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Debate on the government's land law reform proposals as contained in the Land (Amendment) Bill 2007 opened Thursday amid protests from several lawmakers.
PRESSURE is growing on the members of the Public Accounts Committee to defend those named in the mismanagement of the sh370b CHOGM funds. NRM chief whip Daudi Migereko acknowledged he held a meeting with the MPs on the committee, but said it was about "methods of work".
THE Transport Licensing Board (TLB) is investigating the circumstances under which a Kalita bus got involved in an accident in which eight people died last Wednesday.
A former child abductee was last Friday reunited with her two-year-old daughter she lost during battle in the DR Congo. Stella Acan thought her child, Mercy Aol, had been killed in a battle in Garamba forest seven months ago.
FOR three days starting Wednesday, Kololo Airstrip will host hundreds of people united in thanksgiving and prayer.
UGANDA lags behind in development due to the poor performance of the Ministry of Tourism, Trade and Industry, Maj. Gen. Kahinda Otafiire has said.
WE have been treated to pictures of the Tooro princess looking so lean, she would make soccer star David Beckham's anorexic wife Victoria die of nugu. She also has a blazing song called Haturudi Nyuma (Let's not retreat). It features a hitherto unknown Burundian vocalist, Kidum, a continuation of Juliana's professed preference for collabos with male artistes ever since she broke the I-Jay ...
THEY say the surest route to failure is for one to try and please everybody. For a journalist especially, it is practically impossible to be in everyone's good books. However mild mannered or level-headed one is, stepping on a few toes is inevitable.
I SHOULD not be the one writing about this because well, I literally make a living off reminiscing about campus life. But then I have never been the one to resist doing what I shouldn't do. I wonder why we never seem to get over the fact that we went to university?
WHAT are the views of the NRM and the opposition on the topic of the week? Sunday Vision pits opposition columnist Wafula Oguttu against NRM representative Ofwono Opondo.
ONE image comes to mind at the mention of Afghanistan, Kosovo and the Middle East - war. Incidentally, some areas in and around Kampala are called just that.
AS gospel artistes continue to complain about lack of financial support, debate is going on among born-again Christians that Gospel music has lost its value, owing to the overwhelming secular influences. But has the soul music genre really lost its spirituality? If this is true, what should be done to bring the gospel artistes back on the divine track?
THE National Resistance Movement (NRM) secretary general, Amama Mbabazi, has told the party members to resign if the head of their local council executive is a member of the opposition.
WOMEN rights activists from over five Civil Society Organisations have praised the Government for enacting the long awaited Domestic Violence Bill. Parliament on Wednesday passed the bill which calls for protection of victims of domestic violence and seeks to punish the crime perpetrators.
THE Court of Appeal has given the State one last chance to prosecute its criminal appeal against Dr. Aggrey Kiying, who was acquitted of the murder of his wife, Robinah Kiyingi.
Trading is low at the Uganda Securities Exchange (USE). This is because there are less people investing in stocks.
Zain Uganda is reported to have injected close to $2.5m in the R. Kelly "I believe" concert that will rock the whole of East Africa come 29, January 2009 at the Kampala's Lugogo indoor stadium.
Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU) is the apex body of the Private Sector in Uganda whose mission is to thrust the development and growth of the private sector's competitiveness.
Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda are among the five East, Central and Western African countries which are going to benefit from the global funds US $336 million to battle malaria.
The movement of people and goods from Uganda to Rwanda is to be facilitated 24 hours a day starting April next year, the two neighbouring states have agreed. The development comes following growing traffic of both cargo and passenger vehicles crossing the two borders.
Revenue Authorities in the East African Community (EAC) member states will start charging a uniform figure of 5% as withholding tax on dividends given to shareholders.
A group of people on September11, 2009 attacked police officers and disrupted people's business, court heard on Wednesday.
CLOSE to 1,000 new Somalis, who arrived in the country after the terror threats by Al Shabaab Islamists, have been registered in Kisenyi, a Kampala suburb.
ABOUT 15 Forum For Democratic Change (FDC) members defected to NRM in Kotido District. John Bosco Akore, coordinator of FDC in Abim, Kotido and Kaabong districts, handed over his party card together with 14 party members to the NRM Secretary General, Amama Mbabazi.
BUSINESS magnet James Mulwana has said the hope of turning Africa's abundant wealth into prosperity lies in its people's leadership abilities.
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