Opinion

How Mpuuga’s Democratic Alliance Will Deepen Divisions within Opposition

The former Leader of opposition in Parliament and the Nyendo-Mukungwe Member of Parliament Mathias Mpuuga recently launched the Democratic Alliance, a coalition aimed at uniting the opposition parties in...

How Uganda’s Opposition Preaches Change Without Offering Alternatives

 The opposition in Uganda has lately turned into a group of comedians preaching change but with no alternative...

 The Irony of Life: Who Truly Works for the Stomach?

Life is rife with ironies, some so plain they demand reflection. One such irony lies in the economic...

Why President Museveni is Extraordinarily Better than All Opposition Politicians Combined

Lately, there has been too much talk by the opposition politicians belittling President Museveni and the National Resistance...

How Opposition Parties Continue to Violate Uganda’s Multiparty Democracy 

In the referendum that was held on July 28, 2005, Ugandans voted to adopt a multiparty system of...

OPINION: The Long Holiday Is Here; As Parents What Measures Have We Put Across To Keep Our Children Safe?

While hanging out at a famous bar in Kisaasi, a Kampala suburb on Friday 02nd December, Patience Namulidwa a mother of one witnessed a very unsettling situation. Namulidwa shares that at around 11pm, while relaxing at the bar enjoying her cold swallow of Bell beer with her colleagues, a group of six young girls who looked like minors walked into the bar skimpily dressed, with wigs on to disguise their ages. According to Namulidwa, these young girls who looked like they...

OPINION: The God of Western Football Skills Shifts to Africa

It was on Friday 2nd December 2022 that history was rewritten when an African football team (Cameroon) choked one the most cherished football teams in the world, Brazil in front of 85,986 fans in Lusail stadium in Qatar. My reader, history was neither rewritten by ink nor by paint but by the Cameroonian bald headed black horse called Vincent Aboubaker who stopped a fire moving ball which with his head directed it to Brazil’s goal in the dying minute of...

OPINION: Is FDC Facing an Imminent Implosion?

The Forum for Democratic Change has faced several challenges within the party leadership especially amongst its leaders ranging from several endless Netflix-like scandalous sex fests, headline exodus pivotal leaders, corruption, several on and off courtships with other ailing political parties among other factors. According to contacts close to FDC, the party is facing yet another major challenge that could lead the already on ‘life support’ party to its final demise. Close sources have confirmed that the already torn and divided...

What Does The New Law Stand on Marriage Mean For Women?

The Court of appeal, on the 15th November 2022, at the family division of the high court made a ruling over matrimonial property, where a new stand law was taken concerning sharing of matrimonial property dependent on one's contribution which will either be in monetary or non-monetary form or both. The Justices of the Court of Appeal, Elizabeth Musoke, Muzamiru Kibeedi, and Christopher Gashirabake made the pronouncement that marriage is not a guarantee for equal sharing of matrimonial property, with...

How my mother covered up for my step father who raped me when I was 12

How my mother covered up for my step father who raped me when I was 12 “In a marriage with children, it may seem spontaneous to put the kids first, however it is healthier to make your spouse the priority, and this is because it benefits all your family members. If you have an emotionally solid marriage with a good foundation, your children will feel happier, more stable and more secure,” said Yvonne Thomas a Psychologist. As a child, one...

The November 2020 NUP Riots and why Youths Should Desist from Being Used by Opportunistic Politicians

On November 18th, 2020, the National Unity Platform Presidential aspirant Robert Kyagulanyi while in Luuka Dustrict disobeyed Covid-19 guidelines and went ahead to hold a public procession which led to his arrest. This triggered a set of violent events in different parts of the city where 54 people were killed, among them 32 were rioters and the 20 killed by stray bullets according to a report by Police. Kyagulanyi through his agents had mobilized youths from with in Kampala suburbs of...