Commentary

How Lukwago’s 2026 Presidential bid will end Bobi Wine’s dominance in Central region and give NRM Soft Landing

On 19 September 2023,the Forum for Democratic Change Katonga group held an extra-Ordinary delegates conference at their Katonga office.The same delegates conference passed a resolution to suspend the current...

Human Rights Observer on NUP Tours Shocked By Lack of Integrity

The National Unity Platform (NUP) Party President, Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, is nursing disappointment after...

REVEALED: Kabuleta Against Human Organ Transplant Bill as It Tramples on His Livelihood

Adam Mwanje, a former driver and friend of Joseph Kabuleta, revealed that his former boss is against the...

Local Supermarkets Billing Systems Leave Customers Disgruntled

Doreen Nankya, a frequent customer at a local supermarket, shares her bad experience suffered at a local supermarket. According...

Ssempa Accuses Homosexuality Promoters of being Economic Refugees or Mercenary Homosexuals

In the aftermath of passing the anti-homosexuality bill in Uganda, "pride month" has seen the renown defenders of...

WHY SHOULD RWANDA CLOSE ITS BORDERS WITH UGANDA?

Recently we witnessed one of the fiercest diplomatic tensions between Rwanda and Uganda playing out on social media after reports emerged that Kigali had stopped trucks from Uganda entering the country via the Gatuna border, with Kigali going as far as warning its nationals against travelling to Uganda. Dr Richard Sezibera, Rwanda minister of Foreign Affairs, on March 1, claimed that all Rwandas borders were open and that trucks and heavy vehicles were advised to use Kagitumba due to ongoing...

Panic and fear is good entertainment but Uganda media ought to do better

I woke up to an interesting and yet puzzling New Vision Headline that read “Police ISO clash over Bullion Van robbery,” and I was wondering why security organizations should be clashing over trivial issues. I got the curiosity to read on.

The Rise of Popularist Politics

Let’s start with a story, a true story.There is a friend, who recently launched a project to become a Member of Parliament. So during the Christmas festivals he distributed posters with the slogans the politicians in Uganda use “Unity, Development and Jobs” with a photograph of himself. The photograph became the Achilles heel, it was, after all, the most appealing item on the posters and so that is what the man on the street saw first and last.Upon seeing...

Besigye humiliation a sign of immature opposition politics

Former President of Forum for Democratic Change, Kizza Besigye was on Saturday ransacked by a group of rowdy youth believed to belong to the People Power group of MP Robert Kyagulanyi as he left CBS offices for a talk show.

Dr. Specioza Kazibwe was right to Blast Bobi Wine

What is wrong with that? Anyone coming to a funeral should not carry their political baggage like Bobi Wine to do at every occasion.

EXCELLENCY AMIDST FRAUD; LEARNING FROM A DISTINCTIVE UGANDAN MILLENIAL

It’s easy to say we exist because it’s just a set of words to form a meaningful sentence.Separating words from facts will help open minds out of the box towards the country we are citizens to. The level of knowledge is higher than the level of ability due to readily available information on the internet and mainstream media. We know what we don’t need and don’t know what we need to know, major in minors instead of majors. We stand in...