| Archived 31st March
2005 |
| Govt lists courses
it will not sponsor |
| There will be more tears rolling down students’
cheeks than cheers when the selection list for public universities
is released in three weeks. |
| Weekly News Update
|
| MPs WARNED: Democracy Monitoring
Group (DEMGROUP), a pro-democracy pressure group, has condemned
what it described as “the trend of using money by government
to influence decisions in Parliament”. |
| Nabisunsa for
sciences |
| They say success never comes on a silver platter
and one institution that certainly knows all about this is Nabisunsa
Girls School. |
| Final census results:
Literacy level shoots to 68% |
| Ugandans are beginning to reap dividends from
the Universal Primary Education (UPE) if the main report of
the 2002 Uganda Population and Housing Census is anything to
go by. |
| UPDF man wins
ATM fraud case |
| A client who sued Nile Bank is laughing all the
way to the ATM after court ruled in his favour. |
| Depleted UPC fights
to live |
| The Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC), Justice Forum
and Conservative Party (CP) finally got registered this week,
bringing the number of registered parties to 17. |
| Harvard wants
Prof. Luboobi |
| Harvard University, one of the best five universities
in the world, has started a move to recruit Prof. Livingstone
Luboobi as its chancellor. |
| SHOPTALK |
Oulanyah to quit?
The Legal and Parliamentary Affairs committee Chairman,
Jacob Oulanyah, is fed up of politics. |
| Archived 24th March
2005 |
| Movt boss sponsors
legal committee Jinja retreat |
| The threat of court action has thrown Parliament’s
legal committee into a stampede, forcing it into an impromptu
meeting sponsored by an illegal source. |
| Darfur NGO dares
Annan |
| The Darfur Consortium has urged the United Nations
Security Council to refer the situation in the war-ravaged Sudan
region to the International Criminal Court (ICC). |
| Weekly News Update
|
| POLICE TORTURE: Uganda Human
Rights Activists (UHRA) has accused security agents of torturing
suspects at Mbale central police station. |
| FDC goes upcountry |
| RUKUNGIRI- There is excitement
in Rukungiri following the opening of the first upcountry office
for the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) last weekend. |
| Third term in
legal minefield |
| A Constitutional Court petition and lack of time,
present the opposition with a chance, at least a slim one, to
block the third term amendment and other proposed changes to
the 1995 Constitution. |
| Kenyans want to
chase fish to Uganda |
| All is not well with what is probably East Africa’s
most precious shared natural resource, Lake Victoria. |
| Kawempe stuck
with garbage |
| Kampala residents have been all too eager for
the rains to start; what with the record temperatures that have
characterised this year’s dry spell. |
| Old quarrels hurting
new dam project |
| The Bujagali hydropower project is back in the
spotlight with the National Association of Professional Environmentalists
(NAPE) contesting its new design and the updated Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS). |
| Croc gets CMI
post |
| Kampala, March: The 60-year-old,
one-ton crocodile that was recently captured in Bugiri district
in eastern Uganda and imprisoned at a private crocodile farm
has been thrown a lifeline out of jail. |
| SHOPTALK |
| Prof. Semakula Kiwanuka, the junior minister
for investment, last week asked who that ka lousy Irish singer
Bob Geldof was – to challenge President Museveni and ‘order’
Mzee not to stand again in 2006 as per Uganda’s current
Constitution. |
| Archived 17th March
2005 |
| Makerere to take
670 for arts |
| Senior Six candidates whose results were released
last month will take a little while before knowing whether they
qualified for government sponsorship in public universities.
|
| Kyakabale drops
war plans, claims NRA killed Magara |
| By digging up the remains of fallen bush war
fighters Sam Magara and Martin Mwesiga, the UPDF (formerly NRA)
has resurrected old whispers about how some of its earliest
commanders died. |
| Weekly News
Update |
NEW PARTY:
A new political party, New Order Democracy (NOD), has been
launched. Okiror Oumo, a Ugandan doctor living in Zambia,
is its interim president. |
| Investor beats
up his workers |
| When Jaspal Phaguda rings a bell
at Kapkwata Saw Mills in Kampala’s Industrial Area, workers
must assemble at his office. |
| 18 to run for
State House |
| The Electoral Commission (EC) might be required
to print a ballot paper the size of a newspaper page for next
year’s presidential and parliamentary elections, should
all registered political parties choose to field candidates.
