Reflections a Japadhola cultural leader on bride price, cultures and colonialism Many people talk glibly about something they call African culture. In The New Vision of March 31, Jenn Jegire of Canada wrote a letter entitled, “Nothing barbaric about bride wealth”. She wrote about bride price, colonialism and African culture. The problem for me is that […]
The government of Uganda has been called upon to put in place more mechanisms to ensure women who are sexually abused and those facing domestic violence get justice. The call was made by international human rights organization Amnesty International at the launch of their new report I Can’t Afford Justice – Violence against women in […]
Ultimate Media Buganda Road Court has warned that the bail earlier granted to Aruu county MP Odonga Otto could be canceled due to his constant failure to appear for trial. MP Odonga Otto faces charges of threatening violence for having allegedly vowed to beat up a journalist with the Red Pepper, one Stanley Ndaula. The […]
Ultimate Media Members of Parliament’s public accounts committee are accusing some of their colleagues and some ministers of trying to discredit their work by laying different traps. The committee is investigating the expenditure of funds during the 2007 Common Wealth Heads of Government and has so far discovered several cases in which public funds were […]
Ultimate Media Makerere University vice chancellor Prof Venasius Baryamureeba has dismissed claims that he influenced the decisions of the University Electoral commission to Announce the NRM candidate as winner of the polls. The much contested poll raised alot of storm at the campus which earlier caused the death of two international students. Prof Baryamureeba has […]
Ultimate Media Over 1, 500 former workers of the Uganda Railways Cooperation have today petitioned parliament over unpaid pension. The workers are decrying the impromptu pay of their pension having retired many years back. Some of petitioners retired as early as 1990 after over 30 years of service. The chairman Uganda Railways Pensioners Association, Manase […]
Ultimate Media The probe committee into the alleged misuse of CHOGM funds is to meet President Museveni as one of its witnesses before winding up its investigations. The public accounts committee has so far unearthed many scandals in which billions of the tax payers’ money was either swindled or misused in preparation for the meeting […]
Ultimate Media Uganda Taxi Operators and Drivers Association (UTODA) have started investigating circumstances under which a tax driver in New Taxi Park gave keys of a commuter taxi to a mentally ill man, identified as Robert Mukiga on Monday evening. Police arrested a madman while driving a taxi registration number UAN 686A along Portbell road […]
Ultimate Media The Democratic Party (DP) has today denied being one of the rebel groups in Uganda. The development follows army reports that the captured LRA political commissar, Solomon Okello ‘Mission’ was found with a DP membership card. Okello was captured by Uganda Peoples Defence Forces Soldiers at Ezo in Southern Sudan after a brief […]
By Walakira Nyanzi, Ultimate Media The government of Uganda has asked their counterparts of Sudan to investigate and cause action on LRA ruminants still operating in Southern Sudan. The Minister of Uganda for International Cooperation, Okello Oryem says the government of Uganda is aware that some politicians in Sudan are supplying LRA rebels with food, […]