By Patrick Kagenda World Drug report 2014 shows why Entebbe Airport is origin destination for traffickers During the first week of this month, July, the Police Anti-Narcotics squad intercepted 32kgs of cocaine with an estimated street-value of Shs3 billion at Entebbe international Airport. The traffickers had stuffed the illicit drug …
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By Patrick Kagenda After a five month court battle the Anti Corruption Court sitting at Kololo a Kampala upscale area on June 30, 2014, acquitted and discharged the Uganda Development Bank Ltd (UDBL) Chief Executive Officer Patricia Ojangole who has been battling charges of conflict of interest. Acquitting Ojangole, the …
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By Patrick Kagenda As part of the AAR CSR programme that is done monthly in selected areas to give back to communities the AAR Acacia clinic in partnership with Nakasero Blood Bank over the just ended weekend organized a blood donation exercise and health camp at Nakumatt supermarket Bukoto. This …
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By Patrick Kagenda After the Uganda Communications Commission issuing a notice to all telecom operators to stop sending unsolicited SMS to their clients, UTL has come up with an innovation that will enable a client to block any unsolicited SMS. In a statement, Uganda Telecom said it has introduced Do …
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By Patrick Kagenda The Speaker of Parliament Rebbeca Kadaga has pledged parliament’s support to industries that promote agro processing in Uganda. Kadaga said this while meeting the new Managing Director of Nile Breweries Limited (NBL), and Rwenzori Bottling Company (RBC), Greg Metcalf, at her office on Monday, June 23, 2014. …
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By Patrick Kagenda Impact of international travel ban to Kenya on arrivals to Uganda being watched Uganda’s tourism sector is keenly looking out for spill-over effects of security advisories against non-essential travel to regional flagship destination Kenya. Amos Wekesa, the Chairman of the Uganda Tour Operators Association, says Uganda has …
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By Patrick Kagenda Frank Kagyigyi Tumwebaze, the Minister for the Presidency spoke to The Independent’s Patrick Kagenda about the youth and other wrangles in NRM. The NRM youth are fighting each other. What is happening? We should not look at the youth issue from a general angle but look at …
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By Patrick Kagenda Museveni’s rant aft er the rout, opposition’s mistaken bravado On May 16, The Independent magazine run a story “Has Museveni Lost Luwero?” (See Issue 317, May 16-22). A week later, at 3:30 am on May 23, the Luwero District Returning Officer, Alex Komuhangi, announced Brenda Nabukenya of …
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By Patrick Kagenda Ugandan traders stare down an uncertain future as South Sudan war rages Anyone wanting to see how the war in south Sudan has affected Uganda can look at the cross-border trade statistics of the World Bank. Better still, they can visit a place called “Arua Park” in …
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By Patrick Kagenda Uganda’s forgotten martyr As hundreds of thousands of Christians throng to Namugongo Martyrs shrine to commemorate the Uganda Martyrs day that falls every June 3, one Ugandan 20th Century Martyr seems not to feature on the list of the martyrs. Could it be because he was laid …
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