Author: Evans Kalyango

In a fierce contest at Kololo Independence grounds, money bags Speaker Anita Among has trounced Minister also former speaker Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga for the post of 2nd National Vice Chairperson Female of the NRM party. At the height of the party’s National Delegates conference almost all incumbents have been swept with Alitwala Kadaga, Godfrey Kiwanda, Mike Mukula, Lydia Wanyoto, all losing grip to the revered Central Executive Committee of the NRM party. Kiwanda and Mukula all withdrew to avoid humiliation and supported their opponents. President Museveni as Chairperson of the party went unopposed, he would later save Alhajji Moses Kigongo…

At Kololo Independence grounds, the stakes are high as over 25000 NRM delegates gathered to elect leaders to the party’s apex body of Central Executive Committee (CEC) for the different regions. The delegates drawn from all districts, municipalities and cities in Uganda have already voted for the 2nd National Vice Chairperson Female where Anita Among as expected trounced her nemesis and former Speaker Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga. The other contentious positions is Vice Chairperson Northern, Vice Chairperson Kampala, Vice Chairperson Karamoja and Vice Chairperson Western. ADVERT: FOR THE BEST WEB HOSTING, WEB DESIGNS AND DOMAINS NAMES, CALL OR WHATSAPP +256758201313 President…

In other stories this evening, Captain George Mike Mukula has in a surprise move withdrawn from the race of the Vice Chairperson Eastern region. The race had three candidates; Mukula, Calvin Echodu and Namutumba Women MP Mariam Naigaga. After withdrawing, Mukulu endorsed Calvin Echodu who also equally comes from the same sub-region of Teso like him. The battle was largely between Mukula and Echodu and this indirectly gives a resounding win to Echodu ahead of the poll for regional chairpersons. ADVERT: FOR THE BEST WEB HOSTING, DOMAIN NAMES AND WEB DESIGNS, CALL OR WHATSAPP +256758201313 Mukula in his statement has…

Speaker Anita Among has dealt the last huge blow to her namesis Minister Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga in a heated contest for National Vice Chairperson Female of NRM in the party’s Centeal Executive Committee. Despite Kadaga’s outcries to Museveni to save her from the very powerful and very rich Speaker, the head of state paid a deaf ear. The proved a bit difficult and he sent it to the delegates to make a final decision. Given her Anita Among’s financial muscle and the extent at which politics is commercialized, it would have been a miracle for Kadaga to win the race.…

Former Speaker and Minister Rebecca Kadaga is at the tail end of facing a huge rejection from the party she has served for the last 36 years. She has never belonged to any other political party. She’s served the party and government as minister, deputy speaker for 10 years and speaker of parliament for 10 years and was only booted by the very strong hand of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni who supported the candidacy of former speaker Jacob Oulanyah in May 2021. Despite dropping her from the very influential speakership position, President Museveni would later appoint Kadaga to his fishermen…

Lawyer Sarah Bireete has advised former Speaker Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga to stop crying over what many see as spoilt milk in her bid to retain the position of 2nd Vice Chairperson female where she’s facing speaker Anita Among who seems very determined to finish her off. NRM delegates after attending a stormy National Executive council at state house graced by the party chairperson president Museveni yesterday, they will be attending the National Delegate’s conference later this week on Wednesday and Thursday. Top on the agenda in the Wednesday elections at Kololo is the election of new members to the Central…

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni hosted the National Executive Committee for NRM delegates ahead of the National Delegate’s conference happening later this week on Wednesday and Thursday. In the meeting, there was a face off between president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and former Speaker Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga who is the 1st Deputy prime minister and minister in charge of East Africa affairs and also the Kamuli district woman Member of parliament. Kadaga who is the current 2nd National Vice Chairperson female is facing some still competition from new NRM recruit Speaker Anita Among who is determined to send the woman from Kamuli…

The National Resistance Movement, a party which has been in government for the last four decades is preparing for this year’s National Delegate’s conference which is happening next week at Kololo Independence grounds. Over 40,000 delegates drawn from across the country will converge to discuss very important matters about their party NRM. Top on the agenda is the election of big bosses to sit on the party’s Central Executive Committee which is chaired by president Museveni who also doubles as the party’s chairperson. Apart from Museveni’s position of chairperson which is reserved for him alone, all the other positions in…

The Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) has this afternoon halted the construction works that had commenced along the Nakivubo Channel pending permission and guidance from the authority which is the custodian of city land and it’s development. Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago had protested the development along the Nakivubo Channel sighting several concerns of land grabbing. He also revealed that Hamis Kiggundu didn’t have the necessary clearances to do the same. Lukwago also accuses that Ham’s earlier development in Nakivubo were causing floods in down town even inside Owino Market. “We instructed him to halt all activities that are ongoing without…

Following a story by the BBC world service which also quoted CBC news indicating that Ugandan government had accepted to host immigrants which the United States is deporting, the Ministry of internal affairs has issued a statement. As earlier reported by the BBC, Uganda has indeed accepted to take in deportees who have been unceremoniously chased away from the US by the Trump administration under several conditions with some still under discussion. According to a statement released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary Bagiire Vicent Waiswa, the Agreement is in respect of Third Country Nationals who may not…