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 […]

Former Secretary General of National Resistance Movement (NRM) Amama Mbabazi has said that what the party is doing to stop some members of the party from registering is a misunderstanding of the law. While addressing journalists at the party headquarters in Kyaddondo on Monday, NRM Secretary General Kasule Lumumba said that all members, including rebel […]

Former prime minister John Patrick Amama Mbabazi is meeting a group of NRM mobilizers who claim to be the poor youth of NRM. Chanting songs of praise the NRM poor youth numbering to about 40 all donned in NRM yellow t-Shirts bearing Hon Amama Mbabazi’s portrait have been welcomed by Jacqueline  Mbabazi who the youth […]

Buganda Lukiiko has resolved to renovate and redevelop the Kabaka’s lake in Ndeba and vowed to task KCCA to explain who gave it to the authority to contaminate the water in the Kabaka’s lake with sewerage. This was fronted as a proposal by the Katikkiro of Buganda Charles Peter Mayiga and his cabinet while addressing […]

The Katikkiro of Buganda Charles Peter Mayiga thinks vocational studies alone will not be the solution to unemployment but says that employment is created by economic development because where development is jobs are created. He has been giving his remarks while opening the 4th Lukkiko of the 22nd session at Bulange Mengo where he read […]