Business-as-usual must be challenged if we are going to accelerate the turnaround of Uganda by 2020 COMMENT: By Harrison E. Mutikanga There is increasing debate within the public domain and in particular the energy sector on whether to continue investing in electricity generation facilities or shift focus to transmission and …
Read More »Sci-Hub: The case for open access
The online repository Sci-Hub changed the way to 51 million scientific research, academic papers and articles COMMENT: By Nimrod Muhumuza A dark web pioneer releases a treasure trove of stolen/leaked documents, flees to another country for safety, has a multi-million dollar law suit filed against them, is denounced as a …
Read More »UPC is not for sale
COMMENT: By Harold Acemah Early in the morning of Wednesday, June 15, a friend called me from Kampala to deliver some bad news he had just read in the Daily Monitor of that day. He told me, with anguish, that UPC and Uganda House had been sold to the proprietor …
Read More »COMMENT: Museveni’s actions, not words, will defeat corruption
COMMENT: By Cissy Kagaba While celebrating 20 years of National Resistance Movement in power at Kololo ceremonial grounds in 2006, President Museveni said that he did not know that the country had been wrecked by corruption. He then vowed to fight corruption in all forms. Ten years later, the President …
Read More »People as guarantors of peace and stability
People must conceive missions about the nation, not about individuals using the nation for their ends, writes Morris Komakech Post-election time in Africa is difficult to fathom as it often erupts into vexatious disputes and violence. Democracy itself has proven a costly practice everywhere in Africa. The democratic societies seemed …
Read More »NSSF’s ugly Shs650m mansions
COMMENT: By Joseph Were Great corporation managers know one great thing; they know the difference between what their organisations do and why the organisations exist. Some people know Steve Jobs only for what Apple, the company he founded, does. That it creates, produces, and sells amazing computer and electronic gadgets. …
Read More »Higher education financing
COMMENT: Michael O. Wanyama The Government of Uganda introduced the student loan scheme in 2014 primarily to increase access to higher education and support students who may not afford higher education. To achieve its objective, the Higher Education Students Financing Board was established by an Act of Parliament No. 2 …
Read More »Kadaga’s African soul
COMMENT: By Joseph Were Why people who practice traditional ancestral worship openly should be praised not condemned People who have worked closely with Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga say she is a very tactful person. But she is also very stubborn. So when journalists asked her why she went up …
Read More »Police and the case of FDC
History shows that muting people’s voices, through suppressive actions, can boomerang COMMENT: By Bonnie Agea The simmering unrest between the Uganda police and the opposition Forum for democratic change over the recent presidential elections results points to a much bigger problem in our egalitarian society. In a democratic society, public …
Read More »KANYEIHAMBA: When the people are betrayed by their leaders
COMMENT: By Prof. George W. Kanyeihamba The greatest disservice that the NRM government has done to Uganda is its tolerance of corruption in public affairs and its failure to curb incidents of abuse of office and embezzlement of public funds. Indeed, in some instances, it would seem that to do …
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