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My concert in South Africa was not a flop, says Iryn Namubiru

PAM awards winner Iryn Namubiru has rubbished media reports that her recent concert in Pretoria SouthAfricaflopped. She has told journalists that the media reports were injected in the press by her enemies in the music industry. She says hundreds of fans entered her show and she collected millions of money. Namubiru says that her show […]

Museveni summons Nathan Igime Nabeta over Jinja East MP loss

President Museveni has invited the former industry minister; Nathan Igime Nabeta to statehouse to console him upon losing last week’s parliamentary by elections in Jinja East to an FDC candidate, Paul Mwiru. Museveni has reportedly summoned Nabeta after Nabeta announced yesterday to members of the press that he is quitting active politics such that he […]

Museveni to sack press staff over negligence of duty

We have been told that president Museveni has threatened to sack the leaders of his press team over negligence of duty. The president is reportedly bitter that his press team is almost the poorest in the east African community. A source in statehouse Nakasero told us this morning that the president wonders how the statehouse […]

Uganda Development Bank reduces interest rates

As a result of the recent hikes of interest rates in the market, many corporate businesses are encountering difficulties in paying back the loans they have acquired from the commercial banks. A couple of weeks back, the traders in Uganda through their umbrella association of ‘Kampala City Traders Association’ staged a sit-down strike protesting against […]

Mbarara hospital to recruit people to offer consultancy services

MbararaRegionalReferralHospitalis set to recruit people to offer it consultancy services and to help it to purchase a vehicle.  The Hospital management has now invited bids from eligible bidders for the supply and delivery of a motor vehicle and provision of consultancy services. The press release the hospital management has issued today indicates that the bidding […]

An Arab kills Ugandans in Southern Sudan

A man believed to be an Arab from Khartoum (Northern Sudan) has killed over 40 people in Southern Sudan. There are fears that the dead might include Ugandans operating in Southern Sudan. The Interior minister in Southern Sudan, Manani Magaya told the press that the people killed were from the cattle corridor of Warrap state. […]

Uganda to open embassy in Ramallah, Palestine

Ugandais to open an embassy in Ramallah inPalestine. The development was recently agreed upon byUgandapresident Yoweri Museveni and thePalestinehead of state, Sheikh Mahmood Abas. Abas is a close friend of President Museveni. And in fact Abas visitedUgandain April last year and held closed door talks with Museveni. LaterUgandastatehouse officials issued a press statement that indicated […]

Norbet Mao of DP buys new house in Luzira

It seems the presidents of opposition parties inUgandahave a secret source where they get cash. After John Ken Lukyamuzi of the Consevative Party and FDC president Col. Kiiza Besigye bought houses in Kololo and Makindye respectively, we have got information that Norbert Mao, the president general of DP has bought a pad in Luzira.  We […]

Tamale Mirundi insists Type of federalism Buganda advocates is impossible

President Yoweri Museveni’s Press Secretary, Tamale Mirundi continues to shock his fellow Baganda. Mirundi has recently been preaching that the type of federalism the kingdom of Buganda is demanding is not only impossible but unworkable. The acerbic Mirundi says that it would be a fraud if Buganda ever gets full federal status it demands. Mirundi […]

Confidential: UYD activists hold two hour meeting with Raila Odinga

A delegation of UYD activists arrived in Kenyan capital Nairobi on Tuesday evening and later held a two hour closed door meeting with Kenyan premier, Raila Odinga. The delegation of Uganda ’s young politicians held their meeting at Raila’s apartment in Nairobi , according to sources in Kenya . It should be remembered that when […]