Uganda’s Deputy Speaker elected East Africa’s representative on the bureau of OACPS – EU Parliamentary General Assembly Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Thomas Tayebwa has been elected member of the bureau to represent East Africa to the Organization of African, Caribbean, and Pacific States (OACPS) – European Union General Assembly. Tayebwa was elected during the 64th…
Pride College School in Mpigi has gifted its best student in the 2023 Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) exams, Precious Nahurira a brand knew Toyota Spacio. Nahurira scored 8 aggregate out of eight subjects. The founder and director of the school, Francisco Ssemwanga, said this was living testimony that the school rewards excellence. “At Pride…
If you are to give marks out of ten, how would you rank the performance of journalists-turned MPs in the 11th Parliament? The 11th Parliament has five journalists: Ssemujju Ibrahim Nganda of Kira Municipality who cut his teeth at Daily Monitor and later, The Observer. Also in the mix is Kazibwe Bashir, the Kawempe South…
President Museveni has told district leaders from Gomba and Sembabule that they need to prioritise household income of the communities they lead, saying once this is done, development will follow. He was meeting them at his Kisozi farm in Gomba District. The meeting sought to outline how the nine villages from Gomba and Sembabule Districts…
Jailed Russian opposition figure and outspoken Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny, who made global headlines when he was poisoned with a nerve agent in 2020, has died aged 47, the Russian prison service said. The cause of his reported death remained unclear, but the news drew a forceful reaction from Western leaders Friday, including US President…
Senegal’s highest court has dismissed President Macky Sall’s attempt to postpone elections and extend his term by nearly a year. The Constitutional Council dealt a setback to Sall, declaring that any delay in the scheduled elections for this month is unconstitutional. Earlier this month, President Macky Sall postponed the election originally scheduled for February 25…
George Musisi, a lawyer and supporter of the National Unity Platform has told Bbeg Media that he is ready to unseat Betty Nambooze Bakireke in Mukono Municipality come 2026. Musisi told us that he has already laid the groundwork for the campaigns. “I am ready and its true I am going to compete in the…
The African Centre for Media Excellence, a journalism training and mentoring organisation based in Uganda and five other organizations have joined the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN), an international hub for investigative reporters. In a statement GIJN said it was elated to welcome the organizations. “We are honored to welcome these organizations that are doing…
Today is Janan Luwum Day. That Janan Luwum was killed on February 16, 1977 is not in dispute. What is, depending, on what version you hear is how her died and who killed him. The general belief that has been propagated for the last 47 years since his death is that he was killed by…
The Inter Religious Council of Uganda (IRCU) in partnership with Global Peace Foundation is organizing the first ever inter religious family festival this year. The aim of the festival is to celebrate the vision of a family as a fundamental and basic unit of society. According to the IRCU secretariat, the one day festival will…
