By Emma Laura N. Kisa on March 4, 2015
education, job creation, poverty eradication, uganda, UNEB
Education news, Featured, Opinions

If you asked the average student what their goal was in school, majority would say to get an A or to highly excel at the exams- in short, to pass on to the next class or level. That is a good goal by any standards but is it enough? Should they not be aiming at […]
By Isaac Senabulya on January 19, 2015
Dr. Sam Lyomoki, Medical workers, ministry of health, uganda, Uganda Medical Workers Union
Health & Medical, Latest Uganda News

Medical workers under their umbrella body, Uganda medical workers union have launched a massive campaign geared at saving the lives of expectant mothers and the live of new borns by reminding government to increase their salaries within 90 days before they resort to worse steps. Addressing a joint press conference today at their offices in […]
By Emma Laura N. Kisa on July 25, 2014
Hope, land, Titles, uganda
Featured
Mr. Lubowa Charles had hoped and prayed for this moment for a long time. On a cold and wet February morning, in an office at Mengo Chief Magistrates Court, in the west of Kampala, the words coming from the judge caused him to heave a great sigh of relief. Not given to emotional outbursts or […]
By Emma Laura N. Kisa on June 26, 2014
Africa, home, Immigrants, uganda, UK, United Kingdom
Featured, Insipiration
“Sometimes God closes a door and opens a gate.” This was the facebook status of Adi Kakande, sometime in March 2013, a month into her trip to her homeland Uganda, and about the time she decided she would be staying on. For the last three years she had lived in the United Kingdom (UK), first […]
By Emma Laura N. Kisa on January 30, 2014
maternal mortality, MDG 5, MDGs, Millennium Development Goals, Mothers, pregnancy, uganda
Health, Opinions
On May 15th 1989 my mother, Resty Nakanwagi, passed from this life, leaving me and my older siblings motherless. A sadder detail is that she left a new born baby because she died in child birth. In my native toungue, Luganda, giving birth is refered to as a woman’s fight. How true that is! Fast […]
By Gerald Businge on November 18, 2013
Fojo Media Institute, Human Rights Watch, James Kigozi, kampala, Lars Tallert, Peter Wandera, Transparency International Uganda, uganda, Uganda Media Development Foundation, Wakiso district, yoweri museveni, Zambia
Featured, Latest Uganda News, Politics
A new project has been initiated to enable citizens in Uganda and Zambia to report suspected corruption and misuse of public funds using web and mobile tools. The Action for Transparency (A4T) Project has built an app and website that gives the opportunity for anyone who can connect to the Internet to report on suspected corruption […]
By Gerald Businge on May 24, 2013
Government accounting officers, National Resistance Movement, uganda, yoweri museveni
Reports & lists
1. OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT Katuramu Deborah 2. OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER Guwatudde Kintu Christine 3. MINISTRY OF FINANCE, PLANNING & ECONOMIC DEV’T Muhakanizi Keith 4. MINISTRY OF DEFENCE Byengoma Rosette 5. MINISTRY OF AGRICULUTRE, ANIMAL INDUSTRY & FISHERIES Rubarema Vincent 6. MINISTRY OF ENERGY & MINERALS Kabagambe Kaliisa Fred 7. MINISTRY OF WORKS […]
By Gerald Businge on May 2, 2013
Amama Mbabazi, National Resistance Movement, Rebecca Kadaga, uganda
Latest Uganda News, Politics
The Speaker of Uganda’s Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has delivered her much anticipated ruling on the MPs who were recently suspended by the rulling National Resistance Movement party over indiscipline. The MPs’ positions have been hanging in balance following fluid provisions of the constitution on whether an MP loses their seat if suspended by his or […]
By Gerald Businge on May 1, 2013
Kizza Besigye, Mugisha Muntu, Olara Otunnu, Tina Turner, uganda, yoweri museveni
Politics
Nobert MAO Continues Assault on Col. Dr. Kizza Besigye. Below is his latest utterances: – “There are two tendencies in the opposition today. There are those who believe that political parties are irrelevant and we should embrace a personality driven struggle and not bother with the agenda we seek to achieve. Then there are those […]
By Gerald Businge on April 23, 2013
airtel, Airtel Uganda, Bharti Airtel, Customer, India, Market share, telecom companies in Uganda, uganda, warid, Warid Telcom Uganda
Business news, Featured, Latest Uganda News
Many Ugandans are coming to terms with the sad reality that the telephone network that brought low calling rates and several innovative products in the telephone market is no more. After several days of rumours that Warid Telecom Uganda was in some sort of crisis, it has now been confirmed that telecom firm has been […]