The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party has dismissed, as wishful thinking, a one-to-one strategy broached by Democratic Party (DP) ahead of the 2021 presidential elections. The strategy that would see all opposition parties' field a single candidate against National Resistance Movement (NRM) candidates across the country was presented by
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Colonel Atwooki Ndahura, the former Director of Crime Intelligence in Uganda Police Force has finally regained his freedom. He was granted bail this morning by the General Court Martial sitting in Makindye Chaired by Lt General Andrew Gutti.Colonel Ndahura and each of his sureties executed bond of Shillings 10 million
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2019 Sunhak Peace Prize Laureate Akinwumi Adesina has pledged to do more to advance Africa’s fight against hunger, poverty and youth underemployment. The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), and co-Laureate Waris Dirie, a global champion against Female Genital Mutilation, shared the prestigious US $1million dollar prize at an
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Speaker of Uganda’s Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has stressed the need for the Executive to respect the independence of Parliament, saying it is an inevitable balance required in strengthening democratic governance. Kadaga said issues relating to the independence of Parliament; its responsiveness in addressing service delivery needs of citizens should top
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By Our Reporter Hamilton Cloud Services (HCS), Uganda’s first local cloud service provider and a subsidiary of Hamilton Telecom, on Thursday, February 7th 2019, finalised an agreement to colocate their servers in Raxio Data Centre’s state-of-the-art, always-on data centre at the Kampala Industrial and Business Park, Namanve. Raxio announced its
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Friday 8th February 2019 will remain a memorable day for DNA Lounge and its proprietor Jose Chameleone. The Kololo based bar run out of alcohol after Rajiv Ruparelia (in featured photo), son to tycoon Sudhir Ruparelia walked into the bar at around 4am and ordered attendants to give revelers alcohol
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A section of MPs on Parliament’s the Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) has claimed that some staff of Bank of Uganda are working hard to frustrate Governor Prof. Emmanuel Mutebile’s leadership. This comes at a time COSASE is concluding investigations into the closure of the seven
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Kenya has beaten 14 African countries including Uganda to host the lucrative United Nationals Global Shared Service Centre. This is according to the Report of the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres titled ‘Global service delivery model for the United Nations Secretariat’ dated 8 January 2019. The report will soon be
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Deputy President William Ruto has called on African countries to continue accepting financial help from the West or China as long as it boosts infrastructure on the continent but doesn’t lead to re-colonisation, Daily Nation reports. In a lecture delivered at the UK’s Warwick University on Saturday, Dr Ruto said
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Makerere University Law dons have questioned the powers of the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe to suspend staff and appoint a committee to investigate them, URN reports. This is contained in a statement signed by Associate Prof. Christopher Mbazira, the acting Principal Law School with backing of all staff.
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