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The National Economic Empowerment Dialogue (NEED) leader Joseph Kizza Kabuleta has said the poorly drafted 1995 National Constitution which gave a lot of powers to the President is one of the reasons why majority of Ugandans have not benefited from the country vast natural resources.He says the President has used

Andrew Muwonge The Electoral Commission has this morning declared National Resistance Movement (NRM) candidate in the Kayunga LCV by-election Andrew Muwonge winner of yesterday’s poll. According to official results released by the EC, Muwonge polled 31,830 votes. The National Unity Platform (NUP) candidate Harriet Nakweede came second with 31,308 votes

The street lighting project for the 13 municipalities was below standard, the Parliamentary Committee on Public Local Government Accounts has observed. The committee chaired by Bardege-Layibi Division county in Gulu City, Martin Ojara Mapenduzi discovered this while reviewing the project. The Committee was interfacing with the project officials from the ministry of

MPs from the West Nile region have rejected government offer of 20Mws (Megawatts) of solar power in the west Nile saying they want their region connected to the national power grid if development is to take place. Currently, WENRECO supplies less than 7megawatts  of power in the West Nile region

The Electoral Commission has postponed voting for Namayumba sub county LC3 chairperson following a mix up of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) and National Unity Platform (NUP) party symbols and names on the ballot papers. EC chairperson, Justice Simon Byabakama Mugenyi confirmed the postponement in a statement Thursday. “The

The striking doctors under their umbrella Associations (UMA), Uganda Medical Association and Federation for Uganda Medical Interns (FUMI) have petitioned the High Court in Kampala seeking to quash the directive from the Ministry of Health directing them to vacate their respective hospitals. The umbrella Associations have together with a civil

The Electricity Regulatory Authority- ERA, has approved a new tariff plan that is aimed at reducing electricity bills significantly for industries and domestic cooking. According to the new tariff structure, homeowners using electricity for cooking will pay Shillings 412 per kilowatt-hour (unit) starting January 2022. The tariff structure review also

UNBS staff measuring length of the iron bar Uganda National Bureau of Standards-UNBS has impounded more than 7545 iron bars from hardware shops around Kampala valued at over Shillings 250million. The iron bars were impounded on Wednesday in an ongoing operation that is expected to last seven days with the

More than 3,000 acres (about five Square Miles) for out-growers in Atiak Sub-county in Amuru District worth billions of shillings have been lost in a devastating fire that ravaged the Atiak Sugarcane plantation over the weekend.More square miles which are yet to be measured were lost in the plantation of

Geoffrey Olila Geoffrey Richard Olila was the headteacher of Mother Mary Nursery and Primary school in Lira City by the time the government closed schools in March 2019 as part of the COVID-19 containment measures. The closure of schools meant that the 32-year-old Olila couldn’t earn a salary to support