Uganda People’s Congress’s (UPC) Dr. Eunice Otuko Apio has today been declared winner of the Oyam Parliamentary by-election. UPC’s Apio has defeated National Resistance Movement’s (NRM) Samuel Engola despite the rampant voter bribery and violence allegedly from the NRM’s camp. Richard Onoba, the Oyam District Returning Officer declared Apio winner with 15,718 votes followed by NRM’s […]
BRUSSELS – Uganda’s Deputy Speaker of Parliament Thomas Tayebwa has led parliamentarians sitting in Brussels to appeal for Africa to gain more power at the United Nations with a strong demand that the continent receives two permanent seats on the UN Security Council. Speaking at the 63rd Organization of African, Caribbean, and Pacific States (OACPS) […]
BRUSSELS – Ugandan Members of Parliament taking part in the ongoing ACP-EU assembly in Brussels, Belgium have denounced what they have called outright meddling and hybrid threats orchestrated by the Western world to the developing countries. Kole North MP, Samuel Opio in his address to the assembly on Tuesday described the recent European Parliamentary […]
The Second Deputy Prime Minister, Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga has committed herself to disseminating the information regarding the East African Community (EAC) to the local people in Uganda so that they can start appreciating and owning it. Kadaga, who doubles as the Minister for EAC said that for some time, Ugandans have not been fully involved […]
The Social Media is awash with the pictures of Mukono Municipality Member of Parliament, Betty Nambooze Bakireke putting on a school uniform for her former primary school which she left over 41 years ago after sitting for her Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE). Clad in a purple dress, with a badge reading Bishop East Primary School, Nambooze […]
The Prime Minister of Uganda, Robinah Nabbanja has asked the people of Busoga sub-region especially in Mayuge district to embrace government programmes aimed at improving household incomes. Nabbanja noted that all wealth creation programmes in Uganda are designed to ensure that people get out of poverty and that in the same vein, the people of […]
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has called upon citizens to listen to his message of adding value to all the country’s raw materials if Uganda is to achieve its economic growth. In his virtual 2023/2024 Budget Speech to Parliament on Thursday June 15, 2023, President Museveni noted that by the end of the coming Financial Year, Uganda’s […]
The Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja has lost her cool following the recent tour of the Leader of Opposition (LOP) together with opposition Members of Parliament to different parts of the country paying a courtesy call to several government projects including schools and health facilities. Nabbanja has asked Mpuuga and opposition MPs to stop taking their […]
National Unity Platform (NUP) on Saturday lost the Bishop Stuart University (BSU) Guild President race to Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), ending their dominance in the institutions of Higher Learning of late. FDC’s Best Arnold Ankunda, a second year student of Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture and Community Development beat NUP’s Sunday Mukama with 458 to 116 […]
Ugandans, especially the Bazzukulu. Greetings. It is now day 3 in my Corona status. Yesterday, day 2 of my corona status, I felt very sleepy around 11am (the fifth hour of the day according to we, the People of the Tropics), yet I had slept well the previous night. Hence, I slept soundly up to […]