The Monitor (Uganda) articles from June 2011, page 3

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Defensive Puzzle for Bobby.
June 23, 2011... Byline: James Ssekandi Coach Bobby Williamson and his back room staff must solve a defensive dilemma if Uganda's under 23 side, Kobs, are to overcome Kenya in the All Africa Games qualifiers on Sunday. Without the first choice central...

41,500 Drop Out of Use Since 2009.
June 23, 2011... Byline: Al-Mahdi Ssenkabirwa The government policy on Universal Secondary Education has been put on the spot after details from a new survey revealed that a total of 41,506 students benefiting from the scheme dropped out of school in the last...

Fazul Was Planning Attack on Nation, Says Army.
June 23, 2011... Byline: Risdel Kasasira New information emerging out of Somalia indicates that documents found in the car of the East African Al-Qaeda leader, killed in Mogadishu two weeks ago reveal that he was planning to attack Kampala and Bujumbura. ...

Conmen Target Facebook Users.
June 23, 2011... Byline: Walter Wafula If you sent mobile money to an unknown person following a request from a friend on Facebook, the famous social networking website, you could have been conned. At least four people including Daily Monitor Education...

Government Summons Foreign Envoy Over Muzoora's Death.
June 23, 2011... Byline: Nelson Wesonga and Nicholas Kalungi Internal Affairs Minister Hillary Onek said yesterday Uganda has summoned the ambassador of an unnamed neighbouring country to explain the circumstances under which the late Col. Edison Muzoora's...

Cassava Flour Building Technology.
June 23, 2011... Byline: Fred Muzaale Construction costs have been rising over the years partly because of the high prices of construction materials. The price of a bag of cement, which is one of the major construction materials, has almost doubled in the...

Standard Bank to Exit Argentina Market.
June 23, 2011... Byline: Faridah Kulabako Argentina could be the next market Standard Bank - the Stanbic Bank Uganda parent company, is exiting as its strategy to focus on the African continent gathers pace. The bank is on the verge of reducing its...

Entebbe Nurse Arrested Over Death of Patient.
June 23, 2011... Byline: Martin Ssebuyira Police in Entebbe have arrested a nursing assistant at Entebbe Hospital for allegedly neglecting her duty, leading to the death of a patient. The nurse was arrested on Tuesday after she reportedly moved out of...

Do We Need Rocket Scientists to Give Us Jobs?
June 23, 2011... Byline: Daniel Kalinaki Government's new Shs44.5 billion plan to address unemployment must be applauded for it is, at the very least, an acknowledgment of the problem. Many commentators have been quick to point to this plan, which entails...

How to Invest That Money.
June 23, 2011... Byline: James Abola After giving a talk on retirement planning to a group comprising of senior members of a professional association, I was literally flooded with questions regarding investment opportunities. Making the decision to invest...

Queries Give Death Convict Lease of Life.
June 23, 2011... Byline: Andrew Bagala A man who had been on death row for murdering his lover in October 2001, may get a new lease of life after the Director of Public Prosecutions ordered another investigation into the case, more than six years after his...

Odong Wins June Mug.
June 23, 2011... Byline: Innocent Ndawula Stephen Odong has proved he is not far away from realising his dream of turning professional before the end of this year. The scratch player carded a defining round of five-under par 66 to bag overall honours at...

Trekking 3,500 Kilometres for the Mentally Impaired Children.
June 23, 2011... Byline: Eunice Rukundo On June 2, 36-year-old Caliph Mulwa Kauso set off from Nairobi to Kampala, on foot. He made it here on June 9, at about 12,30pm. On June 20, he was flagged off at the Kenyan embassy offices in Kampala and headed to...

I Acted for the President, Says Bukenya.
June 23, 2011... Byline: Anthony Wesaka and Jacinta Odongo Former Vice President Gilbert Bukenya has moved to block the Inspector General of Government from prosecuting him before the Anti-Corruption Court, saying that his actions during the purchase of the...

Milk Rates to Get Better.
June 23, 2011... Byline: Walter Wafula Livestock farmers in Uganda can expect to get better prices for their milk with the establishment of five new milk processing companies in the country. The new companies include; Brookside Dairies from Kenya, Dooka from...

