The Internal Security Organisation ISO has asked Parliament for an additional Shs218 billion in the 2026/27 financial year to strengthen intelligence collection and improve monitoring of the Parish Development Model PDM amid growing concerns over corruption and weak oversight.The request w
Speaker Anita Among recently campaigned in Lira city and cursed minister Betty Amongi for seeking to break the plate she is feeding from. She told the president to force out Amongi on grounds that she was using the government opportunities accessed to her as a minister to sow discord and undermin
In a dramatic pre-election political move, Stella Birah Nambuya, President of the Deliberate Vote and leader of the Republican Women and Youth Party, announced that a coalition of nine political parties has thrown its weight behind President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in the upcoming general election
Uganda’s president Museveni recently recently tasked the public service commission chairperson, Winnie Kabogoza, to look into financial mismanagement allegations the internal auditors had unearthed against the disgraced URBRA/retirement benefits authority form
Absa Uganda has appointed Keith Kalyegira as the new chairman of the bank's board, effective 1 March 2025.Kalyegira is a highly respected and seasoned advisor on strategy, investments, and capital markets, with a wealth of experience cutting across both the public and priva
Gender minister Betty Amongi, as was recently portrayed by fellow minister Kahinda Otafiire, is a natural bully who doesn’t mind discomforting others. And in her public life as MP and minister, the UPC first lady has stepped on toes and caused misery to many o
On a date to be agreed with the judiciary shortly, I will lead a high-level delegation of the Uganda Law Society (ULS) to meet with the chief justice, Alfonse Chigamoy Owiny-Dollo, on behalf of countless individuals and families whose lives have been torn apart
Renowned city pastor Robert Kayanja yesterday took to the witness dock and testified how nine people, whom he had taken on to be part of his church's security team, turned around and accused him of sodomising them. Pastor Kayanja, the senior pastor of Rubaga Miracle Cathedral, narrated t
Contributors to the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) will receive 11.5 percent interest they earned this year, Finance minister Matia Kasaija announced Thursday. "As per Section 36(2) of the NSSF Act (Cap 230), for the Financial Year 2023/24, I declare an interest rate of 11.5 percen
