The ruling National Resistance Movement government (NRM) rigged Padyere county parliamentary by-elections. The President General of Uganda Peoples Congress, Dr. Olara Otunu said the exercise of electing the new MP for Padyere registered major complaints like vote rigging, names of opposition supporters’ missing on the register, heavy police deployment to intimidate opposition supporters from voting […]
President Museveni has received credentials from the newly accredited ambassadors of South Africa, Tunisia, Egypt, Sierra Leone and Turkey. The President received the five credentials on Wednesday evening at Statehouse, Entebbe. President Museveni with the envoys discussed matters of bilateral interests between the five countries of Tunisia, Egypt, South Africa, Sierra Leone and Turkey. […]
Efforts by Democratic Party president Norbert Mao to bring on board members who broke away from the party seem to have yielded no fruits. The break away faction led by MP Lulume Bayiga has announced a date for its delegates conference that will see the group elect its new leaders. The group has also […]
Ultimate Media The Ministry of Health has send out notices to police stations in Kabale to arrest persons engaged in the sale of all types of waragi (alcohol). Over 65 people in Kabale have died after consuming suspected poisonous waragi in the last two weeks. The ministry of Uganda for Health in September […]
The annual Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) badminton tournament opens on Friday in Kampala. The event sponsored by UCC will run from Friday 23 to 25th April 2010 at Sharing Youth Centre Nsambya in Kampala. The event organised by Uganda Badminton Association (UBA) has attracted about 350 players from across the country. Uganda Communications Commission has […]
Ultimate Media The Minister of Uganda for Agriculture, Hope Mwesigye has accused the Parliamentary Public Accounts committee (PAC) of attempting to damage her reputation. This follows today’s media reports in Kampala that she walked out on the committee probing the misuse of CHOGM funds. Minister Mwesigye was required to appear before PAC to answer […]
Ultimate Media The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has today announced that it registered a tax revenue shortfall of about 41 billion shillings in March 2010. The URA Commissioner in charge of Public Affairs, Paul Kyeyune says that the deficit in revenue collections were due to tax leakages. Kyeyune however says the overall trend of […]
Ultimate Media The President General of Uganda Peoples’ Congress (UPC), Dr. Olara Otunnu insists that he is not going to appear at Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) for interrogation claiming that he has no case to answer. Dr. Otunu was summoned to the police last week to clarify on statements he allegedly made while on […]
Electrical and electronics dealers are crying that delay of transportation of their goods is hindering their business and sales. They say that infrastructural difficulties like poor roads and counterfeits in different parts of the East African region affect the delivery of their goods because most of them get spoilt along the way when in […]
Ultimate Media Uganda’s Minister of Trade and Industry, Major General Kahinda Otafire is urging Ugandans to avoid consumption of unlicensed liquor for the safety of their own lives. Otafiire was today responding to reports of deaths confirmed in Kabale following consumption of a poisonous waragi in Kabale district. The death toll in Kabale has […]