VIDEO: The different Parliament committees have in the past months investigated many of the issues that are of public concern. Several cases have been handled and actions recommended. But with a gigantic executive armed with powers and the ills of the multi party democracy, many analysts question the ability of parliament to …
Read More »VIDEO: DP marks 62nd anniversary by cleaning public places
VIDEO: The Democratic Party (DP) celebrated 62 years of its founding with a cleaning exercise of public places along Entebbe road this week. The party’s leadership led by President Norbert Mao cleaned markets, roads and hospitals in a move aimed at showing that leadership is service to the led. Share on: …
Read More »VIDEO: Why Uganda’s pepper production has dropped
VIDEO: Local pepper and chili farmers are being challenged to double their production and tap into alternative overseas markets. Pepper production in Uganda fell drastically after government announced a ban on pepper exports to the European Union. But with emerging bigger markets for Uganda’s pepper outside the European Union, the country …
Read More »VIDEO: Another teacher ditches teaching for farming
VIDEO: The story of a 60 year old teacher who has no regret quitting her job as a trained teacher to engage in farming as an alternative source of livelihood. Peace Bampata says that after teaching for 15 years in various schools in Bushenyi district, in Western Uganda, she decided to call …
Read More »VIDEO: Umeme raids Bwaise, starts operation against illegal connections
VIDEO: UMEME continued their nationwide operation to halt illegal connections and power theft by raiding Bwaise this week. The operation in Bwaise, left many areas in the Kampala suburb in darkness following several shut downs by power distribution company UMEME, as they intensified their operation to crackdown on power theft and illegal connections. These vices according …
Read More »VIDEO: Efforts to save Zoka Forest in high gear
VIDEO: Zoka Central Forest Reserve in the northern Ugandan district of Adjumani has made headlines in the press over the past two weeks after a government minister revealed plans to allocate a chunk of the reserve to a private sugarcane grower. NBS visited the forest to witness the destruction already meted out …
Read More »Goalie Onyango nominated for African Player of the Year award
Johannesburg, South Africa | AFP | Uganda’s number one goalkeeper Dennis Onyango is among 30 nominees named for the 2016 African Player of the Year football award. Onyango plays for Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa who moved closer to a fairy-tale CAF Champions League title with a 3-0 home victory over Zamalek of …
Read More »Kyambadde meets Chinese, warns on petty trading
Chinese Business Community living in fear of being chased out of Uganda Trade Minister Amelia Kyambadde has asked Chinese doing business in Uganda to stop engaging in petty trade to avoid causing hostility among locals. Some Ugandan have for long complained about foreign petty traders depriving them of work. Kyambadde me …
Read More »In The Independent: Americans to build refinery?
THE LAST WORD: Uganda’s stalled transformation: Andrew Mwenda on Why Museveni has not transformed agricultural Uganda into an industrial economy and what can be done. COVER STORY: Americans to build refinery? Technocrats at the Energy Ministry and the Ministry of Finance who are working on the country’s pet project, the …
Read More »VIDEO: Judiciary with new sentencing guidelines
VIDEO: Chief Justice Bart.M Katureebe has launched the sentencing guidelines committee intended to address the predicament judicial officers find themselves in while dispensing justice. The committee which will be headed by Principal Judge Jorakamu Bamwine, will among other tasks draw guidelines of sentencing, establish a research, monitoring and development program on sentences …
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