Author: Johnson Thembo
The Uganda Cranes head coach Sebastien Desabre and captain Denis Onyango addressed the media at the Cairo International Stadium on Tuesday morning. This was during the official press conference prior to the group A encounter against Zimbabwe. Desabre told the media that the team is focused and concentrated towards the game with Zimbabwe having picked maximum points in the opener against DR Congo. ‘We are focused and concentrated for the Zimbabwe game on Wednesday. The win we registered against DR Congo now means for nothing. We need maximum points against Zimbabwe so that we head to the final game with…
The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah, has said intrigue and stoking of conflict has to be dispensed with so that Uganda’s journey to development can be unhindered. Oulanyah said in order to achieve the desired development, it is crucial to create friendships, build bridges and work together in sincerity and harmony. Wars and chaos, he added, will not be entertained. “…let us stop plotting sabotage, let us stop plotting chaos [instead] let us preach peace, let us preach unity and development; let us work together for the prosperity of Uganda,” said Oulanyah, who presided at a fundraising function for…
Margaret Kabango 75 has witnessed many things during her upbringing in rural Eastern Uganda. But the worst of all is seeing older women flashed out of their matrimonial homes at the death of their husbands by relatives. More bewildering is the fact that no one is ever penalized for the crimes of forceful evictions. “It is worse for the women who age without children to defend them,” she says adding that culture has refused to integrate the national matrimonial laws which recognize individual ownership of property gender notwithstanding. A Gender Land and Asset Survey by the International Centre for Research…
Politics is not about making money but serving the community, pupil leaders of Entebbe Junior School have been told. The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah, told the pupils during a mentorship session in the Parliament Conference Hall on Wednesday, 19 June 2019 that a true politician sacrifices with the aim of serving a greater good that is bigger than them. “I left my profession as a lawyer, which was handsomely paying, to join politics which pays much less and yet I still share the money with the people I represent; but I do this to serve my people,” he…
President Museveni has finally confirmed a total of 859 police officers who were passed out in the previous police pass out. This is the first phase and we expect more cadet officers to be confirmed in the second phase According to Uganda Police Deputy Spokesperson Polly Namaye, Over 4000 officers who included police cadets and Probation Police Constables were passed out in 2015 at the Police Training School in Kabalye, Masindi district but up to date had never been confirmed and recognized as fully serving officers of the Uganda Police Force.They had to undergo at most two years of probation.…
A backbench Commissioner of Parliament, Hon. Peter Ogwang, has demanded that the health workers who appear selling government issued medicines in the television documentary, “Stealing from the Sick” should be arrested and prosecuted. Ogwang made the demand as a matter of national importance during the Wednesday, 19 June, 2019 plenary sitting chaired by the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga. The NBS TV documentary in partnership with the BBC Africa Eye was played in the Parliament for about 10 minutes to give opportunity to MPs who had not watched it to have a sneak peek of it. Owing to the length…
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…