Author: Johnson Thembo
Youth from Mbale District have petitioned Parliament with prayers that Mbale is granted city status in the first phase of the process. Meeting Speaker Rebecca Kadaga in her office on Monday, 17 June 2019, the youth, led by the Mbale Youth Council Chairperson, Yahaya Mwanje, said that they have been seeking for city status. “Since April 2019, we have tried to seek an appointment to handover the petition to you personally but we failed. We are thankful that Mbale was considered to become a city but we were hoping that it will be in the first phase and not the…
Celebrated television star MC Ollo has continued throwing conservation vibes to different teens following the launch of the prestigious Green teen campaign dubbed ( Ollo Experience Green Teen). This thrilling caravan running under the theme Young and Ambitious is aimed at encouraging the teens to be agents of environmental conservation. According to the NBS Television Youth Voice Presenter, the campaign will be happening every weekend in different secondary schools throughout the country and this will be featuring famous musicians, events MCs, Dee Jays and Motivational Speakers. Within a shortest time of inception, the caravan has already spread love to several…
The Uganda Cranes team that has spent three weeks in Abu Dhabi will depart for Egypt on Monday afternoon. The delegation that also has the FUFA President Eng. Moses Magogo left Abu Dhabi at 4:55 PM (3:55 PM East African Standard Time) on Monday. ‘We have had three wonderful weeks of intense preparations of training in Abu Dhabi where the team played two international build up matches against Turkmenistan and Ivory Coast. It was a camp that has helped a lot in the team preparations ahead of the Total AFCON 2019 Finals in Egypt. We concluded the training on Sunday…
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni during the weekend took wealth and job creation sensitisation drive to Teso Sub-region. The Fountain of Honour met with leaders drawn from the nine districts of Teso sub-region at Soroti University grounds. Speaking to the congregation, Museveni stated that even when Africa is wealthy in terms of natural resources, there is a lot of poverty around us. This is largely because our people have failed to transition from traditional lifestyles and adopt to the demands of modern times. He added that close to 65 percent of our people are still stuck in subsistence agriculture where in…
The Forum for Democratic Change top Member Ms Doreen Nyanjura has joined thousands of Ugandans advocating for the total ban of the use of polythene bags commonly known as a Kavera. Speaking while appearing on Nxt Radio Saturday talk show, the Makerere University Kampala City Council Authority Councilor stated that government is responsible for the environmental degradation mess in the country. Nyanjura said that the state has for years shielded the kavera manufacturers something that has made it hard for the total ban campaign to get executed, thus advocating for the closure of these factories. “Look, Government knows where the…
A group of youth activists led by Miss World Africa, Quinn Abenakyo, have petitioned the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, to expedite the passing of the Sexual Offences Bill to curb child marriage. “We want a national law that criminalises child marriage because it is the top most challenge that girls in the eastern region are facing,” read the petition delivered at the launch of the ‘girls get equal’ campaign at Africana Hotel on Friday, June 14, 2019. The campaign is spear headed by Plan Uganda and is geared at fostering rights and equal treatment of girlsKadaga said she was…
The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has cautioned government to improve on how the next budget is processed following the tardy manner in which the 2019/2020 budget was passed. Kadaga was making her Communication from the Chair prior to the presentation of the budget speech on Thursday, 13 June 2019 at the Kampala Serena International Conference Centre. The Speaker said that ministries had failed to beat the deadline of submitting their policy statements by 15 March as stipulated in the Public Finance Management Act, 2015. “Majority of them (policy statements) were submitted on 19 April and nine ministries had to…
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has appointed Maj Gen James Birungi the Uganda People’s Defence Air Force (UPDAF) chief of Staff as the commander of the Special Forces Command (SFC). Maj Gen Birungi replaces Maj Gen Don Nabasa who has been sent for training. Nabasa was appointed to head SFC, an elite unit that is responsible for the security of the President of Uganda and special operations in January 2017. He took over from Museveni’s son Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who was appointed Senior Presidential Adviser on military affairs. “Maj Gen Nabasa is heading out for a course. The course is good for…
Mityana Municipality Member of Parliament Hon. Francis Zaake Butebi was during the weekend showered with love and praised for his undying fight towards the liberation of Uganda. This happened when the Youthful lawmaker was invited by one of his devotees and only to a group of organized voters holding presents minutes later. “Yesterday, I spent the entire day meeting and greeting my beloved electorate of Mityana. My people are yearning for change, it is evident on their faces and gestures. The young, middle aged and elderly waved at me and happily sang the People Power slogans – a gesture…
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has hailed Ugandans and the ruling party for helping the economy to thrive. Speaking during State of the Nations address at the Kampala Serena Hotel last week, Museveni noted Uganda has one of the fastest economies in the world. He noted that between 1986 and 2015, the economy grew at an annual average rate of 6.92% while per capita income grew at an annual average rate of 3.6% over the same period. Thereby citing that there is no European country, not even the USA (except West Germany between 1950 and 1980 which did 3.8%) has grown its…