NRM @37: CORRUPTION AND IMPUNITY NOW A BIG PROBLEM
By Stephen Ouma Bwire. As the National Resistance Movement (NRM) celebrates 37 years in power since President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni came to power on January 26, 1986, corruption and impunity have grown and are almost becoming institutionalized. Individuals are taking the law in their hands and directing repression at citizens on flimsy or fabricated cases….
UGANDA – SOUTH SUDAN JOURNALISTS PACT ON COOPERATION
By Our Reporter Uganda Journalists Union (UJU) and Union of Journalists of South Sudan (UJOSS) have strengthened cooperation that will ensure joint Press Freedom monitoring, training , advocacy and trade union development . UJOSS Secretary General Mr Majak Kuany Alier (right) and UJU General Secretary Mr Stephen Ouma Bwire held discussions at UJU offices, Equatoria…
AstraZeneca’s Healthy Heart Africa set to expand to 10 more countries in Africa
By Zurah Nakabugo. AstraZeneca has announced a planned expansion of its access to healthcare programme, Healthy Heart Africa (HHA), to 10 more countries, starting in 2023. The programme, which is currently present in nine countries, is designed to contribute to the prevention and control of hypertension or high blood pressure and the burden of cardiovascular…
Boxing – IBA Persident commissions project land in Uganda
By Silvano Kibuuka. The International Boxing Association (IBA) President Umar Kremlev from Russia could not reserve his ambitions of promoting boxing on the African continent when he came to Uganda for the ground breaking on the land earmarked to be home of boxing on the continent.Kremlev also had to bury the sentiments with the International…
Museveni, Ruto and Ramaphosa most influential African leaders
By Sarah Kibisi. According to BCW’s Twiplomacy, a digital diplomacy initiative by the strategic communication agency, BCW Global in their 2022 World Leader Power Ranking report, Kenyan President William Ruto ranked 13 worldwide leads the pack in Africa and is closely followed by Cyril Ramaphosa, from South Africa and Museveni comes third and 29th in…
Nabbanja, Tayebwa, Mpuuga meet over missing NUP supporters
By Dan Bakalangudde. Prime Minister Hon Robina Nabbanja, Deputy Speaker of Uganda Parliament Hon. Thomas Tayebwa and the leader of Opposition in Parliament, Mr Mathias Mpuuga met this month to discuss the alleged disappearance of Ugandans, especiaally supporters of the opposition, National Unity Platform (NUP).The meeting at Parliament recently was also attended by Information Minister,…
Nytil, Picfare bows out of Uganda as workers lose jobs
By Sarah Achen Kibisi. Nonetheless, the factory has finally wound business, according to the company’s liquidation and business cessation documents seen by the Workers Eye. This voluntary cessation followed two Shareholdersmeetings on 25th October,2022 and another on 2nd December 2022 that passed a special resolution with CPA Ronald Mutumba as the liquidator. The sad development…
Parliament calls for countrywide power coverage
By Sarah Achen Kibisi. Legislators have called on government to ensure that electricity access across the country is improved for the benefit of Ugandans in different sectors of the economy.This follows a report tabled by the House Committee on Environment and Natural relating to the erratic electricity supply in West Nile.In the report presented by…