Tag Archives: Museveni

A group of six students from the Makerere Law School have gone to the High Court seeking orders to immediately re-open the university that was closed on November 1, 2016. Sam Ssekyewa, Moses Mushime, Francis Kibombo, Cissy Nabatanzi, Emmanuel Kanyesigye and John Robert  Turyakira claim that President Yoweri Museveni  exceeded …

Parliament on Tuesday defied President Yoweri Museveni’s directive to have the Income Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2016 amended to allow MPs’ allowances to be taxed. “The Committee recommends that the Tax Bill be passed in its current form, and be sent back to the president for assent,” Henry Musasizi, the chairperson …

THE LAST WORD: By Andrew M. Mwenda Why efforts to make peasant farmers go commercial are unlikely to yield success President Yoweri Museveni spent a week in Luwero District on Operation Wealth Creation. The president was teaching farmers to adopt modern farming techniques in order to increase their output and …

PICTORIAL: President Yoweri Museveni hosted the Uganda national football team Cranes to a luncheon on Thursday at State House Entebbe to congratulate them upon qualifying for the African Cup Of Nations. “I promise to supplement your allowances and bonuses. I however appeal to you to be good ambassadors of Uganda. You …

VIDEO: President Yoweri Museveni has directed the leadership in Kampala and the over 20 Municipalities countrywide to demolish structures in a poor state and take over those that have stayed years without completion.The directive aims at improving the living standards of urban dwellers as the country strives to move to a …

President Museveni Congratulates President – Elect Trump President Yoweri Museveni has congratulated US President-Elect Donald Trump after his victory in the US Presidential elections. “I congratulate Mr. Trump on his election as the President of the United States of America. Elections in the US or any country are a matter …

  President Yoweri Museveni is in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on a two day working visit to the Africa Union Commission, where he will attend an African Union High Level Committee meeting on Libya. Museveni headed straight to the AU Headquarters where he joined other other presidents  attending the AU …

Threat to cut funding leads to fight among energy bosses Sparks are flying between President Yoweri Museveni and his Chinese lenders, Exim Bank, on one hand and between Ministry of Energy officials and of the Uganda Electricity Generation Company Ltd (UEGCL) on the other. Trouble is over the piling up …

VIDEO: President Yoweri Museveni has hit back at Kampala politicians fighting the government decision banning vendors off the streets, terming them as cheap politicians. Speaking out on the matter for the first time since cabinet issued the directive, Museveni says he cannot “commit suicide” by letting vendors remain on the streets. …

President Yoweri Museveni has dropped long serving ambassador James Mugume from the Foreign Affairs ministry and moved Eng. Kabagambe-Kaliisa from Energy Ministry to the position of presidential adviser as he named a new list of Permanent Secretaries today. He confirmed Dr Diana Atwiine as the new Health Ministry permanent secretary, moving …