After only 11 months since last years general elections, the MPs in Uganda’s 9th parliament want to lift a ban on presidential age limits in order to allow people aged over 75 years to contest for president. The debate follows an argument in parliament that NRM and president Museveni won last year’s elections overwhelmingly with […]
1. Action Party [AP] 2. Activist Party 3. Bridge Party [BP] 4. Congress Service Volunteers Organisation (COSEVO) 5. Conservative Party [CP] 6. Democratic Party [DP] 7. Farmers’ Party ofUganda[FPU] 8. Forum for Democratic Change [FDC) 9. Forum for Integrity in Leadership [FIL] 10. Justice Forum [JEEMA) 11. Liberal Democratic Transparency [LDT] 12. Movement for Democratic […]
Bank of Africa has pledged to lower interest rates and to open up new braches in the East African Community states ofUganda,Kenya,Rwanda,BurundiandTanzania. The governments of the East African community block are therefore advised to push for lower bank interest rates on loans before Bank of Africa kicks local banks out of business. The warning was […]
President Museveni today (Friday) met with the members of the Public Accounts Committee over Bank of Uganda Governor Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile’s future as governor bank of Uganda. The meeting followed yesterday’s National Resistance Movement (NRM) caucus meeting in Kampala which failed to agree over the future of Mutebile in bank ofUganda. The MPs were invited […]
The coalition for health promotion and social development, a national health rights organization and the action aid are to recruit professionals who can work under minimum supervision to fill the following posts: programme manager- community empowerment programme, programme assistant- community empowerment programme, programme officer administrative and human resource, programme officer research and monitoring, programme officer […]
The UN-Habitat has pledged to give more support to East African countries ofUganda,Rwanda,Kenya,BurundiandTanzania. Speaking inRwanda, the Executive Director of UN-Habitat Joan Clos said habitat wants to support the urbanization of East Africa starting withRwanda. Clos recommended East Africa’s implementation of the urbanization programme, and added that UN-Habitat will continue support eastAfrica’s development plans. All the […]
Bukedde TV journalist, Stecia Mayanja is preparing her ‘Equalizer album launch’ on January 20th this year in Kasangati, near the home ofUganda’s opposition leader, Col. Kiiza Besigye. Featuring at the show are Eagles Production, Afrigo Band, Bobi Wine, Jose Chameleon,LeoneIslandand Firebase crew of Ghetto president, Bobi Wine. Stecia Mayanja has told journalists that the people […]
The governor bank ofUganda, Tumusiime Mutebile has informed the members of the public that all regulated financial institutions which include commercial banks, credit institutions and microfinance deposit taking institutions inUgandaare safe and strong and have the backing of the central bank ofUganda. Speaking to journalists at the Bank of Uganda headquarters inKampalatoday, Tumusiime said that […]
Members of Parliament on NRM ticket say they were under instructions to approve Lt. Gen. Kale Kayihura as the inspector General of Police. President Museveni renewed Kayihura’s contract of the Inspector General of Police in November last year week and Kayihura’s name was sent to parliament for vetting. We have been told that the members […]
On 23rd October prof. Mondo Kagonyera’s four years term as Makerere University Chancellor came to an end. This implies that by now the university council should have a substantive list of candidates to be submitted to the president ofUganda for approval of a suitable chancellor forMakerereUniversity. But till now the search committee ofMakerereUniversityhas not yet […]