The Observer (Kampala)
Website: http://www.observer.ug/
June 19
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Uganda: Music to the Rescue
Bosco Ssegawa's life story is best told from the success of orphans whose life he has turned into wells of hope. Read more »
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Uganda: Recline - What Does a Good Girl Do?
Trish, 27, puts down the women's magazine she has been reading while Stella, 37, and Joanna, 31, finished their phone calls. Read more »
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Uganda: GOtv to Spread Further
MultiChoice, under one of its brand segments, GOtv, is spreading its digital television services to the rest of Uganda as the country embarks on digital migration. Read more »
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Uganda: Wedding - Capital Honours Its Big Wedding Pledge
Gordon Amanya and his bride Catherine Atwine arrived in a white limousine flanked by two bikers. Amanya and his best man Patrick Mwesigye wore matching grey suits with white... Read more »
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Uganda: A Vestment Colour for Every Special Season
Apart from seeing their priests using different colours for their liturgical vestments, many Christians have not bothered knowing what these colours mean, and on what occasions... Read more »
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Uganda: Obesity Affects Sex Quality and Quantity
Now, while exercise has been reported to help overweight and obese men improve on their sizes, this man cannot be helped by exercise because his small penile size is not as a... Read more »
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Uganda: Fashion - Dress Right for Travel
While going through airport security at Entebbe International airport, the woman in front of me stopped traffic. Read more »
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Uganda: How Bikes, Boda Boda Saved My Dull Sunday
Uganda's eviction from Big Brother Africa in just two weeks, coupled with the fact that there is no premiership football at the moment, is really taking its toll on me. Read more »
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Uganda: LDCS Granted Extension On Intellectual Property
The World Trade Organisation has granted the least developed countries (LDCs) an extension period till 2021 before enforcing Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS). Read more »
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Uganda: Star Trail - Parliament Sits At Obbligato
After the Ugandan Cranes win against Angola last Saturday, members of Parliament led by Education and Sports Minister Jessica Alupo stormed New Club Obbligato to dance for victory. Read more »
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Uganda: Bebe Protégé Returns With Annoying Song
In his song, Gw'ojje mu Kyalo, Ragga Dee notes that a good-hearted man will help out a friend, but as payback, the friend will turn against him. Read more »
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Uganda: Miracle - the Dead Cannot Be Your Friend
The most challenging prayer, I think, is one that involves rebuking spirits operating behind the image of a dead loved one. Read more »
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Uganda: Will Budget Deliver Value to Taxpayers? [opinion]
The budget speech read by the Minister of Finance, Maria Kiwanuka, last Thursday, underlined the fact that government will rely on 81% domestic revenue to fund her expenditure. Read more »
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Uganda: Drug Giants Move in to Block Generics
Civil society organisations dealing with intellectual property rights have mounted a spirited attempt to block the European Union and US from introducing stringent patent rights... Read more »
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Uganda: Tullow Gets Its Break in London, but What Has Uganda Achieved? [editorial]
The tax dispute between Tullow Oil and Heritage Oil, settled in London last week, had it all. In the oil industry, and the messy legal battles they usually serve up, this case... Read more »
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Uganda: URA, Malaba Town in Parking Fees Row
Congestion is building up at the Malaba border post, with the town council there engaged in collecting fees from all vehicles getting into and leaving the country, a practice... Read more »
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Uganda: Babirye Is Miss Teen Nabbingo
The search for Mirinda's Miss Teen is on and after visiting Gayaza High School and Rubaga Girls School first, the next stop was Trinity College Nabbingo over the weekend. Read more »
June 17
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Uganda: When Rivers Meet With Diverse Cultures
Yes, diversity. Confluence of rivers, a collection of artistes from Hong Kong, Thailand, Bangladesh, France and Uganda last week staged a play titled, Ashes Blood Rivers, at the... Read more »
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Uganda: Leilah Is the Reason Not to Import Jewellery
Not many people get to turn their hobbies into their day-to-day jobs, but 27-year-old Leilah Nankya has managed to do that. Read more »
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Uganda: Lugudde Speaks Out On His Love Affairs [interview]
Isaac Lugudde, aka LK4, has that appeal for women that managed to turn around the face of basketball at YMCA Wandegeya. Read more »
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Uganda: The Geezer - Should Men Be Gossiping?
Male gossips! Give me a break! And it's not a case of different strokes for different folks; geezers simply do NOT indulge in gossip. Read more »
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Uganda: Hon. MP, Here Is Why Life Is Bad [opinion]
In the 1980s, before I became a teenager, I had watched lots of films in which actors performed amazing diving manoeuvres. Read more »
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Uganda: Govt Eases Business Licence Procedures
Faced with a huge task of collecting at least Shs 8 trillion from the domestic pool to finance the national budget for the next financial year, government has moved to ease the... Read more »
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Uganda: Police Is in Sembabule to Resolve Land Tensions
The Inspector General of Police, Gen Kale Kayihura, on June 4, 2013 diffused tension that was brewing between the owners of Abeki Farm Enterprises and over 10,000 squatters in a... Read more »
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Uganda: Bring On Senegal!
Back on June 3, 2012, Emma Okwi scored the equaliser to save Uganda from the jaws of defeat. Last Saturday, Okwi once again cancelled out Ricardo Job Estêvão's opener... Read more »
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