Archive for September, 2012

Muntu-Nandala teams step-up fight for votes

By George Murumba

10th Sept 2012:

Gen. Muntu at a campaign rally

As the three-horse race to replace Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) President Dr Kizza Besigye enters its third week, the two leading campaign teams, Team-Muntu and Team-Nandala, have step-up the fight with campaign messages which highlight their respective candidates’ core strengths.

Team-Muntu, or at least some of his supporters, have (more…)


Thousands displaced by floods in the north

By Online Team

10th Sept 2012:

An estimated 15,000 people have been forced to leave their homes due to heavy floods that have destroyed homes, roads, bridges, and ruined crops.  According to the (more…)


Rtd Bishop Gideon Oboma is dead

By Online Team

10th Sept 2012:

The former Bishop of the Diocese of Northern Uganda Gideon Allan Oboma is dead.  Oboma passed on from Lacor Hospital, in Gulu, on Thursday 6th September 2012 at (more…)


House-helps’ to get international law protection

By John Stephen Katende

10th Sept 2012:

A United Nations treaty which provides a set of international standards to improve the lives of millions of domestic workers worldwide has now been ratified by (more…)


NSSF wins 1.2billion shilling case

By Dennis Otim

10th Sept 2012:

The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has won a case against Comtel Integrators Africa Limited worthy over USD 1,238,390.  The case was dismissed with costs on (more…)


Diversity in FDC makes the party tick

By Joseph Tumushabe

10th Sept 2012: There are three sub-groups in FDC, (more…)


Museveni blames pilots for triple chopper crash

By Online Team

4th Sept 2012:

Gen. YK Museveni - FILE PHOTO

President Yoweri Museveni has broken his silence over the air disaster that saw three sophisticated Mi-24 attack helicopters belonging to the UPDF crash over Mt. Kenya early last month.

In a condolence letter to the bereaved families of the fallen airmen, Museveni made known that he believes it was the carelessness of the helicopter crew that caused the triple helicopter crash.  Below is the president’s full letter: (more…)


Keep off our land – Otunnu warns Museveni

By George Murumba

3rd Sept 2012:

Dr Olara Otunnu - FILE PHOTO

Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) party President Dr. Olara Otunnu spoken out strongly against what some have termed “land-grabbing” in the north by unscrupulous investors, some of whom (like Madhivani) President Museveni has been trying to help to acquire land in the north for sugarcane growing.

“…What we are talking about is a fundamental issue of human rights, the confiscation of property that belongs to the local people because they are (more…)


Big demo against NRM UK Convention announced

By Online Team

3rd Sept 2012:

A cross section of Ugandans living in the United Kingdom have finalised plans to stage a massive demonstration at the second ‘Uganda Convention UK’.  In a message sent out to (more…)


Rwanda facing UN sanctions over M23 rebels

By John Stephen Katende

3rd Sept 2012:

The Democratic Republic of Congo said on Friday it has asked the U.N. Security Council to place sanctions on Rwanda’s Defence Minister and two top military officials for backing an army mutiny in (more…)


2013/3/24

I will throw a hot stone behind CJ Odoki’s back
By John Baptist Oloka 25th March 2013:

The media broke news of More... (0)


2013/2/26

The late Mzee Kaguta was a naughty boy
By Lawrence Kasozi

25th February 2013: This is totally out of More... (0)


2013/2/26

Museveni is pathological hypocrite
By Norman Miwambo

25th February 2013: I don’t believe Museveni was More... (0)


2013/2/17

Obote is crying for his beloved country
By M. Suleman

18th February 2013: Uganda’s late president Dr Apollo More... (0)


2013/2/3

Wake up fools: Army took over long ago
By Bernard Ddumba

4th Feb 2013: Over the last two weeks, I seriously More... (0)


2013/2/3

NRM revolution is eating its own children
By Charles Businge

4th February 2013: In 1986, the new leadership promised More... (0)


2013/1/27

It’s lawful to resist coup plotters – let’s do it
By Elijah M. Tumwebaze

28th January 2013: In a powerful opinion article that More... (0)


2013/1/27

Our parliament only exists on paper
By M. Suleman

28th January 2013: Uganda is a country endowed with More... (0)


2013/1/22

Museveni is right to call NRM MPs idiots
By M. Suleman

21st Jan 2013: In the drama that followed More... (0)


2012/12/18

Isn’t Museveni a deranged psychopath?
By M. Suleman

17th Dec 2012: An emotional, grief-stricken, and More... (0)


 

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