January

East African MPs to sit in Kampala

East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) session will sit in Kampala from January 24th to February 2nd, 2012. President Museveni of  Uganda will address the members during their first sitting. The session will sit in the chambers of Ugandaparliament. President Mwai Kibaki of Kenyawill address the session on January 25th.  Kibaki is the chairperson of the […]

NRM government starts retreat to solve crisis

The National Resistance Movement (NRM) government has called for a retreat in order to solve the internal wrangles, and save the government cadres currently facing corruption charges. The acting chief whip of NRM, David Bahati says that the one-week retreat is scheduled to start on Thursday January 12th at the National Leadership Institute in Kyankwanzi. […]

Vice President Edward Kiwanuka Sekandi shocks his rival Jude Mbabali

The former Democratic Party (DP) candidate in Bukoto central, Jude Mbabali has said that he was shocked yesterday when the Vice President, Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi presided over the 50 judges’ conference at Speke Resort Munyonyo inKampala.  The conference was about to take stock of last year 2011 and to review the judicial integrity opinion report. […]

Makerere University Lists for the 62nd Graduation Ceremony

The 62nd Graduation Ceremony, will held from Monday, 16th January, 2012 to Friday, 20th January, 2012and will witness over 11,000 students being conferred upon their respective degrees.Please see Downloads below for the Graduation List. Please note that the list may be subject to change.   Downloads 62nd Graduation List 16th – 20th January 2012: pdf(1,336KB) […]

Makerere to issue transcripts immediately after graduation’

Over 11,000 students are expected to graduate at Makerere University from 16th to 23rd January 2012. The university will hold its 62nd graduation, which will take one week from the 16th January. According to the university’s Academic registrar, Alfred Masikye, students will receive heir transcripts after the graduation ceremony. Masikye reveals that 46.7% of the graduands are […]

Chameleon’s wife to give birth in January

A source from Dr. Jose Chameleon’s Leone Island Crew has told us that the singer’s wife, Daniela Atim is pregnant. The source told informers that Daniela has been vomiting and suffering from malaria due to the pregnancy for the last very many months. When contacted Daniela told our informers that she doesn’t want people who […]

Statehouse: Load shedding to end next year

Although UMEME has been sending messages on peoples’ phones that the people of Kampala, Wakiso and Mukono districts among others are to continue facing frequent outages because the ‘Mutundwe’ power station is under restoration, we have learnt that this information is not true. An impeccable source at statehouse intimated to us that the agreement which […]

Uganda sugar prices to go down as imports arrive this month

High Sugar prices are likely to come down as the country is expecting sugar imports from Brazil and South Africa this month. The ministry of Trade and Industry says that the deadline for receiving much of the imported sugar is January 2012. Trade Minister, Amelia Kyambadde informs us that all obstacles in the importation process […]

Depression a major cause of increased numbers of suicide cases in Uganda

The Ugandan police has released statistics showing that depression is one of the major causes pushing suicide rates high in Uganda. Statistics from the Uganda police indicate that a significant number of cases registered between January and June 2011. The director criminal investigation department Edward Ochom noted that a total number of 175 cases of […]