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  • DP’s Nambooze returns
    Betty Nambooze, the Democratic Party spokesperson who was taken ill to South Africa has returned...

  • Fighting HIV/Aids is everyone’s battle
    Today is the World Aids Day. In Uganda it will be 27 years since the first case of a person living with HIV/Aids was diagnosed and made public.

  • Warriors close in on Fuba title

    For once in this year’s MTN-Fuba League play-off series, there was breathing space at YMCA, Wandegeya on Sunday night.



  • Ending violence against women should be a priority for us all

    On September 28, the world awoke to fresh reports of unspeakable violence against women.



  • FDC has no future- Minister

    The leading opposition party in Parliament, Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), has no future, the minister of Local Government has said.



  • What’s up Lawrence?

    I have got to salute the battling qualities that have had Lawrence Mulindwa see off the challenges of Michael Okiror, Godfrey Kwizera and several others over five years.



  • Where girls are married at age 12

    The girls from Bugiri are denied an education, undergo FGM and forced to enter wedlock at a tender age, writes David Mafabi



  • Creating your future
    I will write from my heart. Not that I have ever written from my lungs. I hope you get the point. No planning.

  • Uganda sitting on AIDS time bomb
    Complacency, ignorance and indifference are reversing Uganda’s gains against the Aids epidemic, a senior government official warned yesterday. Dr Kihumuro Apuuli, who heads the Uganda Aids Commission, the government agency responsible for coordinating the fight against Aids, said the number of new HIV infections is “unacceptably high” and rising.

  • Mengo opts for court in battle of Land Bill
    Buganda Kingdom has asked its attorney general to look at the possibility of seeking recourse in the Constitutional Court following last week’s passing of the Land Bill.

  • Officials to return Chogm phones
    MPs yesterday asked top government officials who received 450 BlackBerry phones during the Commonwealth summit to return them to the ICT ministry.

  • Road accident claims life of Budiope legislator
    The carnage on Ugandan roads yesterday claimed the life of another MP prompting angry reactions and calls for radical reforms of the road sector from his colleagues at Parliament.

  • WHO issues new Aids treatment guidelines
    The WHO yesterday called for people living with HIV, the virus that causes Aids, to start life-prolonging treatment earlier but government officials announced that they could not conform with the directive.

  • Premier promoted to Super 7

    Premier Cricket Club seamers Alfred Luseno and Asadu Seyiga picked a combined 10 wickets as they mauled arch foes SKLPS by eight wickets at Budo oval on Sunday to qualify for next year’s Castle Cricket League Super 7.



  • Your worst enemy is your greatest asset

    I’ve always been a huge proponent of candour, talking it up to General Electric audiences for more than 20 years. 




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