Author: Citizen Editor
Shenzhen, China: With the growing importance of rice as a food security crop, the National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) is forging strategic global partnerships to enhance production and expertise. In this effort, NARO’s Director General, Dr. Yona Baguma, is leading a delegation to China to collaborate with world-leading rice research and production institutions. Among these are Yunnan University and the BGI Group, a renowned life science and genomics organization with two decades of rice research experience. In October 2024, BGI Group’s CEO, Dr. Yin Ye, visited Uganda and formalized a partnership with NARO to elevate rice as a cornerstone for…
There are a lot of wars and bickering at several government MDAs in Uganda. These include the following; At Lands, ministers Sam Mayanja and Nabakooba don’t like each other because the senior is uncomfortable seeing the state minister outshining her. Mayanja has solved more land problems than his senior and even Museveni likes him more because as a lawyer he specializes on land matters. At the same ministry, a group of technocrats are always defying and respecting the permanent secretary Dorcus Okalany by undermining her authority. These include Justine Jjuuko the undersecretary from Hoima and the chief accountant Lawrence Nsubuga…
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The Uganda Opposition is comfortable to a level where Mr. Museveni feels as if there is no opposition. True the opposition is intimidated and silenced to the extent of being compromised. The judiciary of Uganda is almost dead. What is happening between Kenya and Uganda concerning the Besigye abduction from Kenya is a miscarriage of justice, the absence of the Chief Justice head of the Judiciary who has kept silent speaks volumes about the ineptness of the third arm of Government. This explains that there is a vacuum of Constitutionalism and the rule of law. Framing a person with treasonous…
By Odeke Bazel The ancient proverbs “the pot calling the kettle black” and “sour grapes” come to mind when considering Norbert Mao’s recent criticism of the regime on the rising cost of living. These proverbs are used to describe situations where someone is accusing someone else of something that they themselves are guilty of, or where someone is disparaging something they cannot have. Norbert Mao’s criticism of the regime is a classic case of both the pot calling the kettle black and sour grapes. As the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Mao is part of the same regime he…
The General Court Martial sitting in Makindye has adjourned the hearing of Dr Besigye and his co Accuse Hajji Obeid Lutale to 10th December 2024 giving enough time to the Law Council to issue a temporal practicing License to Besigye’s lead Lawyer Martha Karua who showed up in court with out it. However in such circumstances, the court couldn’t proceed with the case with her as the Lead Counsel without a license since it’s a pre-requisite for every lawyer to posses and furnish court with the certificate from the Uganda Law Council. Erias Lukwago who is Besigye’s Ugandan Lawyer pleaded…
Over the past week, post Bank Uganda a government owned Commercial Bank has been in the news, not because it made a lot of profits or won accolades for it’s banking services but because counterfeit cash amounting to Shs500m was found at the bank’s Mbale Branch. The incident which happened in the second of week of last month came to the media last week causing uproar and majority of Ugandans condemning the Bank and it’s leadership led by the Managing Director Julius Kakeeto. Some critics even concluded that some of Post Bank’s customers might have been given some fake because…
Reports have been swirling over the past few days indicating that four time presidential candidate Dr Kiiza Besigye had gone missing for days and no one was aware of his where about. Dr Kiiza Besigye was kidnapped from a hotel in Westlands in Nairobi City where he had gone to attend an even on invitation of Former Deputy Presidential Candidate Martha Karua in Kenya’s capital last Saturday. However, Besigye was last at the Hotel and never returned and unknown people kidnapped him. As questions about his whereabouts continued spilling, it was later revealed that the former FDC stalwart was being…
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A by-election arising from the death of Sarah Mateke who was the Kisoro District women representative and also Museveni’s junior minister for Defense and Veteran affairs took place today in the Southern district of Kisoro with six candidates facing off. Stakes have been high with the NRM district chairperson Dr. Philemon Mateke rallying behind an independent candidate Grace Akifeza Ngabirano and shunning his party’s flag bearer Kabagyeni Rose. The other candidates include NUP’s Zubedi Sultana Salim, FDC’s Musanase Juliet, UPC’s Ingabire Mable and another independent candidate Cyimpaye Aisha. All political heavy weights from UPC, FDC, NUP and NRM were in…