Former Lands,Housing and Urban Development Minister Daudi Migereko has blamed journalists for exposing the garbage menace in Jinja City. Migereko now Chairman of the Uganda Tourism Board said the exposure affected businesses and turned away many tourists who had planned to spend their holidays in Jinja. Speaking at the end of year prayers at Christ…
Next Media Park that recently retired 30 members of its staff in what it called a digital realignment has lost yet another of its long serving staff. Moses Namayo,a Senior Parliamentary Reporter and Cameraman has been at NBS TV since its inception in 2007 and is one of the men behind the high quality and…
Traders in Jinja’s main market and the villages of Allidinah, Main Street and Nizam Road are living in fear of a looming epidemic over uncollected garbage. Allidinah Road stretching over a kilometer is filled with garbage that has accumulated over the last one month with claims from the residents that the city’s landfill was sold…
New customers seeking electricity connections to their houses in a shorter distance that requires no extra pole will now pay only Ugx 200,000 to have power connected to their houses. The good news is the result of a new undertaking by the Electricity Regulatory Authority, Ministry for Energy and Uganda Development Bank (UDB). This is great…
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has been drawn into egoistic fight between Urban and Housing State Minister Princess Percis Namuganza and the Speaker of Parliament Anita Annet Among. Namuganza late on Saturday revealed in an interview aired on NBS Television’s “Live at 9” that her husband had reported to the President about threats on his life…
Lands State Minister and Bukono County MP Princess Persis Namuganza is back in the news for her resolve to take on the Anita Among – led 11th Parliament in what seems to be a hot and bloody showdown. Namuganza, now threatened with a censure motion by MPs on allegations of misconduct and misbehavior declined a…
At least 30 employees at Kin Kariisa’s Next Media have lost their jobs in a broader digital realignment of the company aimed at creating efficiency.Next Media,the holding company for a string of media brands NBS TV,Next Radio,Sanyuka TV,Salaam TV and Nile Post among others employees slightly above 500 workers across its platforms. A source at…
Netizens took off time off the World Cup frenzy that ruled space on Sunday 20th through Monday to celebrate Justine Kasule Lumumba’s 50th birthday. Speaker of Parliament Anita Annet Among led the netizens praising the former NRM Secretary General as her sweet sister. She quickly wished her good health and life. Jinja Catholic Diocese followed…
Though the two remained on different paths about the direction of politics of the country, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has expressed sorrow and lauded late Democratic Party leader, Dr. Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere. Dr. Ssemogerere was laid to rest at the family ancestral home at Nattale, Nkumba in Wakiso district on Monday. Museveni in a message…
The government of Uganda is working on modalities to ban the importation of fuel motorcycles for electric motorcycles, Science and Technology Minister Dr.Monica Musenero has said. Musenero said Uganda has advanced in science for solutions to society challenges and was right on track with electric cars and motorcycles as the world embraces a shift from…