|
| KCC taxi park
plots cause row |
| A row is brewing between tenants and sub-tenants
at the Old Taxi Park, following KCC’s decision to sell
off the buildings in which they are operating. |
| NRM imports 15m
card tops |
| Membership cards for the National Resistance
Movement (NRM) organisation will be covered in porches (hard
cover material) ordered from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
|
| DP in new unity
talks |
| Warring Democratic Party (DP) factions are set
to resume talks this week as the search for unity continues. |
| President says
he is a failure |
| Sanjaville, March – In
a rare fit of honesty, the President of the Kisanja People’s
Banana Republic (KPBR) has declared that he is a total failure
as a leader. |
| SHOPTALK |
Kazini returns
Former Army Commander Maj. Gen. James Kazini has
returned home after completing his master’s degree in
Strategic Studies at Nigeria’s University of Ibadan.
|
| Archived 10th March
2005 |
| 188 MPs for 3rd
term |
| It is not a done deal yet, but President Museveni’s
supporters are edging ever closer to securing the numbers needed
in Parliament to give him a “third” term in State
House. |
| Bushenyi road
fuels forest row |
| The Ministry of Works, Housing and Communication
may not have followed the right procedures when constructing
the Katerera-Bihanga road that connects Bunyaruguru and Buhweju
counties through Kasyoha-Kitomi forest reserve, but to the people
of the two counties, the road is a godsend. |
| Nakasero traders
appeal to Museveni |
| The bickering between Kampala City Council and
traders in Nakasero market over its proposed sale has escalated,
with traders accusing KCC of conniving with city tycoon Hassan
Basajjabalaba to hand him the 78 year-old market. |
| Experts explain
hot weather |
| For Shafiq Kakooza, a boda boda cyclist along
Kampala Road, business has never been more competitive. |
| Mamenero murder:
Govt takes blame |
| After two years of courtroom tears, government
has finally accepted responsibility for the murder of Owomugisha
Patrick Mamenero. |
| Give us darkness,
Nakasero pleads |
| Kampala, March: Residents of
the plush suburb of Nakasero in Kampala have accused government
of denying them darkness at night. |
| SHOPTALK |
Katusiime one-on-one with Kategaya
We didn’t know Frank Katusiime, the computer
geek, and former deputy Prime Minister, Eriya Kategaya, are
such close buddies. |
| Archived 3rd March
2005 |
| 600 schools dominate
Makerere admissions |
| Your child stands a better chance of being admitted
to Makerere University on state sponsorship if you take them
to the traditional government or religious schools than if you
send them to the elite private schools for their A-levels, according
to the admissions statistics for 2004/2005. |
| Weekly news update
|
War
It has been a very good year so far for the UPDF
in their war against Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance
Army (LRA) rebels. |
| Term limits divide
NRM |
| President Museveni’s loyalists in Parliament
are increasingly becoming uncomfortable to endorse an open-ended
lifting of term limits for his benefit. |
| Museveni probes
health centres |
| If President Museveni ever wanted to get at opposition-controlled
Kampala City Council, his chance has come through the council’s
disgruntled health workers. |
| Kyambogo takes
off |
| The official launch of Kyambogo University last
week brings to four the number of public universities in Uganda.
|
| Ugandans spice
Ireland festival |
| DUBLIN – Ugandan students put up a spicy
cultural exhibition as University College Dublin (UCD) celebrated
150 years. |
| USAID calls for
debate on health |
| The United States Agency for International Development
(USAID) desires to engage the public in a debate on health issues.
|
| Govt bans Kisanja
Monologues |
| East Africa, February: The government of an East
African country has banned a play known as The Kisanja Monologues
that was due to be staged in the capital Green City this weekend.
|
| SHOPTALK: |
Toro bigwigs plan to jump?
Who can turn down a juicy offer of a ministerial
post or an ambassadorial appointment? |
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