It is shocking but true. We have reliably learnt that doctors at Mulago hospital have body scanners but lacks capacity to operate them. But Mulago has been bragging all the years that it has the best facilities and best doctors. Our research indicates that the doctors at Nsambya and Lubaga hospital can assemble and […]
Erias Lukwago is the 18th mayor of Kampala and the first lord mayor in transition that started way back in 1950s, Walakira Nyanzi writes. But Lukwago is only the fourth mayor to be directly elected by Kampala residents in a secret ballot. The following are other 17 distinguished citizens that have served as Mayors […]
Former His worship the mayor of Kampala, John Sebaana Kizito was born on 12th September 1934, in Mpande village, Luweero district. He is a Muganda and attended Ndejje SS, Kibuli SS and King’s Colleague Budo for secondary education (1945-55), Makerere University for a B.A Economics (1956-60) and the University of Oregon, USA for an […]
The Electoral Commission (EC) has rejected the Democratic Party demands to extend the number of days for campaigns in the Butambala parliamentary by-elections. Addressing a press conference on Wednesday in Kampala, the party DP Secretary general Mathias Nsubuga demanded the commission to extend the period saying that the time allocated for the exercise is […]
Kampala Deputy Lord Mayor, Sulaiman Kidandala was finally approved two months ago but he was yet to get a single penny as Deputy Lord Mayor because he was not yet sworn in. The Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago had first blocked the swearing in ceremony of Kidandala because the Lord Mayor reasoned that he had done […]
The US Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton has warned President Museveni of the Republic of Uganda and his counterpart Paul Kagame of the Republic of Rwanda to stop recruiting and funding M23 Rebels to destabilise and kill civilians in DR Congo. Sources in Kampala told our informers that ms Hilary Clinton who is on a […]
Voter bribery, intimidation of supporters and arrests of opposition members marred Kasese district woman MP by elections on Wednesday. There was heavy military and police deployment in the district. But the voter turn up was low at most of the poling stations and a number of voting irregularities were reported. Much of the vote […]
The Vice president of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Salaamu Musumba has been arrested and detained in Kasese district over reported election malpractices in Kasese district woman parliamentary by-elections. Musumba was arrested on Wednesday midday after she went to the police to visit FDC supporters’ police arrested on Tuesday for ‘supporting the FDC candidate […]
Ugandan president Gen. Museveni and Rwandan president Paul Kagame are planning to deploy troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo to fight the different rebel groups in the eastern part of the country. Other African heads of state that want to deploy in DR Congo are, Tanzania’s Jakaya Kikwete, Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi, and […]
Makerere University, Kampala has promised to continue creating avenues of innovation in the fields of science and technology and improve on research. Prof. Venansius Baryamureeba, the vice chancellor of Makerere University says that the continued existence of this 90 year old institution of learning will depend on its research and innovations in science. Baryamureeba says […]