nyanzi writes. The WIKIPEDIA site has published the image of their beloved Prophet Muhammad (swaleh aleh wa salama. The Muslims believe that no physical representation of Prophet Mohammad should ever be made. Sheikh Muzata Bate, a […]
Muslims want to remove the pictures of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) from the wikipea website, Walakira Nyanzi writes. The WIKIPEDIA site has published the image of their beloved Prophet Muhammad (swaleh aleh wa salama. The Muslims believe that no physical representation of Prophet Mohammad should ever be made. Sheikh Muzata Bate, a […]
Inmates at Luzira prison have petitioned UN to register their claims which involve the long detention in prison without trial. Some of the prisoners who have petitioned UN include those who were arrested during theBugandakingdom riots in 2009. The inmates in their petition indicated that many prisoners are languishing at Luzira prison and other […]
The High Court in Kampala presided over by Justice Vincent T. Zehurikize on Friday, February 2, 2012 delivered its ruling for an Election appeal filed by Dr. Nabatanzi Lugudde, one of the candidates who contested in the November 21, 2011 by – Elections for the luweero District Woman member of Parliament which was won […]
President Museveni might have used his powers to direct his minister for energy to sign an oil deal with Tullow Oil without the support of the people he rules, but the wrath of Ugandans keeps on growing every day. The members of the Democratic Party, the oldest opposition party in Uganda have vowed to petition […]
The Democratic Party has written to the members of Uganda parliament giving its position of the law relating to the elections of EALA members. Our news desk has brought you the petition in full and it goes as follows: Date: 20th February 2012 Hon .Members of the 9th Parliament Parliament of the Republic of Uganda […]
The loser of the Thursday parliamentary by elections in Jinja East, Nathan Igime Nabeta has threatened to petition court challenging the out come of the Thursday polls that was won by Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) candidate Paul Mwiru. Nabeta who lost the polls with a margin of 2000 votes alleges that Mwiru bribed his […]