Uganda news

Lord Mayor of Kampala Erias Lukwago has dragged the Minister of Kampala and RCC’s office to court. He is accusing them of heading illegal operations in the city. This follows the crackdown on boda boda riders over licenses. Lukwago says that the operation to evict street vendors and hawkers from the city is illegal. This is because KCCA has no ...

NBS TV news anchor, Samson Kasumba, has told people not to expect the government to look after their lives. Kasumba says when you are on a government whose leaders drive on the wrong side, nothing much should be expected of them. He says he personally knows this and this is why he doesn’t have the time to rant. “I take ...

Daniel Lutaaya, a former NBS journalist, has said labour export is not slavery as people want to put it. He says this was an idea sold to Africans by the people from the West. Daniel says he doesn’t understand why people only consider it slavery when it is connected to Arab countries and not so with countries likes of UK ...

Reports coming in from Karamoja indicate that so far hunger has claimed 70 lives in the sub-region. This is because of the ongoing drought season in Karamoja. The local authorities are calling upon the government and humanitarian agencies to come to their rescue and supply the locals with food as the drought season continues. Butaleja is also having the same ...

Ramathan Ggoobi, the permanent secretary at the Ministry of Finance has asked procurement entities to encourage local contractors through reserving 30% of the civil works for them. He made these remarks on Friday at Hotel Africana as he opened the 6th Annual Procurement Summit 2022. The Institute of Procurement Professionals of Uganda (IPPU) organized the summit under the theme, “Procurement ...