President Museveni had visited the district to deliver a financial literacy talk to youth groups as they celebrated the first districts youth day last evening. But a section of women reportedly saw something that they thought was a snake, crawling towards them and set off an alarm that triggered a scuffle in the audience.
Read more ...Drawn from Buganda Road Primary School, Nakivubo Blue Primary School and Clevers Origin Primary School, the pupils blended Musisis 7-year tenure as KCCA Executive Director in songs, stories, plays and traditional folk dances. Pointing out that many people doubted her capacity to transform Kampala when she was appointed Executive Director of Kampala in 2011.
Read more ...Tibamwenda who refers to himself as Omwami Wa Bakonzo, which literally means Lord of the Bakonzo, returned to Kasese on Wednesday night.He was last in Kasese in April 2017 when he laid ground for his palace in Nsenyi cell of Kisinga Town Council. At that time, a group of youth torched his cultural house that he had erected. He then fled the area.
Read more ...Entebbe, Ugandas first administrative city is listed among the nine municipalities that are due for elevation to a city status as one of the strategies to promote regional development. The others are Arua, Fort Portal, Gulu, Hoima, Jinja, Lira, Mbale and Mbarara.
Read more ...Security comprised of the Police and army have heavily deployed at Kiira Municipality MP Ibrahim Ssemujju Ngandas home blocking him from exiting his house in Bukasa,Kirinya in Wakiso district.
Read more ...Councilors directed the Chairperson of Legal Affairs Authority Committee, Allan Atuhaire where the vote had been brought for approval to allocate the money to other critical areas in the sector budget.
Read more ...Local Council One chairpersons in Kampala will be paid be a monthly salary of 30,000 shillings, vice chairpersons 25,000 shillings and members of the executive 20,000 each as allowance.
Read more ...This is the first time that KCCA has created budget votes for the divisions since its creation in 2011. The division mayors have been lobbying for creation of budget votes for their areas as a process of implementing section 31 of KCCA 2010 Act which establishes the office of division town clerk.
Read more ...The funds were donated by the South Western Umbrella of Water and Sanitation to rehabilitate gravity flow schemes in Rukiga district. However, the area leaders are wondering why information about the project is scanty, and how the project can be implemented without their involvement.
Read more ...Obongi County Member of Parliament Hassan Fungaroo Kaps, some of the leaders in Moyo district are in fear of losing revenue from the refugee hosting Sub Counties that will then be under Obongi district.
Read more ...Daniel Onyango Opondo, a councillor of Lubya Sub County and Chairman of Finance and Administrative Committee, says that the district public accounts committee recently discovered that the funds were also channelled to roads that did not need maintenance.
Read more ...Mahad Kaweesa, the leader of the groups says those thinking the money is for NRM leaders and supporters should forget it. He says NRM money is channeled through the party secretariat not State House.
Read more ...President Museveni has appealed to opposition political parties to help him in fighting political violence and commercialisation of politics.
Read more ...In 2007, the cabinet approved the National Vision Statement, which is A Transformed Ugandan Society from a Peasant to a Modern and Prosperous Country within 30 years. In the vision, each Ugandan household is expected to be earning at least 20 million shillings annually.
Read more ...Ronny Mbabali, a trainer of Civil Service College in Jinja, says the current state of civic education is not adequate because the citizens do not have the mind-set to get involved and put development actors to task.
Read more ...Cissy Kagaba, the Executive Director of the Anti-Corruption Coalition Uganda ACCU, told Uganda Radio Network that the policy is just a paper that comes on the pile of already existing anti-corruption laws and policies.
Read more ...The pledge was made by State House comptroller, Lucy Nakyobe who met Kampala NRM youth at Biyem Hotel in Mengo today morning. The meeting came on the heel of last months president Museveni Kampala tour. The NRM youth complained that they had been sidelined during the tour.
Read more ...According to a report by the United Nations Childrens Fund UNICEF in 2016 regarding the State of the Worlds Children, nearly one in every two girls in Uganda is married off before the age of 18.
Read more ...Lokodo defended the financial implications of the policy. Its implementation will cost Shillings 117 billion per financial year. This money is to be injected in anti-corruption agencies and units. He said Shillings 106 billion is currently injected in the core anti-corruption agencies.
Read more ...During the mobilisation drive, Hassan Kaps Fungaroo, the Obongi County MP who is also a resident in the area contributed Shillings 2 million for the road works. The works started on the 2km road stretch over the weekend.
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