It’s easy to point fingers and throw blame at our leaders especially when things aren’t going right or when the country seems to be headed the wrong direction. But as we cry and demand for change, how can we guarantee that new leaders won’t repeat the same failed mistakes of Uganda’s past history? In other […]
The Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development on June 15 read the national budget 2012/2013. The budget as better funding education and health among other sectors, while some new charges like more tax on water has been heavily criticized. Government of Uganda Budget Financial Year 2012-13 is a detailed copy of the national budget speech and […]
Senior police detectives have started a probe into the forex bureaus that are operating at the King Fahd plaza in Kampala following reports that some of the money exchanging bureaus on the building are run by conmen. Sources in Uganda Police say they have learnt that if you change currency at King Fahd Plaza, particularly […]
Traditional leaders (witchcrafts) in Uganda want to visit Mecca and Medina. Mecca and Medina are holy cities in the Muslim faith. The traditional leaders preparing to visit Mecca and Medina are led by their head, Maama Fiina (Sylvia Namutebi). The traditional hemembers say that even if they believe and worship idols they remain people who […]
Many people around the world were yesterday left wondering how a human being can fall down and cry bitterly over the death of an animal. This is what happened among the communities staying around Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Western Uganda. People in their hundreds were seen yesterday crying over the death of a mountain […]
The scarcity of qualified pharmacists in Uganda is constraining the growth of ventures in the health sector in Uganda and African continent in general. The Secretary of the Pharmaceutical Society of Uganda (PSU), Opio Samuel says that Uganda produces 60 pharmacists per year; against the 4,000 desired every year. He says that lack of enough […]
Intelligence briefing: Al Shabaab terrorists plan fatal attack on Uganda Uganda’s intelligent network has got information that the Al Shabaab fighters are planning to use masked men and women to gun political and religious gatherings in Uganda. A source in state intelligence told our reporters that the fighters want to launch simultaneous attacks even on […]
Truck drivers peacefully staged a strike at the Busia Uganda Kenya border. No truck has been able to enter into Uganda or Kenya since morning of Thursday this week because of weighbridge! No taxi collections have been made at the Kenya-Uganda boader since Thursday last week by the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA). Tens of […]
People living with HIV in Uganda and Africa in general are in trouble due to limited access of CD4 machines. And the situation gets worse when some of the few CD4 machines available in some African communities are stolen. For example suspected thugs recently went away with a CD4 machine in Teso sub region […]
The Uganda Communications Commission has reminded the members of the general public that the first phase of the on going national registration of owners of video halls, video libraries, and cinema halls in the districts of Kampala, Luweero, Mukono, and Wakiso ends on July 4th, 2012. The commission has also reminded those esteemed stakeholders who […]