How president’s team has `trapped’ MPs on Age Limit Kampala, Uganda | HAGGAI MATSIKO | No bill seeking to remove the 75-year age limit on the presidency has been tabled but the head-butting around the issue is intense. When, on Aug. 07, President Yoweri Museveni’s staff posted a photo on …
Read More »THIS WEEK: Works Ministry halts issuing permits till September
THIS WEEK: Works Ministry halts issuing permits till September Drivers who had applied for new driving permits will have to use temporary documents until Sept.10 as the Ministry of works through Face Technologies, a permit issuing company have halted the printing to give way for routine maintenance of the system. …
Read More »ANALYSIS: Museveni’s refinery deal
Museveni’s refinery deal: Now gov’t says in negotiations with GE-led consortium as Chinese protest Kampala, Uganda | HAGGAI MATSIKO | A fight between Chinese and American investors over the US $ 4 billion refinery deal could further delay the project, observers fear. These fears have been sparked by reports that …
Read More »THIS WEEK: Magogo sails through as Kasule’s injunction appeal is dismissed
THIS WEEK: Magogo sails through as Kasule’s injunction appeal is dismissed Incumbent Federation of Uganda Football Association (FUFA) President Moses Magogo sailed through unopposed to lead the body for another four years after court on Aug.04 threw out Pro-line Football club chairman Mujib Kasule’s application for a certificate of urgency. …
Read More »THIS WEEK: PR Institute to conduct studies in Uganda
THIS WEEK: PR Institute to conduct studies in Uganda The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) is set to begin conducting studies in Kampala effective this September 2017, courtesy of Makini College, the accredited East African learning center for the course, after it officially launched its services at a breakfast …
Read More »VIDEO: Man creates cheap welding machine
VIDEO: Man creates cheap welding machine Kampala, Uganda | NTV UGANDA | The cost of electricity is quite high in Uganda and this makes life hard for small manufacturers and artisans who need electricity to earn a living. To get around the issue of costly power bills, Brian Njuuba, a plumber …
Read More »THIS WEEK: New report faults automatic promotion, UPE
THIS WEEK: New report faults automatic promotion, UPE A report on performance of Universal Primary Education (UPE) released by a think-tank Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE) has faulted the Ministry of Education for the automatic promotion policy. Speaking at the launch of the report on Aug04, Dr. Susan …
Read More »VIDEO: Women strip to protest land give-away in Amuru
VIDEO: Women strip to protest land give-away in Amuru Kampala, Uganda | NTV UGANDA | Plans to demarcate 10,000 hectares of land for sugar production in Amuru district turned sour when the locals stripped in protest. Land Minister Betty Amongi was in the area to oversee the surveying of the land. …
Read More »THIS WEEK: Cabinet urges on accommodating divergent views
THIS WEEK: Cabinet urges on accommodating divergent views Following attacks on legislator Simeo Nsubuga and Constitutional Affairs Minister Kahinda Otafiire, cabinet in an Aug04 meeting resolved people who assault those that they don’t agree with ideologically be ‘seriously’ dealt with. “Cabinet has therefore among other resolutions directed the Police and …
Read More »VIDEO: Church puts Kenya death-toll at 18 as violence rocks nation
VIDEO: Church puts death-toll at 18 as violence rocks nation Kampala, Uganda | NTV UGANDA | The National Council of Churches of Kenya has put the figure of Kenyans who have died in the wave of protests across Raila Odinga’s strongholds in the last two days to eighteen. However the Acting …
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