concerned Ugandan citizen has petitioned President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, accusing a senior land official of orchestrating a “brazen and well‑orchestrated” land‑grabbing scheme in Wakiso District. In a letter dated 22 May 2026, the citizen alleges that Esther Lunkuse Lutaaya, Registrar o
The Federation of Uganda Traders Associations (FUTA) also called for tougher penalties, asset recovery from implicated officials, and greater inclusion of business-minded leaders in key economic ministries to improve service delivery.Traders in Kampala have welcomed government’s intensif
Norbert Mao’s entry into the race for Speaker of Uganda’s 12th Parliament is less about securing the chair and more about repositioning himself within the country’s power structure, political commentator Wilfred Businge has argued. As the contest intensifies, Mao’s move is now bein
Semujju Nganda says that Norbert Mao knows he can’t get speakership but he is busy pushing hard and making maximalist demands because he wants to end up getting something big and better from Museveni and general Saleh.Semujju says that Mao is like a man who goes to a friend’s home to a
NRM aspirants for Speaker and Deputy Speaker withdrew from the races, leaving Oboth Oboth and Tayebwa as the party’s consensus candidates.All National Resistance Movement (NRM) aspirants for Speaker and Deputy Speaker of Parliament have stepped down in favour of Jacob Oboth Oboth and Tho
The NRM Central Executive Committee (CEC) the party’s apex body on Friday failed to endorse another candidate for Speakership and Deputy speakership after the candidate they had endorsed earlier [Anita Among] pulled out of the race as she faces a corruption probe.CEC instead of endorsing
Former UPDF intelligence chief Gen. David Sejusa has offered his view on the ongoing debate around Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Norbert Mao’s Speakership bid, framing it as part of wider political arrangements rather than a routine party contest.In a public reflection, Sej
Laroo-Pece legislator also Democratic Party president General Norbert has been locked out of the Speakership race by the NRM party after it opened expression of interest for Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the 11th parliament.The party’s Apex organ Central Executive Committee sitting today
confidential dossier pieced together by covert intelligence shows that State actors put Anita Among under surveillance as early as 2021, when she was Deputy Speaker of Parliament.The voluminous collection of documents, a copy of which Weekend Monitor has seen, discloses that “a reliable
Shock and grief have gripped the residents of Nabitu Village, Buwaya Sub-county in Mayuge District, following a horrific domestic dispute that left a 48-year-old man dead and his wife battling for her life.Simon Kibuka, reportedly took his own life by stabbing himself after carrying out a
