Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary, Ambassador James Mugume who has been bedridden for a long time has resumed office and immediately praised Ms Rhoda Keisho, a Munyankole babe who has been working in his absentia. Mugume in a meeting he held today at the ministry’s head offices told staff that Keisho did a very big job […]
Kampala Capital City Authority has issued another notice to property owners, outdoor advertising companies and the general public in connection with illegal billboards and other advertising tools in the city. This notice served to ask persons or companies that erected illegal billboards and other tools to remove them within 28 calendar days from today. The […]
Cases of people impersonating top government officials in a bid to embezzle funds is on increase in the third East African economy, Uganda . We are told that most of the con men mainly impersonate army generals, ministers and MPs. For instance, the police have today arrested a 19 year old student from Ntale school […]
The Deputy Lord Mayor of Kampala Capital City Authority, Sulaiman Kidandala has been sworn in today despite complaints from the minister for Kampala Kabakumba Masiko. The KCCA Executive Director Jennifer Musisi and other council technical officers failed to block his swearing in ceremony. Kidandala was sworn in amidst heavy police deployment and harassing of his […]
Buganda kingdom has invited president Museveni to attend this year’s Buganda conference due to take place from 15th to 16th December this year at Hotel Africana in Kampala. A source at statehouse has told this journalist that the president’s office has got the invitation letter today. The conference will start with a Youth Conference on […]
Makerere University has finally managed to make sanitary pads under trade name ‘mak sanitary pads.’ The pads have been manufactured by Makerere College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology. The spokesperson of Makerere College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology, Better Kyakuwa tells this reporter that the pads they have made are of good quality […]
After the ruling NRM party lost the Luweero woman MP race to DP’s Brenda Nabukenya in the recent parliamentary by elections, President Museveni has assured the members of the public that the ruling party is still strong. Meeting NRM supporters in statehouse Kampala today, Museveni explained that his party lost the polls due to some […]
The situation at Butabika National Referral Psychiatric Hospital has returned to normal after the medics who had gone on a sit-down strike resumed work. The nurses and some senior medics at Butabika hospital went on strike yesterday demanding for their salary arrears and the reinstatement of their risk allowances which were cut off by the […]
A team of profession marine police officers have been dispatched from Kampala today to search for the two Danish tourists who drowned in Lake Bunyonyi last evening. Lake Bunyonyi in western Uganda, Kabale district is said to be one of the deepest lakes in African. The Danish embassy in Uganda chartered the aircraft that airlifted […]
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 […]