Mukono district leaders on Thursday went on the defensive after being blamed for moving at a snail speed in implementation of development projects including road construction funded by the World Bank and the French Development Agency (AFD). The Minister of State for Kampala and Metropolitan Affairs Kabuye Kyofatogabye was in Mukono Municipality to flag off the […]
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has today launched the construction of the Kampala-Malaba Standard Gauge Railway (SGR). The SGR, a key element of Uganda’s national infrastructure strategy, is designed to modernise the country’s transport network, streamline logistics, and boost regional trade. The project has garnered significant attention, not just from local stakeholders, but also from international […]
Six people were on Thursday morning declared dead and eight others critically injured when taxi they were travelling in rammed into the back of a parked sugarcane truck on the Jinja-lganga Highway at Kakira. The horrible accident happened at around 3:00am, when a Toyota Hiace popularly referred to as a Drone, registration number UBP 574J […]
President Yoweri Museveni on Tuesday grilled Swaib Balaba, Kisoro district Chief Administrative Officer over the sorry state of roads in the district. Museveni was in Kisoro to campaign for Rose Kabagyeni, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party flag bearer for Kisoro District Woman Member of Parliament seat. During a rally at Muramba primary school playground […]
A board member for the rationalized Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) Haji Twahir Ssebaggala has urged Buganda coffee growers to stop perceiving the authority’s merger to the mother ministry as a Buganda matter alone, clarifying that it is a concern to all regions. Haji Ssebaggala who is also a member of the Uganda Quality Coffee […]
Despite the proliferation of the internet that has opened up communication frontiers, radio is still the leading source of information for most Ugandans. According to a report released by Twaweza, an East African-wide non-governmental organization that tracks citizens’ views on a wide range of issues, at least 56 % of Ugandans reported that radio is […]
Another fifty Ugandans previously jailed in SAUDI Arabian prisons on Friday returned home aboard an Air Saudi flight, bringing the total of freed Ugandans from Saudi Arabia to 130. They were welcomed home by the spokesperson for the Ministry of Gender Joshua Kyalimpa, and the chairperson of the Federation of All Migrant Workers Association Kenneth […]
Renowned financial expert, Dr. Ezra Suruma has made a thorough and expert explanation on the controversial and hot debate on whether to or not to merge the supreme coffee regulating body of Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) with the mother Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) to allegedly decrease on costs of running […]
As the debate to or not to merge the Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) with the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) grows more contentious and assuming fresh dimensions every passing day, the head of the Born Again Federation of Uganda Apostle Dr. Joseph Sserwadda has designed a harsher sounding ingredient by way of a […]