Independent Candidate, Erias Lukwago has been declared winner of the Kampala Mayoral elections held on Monday March 14th. The Kampala district returning officer Molly Mutazindwa declared Lukwago winner with 229,325 votes, representing 64% of the total votes cast. He was followed by National Resistance Movement flag bearer Peter Sematimba with 119,015 votes representing 33%. The […]
A Report from the Ministry of Health indicates that lose of government medicine to the fraudulent health workers is on increase. While addressing a press conference in Kampala Dr. Diana Atwine, the head of the recently Medicines and Health Service Delivery Monitoring Unit said several health officials across the country are being investigated over medicine […]
Two Kampala mayoral candidates Emmanuel Tumusiime and Sandra Ngabo have not participated in today’s elections because could not find their names on the voters register. Sandra Ngabo says she did not find her name in the voters’ register but some sources say she is registered in Wakiso district a conurbation of Kampala. Emanuel Tumusiime of […]
Preliminary results from Monday’s elections for Mayor of Kampoala city show that Democratic party leaning Independent candidate Erias Lukwago is leading, with National Resistance Movement candidate peter Sematimba second. Lukwago is leading leads in Nakawa, Kawempe, and Rubaga divisions but information from all polling stations was not yet available. There are six candidates in the […]
An intensive training for the small scale traders and medium manufacturers has started today at Lugogo Manufacturers show ground in Kampala. The training that is organized by the Private Sector Foundation Uganda is to train the small scale traders and medium manufacturers on how they can expand businesses, acquire loans from financial institutions and improve […]
The President of the People’s Development party Dr. Abed Bwanika has called for a national consultative conference between the ruling National Resistance Movement and other political parties that participated in the 2011 general elections. Bwanika says the results of the 2011 elections left a bitter taste in all opposition parties who complain of having […]
By Barnabas Peter Two Members of Parliament from Bunyoro Sub-region are opposed to the extension of the presidential tenure to seven years as is being proposed by some MPS Barnabas Tinkasimire an NRM stalwart and Member of Parliament for Buyaga East in Kibaale District says that there is no need for increasing the tenure of […]
The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) supporter and Chairperson elect Rubaga Division Joyce Sebugwawo has refuted police reports that she is training a stick wielding youth brigade. While talking to the media at Christ the King church in Kampala, Sebugwawo said that she is a lover of peace therefore she cannot indulge in violence […]
Uganda Telecom has said it does not owe MTN Uganda the 20 billion shillings that MTN Uganda claimed has caused it to consider terminating interconnection calls with UTL. Uganda Telecom today issued a statement saying they have paid all interconnection fees due to MTN in November 2010 and January 2011. “There is however […]
Justice John Bosco Katusi chose to end his illustrious career in the Uganda judiciary with a sting sentence on David Chandi Jamwa, the former Managing Director of the National Social Security Fund. Katusi sentenced Jamwa to 12 years in jail for causing financial loss to the NSSf. But what surprised many was the additional […]