Tag Archives: Uganda

➡ Current CEC Members ✳ Museveni ✳ Kigongo ✳ Kadaga ✳ Oulanyah ✳ Mukula ✳ Baryomunsi ✳ Singh Katongole ✳ Aleper ✳ Kiwanda Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN  |  The Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the ruling party NRM has picked Jacob Oulanyah as their choice of flag …

Ministry of Education tells semi-candidates that ‘you are not yet candidates’ 📌 UGANDA 🇺🇬 NEW BACK TO SCHOOL SCHEDULE ▶ P1, P2 & P3 – June 7 ▶ P6, S3 & S5 – June 7 📌 3-year plan to harmonize school calendar ✳ Terms 12 weeks ✳ Holidays 15-17 days ✳ No exams …

How Speakership race tested NRM and exposed the President COVER STORY | Ian Katusiime |  When Rebecca Kadaga, while battling to retain her position as Speaker of Parliament, picked expression of interest in the job forms at the NRM headquarters on Kyadondo Road in Kampala on May 19, she had a …

An open letter to the President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni Tibuhaburwa Kaguta: The case for more women in cabinet and a female Speaker of Parliament: OPEN LETTER | MAY 21, 2021 | The Women’s Movement of Uganda congratulates the people of Uganda and its leaders for a fairly successful election process and …

✅ CEC meeting 11am TODAY ✅ NRM caucus elections 8.am TOMORROW Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  & URN |  Hours before the Central Executive Committee (CEC) meets and an NRM Parliamentary caucus election is held to determine the party’s candidate for Speaker and Deputy, Government Chief Whip Ruth Nankabirwa has said MPS …

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | THE INDEPENDENT & XINHUA |  Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Thursday said oil revenues must be invested in avenues that create jobs and wealth. The Ugandan president said since oil is an exhaustible resource, revenues from it should be used to build the infinite resources in …

Bitter reality as suspended Uganda Airlines CEO tells Museveni that AG officials wanted bribe to give him `good report’                                                             COMMENT | CISSY KAGABA | Recent media reports indicate that some officers at the Office of the Auditor General are allegedly exchanging their audit opinions for sums of money, usually determined …

COMMENT | Theophilus Oladipo | On the 4th of May 2021, the sexual offences bill passed the third reading stage at the Ugandan Parliament. Since 2019, the bill has been a source of debate and worry. Apart from the fact that it needlessly confirms what has mostly been criminalized, it raises …

Laba!  Street Art festival was an idea conceived by a group of artists to link the public to art. At the art studios and galleries, few locals were coming to interact and buy art hence, the alternative to this void was to extend art to them by way of creating …

📌 RESULTS 🇺🇬 ➡ 10,000m – 5.10pm Jacob Kiplimo 1st  ➡ 1,500m – 7.22pm Winnie Nanyondo 7th  ➡ 3,000m SC – 8.00pm Boniface Sikowo 6th Albert Chemutai 7th  ➡ 3,000m – 8.45pm Joshua Cheptegei 1st Ostrava, Czech Republic | THE INDEPENDENT |  Joshua Cheptegei won his 3000m race at the …