In The Magazine

By Joan Akello Market leader MTN has been losing market share but is piling up innovations “Do you have a Warid line?” That is becoming a familiar question as relative newcomer on the Uganda mobile telephone market Warid Telecom mounts pressure on the competition. Although another player, K2 telecom was …

By Julius Odeke What then, asks opposition leader Gen.Muntu President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni does not hide the real source of his power whenever his grip on it is threatened. It is the army. Museveni showed this recently, barely a month after some of his Members of Parliament commonly known as …

By Julius Odeke Ndorwa East MP Wilfred Niwagaba is one of the NRM MPs whom the party has branded as `rebels’. He spoke to The Independent’s Julius Odeke about the disciplinary action against them. You left your NRM party retreat at Kyankwazi early. Why? I am an advocate and the …

By Sarah Namulondo Why Uganda is becoming internationally known as a consuming and transit country for illicit substances Recent events spotlighting illicit drug use prompted me to seek to find how easily it could be for one to buy drugs. Instinctively, I targeted some Kampala slums because I assumed they …

By Miriam Mukama & Pearl Natamba Should government apologise to pupils that fail? By 5:30 am, a typical pupil in a school in Kampala is up for the uphill task to score aggregate four or any single digit result in first division of the Primary Leaving Exams. Parents, teachers, and the …

The Independent’s Julius Odeke spoke to Alice Namulwa Mukasa about the controversial death of her daughter, Cerinah Nebanda Arioru, the Woman MP for Butaleja district and the ongoing campaigns to replace her. This must be a trying moment for you since you lost your daughter Nebanda in a controversial death, …

By Julius Odeke The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party boss Gen Mugisha Muntu will on Thursday address the press on the statements made by President Yoweri Museveni that the army would not allow the confusion in parliament to continue. Gen Muntu, the former army commander was elected into office …

By Ronald Musoke Mwai Kibaki, the Kenyan President launched on Jan.23 a US $14.5bn (over Ushs 370 trillion) project to build a new city intended to be an IT business hub within the East African region. The new city, officially called Konza Technology City has the moniker ‘Africa’s Silicon Savannah.’ …

By Julius Odeke The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) president Gen Mugisha Muntu on Thursday said, “Its only stupid army officers who will think of a military takeover.” He made these remarks in a press conference at Nanjjankumbi saying, “The use of a language that can have the effect of inciting …

By Aloysious Kasoma The Attorney General, Peter Nyombi, has written to Uganda Peoples Congress party President, Olara Otunu and the Monitor Publications Ltd to apologise in five days or face legal action over alleged libelous utterances against President Yoweri Museveni.  Otunnu allegedly made the libelous utterances in connection with the …