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Members of Parliament have recommended that government should create Signet as its own media company. The government should own this, with its own mandate, deliverables, board, and secretariat that is different from Uganda Broadcasting Council. According to the MPs on the Committee of ICT, the government should legally disengage Signet from UBC. The ICT Committee chairperson Moses Magogo presented this ...

The parliamentary committee on Finance has suggested that government considers banning sports betting during the day. This will apparently be a measure of encouraging creativity and productivity among the population. Mr Enos Asiimwe (Kabula County MP) yesterday suggested that they permit the activity only after working hours. He made the suggestion while interfacing with the Lotteries and Gaming Regulatory Board ...

Kisoro police have ignited a manhunt for a 30-year-old woman who allegedly murdered her 40-year-old husband in a domestic brawl. Elly Maate, the Kigezi Regional Police Spokesman identified the suspect as Kajuju Chimpaye who allegedly murdered Gashuhe Gad. The two are residents of Rukeri village, Gitenderi Parish Nyarusiza Sub-county, Kisoro District. The two have allegedly been married for the past ...

Former Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has said Pastor Kayanja owes the nation an apology. She took offense after Pastor Kayanja said that the 10th parliament which she chaired ‘let us down as a country”. “There was a chance to work hard and appropriate money to construct the country’s oil refinery, but [Parliament] did not,” Pastor Robert Kayanja was quoted ...

Members of Parliament have said they are living in fear of poison because it is becoming a norm lately. This issue of poison in the political sphere was re-ignited following claims by Nathan Okori that they poisoned his son the late Speaker Jacob Oulanyah. It is not the first time politicians are claiming to have been targets of poison. In ...