By Dace Potas Like many Americans, I dreaded tuning into the first presidential debate Thursday night. I frankly have had little interest in watching America’s two least likable old men bicker about who will have the honor of running our country into the ground. To little surprise, my dread turned out to be entirely warranted,…
The Uganda Film Festival 2024, held on Friday, June 7th, was a dazzling evening of celebration and recognition for MultiChoice Uganda’s stars on Pearl Magic and Pearl Magic Prime Channels. This prestigious annual event honours excellence in the Ugandan film industry, and this year, actors, and producers with content on our platform took home several…
President Museveni has said that although the census figures are still preliminary, they show the correctness of the NRM strategy. He made the remarks while officially receiving the preliminary results of the 2024 Census at Kampala Serena Hotel. “You remember we had problems with some groups that wanted to castrate people, that they are controlling…
For every 10 Ugandans, at least six are females according to the preliminary results of the 2024 national census which were released today by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS). Uganda;s population according to UBOS is now 45.9 million, which is an increase of 11 million from the 2014 census. Women also constitute 51% of the…
The events that led William Ruto to abandon his budget might in time be seen as a milestone moment – not only for Kenya’s president but also for the power of youth on the world’s youngest continent. Through the potency of protest, organised largely organically, a movement initiated by young people on social media has…
For years, there has been debate as to why there is a high turnover of journalists in local media organizations. On average, journalists don’t last more than three years in a single organization. Many of the journalists who leave newsrooms end doing public relations and communications work in NGOs, government agencies and the private sector. The…
On Monday, the top management team of Next Media in a day long meeting decided to suspend senior talk show host Simon Njala Kaggwa for reportedly breaching minimum editorial and ethical guidelines of the organization. Kaggwa was adjudged to have been partisan following his active participation in Mathias Mpuuga’s thanksgiving event in Masaka on June…
After a day of protest, turmoil and bloodshed, Kenyan President William Ruto addressed the nation with a message of sadness and strength. Saying “legitimate” protests against his policies had been “hijacked by a group of organised criminals,” he warned his government would use all means at its disposal to prevent a repeat of the violence…
Peter Muweesi, the news editor at BBS TV has suspended senior reporter Robert Mwanje for including politician Samuel Lubega Mukaaku in a news analysis about Mathias Mpuuga’s Masaka event. Mwanje, we understand, has been suspended for two days. The five minutes long news analytical story ran on June 22 on BBS TV’s 10.00 PM news…
Court in Kiboga has remanded Madina Nakyeyune and Hamimu Luyombya over the alleged murder case of 11-year-old Oliver Namanda. They have been remanded until July 5, 2024. Namanda, a pupil at Fairway Nursery School, went missing on June 11, 2024. She was last seen vending boiled maize in Kiboga Town. Her dismembered body was discovered…
