Capital

Governance to close schools without pit latrines

Education and Sports Minister, Jessica Alupo has threatened to close all primary and secondary schools around the country that would be found without pit latrines or toilets.  Ms Alupo says that her ministry has got reports that some schools in the country especially in rural areas and slums operate without toilets or pit latrines.  The […]

Tullow oil shows promising future in its 2011 end of year statement

Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) issues this Trading Statement in respect of its financial year to 31 December 2011. This is in advance of the Group’s Full Year Results, which are scheduled for release on 14 March 2012. The Operational Update is in respect of recent production, development and exploration activities. The information contained herein has […]

Confidential: UYD activists hold two hour meeting with Raila Odinga

A delegation of UYD activists arrived in Kenyan capital Nairobi on Tuesday evening and later held a two hour closed door meeting with Kenyan premier, Raila Odinga. The delegation of Uganda ’s young politicians held their meeting at Raila’s apartment in Nairobi , according to sources in Kenya . It should be remembered that when […]

Kampala Deputy Lord Mayor Sulaiman Kidandala explains why Kampala director Jenifer Musisi Semakula is fighting him

 The embattled deputy mayor of Kampala Capital City Authority, Sulaiman Kidandala has explained why the city Director Jenifer Musisi is fighting him at all sides. Kidandala says that Ms Musisi is simply trying to please her master president Museveni who is also the appointment authority of her office. Speaking to this journalists at City Hall […]

Residents of Rubaga in Kampala demonstrate

Ultimate Media It looks demonstrations inKampala and Uganda in general is part of the daily menu. Every day there must be a story about people killed in demonstration, or the people police have arrested while demonstrating along the road and on streets. Most of the demonstrations inUgandatake place inUganda’s capital cityKampala. Most of the demonstrations […]

Uganda police beefs up security in Kampala

A recent grenade explosion in Nairobi Kenya which killed one person and wounded over eight others, has forced Uganda to beef up security in its capital cityKampala. The Inspector General of Police, Lt. Col. Kayihura has instructed all Officers in charge of police stations inKampala and across the country to beef us security at all […]

Lord Mayor, Hajji Erias Lukwago sleeps at public function

We have discovered that sleeping doesn’t fear big people like the Lord Mayor of Kampala Capital City Authority, Hajji Erias Lukwago.  This came true when Lukwago was yesterday attacked by a sleeping bug at Kampala Students Centre where he had gone to open a seminar on HIV/AIDS.  Lukwago was the one presiding over the function. One […]

10 held over grazing in city

At least 10 people have been arrested by the police and Kampala Capital City Authority staff for grazing cows and other animals in the city.  Moses Kasasira, John Gumisiriza, his brother Robert gumisiriziza and Ronald Kwesiga among others are detained at Katwe police.  The statement from KCCA indicates that keeping animals in the city contravenes section 6 […]

Former Mayor of Kampala Nasser Sebaggala may return in Democratic Party

We have heard that the former mayor of Kampala Hajji Nasser Sebaggala is preparing to get back into the Democratic Party. May be he has realised that he is not relevant to NRM, lost his political weight and had no capacity of driving opposition members to NRM. With most of his political capital already spent, […]

Iryn Namubiru in Paris, capital city of Fance

Singer Iryn Namubiru who was crowned recently in Kampala as the artist of the year has arrived in France’s capital city Paris where he has gone to meet his fiance, Frank Morel. We have heard that she went to Paris with the trophies she won in Kampala during the recent PAM music awards. Namubiru has […]