A few years back people in Teso sub district and Kayunga were feeding on mangoes and jack fruits to survive, but as you read this, people in Luwero, Nakasongola and adjacent districts are living on jackfruit (ffene) to be able to survive. A couple of years back I witnessed a very sorry scene near […]
Leaders from Kisoro district led by Bufumbira North mp John kamara have threatened not to vote for NRM come 2016 presidential elections if they are not given a district. The leaders from four sub counties of Bufumbira north say that the area has been marginalized with bad roads and bridges yet it is a tourism […]
Health experts have raised concern over the effect of limited funding to the health sector on monitoring of service delivery. Kumi district director health services Dr John Opolot says monitoring is not effective because of the limited resource envelop. He says the district has 17 health units but the limited funds challenge has undermined the […]
The chairperson of the local Government and public services committee of parliament Florence kintu has warned residents of Mpungu sub county in kanungu district to shun political difference between the prime minister Amama Mbabazi and mp for Kinkizi East Chris Baryomunsi in their bid to belong to the proposed new district of Kihihi. This follows […]
The government of Uganda is planning of recruit a total of 6174 health workers who will include Doctors, Theatre staff, Nursing Assistant and Enrolling Midwives nursing Assistants at Health centers 3s and Health center 4s. This comes after parliament approved 39 billion out of 260 billion including the salary enhancement and recruitment of Health workers […]
Kalangala is one of the first districts created by president Museveni’s NRM government in 1990w but it has the same woes like new districts. It is shocking that simple diseases kill people in Kalangala because the district has only two doctors serving a population of over two million people. According to the officer in-charge of […]
President Museveni’s government this week announced that it had approved 25 new districts in Uganda. The NRM government of president Museveni captured power through an armed struggle when Uganda had only 25 districts, 26 years later the country now has 137 districts. However it is expensive to support a district. It requires a district […]
The conflict of interest between KCCA’s Jeniffer Musisi and KCCA district land committee Yusufu Nsibambi has been unearthed. The ongoing wrangles between Ms Musisi and the Kampala district land Boss Yusufu Nsibambi who is also a prominent lawyer in town ranges from the land in Kampala which is so prime that Ms Musisi wants to […]
Deep sorrow and shock fell on the members of Wakiso district council as two members of the district council, a male and a female collapsed and died under mysterious circumstances on the same day over. The members were Dorris Nalwadda, a youth councilor and Emanuel Bukenya, an LC5 councilor representing Mutundwe and Bunamwaya parishes to […]
Shock and grief befell on people of Kampala on Friday morning when a woman jumped from the 14th floor of Workers House building and died. The woman was identified as Justine Nalugya, a resident of Kampala district. The relatives to the deceased said that Nalugya was so stressed because she had a degree from […]