Pope Benedict XVI toured St Peter’s Square in his pope mobile one last time on Wednesday in front of tens of thousands of pilgrims on the eve of his historic resignation as Pope. Over ten thousand Catholics have attended this very important ceremony in the history of the Catholic Church. Pilgrims flocked from Africa, […]
The most senior figure in Britain’s Catholic Church, Cardinal Keith O’Brien has resigned and Pope Benedict XVI accepted his resignation. The resignation came in the same month of Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation. Cardinal Keith O’Brien was due to fly to Vatican to vote for the next Pope. The big question now, what is the […]
The Catholic Church is not worried about any negative consequences following the resignation of the Pope. The surprising news of Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation are continued to draw mixed reactions, although it is gradually being accepted that the prelate was very weak to continue an active role as Pope. Assistant Parish priest Lweza Fr Emmanuel […]
Makerere University Acting vice Chancellor Prof. Venansious Baryamureba escaped being thrown in a trench by angry university students from Nsibirwa hall of residence. The students were demonstrating over poor sanitation in their toilets and internship money. When they went to demand for an explanation why the toilets could not be fixed and why they could […]
It seems President Museveni would have developed high blood pressure if he was not a revolutionary. The hardworking president summoned all MPs on government side for a meeting to discuss the resignation of Ministers Syda Bbumba (Gender) and Khiddu Makubuya (General Duties). The two ministers resigned last week after the Public Accounts Committee of the […]
President Museveni has this morning met with his Cabinet in Kampala and discussed with the ministers the precarious environment his government is in following the resignation of six ministers over corruption allegations. The meeting took place in the Cabinet Library at the President’s Office on Parliamentary building, in Kampala central division. Some of the ministers […]
The Member of Parliament for Masaka municipality Mathias Mpuga has called for the resignation of the minister for presidency Kabakumba Matsiko and the minister for information national guidance Mary Okuruti over the scandals they are involved in at UBC. Mpuga told journalist at parliament that Matsiko was the minister of information and national guidance a time when many UBC […]
Former energy minister Hillary Onek was thrown out of the adhoc committee investigating the oil sector after he failed to provide a presentation on his case of alleged bribery. Onek is accused, together with Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi and foreign affairs minister Sam Kuteesa of taking bribes from oil companies. The committee, chaired by Michael […]
The Attorney General, Peter Nyombi has said the resolutions passed by Parliament asking Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi and Internal affairs minister, Hillary Onek to step aside are not binding. In the resolutions passed by the House last month, the MPs demanded that the two ministers step down to give room for investigations into claims that […]
The Prime Minister, Amama Mbabazi has defended the group of independent MPs who attended the NRM caucus meeting at Kyankwanzi close to a month ago. Aruu County MP, Odonga Otto yesterday filed a petition before the Attorney General’s office, seeking to call for 17 independent MPs to be thrown out of Parliament. The MPs’ woes […]