Opinion

Numbers don’t lie and a report by the World Economic Forum written by a senior writer John Mckenna in 2017, based on data collected by UNICEF in 2013, indicates that the future is African. And that Africa could be the next economic powerhouse. UNICEF notes Africa’s soaring population, technology, and improvement in infrastructure, health, and education indicate thst Africa is growing at a tremedously fast rate. About 93% of Africans have access to mobile phone services, 63% piped water, 65% electricity, and 54% tarred / paved roads, 30% sewerage.  “By 2030 one in five people will...

𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐔𝐄 257 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐋 04, 2023 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬 🇺🇬 MV Kalangala to resume operation in April 📌MV Kalangala that had stopped its services as a result of engine failure on February 24 has been revamped. Sadala Musoke, the Managing Director of National Oil Distributors Limited (NODL), a private firm managing MV Kalangala says the vessel has received the required engine overhaul and is expected to start operation this month. 🇺🇬 MPs to lead anti-Malaria walk in Kampala 📌The Deputy Speaker, Thomas Tayebwa will lead MPs under...

David Opio Apap is the Head of Oromo Agwatawil clan in the Lango Ethnic Group, the Minister of Public Health at the Lango Cultural Foundation, and the Deputy Principal at Good Samaritan School of Nursing and Midwifery in Lira City. Recently, while on a journey along the Kampala-Gulu highway, unfortunately, his travelling bag was mistakenly picked up by another passenger, but he later recovered it with the help of a certain police officer identified as Robert Odwoka, attached to Masindi...

The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), which was once the biggest opposition party in Uganda, in a bid to revive its past glory, started a leadership academy.   The lack of elaborate leadership mechanisms greatly affected its growth and led to its disintegration and the birth of other political parties like the ANT and PFT. According to the FDC youth wing, the academy has come at a time when there is a leadership deficit in FDC, the quality of leaders they have in the party is wanting, there is a lack...

The Parliament of Uganda on Tuesday, March 21, 2023 passed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023 that provides for protection of the traditional family by prohibiting any form of sexual relations between persons of the same sex and promotion of such acts. The Bill also seeks to address the gaps of other laws in Uganda including the Penal Code Act, Cap 120, as well as supplement provisions of the Constitution by criminalizing same sex acts. The Bill now awaits President Museveni’s assenting. However,...

I am the kind of customer who extends loyalty if you offer me a good service.  I've been going to a particular saloon in Ntinda for my beautification for the past five years. This harmonious relationship recently faced a turbulence. I was troubled by the customer "segregation" I observed in the salon. I had to approach one of the workers to demand an explanation for this ill-treatment. "I've been going to this same saloon for five years, and I pay...