Stanbic Bank Uganda is the platinum sponsor of the popular Vumbula Uganda Festival, a three-day extravaganza that showcases Uganda’s rich tourism attractions, art, heritage, music, and culture

Ugandan education institutions keep blowing their trumpets as leading others in provision of higher education services. But the list of Uganda’s best universities and institutes in 2024 may surprise many.

Newly appointed assistant RDCs are in panic, with some worried if they will take up the new jobs that the presidency headed by minister for presidency, Milly Babirye Babalanda, bestowed to them recently.

A section of National Resistance Movement (NRM) chairpersons from Greater Kilembe sub-counties through the office of Resident District Commissioner (RDC) have expressed their concerns through a written document to president Museveni seeking for restoration of Kilembe Mines Hospital. 

President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni, through the ministry of the presidency, has appointed Yiga Kissakyamukama, a controversial figure, the assistant RDC for Gomba District.

The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), the short-lived and vanquished former leading opposing party is on a death row from suicide, and neither Kizza Besigye, Patrick Oboi Amuriat nor Erias Lukwago can salvage it, at least not before the 2026 general elections. The return of Besigye, from ‘political holiday’ to use his own words will certainly complicate its political maneuvers with other opposition groups especially NUP that displaced FDC as the leading opposition party in and outside parliament.

The Stanbic Black Pirates decisively wrapped the regular season of the Nile Special Rugby Champions with a stunning performance.

President Yoweri Museveni will have up to 357 assistant RDCs or assistant RCCs – cadres of his ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) – for his government and party work. But what exactly are these assistant RDCs and assistant RCCs supposed to do.

Uganda’s president Gen Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni has appointed about 300 assistant RDCs and assistant RCCs, increasing public service expenditure on salaries and, consequently, the burden on tax payers.