Legislators affiliated to opposition political parties are losig patience with their leaders, accusing them of not giving a clear direction ahead of the 2016 general elections. The leaders have put emphasis on the push for electoral reforms which the MPs believe may not necessarily provide the best way forward.

Around 3,500 applications for national identity cards have been rejected mostly because applicants’ documentation was suspect.Most of the rejected applications are said to be from foreigners claiming to be nationals. Meanwhile, the National Security Information Project has given all those who registered in Kampala, but have not collected their national identity cards 30 days to […]

Kampala Lord Mayor, Erias Lukwago has been arrested and former FDC leader Dr Kizza Besigye’s car towed by the police. Mr Lukwago was arrested on Thursday morning and driven to unknown destination while Mr Besigye is seated in the car that is being towed away by police’s teargas truck. This was after police led by […]

The Electoral Commission has given Parliament until August to ensure that the Constitutional Amendment Bill 2015 is passed, to allow for proper planning of the 2016 elections. The deadline was discussed at a meeting on the proposed bill held by the Electoral Commission and the Legal and Parliamentary affairs committee at Parliament. The Electoral Commission […]

The vice-chairperson of the NRM Caucus, Peter Ogwang, plans to table a motion urging for a reconciliation with the so-called ‘rebel’ MPs  who were kicked out of the party. The MPs, Theodore Ssekikubo, Wilfred Niwagaba, Barnabas Tinkasiimire and Mohammed Nsereko, were expelled by the party in 2013 for going against some party positions. Peter Ogwang’s […]

An average Ugandan is expected to earn atleast $9,500, approximately 30 million shillings annually in the next 20 years, according to the new National Development Plan. State Minister of Finance in charge of Planning David Bahati told the Parliamentary Committee on Finance that the plan that takes off this financial year will run till the […]

Police in Luweero has cracked down on a fake money lending institution which has conned over 50 people in Luweero out of money totaling about Shs9 million. Four suspects behind the money lending scam were arrested and charged with fraud. Among them are Moses Mukasa and Gerald Tumwine, all employees of Opportunity Trust Bank Limited.

Opposition Democratic Party (DP) has refuted allegations that the party president Nobert Mao is in Coma at International Hospital Kampala as it was published in one of the dailies. while addressing journalists at City House, the party spokesperson, Paul Kenneth Kakande emphasized that the reports were all false saying that Mao was this morning having […]

Vice-Chancellor of Uganda Technology and Management University (UTAMU) Prof. Venansius Baryamureba has charged public and private institutions to stop discriminating against persons with disability (PWDs) in the engagement of workers, indicating that such discrimination is “illegal, immoral and unacceptable”. He said there had been instances when PWDs with better qualifications had been denied jobs on the […]