NEWS

By Ronald Musoke The Uganda Law Society has labeled the Police’s raid on the premises of M/S O.N Osinde and Co Advocates on Nov. 13 “discourteous and unwarranted.” The body which brings together all practicing lawyers in Uganda called the action “an attack on the decency of the legal profession …

By Julius Odeke An advocacy group says the Ugandan Army’s quest to apprehend Joseph Kony and other senior leaders of the Lord’s Resistance Army is destined to fail unless the number of troops deployed increases and they are provided with better logistical and intelligence information. According to Voice of America, …

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 …