The National Unity Platform (NUP) has asked the former Leader of Opposition, Mathias Mpuuga to step down as parliamentary commissioner with immediate effect after he admitted to irregularly pocketing Shs 500 million from Parliament. The payment came to light during a campaign to expose rot in Parliament codenamed: #UgandaParliamentExhibition. It was paid as a ‘thank…
Shamim Nayiga has joined NTV from UBC. For close to two years, Nayiga has anchored the UBC Leero, Luganda news bulletin. We have been told that at NTV, she will be anchoring Akawungeezi from Monday to Thursday. Since Faridah Nakazibwe left the Serena Conference Hall based TV station, NTV has been looking for her replacement….
Former Vice President Prof Gilbert Bukenya has been appointed Senior Presidential Advisor on Environment and Sanitation. According to a press release from the Presidential Press Unit, President Museveni appointed his former deputy in the new role, 13 years after he dropped him from cabinet. Bukenya was VP from 2003 to 2011. After he was dropped…
Wazalendo Savings and Credit Cooperative Society (WSACCO) has cautioned its members against taking loans they have not planned for saying this will lead them into further ruin. Thd caution was sounded during a two-day pre-annual General Meeting (AGM) workshop at the Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs Headquarters, Mbuya. During the opening of the workshop,…
The Observer Media Limited, publishers of The Observer newspaper, has shifted its offices from Plot 1 Tagore Crescent in Kamwokya to Dale Johnson Road, Kira Road. They are now located between Rubis Petrol Station in Kamwokya and Kira Road Police Station. Sources told us that the shift was triggered by an unbearable increase in monthly…
As journalists, some became famous for their critical but objective coverage of excesses of public institutions. Along the way and in pursuit of better lives, some of them joined the very institutions they often critiqued. In worst case scenarios, a few have become avid defenders of the institutions they used to unsparingly cover and have…
Senior NRM leaders from various party organs have started arriving at the party headquarters along Kya Nakasero, Kampala for the official launch of the NRM membership registration exercise. President Museveni, the party chairman is expected to flag off the exercise. Here are some of the pictures
The Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) has said it will not be possible to organise special exams for candidates that failed the 2023 UCE exams in June/July as had been earlier planned. Instead, the examinations body in a circular dated February 27, said the candidates will have to sit the examinations in October/November alongside the…
Political and social activist, Jeje Odea, has reportedly gone into hiding after allegedly receiving threats over his participation in the ongoing campaign to expose the rot in Parliament. Agather Atuhaire, who is on the forefront of the campaign, wrote on X that she had received a call from a member of Odea’s family worried about…
As the #UgandaParliamentExhibition enters into the home stretch, sparks are starting to fly. Earlier today one of the organizers of the exhibition Dr Spire Ssentongo exchanged bitterly with NBS TV journalist Sam Ibanda Mugabi, who heads the Uganda Parliamentary Press Association (UPPA) which has been accused of cozying up with Parliament and failing to ask…
