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Corruption Dominates Museveni’s Meeting with Permanent Secretaries

Corruption Dominates Museveni’s Meeting with Permanent Secretaries

President Museveni had cautioned Uganda’s Permanent Secretaries against engaging in acts of corruption. “On corruption, you have the lead role because you are the one in charge of government money, person

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	Whose Vision? Lira City’s Fate Hangs in Balance As Aceng, Amongi Lock Horns in Battle for Woman MP Seat, 2026

Whose Vision? Lira City’s Fate Hangs in Balance As Aceng, Amongi Lock Horns in Battle for Woman MP Seat, 2026

A high-stakes meeting between President Yoweri Museveni, ministers and NRM MPs, and NRM-leaning independent MPs from Lango took place at State House, Entebbe on Friday 18th October, 2024.The seven-hour discussion

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One Direction singer Liam Payne dead after falling from Buenos Aires hotel balcony

One Direction singer Liam Payne dead after falling from Buenos Aires hotel balcony

Former One Direction singer Liam Payne was found dead outside a hotel in Buenos Aires after the 31-year-old fell from his third-floor room balcony, Argentine police said on Wednesday. In a statement, the capital police said they were called to the hotel in the capital's leafy Palermo nei

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Govt job renewals will be based on project performance, Ggoobi tells accounting officers 

Govt job renewals will be based on project performance, Ggoobi tells accounting officers 

The Ministry of Finance has warned accounting officers to ensure that projects under their ministries, departments, and agencies are executed within set timelines, failure of which they will be held liable for cost delays. In details contained in the Performance of Externally Funded Proj

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The dark side of Uganda's boda boda boom

The dark side of Uganda's boda boda boom

The number of people who died in traffic incidents in Uganda rose by more than 10 percent in the past decade, despite global road traffic deaths falling by five percent per the World Health Organisation (WHO). Uganda Police Force statistics attributed nearly 45 percent of deaths caused b

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Cranes in touching distance of Afcon 2025

Cranes in touching distance of Afcon 2025

Denis Omedi was on target and Alfred Leku added an own goal for Uganda to come within a point of Morocco Afcon 2025.  The 2-1 victory over South Sudan in Juba on Tuesday lifted Ugandans spirits but the party was put on hold following South Africa’s 1-1 stalemate with Congo in Brazzavi

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Inside Opposition electoral reforms

Inside Opposition electoral reforms

The Opposition is seeking leave to table different electoral and constitutional reforms ahead of 2026 General Elections. Daily Monitor has seen seven draft Bills which seek to, among others, amend certain provisions of the Constitution and other Acts of Parliament to split the legislativ

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3 in 10 Ugandans going without food daily

3 in 10 Ugandans going without food daily

As Uganda today joins the rest of the world to mark World Food Day, at least three in every 10 households will skip a meal or not eat at all for the entire day. Mr Moses Mbuusi, a statistician at the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (Ubos), defined severe food insecurity as frequent and prolo

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Shs400b to be injected in Mbale industrial park roads 

Shs400b to be injected in Mbale industrial park roads 

Deputy Speaker of Parliament Thomas Tayebwa has said government has already contracted China Railway Number 3 Group to design and build key infrastructure in the Sino-Uganda Mbale Industrial Park. The 619-acre park, which was commissioned in 2018, currently grosses an investment portfoli

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Senior four candidates start exams

Senior four candidates start exams

Anxiety looms large across the country as the first cohort of Senior Four candidates under the new Lower Secondary Curriculum starts exams today. The curriculum came into effect in 2021. According to the Uganda National Examination Board (Uneb), a total of 379,620 students were registere

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