Minister for Ethics and Integrity Fr. Simon Lokodo, has refuted media reports that he is among those MPs who sign the attendance book and do not attend plenary. Yesterday, the deputy speaker of parliament, Jacob Oulanya suspended the house for 10 minutes to raise quorum for members to decide on the income tax amendment bill […]

Uganda Communications Commission has launched 2 websites where prices for retail communications services such as phone talk time, internet, Mobile money, Pay TV among others are availed to customers. UCC, with this aims to ensure protection and welfare of consumers of these services in the country and as well as stimulate market competition through the […]

President Museveni intends to interrogate Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) commander, Jamil Mukulu, as soon as the terrorist is brought to Uganda to stand trial for allegedly committing atrocities in the country. Mukulu, the supreme commander of the troubled military outfit based in Eastern Congo, was on April 28 arrested from one of his residences in […]

Legislators on Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee have unearthed a syndicate between children’s homes, district probation officers and law firms who connive to traffic children outside the the country under the guise of adoption. The value for money audit report on the management and handling of child adoption process in Uganda presented to the Committee by […]

Forum for Democratic Change members have been asked to donate to the party so that enough funding is raised to support the party activities. Angelline Osegge, the newly elected party’s treasurer asked party National Council members to mobilize their supporters to donate to the party which needs funds. Osegge made the remarks while presenting the […]

Teachers under the Uganda National Teachers Union have finally agreed to abandon their strike, after eight years of no business at government school. The resolution was taken on Tuesday following a meeting between UNATU district representatives and Ministers of Planning David Bahati and Information Maj Jim Muhwezi. Teachers were protesting government’s failure to honor its promise […]

Sports Minister Charles Bakkabulindi announced today that Cabinet is drafting a law that will compel schools to engage in physical training. Bakkabulindi was addressing journalists at the Uganda Media Center this afternoon. Bakkabulindi says the new law will replace the one that was enacted way back in 1964 and appears to be out of tandem […]

Members of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) in Wakiso district have described the ongoing registration exercise as the worst exercise that NRM has ever carried out in the country. It follows the ongoing re-registration of members for purposes of composing a new register after the party refused to pay for the register that was constituted […]

The Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) of the Uganda Army, General Edward Katumba Wamala has warned opposition politicians against rhetoric that could distabilise the country, saying they face severe consequences. Gen. Wamala is in Somalia for a four day official visit, during which he will also visit and interact with troops in Ceeljaale, Aribska and […]