President Museveni has honoured women leaders of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) with medals. The FDC women leaders whom Museveni honoured with medals include Kampala Woman MP, Nabilah Sempala, Salaam Musumba, FDC secretary general, Alice Alaso and Betty Amongi. The function took place at Nakasongola district headquarters where Uganda marked the International Women’s […]
Uganda’s president Gen. Kaguta Museveni has congratulated Kenya’s presidential frontrunner Uhuru Kenyatta upon maintaining the lead as the vote count in Kenya’s election entered its final. Few Kenyan constituencies are yet to report results. Kenyatta is leading his main rival in the race, Raila Odinga with over 50% of the total votes counted. Museveni […]
The Anti-corruption Court has canceled bail for city businessman and president Museveni’s personal friend and business ally, Hajji Hassan Basajjabalaba and sent him back to Luzira Prison amidst tears from his female relatives. Some of Basajjabalaba’s relatives were overheard as saying that Museveni is started witch-hunting him because he cooperates with some opposition politicians. […]
Kampala, Uganda-Ugandan president Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni says he is no longer interested in running for president for a fifth term when his term of office expires in 2016. There have been speculations that Uganda’s longest serving president (Museveni) is still interested in running for president. Museveni, while meeting his military commanders at Statehouse […]
The death of Uganda’s first Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for East African Affairs, Eriya Kategaya, 70, has split Ugandans, especially members of the ruling party, the National Resistance Movement (NRM). Kategaya died last Sunday in Nairobi based hospital. But some members of the ruling party, some opposition politicians and members of the general […]
While speaking at the burial of Lt Col Sserwanga Lwanga in Bumanje, Ssese islands in Kalangala district sometime back, president Museveni said he was shocked that Buganda region did not love him yet he had played an instrumental role in restoring the kingdom. Museveni said “there are leaders here who don’t like other […]
President Museveni has grilled his ministers over the declining support of the ruling party, the National Resistance Movement (NRM). Museveni sounded bitterness before his ministers over the lost support of NRM to an extent that winning a single election is almost a tag of war. Museveni met his ministers on Thursday at a retreat […]
President Museveni’s press secretary, Tamale Mirundi has said that he is so thankful to Uganda’s head of state. Mirundi says that even if president Museveni decides to sack him, he will remain eternally grateful to him. “President Museveni saved my mother from death, he has educated my children, enriched them- And then what else do […]
While thousands of mourners, including Tanzanian leader Jakaya Kikwete, joined President Museveni on Monday to bid farewell to his father, Mzee Amos Kaguta, who passed away on Friday last week, the former president of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), Col. Kiiza Besigye and the current FDC president, Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu did not bother […]
President Museveni has reportedly directed the managing Director of Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) to clear the management of Pioneer Easy Bus Company so that it resumes its operations. Sources in URA told our reporter that president Museveni in a secret meeting with the URA officials last week told the Commissioner General of URA, Allen […]