By Robert Mugoya For the past one week or so, our mainstream and other media outlets have been awash with stories on an incident that recently occurred in the outskirts of Kampala, involving one of ...
As we were being played to the unfortunate drama by a favourite Museveni minister who stage-managed an attempt to her life, something else played out in a courtroom some 11,000 kilometres away. The antics of ...
By Robert Mugoya The immediate return of the deported MTN Uganda CEO Wim Vanhelleputte here in Uganda has come as another surprise to Ugandans who questioned the substance of his charges and the entire noise ...
By John Kakooza Investigations by Great Lakes Watchman have unearthed copies of “notes verbale” letters written by the High Commission (embassy) of Rwanda here in Kampala. They prove that the neighboring country’s nationals have been ...
Dear Madam Speaker, I write to you as a concerned citizen and knowledgeable enough to make a point before the House, based on the fact that for the last two years I have ardently followed ...
By John Kakooza Charles Onyango Obbo in his column in the Daily Monitor last week said Idi Amin was worse, far worse than Museveni. Obbo describes aspects of Amin’s brutal rule when murder was the ...
By John Kakooza The disdainful attitude of Mwesigwa Rukutana, Deputy Attorney General of Uganda, towards the chairperson of the Commission of Inquiry into land matters speaks volumes about what the government is concealing in Mutungo. ...
By John Kakooza Analysts say the early decision by NRM to declare Museveni its flag bearer – ahead of 2021 whereby he will stand for an unheard of sixth term in Uganda’s history – is ...
In his song, it wasn’t me, Jamaican born musician, Shaggy narrated how he was caught red-handed cheating but still denied that it wasn’t him. The song rhymes well with President Museveni’s character of always denying ...
By Mary Mugisha The deportations of three MTN Uganda senior expatriates have rapidly become an international scandal for the country. The hidden reasons behind the arrests and deportations almost two weeks ago of three MTN ...
By Josephine Nalweyiso By 2010 it was clear to us that the country was at crossroads. This was in the lead-up to the presidential elections in 2011. The general mood in the country pointed to ...
By Patrick Iga Any Ugandan interested in getting a clue how so many prominent citizens have fallen victim to assassinations in the past few years better look for a documentary by BBS TV, aired this ...
By John Oryema A cholera outbreak is currently roiling parts of Kampala, with several people already succumbing to the disease. Most affected areas are Rubaga and Makindye, with the scourge seemingly about to spread to ...
By Billy Wambogo In the latest and clearest trend that Uganda has become a police state, officers in Kampala and all outlying areas have been ordered to monitor all civilian events, ceremonies and functions. According ...