Abed Bwanika, the MP for Kimaanya-Kabonera, has petitioned the National Unity Platform seeking to cause a meeting to debate and pronounce the party’s position on the Anti-Homosexuality law. In a petition addressed to the party’s deputy president for Eastern Uganda, John Baptist Nambeshe, the vocal party MP says the meeting will go a long way…
Speaker Anita Among has rejected a request by the National Unity Platform (NUP) to recall Mathias Mpuuga as commissioner representing the party. NUP had earlier this month taken a decision to recall Mpuuga after it was revealed that he took Shs 500 million as service award. Many commentators noted that NUP’s decision would have no…
If there is any organization that nurtured and mentored me and sharpened by critical edges, it is The Observer. I joined The Observer in March 2005 shortly before I graduated at Makerere University. In my second and third year at University I had worked for two other papers, The Sunrise and the short-lived Evening Mail….
Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda, the vocal Kira Municipality MP finds himself in a spot of bother after it was revealed that he was a beneficiary of Parliament’s cash bonanza. From being a hunter, he has become the hunted. Some would add that he is now also the haunted. Ssemujju made a name as a political journalist…
The appointment of Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba as Chief of Defence Forces continues to elicit varying interpretations as to what President Museveni’s move signifies. Is the president trying to trim the political wings of his son and keep his Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU) pressure group at bay? Or is Museveni giving Muhoozi a bigger stage…
Social media activist, Dr Jimmy Spire Ssentongo, has reportedly gone into hiding a day after revealing he had received threats to his life. Sources close to him told Bbeg Media that Ssentongo went silent and switched off his phones yesterday. “We don’t know where he is because we can’t get him on phone. It is…
When MTN pays dividends to its shareholders on June 21, 2024, businessman Charles Mbire will earn enough money to buy at least three prime plots (100*100) in Naguru. If he decides to look further away from Kampala, he will be in position to buy 20 plots (100*100) in places like Kira and Ssonde. Mbire will…
Rubaga deputy RDC Herbert Burora flew too close to the sun and eventually got burnt. The vocal Burora was suspended yesterday for allegedly using social media to undermine the very government he serves. However, sources have told us that his source of trouble stems from his social media attacks on Speaker Anita Among, whom he…
Leaders of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) allied to Katonga yesterday held a mobilization tour in Wakiso, where hundreds of their supporters urged them to form a new political outfit and cut links with FDC-Najjanankumbi. It is an idea the Dr Kizza Besigye led faction has been toying with for the last couple of…
Youth climate actvists from Uganda and Tanzania have urged members of the Insurance Consortium for Oil and Gas Uganda (ICOGU), not to provide insurance services related to EACOP projects again. They made the call last week as they celebrated the Global Week of Action. The consortium comprises 19 insurance companies that work together to provide…
