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Uganda’s prime minister Amama Mbabazi starts own press unit

Prime Minister, Amama Mbabazi is meticulously warming up to replace president Museveni the moment the Ugandan head of state quits statehouse. The info we have got from statehouse indicates that Mbabazi even though he is being probed over his reported illegal oil deals, he is traversing the country mobilizing support for NRM while selling his […]

Uganda demonstrators to be tried in military courts

Uganda is soon making a law to have people arrested during political related demonstrations charged in military court marital courts. This is because the Uganda laws are so weak and they don’t punish the demonstrators. According to the meeting held yesterday at statehouse, it was resolved that putting demonstrators before court martial is the right […]

Makerere University lecturers to go on strike again over pay

Makerere University lecturers under their body, MUASA (Makerere University Academic Staff Association) are planning to stage another strike if the government does not act fast and increase their salaries. MUASA President, Prof. Tanga Odoi says the government has failed to fulfill the promises made to the lecturers in September 2011 while convincing them to end the August […]

MPs query Picfare industries over Burundi T-shirts

Members of Parliament on the public accounts committee of parliament have expressed concern that the picfare industries limited went ahead to supply 300,000 T-shirts worth 1.3 billion shillings to the Burundian government as part of scholastic materials. The government of Burundi authorized Uganda to pay the monies owed to Burundi to Picfare industries in turn […]

UPC chairman says Odit and Pulkol are not suspended

The Chairman of Uganda People Congress (UPC) party, Maj. Edward Rurangaranga has said that by constitution David Pulkol and Odit are still officials of the party. Addressing the media in Kampala today, Rurangaranga reiterated that the party constitution does not give the party president powers to expel the officials who were elected by the General […]

Uganda demonstrators to be judged in military courts

Uganda is soon making a law to have people arrested during political related demonstrations charged in military court marital courts. This is because the Uganda laws are so weak and they don’t punish the demonstrators. According to the meeting held yesterday at statehouse, it was resolved that putting demonstrators before court martial is the right […]

Former Mayor of Kampala Nasser Sebaggala may return in Democratic Party

We have heard that the former mayor of Kampala Hajji Nasser Sebaggala is preparing to get back into the Democratic Party. May be he has realised that he is not relevant to NRM, lost his political weight and had no capacity of driving opposition members to NRM. With most of his political capital already spent, […]

Southern Sudan now member of EAC bloc, says president Museveni of the republic of Uganda, Uganda is the third largest economy in East Africa, a region which currently comprises of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and Kenya

Southern Sudan has become the sixth member of the East African Community after Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda. Its application to enter into the bloc was accepted last month according to president Museveni. The new African country was allowed into the EAC because of the factor of proximity. The EAC act provides that any […]

Music producer Eddy Yawe migrates to Kyadondo East in central Uganda

After losing the last February 2011 parliamentary polls in Kampala Central division to NRM candidate, Mohammad Nsereko, Uganda music producer Eddy Yawe plans to shift to Kyadondo East and fight to replace FDC’s Ibrahim Nganda as area MP. We have been told that Yawe has bought a chunk of land in Kireka and he is […]

Omara Atubo sent to Arusha parliament

Former Lands minister, Omara Atubo is soon going to East African Legislative Assembly if all political factors remain constant. Sources say that the government wants to take him to Arusha because the former minister is currently broke after losing his re-election bid as MP in Acholi sub region. We have heard that president Museveni has […]

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