NEWS

By Ronald Musoke The Minister of Information, Mary Karooro Okurut has announced that Jan.30 will be a public holiday to allow Ugandans celebrate the 27th anniversary of the NRA/NRM liberation day which was uncharacteristically postponed from its official date of Jan.26. Speaking to journalists today (Jan.22) in Kampala, Karooro-Okurut said …

By Miriam Mukama The Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) has released the Primary Leaving Examination results on Jan. 21 at the statistics house offices in Kampala. The results were received by Jessica Alupo the Minister of Education and Sports from Matthew Bukenya the executive secretary UNEB who said boys performed better …

By Ronald Musoke The joint UN programme on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS, has today launched a two-week online discussion (eDiscussion) to foster debate of how to tackle the HIV/AIDS pandemic after 2015. The thematic consultation is an open and inclusive online discussion targeting individuals, members of civil society, the academia, governments and …

By Joan Akello The African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME), with support from Hivos has launched the Uganda National Journalism Awards scheme. This award aims at inspiring young  Journalists to   embrace enterprise and investigative journalism; increase the quantity and quality of public affairs reporting and investigative journalism; promote accurate, knowledgeable, …

By Ronald Musoke Although, Mike Mukula, the Soroti Municipality MP’s conviction and sentence on Jan. 18 has been hailed by government as a step forward in the fight against corruption, his sentence has equally sparked off debate among Ugandans. Mukula was last Friday (Jan. 18) found guilty by the Anti-Corruption …

By Ronald Musoke The Global Fund that delivers money around the world to prevent and treat AIDS, TB and Malaria disbursed about US $ 3.3b (Ushs 8.25 trillion) last year according to preliminary estimates of the Fund’s unaudited accounts, a statement from the fund says. Although this was 26 percent …

By Julius Odeke Uganda and Egypt have jointly called for a meeting of Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) member countries to discuss and find solutions to impending problems that are related to the sharing of the waters from River Nile. This was said by the Minister of Agriculture and Animal Industry …

By Julius Odeke Nile Breweries in a bid to strengthen journalism reporting in the Uganda on Friday rewarded three active journalists with cash. The Director for Corporate Affairs in Nile Breweries Francis Onapito Ekomoloit while giving out the prizes to the three lucky winners said, “We recognize not only these …

By Aloysious Kasoma Uganda People’s Congress president Olara Otunnu has warned UPC members on promoting Museveni’s interests in the party. Otunnu while addressing the press conference in Kampala on Wednesday said that the NRM leadership lost legitimacy and also lost the grace of God. “We are vigilant of those promoting …

By Aloysious Kasoma Internal wrangles in the leading opposition party Forum for Democratic Change are set to end after the former Candidate for FDC Party President & Leader of Opposition in Parliament Nandala Mafabi announced that he has accepted to trust the new reconciliation committee chaired by Ladislus Rwakafuzi. Mafabi …