[The Conversation Africa] Makerere University, which marks its centenary this year, is well-known as the oldest university in East Africa and as a cradle of political elites. Its alumni include presidents and prime ministers - among them Joseph Kabil...

[New Times] Yves Murenzi, the head coach of the Rwanda U-18 boys' basketball team, has urged his players to be 'very cautious' ahead of their second meeting with Uganda's Junior Silverbacks on Thursday.

[Nile Post] The Minister of State in Charge of Ethics and Integrity Rose Lilly Akello has made a visit to Lubiri High School to get first hand information about the recent viral video involving some of their students.

[Nile Post] Fingers point at internal and external forces including Speaker Among

[Nile Post] The Democratic Party (DP) has urged government to revise its priorities while allocating funds, and start drafting budgets that do not only focus on borrowing and spending.

[Nile Post] The Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development has said the government is considering increasing the senior citizen's grants paid to the older person of 80 years and above from Shs 25,000 to Shs 35,000.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The question on whether Nairobi gubernatorial hopeful Johnson Sakaja legitimately graduated from Team University in Uganda has been put to Uganda Education Minister Janet Museveni.

[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala, Uganda -- Speaker Anita Among has urged accounting officers in ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs) to ensure proper expenditure of the 2022/2023 budget.

[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala, Uganda -- The Constitutional Court in Kampala on Tuesday, June 7th started hearing the petition against the HIV Prevention and Control Act, 2015 after six years of filing.

[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala, Uganda -- 'We must budget for compulsory primary school education and stop these greedy teachers from sending children back home', President Yoweri Museveni has urged lawmakers.

[Nile Post] The National Unity Platform(NUP) has directed its MPs to return the Shs 40 million which was advanced to them by Parliament for unknown reasons.

[Nile Post] Former Member of Parliament for Kazo, Gordon Bafaki has died in an accident along the Northern bypass in Kampala.

[Nile Post] President Museveni has asked Members of Parliament to budget for compulsory education to stop "greedy teachers" from sending children back home over extra charges.

[Nile Post] The Finance Minister, Matia Kasaija has assured Ugandans that government will not introduce new taxes in the next financial year 2022/2023 but rather more measures to enforce old ones.

[Nile Post] President Museveni has said with the shs48 trillion budget for the 2022/ 2023 , Uganda is moving in the right direction.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Agago, Uganda -- Northern Uganda's revered shea trees are under threat from climate change and illegal loggers who turn the wood into charcoal and sell the fuel for use in cooking

[New Times] The national basketball team will start its warm-up games with a match against Uganda on June 22 in Cairo, Egypt.

[Observer] No serious storyteller can narrate Uganda's post-independence story without giving prominence to the famous Luweero triangle. It is that pivotal but that is a story for another day. For decades, farmers in Uganda have earned very little, s...

[Nile Post] The Chief of Defence forces (CDF) Gen Wilson Mbadi has urged Uganda troops in Somalia to exercise maximum discipline as the carry on with their duties.

[Nile Post] The executive director of the Federation of Small and Medium Enterprises (FSME), John Kakungulu Walugembe last week graduated from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government with a masters in Public Administration.

[Nile Post] The leader of People's Front for Transition(PFT), Dr. Kizza Besigye has wondered why a highly indebted nation like Uganda has many ministers, legislators, presidential advisors and Resident District Commissioners(RDC) who all survive on t...

[Nile Post] President Museveni has conveyed his best wishes to President Hassan Sheik Mohamud, the 10th president of Somalia as he prepares to take up the responsibilities and challenges of the presidency of the war torn country.

[Nile Post] The Ministry of Health has said it is soon carrying out vaccination for children but this will not be done without the consent the parents.

[Nile Post] Members of Parliament want the former executive director, Mulago hospital, Dr. Byarugaba Baterana to explain what befell Shs 206 million meant for allowances for medical interns and senior health officers during the Covid-19 pandemic.

[Nile Post] Although menstruation is a natural process signalling a girl's puberty, discriminatory practices shrouded in heinous associated stigma and cultural taboos and lack of access to correct information still prevail.

[Independent (Kampala)] The world has not yet won the war against malaria. While the total number of cases has declined from about 81.1 cases per 1,000 population to 59 per 1,000 since 2000, there were still an estimated 240 million cases and 600,000...

[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala, Uganda -- The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has paid out a total of sh421 billion worth of midterm benefits to over 21,600 eligible members in less than 3 months, following commencement of payments in March thi...

[Nile Post] In 2005, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni commissioned the Presidential Initiative on Banana Industrial Development (PIBID) to kick-start the industrial commercialisation of Uganda's bananas through research and development.

[Nile Post] Officials at the Uganda Land Commission (ULC) have been accused of asking for bribes in order to pay out compensation for land.

[Nile Post] The Run4Climate is aimed at raising funds to grow 100,000 trees in 2022 and restore 200 acres of degraded landscapes.