Parliament has today set the dates for the nomination of candidates and election of Uganda’s representatives to the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA). Clerk to Parliament, Jane Kibirige, has set Monday and Tuesday next week as dates for the nominations and Wednesday May 30, as the date for the election of the regional MPs.
Former Luwero Woman Member of Parliament Rebecca Nalwanga has been sued for alleged failure to clear a bank loan worth over 222 million shillings she obtained from the bank. The bank in its complaint contends that on May 19 last year, Nalwanga, who was then the Luwero Woman MP, applied for a loan amounting to 230 million shillings.
Embattled Bukoto South legislator, Muyanja Mbabaali, has again run to court seeking an interim order blocking the delivery of tomorrow’s ruling on his election petition appeal. Mbabali says this judgment should be stayed until the final disposal of a Constitutional Court case he has filed challenging the refusal by the Court of Appeal to retry his election Appeal as it had been earlier ordered by the Deputy Chief Justice.
The policy seeks to apply principles including confidentiality of employees’ HIV status not to be disclosed to employers, respect without discrimination and equal employment treatment regardless of one’s status.
The accident occurred at Kakiira village when the speeding trailer of registration number UAJ 100M / UAD 511Q that was loaded with cement hit the canter truck of registration number UAK 355Q.
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have arrested and detained a Ugandan for allegedly smuggling narcotic drugs into the country. Jim Leti, 22, a resident of Ngandi village, Logiri Sub-County in Arua district, was arrested with 5kilograms of opium at Azanga trading centre in DR Congo.
Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has launched an operation to capture a leopard that has been roaming in Kamaiba and Nyakabingo wards in Kasese Municipality, after it escaped from Queen Elizabeth National Park. For nearly four weeks, people in Kamaiba and Nyakabingo wards in Central Division in Kasese Municipality have been living under fear following reports of the animal being sighted in the area.
The future of more than 137 orphans and other vulnerable children in Masaka, who are supported by Buddukiro Children’s Agency, hangs in balance after the organization ran out of money to pay for their school fees.
Butabika National mental referral hospital has opened a private wing to enable relatives be on the side of their patients as they recover. Patients are able to have a self contained room to themselves and can have relatives to support them as opposed to being in the general wards. Patients in the hospital’s general ward cannot have a relative with them.
The ICC Prosecutor is also seeking similar charges against Sylvestre Mudacumura, military commander of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda or FDLR militia.
Busoga royal chiefs want the immediate appointment of an attorney general to guide and interpret to them their constitutional roles in the leadership of Busoga kingdom. The royal chiefs say this will ease the tension sparked off by wrangles that followed the death of Kyabazinga Henry Wako Muloki almost four years ago.
Lukwago says that in the first contract with KCCA in 2005, Pioneer Easy Bus were to pay 300,000 shillings per month for the operations of each bus in the city.
Police in Lira district say they are finding it hard to continue arresting and releasing street children without any charges due to lack of a remand home in the region.
Makerere University has started on the process of establishing a psycho trauma centre to address increasing rates of trauma and stress related mental disorders in the country. The centre shall also be used as a coordinating psycho-social training in the East and Southern Africa.
