By Joan Akello The empowerment of girls and women is one of the most effective tools for economic, political and social development.  Young women aged 18 to 20 are called up on to apply online to participate in the summit next year. There are 3.5 billion girls and women in …

By Julius Businge The Uganda shilling tumbled 2.2% against the dollar touching 2670/80 in the week ending Nov. 23 from the previous close of 2605/15. The central bank intervened in the early morning session on Friday-Nov. 23 to halt the slide as demand for dollar surged. Denis Mashanyu, the forex trader …

By Independent Investigations Team CID takes hold of Shs 800bn worth of Oloka, Obey properties, over 256 land titles attached Early one morning last month, one Kenneth Tulomwe was arrested by police as he drove out of his gate in Muyenga in a brand new double cabin pick-up truck he …

By Julius Businge President Yoweri Museveni has today, Nov. 23 urged the COMESA member states to support the integration process within of the COMESA bloc to enable it record positive achievements. Museveni advised member states to copy what developed countries did, especially China so they can have their economies in …

By Julius Businge Andrew Seguya has been appointed as the substantive executive director of the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA), according to the UWA statement. The appointment was confirmed by the Minister of Tourism Maria Mutagamba. The position fell vacant in 2010 following the sacking of Moses Mapesa and other officials …

By Sarah Namulondo President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has blamed Uganda’s poor economy on Amin’s expulsion of Indians from Uganda. He said that characters like Idi Amin disturbed the relationship between Uganda and India. The president said if the Indians were not expelled Uganda’s economy would be very far with their …

By Sarah Namulondo The parliamentary committee of presidential Affairs has summoned the inspector General of police Gen Kale Kayihura to explain why he has failed to provide security to Owino market. The committee decided to summon Kayihura after KCCA officials told committee members that the Authority failed to conduct a …

By Joan Akello Government has failed to release 6.5 billion shillings for the recruitment of 6,172 health workers. This is attributed to problems in budget cash flow caused by the suspension of donor aid. This was disclosed by the minister of state for Finance Fred Omach (general duties) while appearing …

By Andrew M. Mwenda Focus on the civil service where graft is most lethal rather than in politics where it is most politically attractive Over the last three weeks, government of Uganda has done what was previously unthinkable. First, police rearrested the ringleaders in the scam in the ministry of …

By Joan Akello MTN Uganda has lodged a formal complaint with the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) in Uganda against the Chief Magistrate of the Buganda Road Magistrates Court, Sylvia Nabagala. The complaint concerns Nabagala’s professional misconduct in contradictory rulings and disregard of due process. It is alleged  that the magistrate …