By Mubatsi Asinja Habati What use is a First Class degree if holder cannot earn a living? When the Music Dance and Drama (MDD) degree course was introduced at Makerere University in 1971 many students looked at it with contempt. They coined a derogatory name for whoever enrolled for the …

By Abbey Kibirige Semuwemba It is very wrong for people to portray polygamy as a Muslim thing yet it is well known that the Bible is pro-polygamy. Polygamy is one of the grand Bible-based values people don’t like to talk about. You will find nothing in the Bible, Old or …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati & Joshua Masinde Next stop Rukiga; NRM already has an `independent When former Mbale Municipality MP Wilfred Kajeke resigned on December 20 last year, his Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party members feared they would again lose the seat they had just snatched from the NRM …

By Patrick Kagenda The Uganda Securities Exchange last week launched the Securities Central Depository System (SCD) that will pave the way to electronic trading. The software to run the system that will link the USE to the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange and the Nairobi Stock Exchange was provided by …

By Patrick Kagenda No official numbers yet but word on the street is that National Insurance Corporation’s Shs 7 billion Initiation Public Offer (IPO) was over-subscribed. “This IPO went very well under the circumstances of a small amount of shares issued. When you have an issue this small worth only …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati But should National Drug Authority be celebrating that? A new report has found that 26 per cent of anti-malaria drugs in use in Uganda are substandard. That should be very bad news for a country where on average 12 people, mostly children, die of malaria every …

By Rukiya Makuma The womens movement in Uganda yearns for renewal Dr. Sarah Ntiro, Rhoda Kalema, Specioza Wandera Kazibwe, Miria Matembe  and others  They had there time, held the stage  and gathered lots of support from the women in the country;  but now  some might say –  the time has …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati & Joshua Masinde Is it cynical to say opposition leaders should use adverts in the media, emails, sms, and fliers? While in Pader recently, Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) President Kizza Besigye was scheduled to be hosted on the local radio station, Luo FM radio. He …

By Joseph Were and agencies On which side will BoU intervene, if at all? The weakening of currencies in the East African region against the U.S. dollar experienced in the last two weeks is likely to persist, according to analysts. Dollar demand by offshore investors and the corporate sector to …

By Patrick Kagenda When Kenyan Vice president Kalonzo Musyoka visited Kampala last month, the Rift Valley Railways-run Nalukolongo locomotive workshop was part of his itinerary. News has since emerged that the RVR had paid the governments of Kenya and Uganda $2 million and $1 million respectively in the long awaited …