Local leaders in Kyotera district are calling for the opening of fresh boundaries on the former Sango-bay Sugar estates before the implementation of the National Oil Palm project in the area. They argue that the project implementers have crossed beyond the original boundaries of the government estate and encroached upon privately owned land, leading to…
Police on Tuesday, July 11th, 2023, foiled a demonstration by the opposition Forum for Democratic Change party supporters in downtown Kampala against the implementation of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline Project (EACOP). A source said some four opposition supporters armed with placards bearing writings like #STOP EACOP, #Stanbic Bank Don’t Finance EACOP, and Financing…
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has revealed that the National Resistance Movement (NRM) politics is politics of science but not guesswork and it aims at solving the problems of Ugandans. “From the beginning, we were telling you that we are here for your good. I’m not here to look for anything because I have got everything…
By Masuumi Juma Kampala: The lack of patriotism within and amongst local government workers has promoted high corruption, hindering the country’s development and social service delivery. Districts and Municipal councils are responsible for the provision of Primary and secondary education, safe water supplies, and public health and are encouraged to devolve some services to the…
The Uganda Police Force (UPF) has pipped its newly promoted gazetted officers at the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) to Senior Commissioner of Police (SCP) in the event held at Nagulu Police Headquarters. Presiding over the event, Martin Okoth Ochola, the Inspector General of Police congratulated the officers, the families and friends of…
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has signed into law the Traffic and Road Safety Amendment Bill 2023 increasing the fine from Shs200,000 to Shs2m for motorists driving beyond the prescribed speed limit. According to the government, the move is intended to restore sanity and reduce on-road carnage on Uganda’s roads. The revelation was made yesterday during…
Plans are underway to revive the Cooperative Bank, this is according to the State Minister for Cooperatives Fred Gume Ngoobi. Speaking at the launch of national celebrations to mark the International Cooperative Week at Lake Victoria Primary School- Entebbe, Ngoobi said a Cabinet paper to that effect has already been drawn and tabled. The Cooperative…
The June 16 attack on Lhubiriha Secondary School in Mpondwe, Kasese, at the border with DRC, was a tragedy waiting to happen. This is despite the great assurances that Ugandans generally enjoy in terms of peace, tranquillity and security. In the military, they say that when there is peace, that’s when you train harder so…
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has stated that the country has the potential to feed over 200 million people, citing the fertile land and increasing technical know-how of the population. During a meeting with officials from the Presidential Advisory Committee on Exports and Industrial Development, Museveni emphasized the importance of Uganda’s agricultural sector, which produces a…
The Office of the National Chairman Manager who doubles as the Senior Presidential Advisor- Political Affairs Hajjat Hadijah Namyalo Uzeiye has slaughtered four cows that she accompanied with food packages and served Muslim communities in Kampala-Metropolitan and parts of Busoga sub-region. Multitudes of people flooded the ONC – Headquarters in Kyambogo to receive the Eid…
