Kampala Central division chairman, Godfrey Nyakaana is preparing to quit politics come 2016 general elections. A source in Uganda’s ruling party, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) has told us that Nyakaana has informed the party leadership that he wants to quit politics such that he concentrates on his businesses. Nyakaana has ruled Kampala Central division […]
Members of opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) have split over who is who at the party’s Kampala district offices located on city house building. Living Stone Kizito, the FDC chairman, Kampala district says that he wants their city offices closed because they have been entrenched by spies. Kizito says that many NRM spies camouflage […]
You may think that the DP president, Norbert Mao is so loaded because he was a member of the sixth and seventh parliament and also LC5 chairman of Gulu district. However this is not the case. We have been told by impeccable sources within DP that the former legislator and Gulu district LC5 boss is […]
Unlike many Uganda ’s MPs who want to stay in parliament until they die, the Kyadondo East MP Hajji Ibrahim Semujju says he doesn’t want another term in the August house. Semujju has told his political pals at parliament that he wants to retire from politics and concentrate on managing his businesses including the weekly […]
When the FDC leaders gathered yesterday at their Kampala district office located on city house building in Kampala, they indefinitely suspended their district chairperson, Livingstone Kizito over reported abuse of office. Kizito was suspended from the post of FDC Kampala district chairman pending investigations. Following the dismissal of Kizito, the FDC officials have warned the […]
It is hard to believe that an opposition MP can be accused by her own party of selling the party supporters to the ruling NRM. The FDC is accusing Kampala woman MP, Nabilah Sempala of colluding with the FDC Kampala chairperson, Livingstone Kizito to persuade some FDC youth to defect to the ruling party. A […]
We have been told by impeccable sources that a major reshuffle is looming at the electoral commission over what the ruling government calls offering poor quality services. A source in government intimates to us that the appointing authority has instructed the commission chairman, Prof. Badru Kiggundu to outline all the commission workers sidelining with opposition […]
The situation at Butabika National Referral Psychiatric Hospital has returned to normal after the medics who had gone on a sit-down strike resumed work. The nurses and some senior medics at Butabika hospital went on strike yesterday demanding for their salary arrears and the reinstatement of their risk allowances which were cut off by the […]
Heads of private universities operating in Uganda are calling on the government to waive taxes levied on them to enable them provide subjects units that need more finances to be taught in these institutions. The chairman African region and executive director, Cavendish University, Dr. Ketrine Salati, many courses need huge sums of money to be taught […]
Cavendish University Uganda will be holding its first graduation ceremony this Saturday at the Speke Resort Munyonyo. Addressing the media at the university campus in Nsambya today, the university’s chairman, university council, Dr. Ketrine Salati revealed that 300 students are set to graduate with degrees, diplomas and certificates in various disciplines. Of these, 56% are […]