The list of successful Students’ Loan Scheme Beneficiaries for the Academic Year 2023-24 is out. The State Minister for Higher Education, John Chrysostom Muyingo today released the list of successful candidates on June 05, 2024 in Kampala.
Veronica Nanyondo Namaganda, the Bukomansimbi District Woman Representative (MP) – DWR – from Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine’s National Unity Platform (NUP) is under fire for withdrawing her signature from a censure motion against former Leader of Opposition in Parliament (LoP) Mathias Mpuuga and other parliamentary commissioners over a Shs1.7BN service award.
A senior leader in the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) has directed party MPs not to sign the censure motion for Commissioner Mathias Mpuuga and others who awarded themselves cash awards totaling to Shs1.7bn until President Yoweri Museveni, the party chairman, has given his decision on the matter.
Minister Balaam Barugahara of first son Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba’s Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU) has endorsed youthful Politician Boniface Tugume Kagambirwe to unseat Gaffa Mbwatekamwa for the Igara West Seat in Bushenyi District in the 2026 parliamentary polls.
Uganda Civil Aviation Authority- UCAA on Friday May 31, 2024 oversaw test flights at Kisoro Aerodrome, signalling the end of five-month-long rehabilitation works at the facility.
The family of Dr Kiddu Makubuya, a former attorney general and minister in a number of dockets in President Yoweri Museveni’s government, has spoken out on reports that he had died.
Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine of Uganda’s main opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) has warned army officers of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) after the US government issued sanctions against Lt Gen Peter Elwelu, a former commander.
Stanbic Bank has joined hands with Vumbula Uganda to enhance environmental sustainability and contribute to the conservation of River Nile’s natural ecosystem through a tree planting drive.
Masaka has played a significant role — and paid a heavy price — in Uganda’s political history since it’s establishment as a township in the 1950s. It was a battleground in the 1970s, especially in 1979 when the Tanzanian army bombed to the ground most of its infrastructure as they drove Iddi Amin from power. From September to December 1985, dictator Museveni’s rebels laid siege on and eventually captured Masaka from the UNLA forces, which paved the way for Kampala’s eventual collapse one month later in January 1986.