NEWS

By Aloysious Kasoma Parliament in a special plenary Wednesday afternoon session paid tribute to the fallen former Erute South legislator in Lira district, John Odit. Chaired by deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah, MPs hailed Odit’s contributions to the legislature where he served for 10 years. The motion to pay tribute to …

By Julius Odeke With the continued amount of pressure from donors over the theft of over Shs20bn from the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) World Bank is considering slashing aid to the Kampala government. “The World Bank Group is concerned about recent allegations of misuse of public funds in …

By Aloysious Kasoma The suspected deadly Ebola fever has been detected in Nyimbwa sub-county in Luweero district and two members of the same family have died. This latest incidence happened in Sombwe Parish about 40km north of Kampala.  Joseph Okware, the Luwero District Health Officer Wednesday confirmed that the dead …

By Julius Odeke Members of the Parliamentary Committee on East African Community Affairs in the Republic of Uganda have promised to recommend increased Partner States financial contributions for the Lake Victoria Basin Commission (LVBC). The Parliamentarians, who were on a two-today visit to LVBC Secretariat in Kisumu, Kenya, were responding …

By Chris Agwokotho Odubi The population of the gorillas  in Bwindi Impenetrable  National Park  is at a  minimum of  400 according to the current census  by the Uganda  Wild Life Authority,  International  Gorilla Conservation Program(IGCP), Institute for the Conservation of Nature (ICCN) in DRC  and RDB in Rwanda. The results …

By Julius Odeke The minister for ethics Fr. Simon Lokodo says Uganda is currently besieged with very worrying allegations of grand corruption notably, the mismanagement of funds in the Office of the Prime Minister totaling to Shs. 38.3 billion. He says the National Resistance Movement (NRM) government in 1986 inherited …

By Ronald Musoke The National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC) plans to retain Luganda language onto the lower secondary curriculum contrary to what sections of the Ugandan public have been saying. Early this week, officials in Buganda Kingdom were up in arms and threatened to petition Parliament should such a move …

By Joan Akello The U.S. Mission to Uganda, and the  Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA)  registered  increasing tourism and wildlife conservation in the Lake Albert Region of Uganda, with the conclusion of the three-year, USAID-funded ”Sustainable Tourism in the Albertine Rift” (USAID-STAR) project. The final report was released this week at …

By Joan Akello Labour unions have observed that precarious work is taking over permanent employment especially in the private sector. Uganda Investment Authority has focused on generating new investments and creating employment through foreign, joint venture and local projects.   351,194  jobs were created from a total of  2, 226 licensed …

By Ronald Musoke Ugandans will only benefit from its oil and gas resources if the country’s Parliament comes up with a nationalistic oil and gas legal regime which is futuristic and inter-generational to ensure transparency and accountability. According to Arthur Benomugisha, the executive director of the Advocates Coalition on Development …