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Tayebwa: Uganda To Host Commonwealth Speakers Conference In 2024
Uganda has been selected to host the 27th Speakers and Presiding Officers Conference of the Commonwealth (CSPOC) due from 3rd to 6th January, 2024. Uganda was confirmed as the next year’s conference host at the ongoing CSPOC in Canberra, Australia. On Wednesday, January 2023, Deputy Speaker of the Ugandan Parliament, Thomas Tayebwa said Uganda is…
OP-ED: Uganda’s Political Spectrum At a Glance, Time For Good Governance & Rule Of Law
By: Andama Richard Former RDC Yumbe, 2019 – 2021 It is exactly 37 months, as Ugandans are already preparing for another cycle / set of general elections come 2026. Everywhere, you see President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni appearing, endorsements are seen as a sign of political roadmap for 2026. The Office of the National Chairman (ONC)…
Bebe Cool Unveils List Of Top Songs That Rocked 2022
Legend musician Big size Bebe Cool has released his annual list of the best songs of the year today. Below is the full list: Ladies and gentlemen, as is the norm every end of year, here’s the list of musicians who’ve done better musically in 2022 than the others. 1. Grenade. (Picha, Babadana, Embuuzi Ne’nte)…
Tycoon Sudhir’s New Kabira Country Club 350 Apartments Redefines Bukoto Skylines
The extension of Kabira Country owned by city tycoon Sudhir Rupaleria has redefined the skylines around Bukoto-Ntinda areas with the new leisure facility imposing a magnificent image in the area. The leisure facility, once complete, will be East Africa’s biggest leisure hotel with more rooms than any other facility. According to sources, City business magnet…
Seven Dead,Scores Injured In Ntungamo Road Accident
Seven people have been confirmed dead while thirty are severely injured in an accident that occurred the morning of December 30th 2022, along Ntungamo-Kabale Highway. The incident follows a head-on collision between two buses. The accident involved Volcano bus reg. no. RAD CO 798B that was coming from Rwanda and Oxygen bus reg. no. KCU…
Brazil Football Legend Pele Takes Last Journey Of No Return
Brazil football legend Pele, one of the greatest players of all time, has died at the age of 82. The former striker, who is the only player in history to win three World Cups, passed away at the Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo following a battle with cancer. Pele, who is Brazil’s joint all-time…
URA Orders Entertainers To Get TINs
Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has directed all individuals earning from entertainment activities to get Tax Identification Numbers (TINs), failure of which could result in fines or imprisonment. Bbosa Ibrahim Kibuuka, the Assistant Commissioner Public and Cooperative Affairs and URA spokesperson said that the TIN is what identifies an individual or business with the tax body.…
Abandoned Four Months Baby Dies At Mbarara Referral Hospital As Police Hunts for Missing Mother Of One Still Under Health Care
One of the babies previously dumped at Mbarara Referral Hospital by an anonymous mother has passed on. This was confirmed by Mr. Halson Kagure the Mbarara Referral Hospital Public Relations Officer on December 29, 2022. Kagure informed this website that a four months baby girl was picked by a hospital cleaner while collecting garbage around…
DAYLIGHT ROBBERY: Frustrated Customer Exposes Airtel Uganda In UGX 750,000 Data Fraud, Asks GoU To Force a Forensic Audit, Sweeping Reforms At Telco
Kampala: A top Kampala software engineer has come out to share with Ugandans his ‘frustrating and exploiting’ experience with Airtel Uganda Data bundles alleged ‘fraud’. Mr Tito [not real name, prefers anonymity]who was once Airtel Uganda’s proud customer is now spitting venom after company allegedly chopped his Ugx 750,000 via multiple monthly data bundle…
What Is Really Going On At NSSF?
The appointment early this month of Patrick Ayota as caretaker Managing Director at the National Social Security Fund (NSSF), was supposed to be a temporary measure to allow the board and appointing authority to conclude on either reinstating Richard Byarugaba as head or name a new chief. A decision on the appointment of (the) Fund’s…