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President Yoweri Museveni has imposed a temporary ban on land sale in the oil districts of Hoima and Bulisa. The order has come about after the Bulisa County Member of Parliament, Stephen Birahwa’s outcry on land bonanza in the oil-rich districts of western Uganda. Birahwa has been complaining since oil discovery in Bullisa and Hoima […]
The civil society organizations have asked the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development to come out with the 2011/2012 pro people budget. The Advocates for Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE) executive Director, Godber Tumushabe says that the previous budgets have been favoring the administrative and political wings of the government leaving the public […]
The National Resistance Movement (NRM) bigwigs in Kasese have asked the government to consider splitting the district into more two districts. Led by the current Chairman LC5 Rev. Julius Kithaghenda, the NRM cadres say that with the increasing population, services are no longer reaching the beneficiaries appropriately. Kasese district has a population of about 800,000 […]
Uganda on January 26th marked the 26th anniversary of the Liberation day remembering the takeover of Uganda by the National Resistance Amy led by current President Yoweri Museveni. The national celebrations were held in Masaka under the theme “NRM’s 25 Years’ Heritage to Uganda: a solid foundation for a Progressive Nation”. Below is the address of His […]
The king of the mid-western Uganda Bunyoro-Kitara kingdom, Omukama Solomon Gafabusa Iguru has hinted that his kingdom is still awaiting compensation and an apology from the British government over war crimes he alleges the British Crown committed in Bunyoro. Iguru told his Kingdom’s Parliament on Saturday that as individuals and companies led by UK’s Tullow […]
The Resident District Commissioner (RDC) Gulu District Walter Ochora has said that this year’s Christmas is the most peaceful in over twenty years. While talking to residents in Gulu town, Ochora said that since the rebel activities of Joseph Kony and his Lords Resistance Army were quelled by government, the Northern Uganda districts can now […]
Makerere University Institute of Environment and Natural Resources (MUIENR) presented its report and catalogue to UNATCOM on the findings of the project on preservation of medicinal plants for poverty reduction and sustainable development. UNATCOM is the Uganda National Commission for UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), which will be responsible for distributing the […]
By EUNICE RUKUNDO, Ultimate Media With just 15points from her A Level exam results, Jean Ayikoru Longo would not have made it to any university on government sponsorship, leave alone join Makerere University. Yet the fact that she managed to scoop that many points although she is blind is proof that she could have performed […]
By Gideon Munaabi Ogenda ogenda (Are you going, are you going)……….These are the words you will rarely miss when you approach a taxi stage in and around Uganda’s capital, Kampala. This is the daily job of the mostly rough taxi touts spread all over the city stages and those in the neighboring districts. As the […]
By Enoch Mutabaazi At one moment he wears a face of a very busy man with heavy schedules. At another, he cuts a figure of a man seemingly lost in his thoughts trying to search for answers to society’s problems. That is the impression you will get all time you spend with Atwooki Stephen Rwagwri. […]