Uganda’s Ministry of Public Service has abolished allowances for health workers, consolidating them into their enhanced salaries starting July 01, 2022. 

There is trouble in President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party after a regional chairperson blamed Vice President Maj Gen (Rtd) Jessica Alupo of working with Uganda’s opposition to fail the party in government in the recently concluded Soroti City East byelection. 

Even when NBS TV is yet to release the full video showing the chaos that ensued as government spokesperson Ofwono Opondo punched Erias Lukwago, the Lord Mayor of Kampala Capital City, details are emerging on what exactly happened.

State House has spoken out on reports that former Prime Minister John Patrick Amama Mbabazi aka JPAM has been appointed the Governor of Bank of Uganda (BoU). 

Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine of Uganda’s main opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) has spoken out on the issue of talks with President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni. 

NBS TV has issued an apology to its viewers for prematurely ending Thursday, July 28 night’s show after government spokesperson Ofwono Opondo nearly thumped Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago. 

Uganda’s President Gen Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni has directed Frank Kagyigyi Tumwebaze, the Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, to give Turkish investors 15 acres of land where a private hospital will be constructed. 

Despite President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s insistence that only scientists would get a pay raise in the current Financial Year 2022-2023, the recently released salary structure reveals a category of non-scientists has been included on the list of those who will enjoy a salary increment starting July 2022. 

Ofwono Opondo, the Executive Director of the Uganda Media Centre, and the spokesperson of the Government of Uganda, is in the news over Thursday night’s war of words between him and Erias Lukwago, the Kampala Lord Mayor and Deputy Vice President of Opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC).