State Minister for Minerals in the ministry of Energy Peter Lokeris has assured Ugandans that the country is to start its oil production in 2019 given that all the factors to support this have been put in place. He says the oil export pipeline, refinery, power production among other key elements to oil production are already […]
Moyo residents are calling for relief assistance following the heavy rains which turned into floods that have washed away people’s properties. Reports from Moyo district show that floods affected four villages after the flooding of River Koki. The member of parliament for Obongi county in Moyo district Hassan Fungaroo Kaps said that the people need help […]
The Uganda representative at pan African parliament, Onyango Kakooba, calls on government to put in place mechanisms that will discourage youth from acts of genocide and crimes against humanity. Onyango Kakooba, who is also the member Buikwe North, says that although the genocide has not been experienced in the country as some other East African countries […]
Kampala Lord mayor Salongo Erias Lukwago has officially written to the Chief Justice over the controversy surrounding his attempts to stand for mayoral election and nominations. In a letter copied to the speaker, EC, police, among others Lukwago is challenging the attempts by the Attorney general to both run in court and in parliament to silence […]
Teachers of the visually impaired students have asked government to allocate funds for purchase of software used to teach blind students information technology and enabling them learn computer. This was demanded as Standard Chartered bank was donating to Sir Apollo Kagwa secondary school, Seeta Nazigo in Mukono district, computers, printers and software used in computers to enable […]
Opposition members of parliament say that Kampala Capital City Authority (Amendment) Bill, 2015 which they claim is targeting the current Lord mayor Erias Lukwago may attract massive resistance among the people whose rights to vote their mayor is violated if its not dropped. The Member of Parliament for Lubaga south John Ken Lukyamuzi says that […]
Dennis Kamurasi of the Association of Uganda Oil and Gas Service Providers says businesses are counting loses due to the lull in the sector. Kamurasi says this lull has dragged on since 2010 with little or no activity in the three joint venture oil companies Tullow Uganda, Total E&P and China National Oil Company yet […]
Parliament called a special sitting to pay tribute to the late Omwonya Oribdhogu Stanley who has been the Member of Parliament for Okoro County in Zombo district. The special sitting is scheduled for today Wednesday at 2:00pm. The clerk to parliament says that the body of late Omwonya Oribdhogu Stanley will arrive at parliament at 10:00am for public […]
Agriculture to Nutrition (ATONU), a six-year project, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, focusing on agriculture to deliver positive nutrition outcomes to smallholder farm families was launched in Kampala on Wednesday October 28, 2015. Dr. Lindiwe Sibanda, Head of Mission and CEO of the Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN), the lead […]
The 6th edition of the Afro barometer that assesses access to justice among other social services by citizens indicates that Ugandans have lost trust in the judicial sector with many reasons raised by the citizens who were interviewed in the research carried out in May this year across the country. Releasing the report findings today, the […]