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Preserving Heritage,Transforming Communities as Kabale Hosts Uganda’s International Museum Day 2025 Celebrations

Uganda is set to mark International Museum Day (IMD) 2025, with national celebrations in Kabale Municipality this Sunday, May 18, 2025. The Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife, and Antiquities, last month...

RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM: Is Apostle Grace Lubega using Phaneroo Ministries Ugx200 Billion Complex Project to Clear over Ugx10 Billion Loan?

INSIDE STORY.  As the controversies that Apostle Grace Lubega, founder of Phaneroo Ministries International planning to build a...

$840,000 Gold Scam: Stanbic Bank, Uganda Law Society President Isaac Ssemakadde, his firm Maxim Advocates and Partner Sheila Namahe Implicated

New evidence has emerged contradicting earlier statements made by prominent lawyers Sheila Namahe Wagidoso and Isaac Ssemakadde, who...

UGANDA’S PUBLIC DEBT HITS UGX106 TRILLION

Uganda’s public debt has climbed to Shs106 trillion (approximately $29 billion), indicating an increase of Shs12 trillion in...

ARE LABOUR REFORMS POSSIBLE IN UGANDA?

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has hinted at possible significant reforms in Uganda’s labour sector. He said the government is...

WHEN CORRUPTION INFILTRATES KEY INSTITUTIONS LIKE UPDF, THE COUNTRY GRIEVES!

When corruption infiltrates key institutions like the Uganda People’s Defence Forces-UPDF, the country loses troops as many grieving families live to remember the scandals...

MINISTER BEATRICE AKELLO SHOCKED BY CORRUPTION & ACCOUNTABILITY GAPS IN WESTERN UGANDA

BY AARON AINOMUGISHA. The State Minister for Economic Monitoring in the office of the President, Beatrice Akello Akori and the State House Anti-corruption unit...

PARISH DEVELOPENT MODEL: HOW CORRUPTION IS CHOKING UGANDA’S POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMMES

Stakeholders continue to decry corruption as the biggest stumbling block hindering Uganda’s fight against poverty through different socioeconomic transformation, choking different poverty alleviation programmes...

RED FLAGS: UGX37 BILLION ALLOCATED TO THE PRESIDENTIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON EXPORTS & INDUSTRIAL DEV’T UNDER MUSEVENI’S SON-IN-LAW ODREK RWABWOGO

The Government of Uganda has been castigated for allocating UGX37 billion to the Presidential Advisory Committee on Exports and Industrial Development, an agency led...

WASTEFUL EXPENDITURE: UGX1 MILLION PROVIDED FOR BUYING PRESIDENT MUSEVENI’S CLOTHES DAILY

Five legislators in the 11th Parliament including Hon Ssemujju Nganda of Kira municipality, have identified about UGX454 billion which they think would be wasteful...

REMANDED TO LUZIRA: INSIDE UGANDA NETBALL FEDERATION PRESIDENT SARAH BABIRYE KITYO & DR BERNARD OGWEL SCANDALS 

The Buganda road magistrate's court on Monday afternoon, May 15,2023 remanded to Luzira prison the president of the Uganda Netball Federation (UNF) Ms Sarah Babirye Kityo,36,...