Information reaching our news desk has it that Uganda’s soldiers have been secretly hired to monitor Kenya’s national election exercise. The sources in Kenya told us that Nairobi accepted to hire Ugandan soldiers because they are rough enough to encounter any type of post election hooliganism and violence. Uganda soldiers will partner with other regional […]
On Friday last week I attended a human rights dialogue convened by human rights network in Uganda and the police force and human rights activists interfaced at Nkumba University and the deliberations pre-empted this journalist to find out a draft of the public order management bill, 2009 to which the police was defending very […]
The minister of education and sports ms Jessica Alupo presided over the release of S6 exams which the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) released on Tuesday in Uganda’s capital city Kampala. According to the 2012 S6 examination results released, there was an increase in last year’s performance compared to the year 2011. There were […]
I have observed the development of two countries in East Africa over the last 10 years and how those countries have used their Social Security Funds. In Tanzania the rulers there built the largest a Public University in East Africa and they funded thousands of housing units, constructed over 20000 km of tarmac roads, […]
The public order management bill has been widely criticised by members of the public with some politicians terming it as “a disaster to Ugandans and an infringement on the freedom of speech and after speech.” After reading through the bill, the president of the Democratic Party, Norbert Mao got no kind words for it […]
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 […]
Police swung into action on Friday and stormed Nkumba University bringing all the work at the institution of higher learning to a stand still. The police stormed the university because over 100 opposition youth were attending a human rights dialogue at Nkumba University at the invitation of human rights network-Uganda (hurinet-u). The police force […]
Uganda will offer consular services to the Ugandan community in Southern Sudan after the establishment of her permanent diplomatic representation in South Sudan by constructing an embassy in Juba. Juba is the capital city of South Sudan. The Kampala government plans to construct a mission block, apartment block, generator house, and gate house and […]
At least 18 students from Makerere University who were arrested on Monday this week during a students’ strike over tuition fees were sent to Luzira Upper Prison until next week. Among the students sent Luzira include Makerere University Councilor Bernard Luyiga, who on Tuesday collapsed from a Police Cell in Kampala. The suspects […]
A powerful born again pastor in Uganda has killed his wife in a domestic misunderstanding. Pastor Bernard Bekunda, went missing after the reported urder of his wife. The case is registered at the Police as number CRB 091/13. The police identified the pastor’s wife as Peace Tukahumura. Pastor Bekunda was ministering at the United […]