Report exposes rich professionals, government officials not paying income tax. URA now plans to tax better, not more. Do you often transfer large sums of money in banks, drive a posh car, live in a palace, buy land often, travel abroad often and travel either business or First Class? Are …
Read More »When slogans make brands
Albert Einstein once said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” Basing on this, it is imagination that drives many companies and businesses as …
Read More »Ivory Coast resort was ‘symbolic’ jihadist target: analysts
Paris, France | AFP | When gunmen from Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb killed 18 people at a beach resort frequented by foreigners in Ivory Coast, the jihadist group was targeting its sworn enemy France, analysts said Monday. Grand-Bassam, the palm tree-fringed beach town where the gunmen wrought carnage Sunday, …
Read More »Vatican set to approve Mother Teresa elevation to sainthood
Vatican City, Holy See | AFP | The Vatican committee that approves elevations to sainthood will meet Tuesday to consider a recommendation that Mother Teresa of Calcutta becomes Saint Teresa, the Holy See announced on Monday. With the long-awaited decision seen as a formality, Pope Francis is expected to sign …
Read More »Kampala city street vendors’ delight
Kampala City traders, vendors face off again over sprawling street ‘markets’ If the hordes of vendors that have flooded the streets of Kampala once again are to have a wish, it will be that the election period gets even longer. In the wake of the Presidential elections over the last …
Read More »Letter to my President Dr. Col Kiiza Besigye: Fire all your advisors!
Your excellence, my name is Ekoot Richard, I became a member of the reform agenda in 2003 but I also happen to have aggressively campaigned for you in 2001 as a young man in high school. By the time I reached university, I was already part of your agenda and …
Read More »28 Grounds Listed In The Petition Filed By Mbabazi
1. Your petitioner Amama Mbabazi is a person who was a candidate at the above mentioned Presidential Election and is an aggrieved candidate within the meaning of the Presidential Election Act. 2. And your petitioner states that the election was held on the 18th day of February 2016 when Abed …
Read More »Mabirizi: Museveni Did Not Win The Election
I, Elton Joseph Mabirizi, independent presidential candidate and flag bearer of The Independent Coalition, TIC, congratulate the people of Uganda on turning up in large numbers to vote on February 18, 2016. I salute the 23 former presidential aspirants who put Uganda first, and backed my candidature. Through their individual …
Read More »Is it Possible to Have 100 Percent Voter Turn Out?
The Electoral Commission finally uploaded results from all polling stations around Uganda for the Presidential Elections. On face value, everything seems okay until one begins to find out about Polling Stations with 100 Percent Voter Turn Out. Here’s where the Utopia sets in, Case in Point is the Nyabushozi Constituency. …
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