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By Walakira Nyanzi DR. SYLIVIA TAMALE Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sylvia Tamale is one of the leading female academicians and human rights activists in Uganda. She is a Lecturer and former Dean of the Makerere University Faculty of Law. Dr. Tamale has a bachelor of laws with honours from Makerere University, Masters in Laws from Harvard […]
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By Walakira Nyanzi, Ultimate Media Passengers traveling to northern Uganda, west Nile and eastern Uganda for Easter season may find it hard as transport fares have been doubled and in some incidences tripled. Traveling to western Uganda will cost passengers a fortune. The buses that have been charging between 15,000 to 20,000 shillings […]
Ultimate Media The government of Uganda has dismissed conclusions by the Human Rights Watch that Uganda still faces a security threat from the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels who the internal human rights body said are on rampage killing civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Human Rights Watch in a report last week said […]
Ultimate Media The recent past has seen a lot of criticism directed at Makerere University for supposedly not producing graduates with limited skills to meet the demands of market conditions. While this can be dismissed as Makerere hate talk in some circles, the local business community through the Uganda Private Sector Foundation in its budget […]
Ultimate Media Business has come to a standstill in Katwe, a Kampala suburb today morning when youth supporters of the ruling National Resistance Movement government marched on the city roads launching the fourth term for President Museveni. The supporters guided by the Five Resident District Commissioners of Kampala and police urged Museveni to stand for […]
Ultimate Media Another person has been confirmed dead following a stampede at Kasubi tombs on Friday morning. The woman who died has been identified as Grace Nakanwagi a tomato seller at St. Balikudembe (Owino) Market. On Friday Harriet Namudu – a tea vendor also at Owino market died. The stampede occurred during the special prayers […]
By Gerald Businge “This interview has to take less than ten minutes. I have to go for my meal,” Omar Lee Robertson says, after agreeing to sit down for this interview. Robertson is seated on the verandah at 2576 Bancroft Way, the same time I have seen him when I pass by this route. It […]
Ultimate Media In order to solve the increasing water needs of cattle keepers, the government of Uganda is planning to set up a bulldozer tractor hire scheme in cattle keeping areas of Nkole, Karamoja, Ntungamo and Nakasongola among others. The tractors are going to help herdsmen to dig their own valley dams. The State Minister […]