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1000 jobs for nurses available in Europe

Are you a nurse, doctor or pharmacists? Start smiling now because the government of Uganda has got jobs for you. The Senior Private Secretary to His Excellence the Vice President of Uganda, Hajji Hassan Nakabaale says that the office of the Vice President has got requests from England among other countries in Europe to send […]

UTODA to file an ordinary suit against KCCA

UTODA is preparing to file an ordinary suit at the High Court in order to bar Kampala Capital City Authority from taking over taxi parks inKampala. This comes after the court on Monday ruled that KCCA is free to take over the administration of Old and New Taxi Parks. UTODA says that it is preparing […]

Uganda to establish teachers’ promotion scheme

The Government of Uganda is preparing to introduce a teachers’ scheme in the financial year 2012/13 in order to enable teachers get higher qualifications and consequently receive promotions. This was reveled to the media today in Kampala by education and sports minister, Jessica Alupo who said that the move is one of the government’s interventions […]

Uganda’s opposition leader Col. Kiiza Besigye says he doesn’t read Red Pepper

We think that it is better for politicians to read all newspapers within and outside the country in order to get peoples views, challenges and aspirations.  But this is not the case with the FDC President, Col. Kiiza Besigye. He has told the members of FDC inKampalathat for him he doesn’t read the Daily Red […]

Crested Cranes vows to beat Dr. Congo

Crested Cranes, Uganda’s female national football team has vowed to beat their counterparts of the Democratic Republic of Congo when they meet up in Kinshasha on January 28. The team manager of Crested Cranes, Mariam Kaliga says that they have started preparations for their 2nd leg meet with the Democratic Republic of Congo at Njeru […]

Deputy Lord Mayor of Kampala, Sulaiman Kidandala explains origin of Kampala problems

The budget running KCCA now was not debated by the appropriate organ called the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) which was supposed to make what they call a budget break down according to priority areas of the city. The figures that came from the central government as conditional grants were instead broken down by the […]

FDC Women’s League Leader Ingrid Turinawe released from prison

The Leader of the women league of the Forum for Democratic Chnage, Ingrid Turinawe has been released by court. This is after she was arrested and charged in court after her standoff with the police who blocked her accessing the city centre. Turinawe was stopped from attending a press conference by the Activists for Change, […]

MPs ask ERA to withdraw statements on power tariff increase

Members of Parliament have asked the electricity Regulatory Authority to withdraw the statement issued yesterday, defying an order to halt the charging of new tariffs. The board of the Electricity Regulatory is appearing before the probe committee into the energy sector that has been overshadowed by reports of corruption. Members of the committee yesterday questioned […]

Government MP for Mityana north Godfrey Kiwanda wants Museveni to quit politics

 In an amazing scenario, the MP for Mityana North, Godfrey Kiwanda who was among the MPs in the seventh parliament, who lifted president Museveni’s term of office from two to infinity, has now asked the same president he gave green light to leave state power. Kiwanda says that the over 26 years Museveni has ruledUgandaare […]

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. […]