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Minister tells Kampala’s top schools to accept PLE results
The state minister for Primary Education, Rosemary Seninde, has hit back at schools claiming that they were under marked in the recently released Primary Leaving Examination (PLE) results. Without...
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Northern bypass traffic diverted for two months
Traffic along the Northern bypass is to be diverted for a period of two months to enable civil works on the highway. The diversions take effect from today, Friday. According to the January 24 public...
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Protests rock Sudanese cities, two more dead
Protests raged across Sudanese cities Thursday and two more demonstrators died in the most widespread rallies of anti-government unrest that began last month. A 24-year-old man died from his wounds in...
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Japan gives Kamwokya Shs 2bn for road maintenance
Japan has committed at least Shs 675 million annually towards the maintenance of community roads in Kamwokya, a Kampala suburb. Using the Do-nou technology, the three-year Community Road Empowerment...
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Drama as students present cake to suspended Makerere boss
There was drama at Makerere University when students presented a cake to the suspended Makerere University Academic Staff Association (Muasa) chairperson, Dr Deus Kamunyu.The cake which had the...
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Museveni raps Tororo leaders over unfulfilled pledges
President Yoweri Museveni has criticized the Tororo district leadership for "reminding" him about his unfulfilled promises. Through the minister for Presidency, Esther Mbayo at the 33rd NRM...
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Social media taxpayers drop to 6 million
The number of internet subscribers who paid the social media tax reduced from 8.04 million in July 2018 to 6.84 million people, according to a quarterly report by Uganda Communications Commission...
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Nigeria rejects foreign criticism over Chief Justice's suspension
Nigeria's government warned off international "meddling," insisting the West African country will conduct "free, fair elections" for the presidency on February 16. Reacting to criticism by the United...
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3 Ugandan terror suspects arrested in Mozambique
Mozambican police is holding three Ugandans suspected of being part of a terrorist cell affiliated to al-Shaabab that has been executing terror attacks in the Cabo Delgabo province. The three suspects...
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Museveni's NRM better than Amin, Obote govts – Mayiga
Buganda kingdom premier Charles Peter Mayiga has criticised those comparing the National Resistance Movement's (NRM) regime to previous regimes led by former presidents Apollo Milton Obote and Gen Idi...
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Another woman killed in Entebbe
The body of an unidentified half naked woman was found dumped in the compound of Rose Namutebi, a resident of Katabi cell in Entebbe municipality. The suspected murder of yet another woman in Katabi,...
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Uganda Heart Institute threatened with eviction
The Uganda Heart Institute (UHI) is facing eviction from Mulago hospital premises. The centre is now in dire need of Shs 256 billion to construct its own facility within Kampala city. The institute...
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National security: more MTN staff under investigation
More MTN employees, Uganda's biggest telecom are being investigated for using their positions to allegedly compromise the country's national security. The employees whose identities are still being...
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Masindi hospital also hit by blood shortage
Masindi hospital has joined the long list of the country's health facilities currently hit by blood shortages. Dr Vincent Katusiime, the medical superintendent Masindi hospital said that it is now a...
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Bribery: Kutesa denies being placed on travel ban
Foreign Affairs minister Sam Kutesa has said no travel ban has been issued against him by any country as has been alleged. Following last year's conviction of Patrick Ho, a Chinese businessman on...
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Ben Kiwanuka took Mutesa’s land – Wasajja
Prince David Wasajja has opened up about the contested one square mile of land in Mutungo, Kampala, which is contested by beneficiaries of the estate of former Buganda king/first president of Uganda,...
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Law dons write, warn Nawangwe
Law professors have stepped into an intensifying leadership crisis at Makerere University with tough legal advice to the vice chancellor: rescind the suspension of employee association leaders. The...
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Mugagga survives sex probe, retires
After 27 years of service in four public schools, former Kibuli SS head teacher, Hajji Ali Mugagga Kasule, has called it quits. In an interview with The Observer yesterday, Mugagga said he has...
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NRM plots to end MP polls
A growing loud internal opposition to the NRM political agenda in parliament, which so often complicates the party leaders’ ability to quickly mobilize votes needed to muscle through crucial party...
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How Nile Bridge was bungled up
Hardly three months after President Museveni commissioned the Source of the Nile bridge, huge construction failures have emerged casting loud public doubt on the quality of the now $174m (Shs 630...
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