First lady and education minister Janet Kataaha Kainembabazi Museveni’s Ministry of Education and Sports has issued new directives to schools as government heightens measures to prevent the further spread of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Ugandan schools.
About three weeks ago, Ramathan Ggoobi, the Finance, Planning and Economic Development (Mofped) Permanent Secretary and Secretary to the Treasury (PSST), denied reports that President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s government was currently broke, insisting that the administration had funds needed to finance the budget for the current (2022-2023) financial year in which the wage bill increased after salaries of ‘scientists,’ who include secondary school teachers of science subjects, were significantly raised.
Singer Rema Namakula and her husband Dr Hamza Ssebunya have trended on social media in the last few days, not because of the former’s music but because of allegations that the latter could be cheating on the ‘Sili Muyembe’ singer with another beautiful young woman that some chose to label ‘city slay queen.’
It is no longer a secret that Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the frequently tweeting Uganda first son and senior presidential advisor on special operations, wants to be the country’s next president, taking over from his father Gen Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni, a man who has ruled the land locked East African nation for nearly four decades in a row. But former army commander and Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) leader Maj Gen (Rtd) Gregg Mugisha Muntu has sounded a clear warning to both the president and ‘crown prince.’
Ugandan first son and senior presidential advisor Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba Museveni has told his supporters that his father Gen Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni has cleared his proposal for a youth conference due to take place in Kampala in a matter of weeks. The first son also revealed that about 20 heads of state and government from across the world will be attending the event.
Ugandan first son Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has made a major declaration on running for presidency, the country’s highest office, in the 2026 presidential election, setting the pace for the 2026 presidential contest that could see his father Gen Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni retire after about four decades at the helm of the impoverished East African nation.
Charles Rwomushana is a controversial political analyst whose views on several issues on national importance leave many shaking their heads in either confusion or admiration. Adding a historical perspective some times and asking questions that seem general but important for his narratives, Rwomushana comes off as a political analyst whose views are difficult to understand or one whose analysis is unclear.
At the start of the current financial year (2022-2023), President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s government started paying secondary school teachers of science subjects fat salaries as a way of promoting a science-led economy. In fact all scientists, including health workers, had their salaries increased significantly.
Individual mourners involved in the chaotic scenes that played out during the burial on Monday of Jakana Sulayiman Nadduli might sooner fall in trouble with the Ugandan state security agencies after the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) recommended that a probe into the mayhem as well as the arrest of those involved.