Unlike many Uganda ’s MPs who want to stay in parliament until they die, the Kyadondo East MP Hajji Ibrahim Semujju says he doesn’t want another term in the August house. Semujju has told his political pals at parliament that he wants to retire from politics and concentrate on managing his businesses including the weekly […]
Kampala Lord Mayor, Al-Hajji Elias Lukwago now wants to join Uganda Muslim Supreme Council (UMSC). He says he recently achieved a high title in the Muslim faith from Mecca and so he wants to join UMSC and contribute towards the strengthening of the Muslim faith. Lukwago got the title of Al-hajji from Mecca in November […]
The Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA) will be holding their first General Assembly in December, in Entebbe, Uganda. The General Assembly that is attracting participants from the 10 ASERECA member countries begins on Wednesday December 14th and closes on Friday December 16th. The GA was launched last week, together […]
Uganda Peoples Defence Forces have started a training programme to prepare its soldiers for deployment to the African Union United Nations hybrid operation in Darfur (UNAMID). According to a source in the ministry of defence, Uganda will deploy in Darfur early next year as per UNAMID programme. We are reliably informed that UNAMID has requested […]
Lt. Col. Samson Mande has been sighted in Kinshasha town of the Democratic Republic of Congo raising fears in the UPDF circles that he could be planning to invade Uganda. Mande is one of the UPDF dissidents who are believed to be planning an armed struggle on the legitimate government of Uganda. The Uganda government […]
Being in power, the ruling government is not taking Col. Kiiza Besigye and his FDC activities and support lightly. We have been told that the National Resistance Movement (NRM) working hand in hand with intelligence networks have embarked on conventions in Ntungamo and western Uganda in general aiming at sensitizing the people there not to […]
Human Rights Network for Journalists-Uganda (HRNJ–Uganda) is dismayed with the unfair treatment from Uganda Police against families and friends of late Charles Ingabire who wanted to express grief and solidarity against the brutal killing of Charles and other Rwandese who have succumbed to this kind of gruesome treatment. Charles IngabireRIP, the editor of the Kinyarwanda Online […]
Human Rights Network – Uganda (HURINET – U) and Uganda Coalition on International Criminal Court (UCICC) have vowed to arrest the President of Sudan if he dares land in Uganda to attend the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region heads of States summit on 15th December. The two CSOs say they have been dismayed […]
The media houses that have been capitalising on photographs got from Club Rouge in Kampala must now be in tears after the management of the social scene banned all cameras from entering their premise. The Kanyamas have been put at all the club entrances to ensure that no person enters into the rouge with a […]
Stanbic Bank Uganda has started issuing bonus shares to some of its investors as the institution seeks to grow its capital base to match well with the Bank of Uganda capital requirement. This has come after the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) cleared Stanbic Bank last month to issue 5,118,866,970 shares to its listed shareholders. The […]