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Government to expand Entebbe airport

  Uganda government is preparing to expand Entebbe International Airport due to increasing tourism revenue collection. Tourism is the second largest source of foreign exchange for Uganda after remittances from Ugandans working abroad. Uganda last expanded Entebbe airport 20 years ago. The Transport and Works Minister, Eng. Abraham Byandala says the plans to expand Entebbe […]

Names of people who have spent years in Uganda prisons without trial

  Our news informers have today decided to bring you the names of people who have spent years in Uganda jails without receiving trial. Some of these people were arrested in 2009 during the Buganda riots. The riots broke out after president Museveni’s government blocked the Kabaka of Buganda, Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II and his […]

Names of people who have spent years in Uganda prisons without trial

  Our news informers have today decided to bring you the names of people who have spent years inUgandajails without receiving trial. Some of these people were arrested in 2009 during theBugandariots. The riots broke out after president Museveni’s government blocked the Kabaka of Buganda, Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II and his Katikkiro Eng. Eng. JB […]

Buganda MPs to mediate between Buganda kingdom and central government talks

MPs who hail from Buganda are set to mediate between Buganda kingdom and central government wrangles. This was revealed on Wednesday when the MPs who represent constituencies in Buganda kingdom paid a visit to the Katikkiro of Buganda, Eng. JB Walusimbi at the Buganda kingdom headquarters in Bulange Mengo in Kampala. The MPs were led […]

Prof. Badru Kiggundu urges Ugandans to visit commission website

The electoral commission chairperson Prof/Eng. Badru Kiggundu has urged Ugandans to visit the website of the electoral commission www.ec.or.ug Kiggundu while addressing a press conference in Kampalathis morning said that the commission has put a lot of information on the commission website but unfortunately Ugandans don’t visit the site. He says that Ugandans only visit […]

Prof. Badru Kiggundu urges Ugandans to visit commission website

The electoral commission chairperson Prof/Eng. Badru Kiggundu has urged Ugandans to visit the website of the electoral commission www.ec.or.ug Kiggundu while addressing a press conference in Kampalathis morning said that the commission has put a lot of information on the commission website but unfortunately Ugandans don’t visit the site. He says that Ugandans only visit […]

Kabaka bans talk on whereabouts of new born Buganda prince

  Following the publication of a photograph of a woman who the editorial team of the New Vision Group believed at the time to be the mother of the new born Buganda prince, Richard Semakookiro, the Kabaka of Buganda Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II has asked all people in Uganda and across the world to stop […]

Jinja Municipality MP by elections set for February 9

The voting day for the Jinja Municipality East parliamentary by elections will be held on February 9th this year according to the programme the electoral commission has issued. The nomination exercise is already over.  The seat went vacant after the High Court nullified the election victory of Nathan Igime Nabeta over voter bribery.  Over three […]

Betty Kamya meets Uganda Electoral Commission officials

The President General of Uganda Federal Alliance, Betty Namisango Kamya has met with the officials of Electoral Commission inKampalatoday to agree on the roadmap towards the preparation of the referendum to change the system of governance from unitary to federalism in 2015. The electoral commission decided to meet Betty Kamya today five days back. The […]

LCI chairpersons forge Electoral commission appointment letters

 The Electoral Commission has discovered that some LCI executives forge commission’s appointment letters. The commission’s chairperson, Eng. Badru Kiggundu has asked the police to investigate all persons on LCI committees who forge the commission’s appointment letters. Kiggundu says that the commission has received information that in Makindye Division in Kampala, some people last week forged […]