The queen of Buganda lady Sylvia Nagginda has launched the global fight action on Maternal and child health campaign with an aim of achieving the Millennium Development Goals. The MDGs that are set to be achieved through the campaign include strengthening of gender equitable national health sector action plans, ensuring health plans, reducing maternal deaths […]
The Attorney general, ministry of internal affairs and the Uganda Police have defended the public order management bill calling for its enactment amid protests from the public. Appearing before the legal and Parliamentary affairs committee of Parliament, Peter Nyombi the attorney general says there is a lacuna in the existing laws of the land that […]
Household properties belonging to Kampala Deputy Mayor, Sula Kidandala have been attached by court bailiffs over accumulated house rent. Kidandala has been occupying a fully fledged residential house in Kawempe and failed to pay the land lord his rent amounting to 1,500,000 million shillings. We hear the house which Kidandala has been renting belongs to […]
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 […]
Former Vice President Prof. Gilbert Balibaseka Bukenya has retained his Busiro County North in the 1st December hotly contested by-elections. Prof. Bukenya of National Resistance Movement (NRM) party won the elections with 10,728 votes against 3,035 votes polled by his close rival, Hussein Caster Bukenya of the Democratic Party (DP). Other candidates in the race […]
It is hard to believe that Mukono Municipality MP, Betty Nambooze and Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago are no longer friends. Gone are the days when Lukwago and Nambooze were moving together as if they were husband and wife or brother and sister. We have been reliably informed that currently when Nambooze brings an argument […]
News release: As world leaders meet in Busan, South Korea, this week, for the Fourth High Level forum on Aid Effectiveness, the Commonwealth is calling on participants at the international gathering to ensure that the outcomes help drive more effective development. “This summit represents a milestone for international development and is a defining moment in […]
Ultimate Media The habit of copying other peoples’ songs in Uganda is growing every week, every month and every year. Reports of singers complaining that their colleagues in the music industry have duplicated their songs are found at police stations, courts and heard on radio stations. For example, a little known Ugandan artist, M Jeff last week […]
News Release: A paper published today by the International Institute for Environment and Development warns that African governments are signing away water rights for decades with insufficient regard for how this will affect millions of local users, including fishing, farming and pastoralist communities. The water rights often feature in the growing number of large land […]
News Release A book published today by the International Institute for Environment and Development paints a vivid picture of an alternative future in which food, energy and water supplies are sustainable and in the control of local communities. The book show how the linear systems that shape our world are flawed as they assume a […]