By Gerald Businge on March 9, 2012
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Muslims have no right to wear veils while entering schools, hospitals, markets and public places in Uganda. The new development follows an incidence at Masaka School of Comprehensive Nursing when a lecturer sent out two female Muslim girls from class for wearing veils while at school. Ms Olivia Kyere allegedly ousted Ms Shamim Nakitende and […]
By Gerald Businge on March 8, 2012
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Drama ensued onDuster street in Kampala city today when a group of angry taxi drivers stormed radio one and Kaboozi FM demanding the head of a radio presenter popularly known as Basajja Mivule. The drivers accused Mivule of being biased whenever he discusses the issue concerning the transport business inKampala. The drivers complain that Mivule […]
By Gerald Businge on February 24, 2012
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The funders of Uganda’s opposition parties from Europe have today held closed door meeting with the leaders of Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC), Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), Social Democratic Party and Democratic Party (DP). The meeting we are told took place in Kasangati in the home of Col. Kiiza Besigye of FDC. In attendance was […]
By Gerald Businge on February 21, 2012
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Scholarships for Primary and High School students; The following is a list of scholarships available for Primary and High School students. · African Leadership Academy Scholarships · Ambassadors Girls’ Scholarship Program · Batonga Foundation Girls Scholarships Canadian Harambee Education Society Scholarship · Co-operative Bank Foundation Scholarships Kenya Education Scholarship Grants Elimu Fund Scholarships for High […]
By Gerald Businge on February 3, 2012
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In our first news report we told you that FDC has branded some of its MPs in the Uganda ninth parliament as rebels. The rebel MPs in FDC we are told are those FDC members who criticise the party president Col. Kiiza Besigye whenever he goes wrong. Like in NRM, Besigye doesn’t want people to […]
By Gerald Businge on January 19, 2012
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The budget running KCCA now was not debated by the appropriate organ called the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) which was supposed to make what they call a budget break down according to priority areas of the city. The figures that came from the central government as conditional grants were instead broken down by the […]
By Gerald Businge on January 17, 2012
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The Chairman of Kampala City Traders’ Association Everest Kayondo says they are not satisfied with the out come of their recent strike. Kayondo says that despite having resumed business, the traders still need to put more pressure on the government to put a ceiling on the interest rates commercial banks charge on loans. The traders […]
By Gerald Businge on January 10, 2012
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The President General of Uganda Federal Alliance, Betty Namisango Kamya has met with the officials of Electoral Commission inKampalatoday to agree on the roadmap towards the preparation of the referendum to change the system of governance from unitary to federalism in 2015. The electoral commission decided to meet Betty Kamya today five days back. The […]
By Gerald Businge on December 30, 2011
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It seems factions in Uganda’s oldest opposition political party, the Democratic Party (DP) are not about to end soon. After the party was split recently over leadership row, we have been reliably informed that the party is once again divided over elections of a person to represent the party in the East African Legislative Assembly. […]
By Gerald Businge on December 20, 2011
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The era of each LCI village council across the country to print its own stamp or stamps is soon coming to an end. This is because many LCI executives have been abusing the right given to them to make their own stamps. Many LCI executives especially chairpersons, vice chairpersons, and secretaries have been holding different […]
