The youth chaplain for Kampala Archdiocese’s Entebbe Vicariate, Rev. Fr. George William Ssentamu has cautioned students against engagement in sexual relations saying this is a hindrance to their studies and compromise to their good future. “Boyfriend-girlfriend relations are time wasting and a compromise to your studies; at school you have only enough time for your […]
By Barnabas Iga Matovu ‘A GOOD MUGANDA IS A DEAD ONE’: TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT Former president of Uganda, Dr. Apollo Milton Obote reputedly said that ‘a good Muganda is a dead one’, a statement that has been taken out of context. Obote married a Muganda woman (Miria Kalule). Obote’s children are half-Baganda. The statement […]
The Ministry of education and Sports has issued guidelines and standard operating procedures aimed at preventing the spread of Mpox (monkeypox) in educational institutions. In a circular addressed to all heads of institutions and other stakeholders, Dr Kedrace Turyagyenda, the new permanent secretary at the Education Ministry noted that the guidelines have been developed to […]
But Honorable MPs, Is It Hunger, Thirst for Island Fruits or Simply Peer Influence? The Nakawa Chief Magistrates Court has remanded Ritah Namalwa to Luzira Prison on charges of forgery, personation and theft of about 700 million shillings from a Pastor. Namalwa was on Thursday arraigned before the Nakawa Grade One Magistrate Andrew Katurubuki who […]
Members of Parliament on the Committee of Commissions, Statutory, Authorities and State Enterprise (COSASE) have called on the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Matia Kasaija to sanction the Uganda Revenue Authority Commissioner General John Musinguzi Rujoki for spending taxpayers’ money over and above what Parliament had approved for them. In their report from the […]
A Soroti family has married off their 14-year-old daughter, a Primary Four pupil at Awoja Bridge Primary School, after discovering that she is pregnant. The situation came to light when her parents confronted her about her pregnancy, and she revealed that the father was her boyfriend, Leonard Opolot, whom she had been dating since 2022. […]
Omubaka wa palamenti akiikirira ebizinga by’e Buvuma, Robert Migadde Ndigwa akawangamudde bw’ategeezezza eggwanga nti abasirikale b’eggye lya UPDF abaasindikibwa ku nnyanja okulwanyisa envuba emenya amateeka, ogwabasindisaayo baaguvaako dda kati bennyini be badda mu kuvuba n’okusuubula eby’ennyanja. Migadde agamba nti eby’embi kwe kuba nti bbo Bannayuganda abawangaalira mu bizinga abaali bayimirizaawo obulamu bwabwe ku nnyanja nga […]
The Principal of the National Unity Platform (NUP), Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu has passionately welcomed the sanctions slammed to four Uganda Police officers by the US over human rights abuse. The police officers include; Bob Kagarura, Elly Womanya, Alex Mwine and Hamdan Twesigye. They are accused of involving in a number of human rights abuses including […]
The Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development has begun a countrywide campaign to streamline land tenure system and decisively iron out the monotonous related wrangles. The development comes in the wake of perennial land ownership disagreements in regions with anomalies in documentation which has in many cases culminated into undue disputes. But Honorable MPs, Is […]
Mathias Mpuuga Nsamba, the Nyendo-Mukungwe Division Member of Parliament in Masaka City, has called out the National Unity Platform (NUP) party leadership to clarify the choice of their Presidential candidate for the next general elections. Speaking at a public consultation meeting with his electorate at Mpugwe Trading Center in Masaka City, Mpuuga expressed concern about recent […]