By Gerald Businge on January 9, 2012
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Fellow Ugandans, I congratulate you all, upon the completion of the year 2011 and wish you a prosperous 2012. I wish to convey my sympathies to all who have experienced losses and misfortunes during the course of the year. We thank God for all the successes we have had as individuals and as a Nation. I congratulate […]
By Gerald Businge on December 30, 2011
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Kampala based lawyer Hamada Mulumba has filed a petition in the High Court seeking an injusction against the government granting of oil licenses and approving oil deals and halting the activities of Tullow oil company. Through Bwambale , Musede and Co. Advocates, Mulumba states that 50% of the stake Tullow Bought from Heritage Oil was […]
By Gerald Businge on December 25, 2011
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Members of Parliament investigating the mismanagement of the Power sector have today heard that the Government of Uganda does not have any expert to represent it in monitoring the water levels at the Kiira Dam as it is discharged to generate power. The power generation at the dam is managed through a concession by Eskom, […]
By Gerald Businge on December 21, 2011
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The Uganda National Examination Board has today released the 2011 nurses’ examination results indicating a general improvement in performance. Announcing the results, the Executive Secretary of the Nurses Examinations Board, Helen Kataratambi said that a total of 2433 candidates sat for the exams with 49 passing with distinctions, and only 41 were ungraded. She has […]
By Gerald Businge on December 10, 2011
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The queen of Buganda lady Sylvia Nagginda has launched the global fight action on Maternal and child health campaign with an aim of achieving the Millennium Development Goals. The MDGs that are set to be achieved through the campaign include strengthening of gender equitable national health sector action plans, ensuring health plans, reducing maternal deaths […]
By Gerald Businge on December 1, 2011
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The Prime Minister John Patrick Amama Mbabazi has blasted whoever is calling him corrupt saying such people are idiots. Mbabazi who had come to present a self defence before the Parliamentary ad hoc committee on the regularization of the oil sector says many people have branded him corrupt whereas he is not. The Prime minister […]
By Gerald Businge on November 29, 2011
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As Uganda prepares for oil production, National environment management authority is in the process of developing an oil spill contingency plan which will help in controlling of oil spills that might come up as production begins. This was revealed by NEMA environment inspector Isaac Ntujju while addressing journalists in Kampala. Ntujju said that oil spills […]
By Gerald Businge on November 25, 2011
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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 […]
By Gerald Businge on November 22, 2011
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Things will not be easy when oil debates resumes in the Uganda’s ninth parliament anytime from now according to Budadiri west MP Nandala Mafabi. Mafabi who president Museveni’s advisor in charge of the media issues John Nagenda recently termed as an improvement of FDC leader, Col. Kiiza Besigye has today told the executive to get prepared […]
By Gerald Businge on November 22, 2011
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Members of parliament on the parliamentary committee investigating irregularities in the energy sector have discovered that Nalubale power plant is producing more power than kiira power plant yet there have been claims that the new dam was constructed to relieve pressure from the old dam. A member of this committee engineer Gabriel Ajedra says that […]
