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By Mulengera Reporters Highly personable Hellen Namutamba is headed for Cabinet deployment after her mentor and foster mother Rebecca Kadaga agreeing with Gen YK Museveni to be let go in the forthcoming Cabinet reshuffle, while maintaining a presence of some sort inside the Kaguta universe.   The flamboyant Namutamba currently serves as Minister of Tourism for Kyabazinga and was one …

  By Mulengera Reporters Well briefed sources have indicated that Anita Among has suffered low blood pressure-related vulnerability and that her health has understandably not been very well lately because of the emotional stress resulting from the ongoing investigations and the cruel media publicity she has endured.   She has been undergoing extreme trauma since Gen MK tweeted, reinforcing David …

By Mulengera Reporters Even when knowledgeable insiders at Parliament say that Speaker Anita Among had (at the instigation of some of her aides) turned her back on the station in her last days at the helm of the legislature, Ugandans a few days ago took to social media and castigated the individual NBS TV editors for failing to stand in …

By Mulengera Reporters On Thursday, Miria Matembe, Winnie Kiiza, Sarah Bireete and Mukono Woman MP-Elect Sheila Amaniyo led women leaders in Kampala in demanding that Gen Museveni doesn’t base on Anita Among’s transgressions to lose trust in Women.   Their point was that Anita Among’s transgressions are individual failings which shouldn’t imputed on the rest of the women in leadership …

By Guest Writer For many young Ugandans, education is more than a pursuit of academic success. It is a bridge to opportunity, leadership, and transformation. For Fatmah Yusuf Gram, a young scholar from Fort Portal, that bridge became clearer through the Equity Leaders Program (ELP), a flagship initiative under the Equity Group Foundation that is steadily nurturing a new generation …

By Ben Musanje Mobile money has emerged as one of the strongest drivers of financial inclusion in Uganda, with access rising sharply across regions and demographic groups, according to the latest Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) findings covering the period 2021/22 to 2024/25. Part of the report, presented by Aubrey Kemigisha Abaho, Principal Statistician under the Department of Social Services …

By Yusuf Nsibambi On 18th May 2026, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni assented to the Protection of Sovereignty Bill 2026, transforming it into law. This moment marks a decisive step in Uganda’s resolve to guard its independence and chart its own future.   I take this opportunity to thank Parliament, and in particular the Joint Committees of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs …

  These include the following Permanent Secretaries Ben Kumumanya of Local Government, Robert Kasande of Justice, Dorcus Okalany of Lands, Doreen Katusiime of Tourism, Pius Bigirimana, Dr. Alfred Okidi of Water, Alex Kakooza of OPM, Dr. Diana Atwine of Health, Irene Batebe of Energy, Dr. Ramathan Goobi of Finance, Dr. Amina Zawedde of ICT, Rosette Byengoma of Defense, Dunstan Balaba …

By Aggrey Baba The probe into alleged corruption and extravagant spending linked to former Speaker of Parliament and Bukedea Woman MP Anita Among has now stretched beyond Parliament, with outgoing State Minister for Foreign Affairs (Regional Cooperation) John Mulimba calling for investigations into the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Secretariat led by Rt.Hon. Richard Todwong, Secretary General. Mulimba has asked Chief …

By Mulengera Reporters Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) joined hundreds of Ugandans at Kitante Hill Secondary School grounds in a moving candlelight commemoration organized by the Uganda AIDS Commission to honor lives lost to HIV/AIDS, celebrate the resilience of survivors, and renew the country’s determination to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. Held under the theme, “Ending AIDS …