Staff at Standard Group Kenya, publishers of The Standard and owners of KTN TV, have gone eight months without pay underlining the financial hardships that the once powerful media group is facing. Information from Kenya shows that staff were last paid in November 2023. Before then, they had gone six months without pay. Over the…
A city lawyer, Muzamil Bikanga, has sued government seeking to know how Rai Holding came to own the majority of shares in Kinyara Sugar Works, a firm which was previously public owned. Under the initial agreement, Bikanga says government owned 51% of shares in Kinyara but along the way, its stake was acquired by Rai…
If you lived in Kampala or its environs between the late 1980s to the early 90s and you owned a TV set, chances are high that you could have stumbled upon one of the most popular comedy shows at the time: Didi’s Comedy Show. It aired on UTV and featured a comic character, Didi, a…
At least 87 out of the 145 MPs who have signed the motion to censure Mathias Mpuuga and three NRM commissioners represent constituencies in Buganda, an analysis by Bbeg Media shows. This represents 60% of all the MPs who have signed the motion so far. This is a big blow for Mpuuga, the former leader…
Those who knew John Birungi Babirukamu said he always kept to himself, sometimes rarely uttering a word the whole day to the people he worked with. He was also said to be very ambitious, juggling several projects at a go. It is this hectic, stressful life that some say could have contributed to his death….
To fully understand the latest standoff between NUP and Next Media over the alleged brutality of journalists in Lwengo, one has to go back to the aftermath of the 2021 elections. It started with a letter written by Robert Kyagulanyi, the president of NUP to the CEO of Next Media, Kin Kariisa, in which the…
Busoga College Mwiri, once a powerful school that produced lawyers, doctors, engineers, journalists and some of the most prominent politicians in Uganda today did not have any student admitted on government sponsorship at Makerere University this year. According to the list, no student from Mwiri qualified for government sponsorship on any course at Makerere University…
For the second time in three months, Molly Katanga, the widow of slain businessman Henry Katanga, was denied bail by the High Court this week. This has raised several questions, within the legal fraternity, as to whether the 55-year-old visibly sick widow is not entitled to bail simply because of the gravity of the accusations…
Dr Busingye Kabumba scored aggregate four in PLE in 1993. At O-levels he was the 15th best student in the country and the best at Namilyango College. At A-levels, Kabumba was the best in Uganda scoring Quadruple A in History, Economics, Literature and Divinity (HEL/D). At Makerere University, he one of the two students who…
Speaker Anita Among and her deputy, Thomas Tayebwa will on average spend Shs 800,000 per day on clothing next financial year. The two offices have also been allocated a total of Shs 286 million for clothing. This means they will spend Shs 24 million per month, which translates into roughly Shs 800, 000 per day….
