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UNPHC set to announce final Census 2014 results

UNPHC set to announce final Census 2014 results

The Uganda National Population and Housing Census (UNPHC) are set to announce the final Census results for 2014 on 24th March 2016. The Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) Spokesperson Godfrey Nyabong says that they are to give the final figure for 2014 population census and the estimated number for According to the provisional census results released […]

Kyambadde open to working with opponents

Kyambadde open to working with opponents

The newly elected Mawokota North MP, Hon. Amelia Kyambadde is maintaining her stand to continue extending basic social services to her electorates to better their living stands with Amelia  being ready to work with her opponents in the just concluded race as one of the ways to develop and address challenges of the electorates. According […]

Mabiriizi asks EC to withdraw security in wake of kidnap

Mabiriizi asks EC to withdraw security in wake of kidnap

Presidential candidate Joseph Mabiriizi instructs Electoral Commission to withdraw security following his alleged kidnapping. Mabiriizi who is contesting on an independent ticket says  the security that was availed to offer protection has failed to guarantee his safety therefore he can live without it. He made the remarks at a press conference organized at MacKinnon suits in […]

Robert Sekitooleko threatens to sue UNEB’s Bukenya

Robert Sekitooleko threatens to sue UNEB’s Bukenya

The Nakifuma County Member of Parliament Eng. Robert Sekitooleko has threatened to sue the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) Secretary General Mathew Bukenya over miss communication about his qualifications. Previously, Sekitooleko was disqualified from the National Resistance Movement (NRM) primaries over lack of academic qualifications. He says that Bukenya never bothered to call and find out his views about the missing […]

Requiem held for Hon. Dr. James Shinyabulo Mutende

Requiem held for Hon. Dr. James Shinyabulo Mutende

The Deputy Speaker, Jacob Oulanyah and other Members of Parliament paid their respect to the late Hon. Dr. James Shinyabulo Mutende, the former Minister of State for Industry and Ex-Officio MP, during the requiem held for him yesterday, Tuesday 6th October 2015, at All Saints Cathedral, Nakasero. The late Hon. Mutende died on the night of […]

‘Major General Bamuze deserves a decent burial’ – West Nile Leaders

‘Major General Bamuze deserves a decent burial’ – West Nile Leaders

Leaders from west Nile demand for a state burial for Major General Ali Abdalaman   Bamuze who passed on Sunday last week. Addressing the press at parliament one of the members of parliament from west Nile and member of the organizing committee for the burial Hassan Kaps Fungaroo says the late deserves a decent burial, depending on his […]

Parliament pays tribute to Aronda

Parliament pays tribute to Aronda

Parliament pays tribute to the minister of Internal Affairs late General Aronda Nyakairima’s military professionalism and being loyal to serving Ugandans. This  as most Members of Parliament Shan away from paying tribute to the fallen General and minister of internal Affairs as they concentrated to campaigns in their constituencies  in preparation for party primaries. The Speaker […]

Speaker of Parliament commiserates with the family and mourners of the late General Aronda Nyakairima

Speaker of Parliament commiserates with the family and mourners of the late General Aronda Nyakairima

The Speaker of Parliament Rt. Hon. Rebecca Kadaga has described the late General Aronda Nyakairima as a person of integrity and humility and one who listened to everyone and yet only spoke after ascertaining the facts. Kadaga who was commiserating with the family and mourners at the Aronda family residence in Buziga, said she was […]

Papal visit preparations

Papal visit preparations

The vice chairperson of the Pope visit preparation committee who is also the arch bishop of Kampala, His grace Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, revealed that they expect Pope Francis to be in Uganda from 27th -29th  of November as he will join the nation in marking the golden jubilee of the Uganda martyrs. Addressing a press conference at Namugongo today, Lwanga says […]

Parliament mourns death of Sheikh Ibrahim Hassan Kirya

Parliament mourns death of Sheikh Ibrahim Hassan Kirya

Parliament mourned the death of Sheikh Ibrahim Hassan Kirya who was on Tuesday night shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Bweyogerere. A moment of silence was held in parliament in mourning the death Sheikh Ibrahim Hassan Kirya after the Minister of state for Internal Affairs Ambassador James Baba made a ministerial statement on the Sheikh’s murder on […]