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Ultimate Media Over one hundred MPs have visited the last Sunday night’s bomb blasts victims at Mulago National Referral Hospital today. The MPs have been led to Mulago by the Speaker of Parliament, Edward Kiwanuka Sekandi and the Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga. The MPs have contributed 100,000 each for the victims of the […]
The Member of Parliament for Kampala Central Erias Lukwago has strongly criticized the Speaker of Parliament Edward Kiwanuka Sekandi over the recent move by Parliament to ban demonstrations around the premises of Parliament. This comes after Parliament earlier this week published new guidelines that have banned any demonstrations within the premises of Parliament. Lukwago has […]
The National Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS has appealed to the Parliament of Uganda to scrap out provisions on mandatory testing for HIV out of the HIV and AIDS Prevention and Control Bill 2010. The bill has provisions that which would make it mandatory for every Ugandan to test for HIV/AIDS in case the […]
The Former Managing Director of National Social Security Fun, David Chandi Jamwa will no longer have to testify in Parliament to respond to a number of queries that were raised in the Auditor’s General’s Forensic Report on NSSF after his lawyers have successfully challenged his testifying in parliament as an infringement of his rights. Jamwa was earlier […]
Members of the Uganda Parliamentary Press Association have tasked the Uganda parliament speaker Edward Ssekandi to give a date when the Uganda Parliament will debate misappropriation of the 2007 Uganda Common Wealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). The report prepared by the Uganda Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee and completed in early 2010 implicated top government […]
Uganda Parliament is awaiting for an official communication from the Electoral Commission (EC) before it swears-in Betty Nambooze of the Democratic Party as the MP-Elect for Mukono North. Nambooze won the by election on Tuesday, defeating the ruling National Resistance Movement candidate, Rev. Peter Bakaluba Mukasa by a margin of over 1,800 votes. The Speaker […]
The Speaker of Uganda Parliament, Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi has advised 17 football youngsters representing Uganda in the Africa Copa Coca Cola under 17’s football tournament to keep the Ugandan flag high through remaining focused and disciplined. Ssekandi made the remarks after officially flagging off the Dream Team which will participate in the tournament to be held […]
Ultimate Media The Speaker of Parliament, Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi has advised 16 football youngsters representing Uganda in the Africa Copa Coca Cola under 17’s football tournament to keep the Ugandan flag high through remaining focused and disciplined. Ssekandi made the remarks after officially flagging off the Dream Team which will participate in the tournament to […]
Ultimate Media The Parliamentary Pensions Amendments bill of 2010 has been tabled in Parliament today for the first reading. The Speaker of Parliament, Edward Kiwanuka Sekandi referred this bill to the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs committee for further scrutiny. This bill if passed into law will help pensioners to get their money on time.
Ultimate Media The HIV/AIDS control bill has been tabled in Parliament today for the first reading. The chairperson of the committee, Beatrice Rwakimari tabled the bill together with the certificate of financial implications. The Speaker of Parliament, Edward Ssekandi referred the bill to the Social Services committee for more scrutiny.