Uganda today has registered a milestone in the environment sphere as being the first African nation to sign the nationally determined contribution towards addressing climate change impacts as a way to fulfill the 2015 Paris agreement. The nationally determined contribution plans is part of the national strategies the country will implement to see that it combats […]
The Financial Sector Deepening Uganda (FSDU), a company committed to promoting greater access to financial services and reducing financial exclusion in Uganda has called farmers to start insuring their agribusiness using micro insurance. Micro insurance is a mechanism designed to protect low income earners against risk like accident, illness, death in the family, natural disasters among […]
One great writer said that, to the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth but when death comes more so abruptly and in such a gruesome manner like it happened to my Honourable brother Col.Ibrahim Abiriga, truth ceases to matter but the fact that a life is lost. I […]
Police has opened up investigations against four people believed to have incited or participated in the assassination of Arua municipality member of parliament Col Ibrahim Abiriga last week. They include Mukono municipality MP Betty Nambooze, on the basis of a video in which she explains how easy it is to attack Abiriga even with his […]
The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party have asked President Museveni to apologise to Ugandans over the murder of Arua Municipality Member of Parliament Ibrahim Abiriga and others who have died in a similar way. Addressing journalists at the party headquarters in Najjanankumbi, Kampala, yesterday, the party deputy Secretary General, Mr. Harold Kaija, said the […]
Arua Municipality Member of Parliament (MP), Ibrahim Abiriga has been shot dead near his home in Matugga, Wakiso District. Although Police has not confirmed the death of Abiriga, the Communications Department of Parliament has confirmed his demise. He was reportedly shot by two people who were riding on a boda boda at about 6:30 pm […]
Speaker Rebecca Kadaga has called for an end to charcoal burning and its exportation to neighboring countries. Kadaga said Parliament shall establish punitive measures against those involved in the practice. “It is clear that as a country, we are not doing enough to stop charcoal burning. For how long are we going to allow our […]
Luke Shaw is ready to stay at Manchester United and see out his contract. The 22-year-old has had a number of run-ins with coach Jose Mourinho who has made no secret of wishing to add new full-backs this summer. Shaw is understood to have challenged Mourinho when he was embarrassed by being taken off at half-time against Brighton in […]
Former European super-middleweight champion Dean Francis has died at the age of 44, the British Boxing Board of Control has confirmed. He was diagnosed with terminal cancer in January 2017, and had been given just months to live. Francis, who is survived by his wife Ghalia and son Rocco, also won English, British and Commonwealth […]
A village drunkard would always sing; what I have eaten is the one that belongs to me. Because of that, we begun calling him akunareire-meaning what I have already eaten. I did not know his song carried some meaning until I received a wedding invitation from a lady for whom I had ‘given up my […]