It seems the ruling government is punishing FDC leaders for opposing it from left to right. After detaining the FDC president, Col. Kiiiza Besigye at his home in Kasangati, we have been told that the National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) and UMEME have disconnected FDC offices in Najjanankumbi on Kampala Entebbe. A source on […]
Members of Uganda Media Council have been reshuffled and replaced with new ones according to sources in the ministry of Information and National guidance. The information minister, Karooro Okrut inaugurated the new media council on Tuesday this week inKampala. The new members on the Media Council are Dr. Gorreti Nassanga (chairperson) and Dr. Amooti […]
It looks now DP’s vibrant legal advisor, Mukasa Fred Mbidde is out of pocket as his Escalades registration number Mbidde 4 ran out of fuel in the middle of Entebbe road. The credit crunched Mbidde was left cursing the NRM government for failing to subsidize fuel prices. As if this was not enough, Mbidde who […]
Here is the most coveted document on Uganda’s oil industry, the country’s oil potential and key investment opportunities and strategies at both micro, national and regional levels. Download a PDF of the Foster wheeler Uganda Refinery study report here. The government of Uganda hired Swiss Engineering and Construction company Foster Wheeler Energy Limited (FWEL) in […]
Members of Parliament investigating the mismanagement of the Power sector have today heard that the Government of Uganda does not have any expert to represent it in monitoring the water levels at the Kiira Dam as it is discharged to generate power. The power generation at the dam is managed through a concession by Eskom, […]
Justice Minister, Maj. Gen. Kahinda Otafiire threatened to expose all the dirt of FDC leaders which he has kept all the years. Kahinda says that the government has all the reports and details of bad deals ever done by FDC President Col. Kiiza Besigye and his cohorts in FDC. Otafiire says that some of […]
The MP for Kampala Central, Mohammad Nsereko has told the media that the proposed ‘public order bill 2011’ is unconstitutional and all Ugandans should fight it off. Nsereko has advised Uganda’s ruling party, the National Resistance Movement and the government in general to withdraw the bill in its totality. Nsereko says that president Museveni […]
The government is again planning to chop Kampala and other areas into smaller political administrative units. Currently Kampala is made up of five divisions. These are Nakawa, Makindye, Kampala Central, Kawempe and Lubaga division. We hear that the government wants to divide the above divisions into more units because of their big population. President Museveni’s […]
Makerere University lecturers under their body, MUASA (Makerere University Academic Staff Association) are planning to stage another strike if the government does not act fast and increase their salaries. MUASA President, Prof. Tanga Odoi says the government has failed to fulfill the promises made to the lecturers in September 2011 while convincing them to end the August […]
The Uganda National Examination Board has today released the 2011 nurses’ examination results indicating a general improvement in performance. Announcing the results, the Executive Secretary of the Nurses Examinations Board, Helen Kataratambi said that a total of 2433 candidates sat for the exams with 49 passing with distinctions, and only 41 were ungraded. She has […]