Month: November 2011

Kampala City Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago has suspended council and committee sittings indefinitely, over persistent disrespect of decisions reacted at. The committees suspended include both the standing and oversight committees of the authority. Lukwago says the committees have been rendered idle, since their decisions are always ignored. He says their […]

The Uganda Bureau of statistics has announced a slight decline in the inflation rate from the 30.4% recorded last month to 29%, in the month of November. The statistics body attributes the slight decline to the drop in food prices, experienced during the month mainly due to increased supply in […]

City lawyer Fred Muwema has today been interrogated by the police, over billions of Shillings allegedly owed to Bunyoro tobacco farmers. Muwema appeared before the police special investigations unit in Naguru, from where he was being questioned. The city lawyer is alleged to have represented tobacco farmers in a suit […]

The Democratic Party’s Brenda Nabukenya is the new Woman Member of Parliament for Luwero district. She has been declared winner by the Luwero District Returning Officer Peter Kasozi after a tightly contested race with five others including her closest challenger NRM’s Rebecca Nalwanga. According to the returning officer, Nabukenya garnered […]

Civil society organizations have lost a petition in which they were challenging the legality of the Shillings 20 million given to members of the 8th parliament by government last year. The money was reportedly given to MPs to monitor government programs but members of the civil society challenged the timing […]