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Double Standards or Fear of the Unknown? Why Does the Speaker Dodge Debate on Lavish Spending?

Double Standards or Fear of the Unknown? Why Does the Speaker Dodge Debate on Lavish Spending?

Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among, presides over the HouseThe August House Speaker, Rt Hon. Annet Anita Among, seems to be afflicted by a fear of the unknown or a person of double standards, as seen by her persistent suppression of House members from deb

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RICHARD KAY: Harold Wilson, the seducer so hapless that he left his slippers under his lover's bed at Chequers

RICHARD KAY: Harold Wilson, the seducer so hapless that he left his slippers under his lover's bed at Chequers

Until yesterday, the most cunning political mind of his generation had created for ­himself an enigmatic legacy of mystery and election-winning high intellect.Behind the clouds of egalitarian pipe smoke and an earthy ­Yorkshire accent, Harold Wilson mai

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ROAD TO 2026: Ex-MUBS speaker joins eastern youth Mp race

ROAD TO 2026: Ex-MUBS speaker joins eastern youth Mp race

Former Makerere University Business School (MUBS) Speaker, Miriam Apolot has signaled she will be joining the race for eastern youth Mp.Apolot who also once served as gender minister at MUBS hails from Kareu village, Nyakoi parish, Kam

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Wanted Ugandan LGBTQ Activist Ssali In Fear For His Dear Life At Home

Wanted Ugandan LGBTQ Activist Ssali In Fear For His Dear Life At Home

Joseph Ssali,is among the Ugandans who have been affected by the law that interferes with human rights according to the activists.Early this month, the Constitutional court in Uganda rejected the bid to scrap the anti-homosexuality law, which imposes penalties of up to life imprisonme

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ROGERS WADADA: Abed Bwanika ranting like a jilted lover towards Bobi Wine’s NUP

ROGERS WADADA: Abed Bwanika ranting like a jilted lover towards Bobi Wine’s NUP

Mr. Rogers Wadada Musaalo, a Lawyer, human rights activist, researcher, and politician (PHOTO/Courtesy).On Saturday March 16, 2024, I travelled to Kakiri with a friend whose car radio is permanently tuned in to a Luganda-speaking local radio station.That radio station usually hosts

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Shs 1.1bn consultancy bill for UWEC wall shocks MPs

Shs 1.1bn consultancy bill for UWEC wall shocks MPs

UWEC officials appearing before MPsLegislators on the sectoral committee of tourism, trade, and industry were shocked to learn that Uganda Wildlife Conservation Education Centre (UWEC) procured private consultancy services for its perimeter wall fence at Shs 1.163 billion.UWEC sits

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Uganda’s government by loot

Uganda’s government by loot

Why we need to rethink the ethics of our inherited state institutions and the democratic politics that underpin them.THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | The revelations of massive

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Corruption in Parliament: When silence makes noise

Corruption in Parliament: When silence makes noise

Parliament, the institution which Speaker Anita Among presides has come under unfavourable light due to alleged corruptionAllegations of high level corruption and plunder by the leadership of Uganda’s Parliament that has emerged following the online #UgandaParliamentExhibition continues

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SA Shoprite billionaire Wiese returns to his diamond-hunting roots

SA Shoprite billionaire Wiese returns to his diamond-hunting roots

Wiese first got into alluvial diamonds in 1976 when he bought a mine along the Orange River.Christo Wiese, South Africa’s billionaire retail king, is going back to the future.The 82-year-old serial investor, who steered the expansion of both Africa’s biggest clothing reta

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DRC gov't dissolved after Prime Minister Sama Lukonde resigns without reasons

DRC gov't dissolved after Prime Minister Sama Lukonde resigns without reasons

DRC Prime Minister Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde resigns after 3 yearsPresident Félix Tshisekedi with former DRC PM Jean-Michel Sama LukondeOn February 20, 2024, Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde, the prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),

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