Kampala Central division chairman, Godfrey Nyakaana is preparing to quit politics come 2016 general elections. A source in Uganda’s ruling party, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) has told us that Nyakaana has informed the party leadership that he wants to quit politics such that he concentrates on his businesses. Nyakaana has ruled Kampala Central division […]
Being in power, the ruling government is not taking Col. Kiiza Besigye and his FDC activities and support lightly. We have been told that the National Resistance Movement (NRM) working hand in hand with intelligence networks have embarked on conventions in Ntungamo and western Uganda in general aiming at sensitizing the people there not to […]
In what looks like a bid to please the ruling National Resistance Movement party, particularly the president, former convicted Obote II minister, Chris Rwakasiisi has bought his daughter a yellow Mercedes Benz. This writer has learnt from Rwakasiisi’s pals that the former inmate is very loaded man currently and runs his family affairs normally as […]
The incoming woman MP for Luweero district, Brenda Nabukenya will take oath of allegiance on Tuesday next week. The ceremony will be presided over by the Clerk to Parliament, who will work hand in hand with the speaker of Uganda Parliament, Ms Rebecca Kadaga. Article 81 (4-5) of the Constitution requires every person elected to […]
Justice Minister, Maj. Gen. Kahinda Otafiire will never cease to amuse especially when he is hitting at the government critics. The National Resistance Movement (NRM) youth who were yesterday in a closed door meeting were treated to a light moment when Otafiire explained to them why the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) President, Col. Kiiza […]
We have been told by impeccable sources that a major reshuffle is looming at the electoral commission over what the ruling government calls offering poor quality services. A source in government intimates to us that the appointing authority has instructed the commission chairman, Prof. Badru Kiggundu to outline all the commission workers sidelining with opposition […]
The electoral commission recently reinstated the Democratic Party’s Brenda Nabukenya as the genuine woman MP for Luweero district. Nabukenya had been declared the winner of the polls after the commission cancelled its earlier call for vote recount. The National Resistance Movement candidate who was the first runner up, Rebecca Nalwanga in her application, had […]
After the ruling NRM party lost the Luweero woman MP race to DP’s Brenda Nabukenya in the recent parliamentary by elections, President Museveni has assured the members of the public that the ruling party is still strong. Meeting NRM supporters in statehouse Kampala today, Museveni explained that his party lost the polls due to some […]
Former Vice President Prof. Gilbert Balibaseka Bukenya has retained his Busiro County North in the 1st December hotly contested by-elections. Prof. Bukenya of National Resistance Movement (NRM) party won the elections with 10,728 votes against 3,035 votes polled by his close rival, Hussein Caster Bukenya of the Democratic Party (DP). Other candidates in the race […]
The Luwero district Returning Officer, Peter Kasozi has stopped the recount of the ballot papers citing tempering with the ballot boxes. The National Resistance Movement party asked for the recount of ballot papers after its candidate, Rebecca Nalwanga was trounced by the Democratic Party’s candidate, Brenda Nabukenya in the 21st November Luwero district Woman Member of […]