The government has assured MPs that preparations for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament are progressing, with major investments underway in sports infrastructure, roads, health facilities, airports and hotels. The state minister for Sports, Peter Ogwang, briefed journalists at Parliament after updating the House on the status of the projects being implemented ahead…
Ministers Balaam Barugahara and Justine Nameere have spent the past few days touring Mbale and Bulambuli, catching civil servants off guard and ordering arrests on the spot. Ghost workers and pupils have been uncovered. A headteacher was arrested for allegedly inflating pupil numbers while a district engineer was remanded over a bridge built with black…
For the last 32 years, residents of Butambala have watched successive cabinet appointments come and go without seeing one of their own named minister. The last person from Butambala to serve in cabinet was the late Abbey Kafumbe Mukasa, who was deputy minister of Finance before his death in 1994. Kafumbe had represented Butambala in…