Father Held Over Burning Own Child.
June 23, 2011... Byline: Robert Muhereza Police in Kabale District are holding a 40-year-old man for allegedly burning to death his three-year-old boy and reportedly claiming that the devil prompted him into the act. South western regional police spokesman...

Government Ordered to Pay Man Shs25 Million Over Son's Death.
June 23, 2011... Byline: Abubaker Kirunda The Uganda Human Rights Commission has ordered the government to pay Mr Wilson Katantanzi Shs25 million as compensation for the death of his son, who was shot by security operatives. The human rights tribunal...

Exciting Opener.
June 23, 2011... Byline: Andrew Mwanguhya and James Ssekandi Seven-time champions KCC will not have asked for better opposition to crown their first ever Super League match at their new Lugogo home ground. Matia Lule's side open their 2011/2012 Ecobank...

Talking Book to Aid Illiterate Patients to Aid Illiterate Patients.
June 23, 2011... Byline: Flavia Lanyero Patients who cannot read can now listen to information about their medicines through a newly launched medical speaking book designed to give information about their drugs. Just like there is a speaking Bible, the...

Conjoined Twins in Desperate Need of Help.
June 23, 2011... Byline: Sarah Tumwebaze Rosette Tusiime's dream was to always have twin baby boys. Indeed, she got the twins and for a short while after the Caesarean section, when the doctors announced to her that she'd had twins, she was filled with joy....

Standard Bank in Move to Counter Mobile Money.
June 23, 2011... Byline: Faridah Kulabako The advent of mobile money has transformed telecom companies into financial institutions. The platform that allows people to use their mobile phones to transfer money, pay for goods and services and conduct banking...

Is the Budget Becoming Just a 'Briefcase Document'?
June 23, 2011... Byline: Karoli Ssemogerere The coverage of the presentation of the National Budget this year had three distinguishing marks. The first was the effusive press accompanying the appointment of Maria Kiwanuka, a business executive as Finance...

Insurance Firm Settles Shs270 Million Compensation.
June 23, 2011... Byline: Stephen Otage The National Agriculture Research Organisation on Tuesday received Shs270 million in insurance claim from Statewide Insurance Company following a fatal accident which killed two of its staff. The couple, Dr Muhoozi...

Schools Ask Government to Stop Food Exportation.
June 23, 2011... Byline: Fosca Tumushabe School managers in the southwestern region have appealed to government to control the exportation of foodstuff to neighbouring countries, which they say has created food shortages for the local market. The current...

Former Arua LC5 Boss Jailed Over Debt.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Felix Warom Okello Former Arua district council chairman Richard Andama Ferua has been remanded to Arua Government Prison for six months over failure to clear rent arrears. Police reports indicate that Mr Ferua allegedly failed to...

Injured Ochwo Doubtful.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Ismail D. Kigongo Victoria Cup (Saturday) Zimbabwe v Kenya July 2: Zimbabwe v Uganda Elgon Cup July 9: Kenya v Uganda July 16: Uganda v Kenya Uganda Rugby Cranes captain Mathias Ochwo is doubtful for the Victoria Cup...

KCB Raises Lending Rates to 19 Per Cent.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Faridah Kulabako The cost of borrowing is expected to rise following a move by most commercial banks to increase their base lending rates to factor in the rising inflation. Kenya Commercial Bank Uganda, follows Standard Chartered and...

How Important Are Bio-Data Forms?
June 22, 2011... Byline: Joseph Ajal A captivating radio advert at one time was extoling the virtues of one of the service providers as being very different from the rest because clients did not have to be bogged down with 'signing here and signing there' or...

Police Want More Hours in Cooler for Suspects.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Nelson Wesonga The police want hours of detention for capital offenders increased from 48 to 96 hours. The Assistant Inspector General of Police, Mr Okoth Ochola, yesterday said the current 48 hours limit police investigations. He...

Region Completes Power Master Plan.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Faridah Kulabako The East African region will soon start harnessing its electricity generation resources that will see it solve rampant power shortages following the completion of the region's power master plan. Speaking during the...

Shilling Continues Downward Drift.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Othman Semakula The shilling continued to lose ground against the dollar hitting a low of Shs2,460 yesterday. Traders quoted the local unit at between Shs2,460 and Shs2,450, indicating an average value loss of about Shs5 since Friday....

16 Held Over Opium.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Monitor Team The police in Gulu are holding 16 teenagers and three juveniles for allegedly smoking opium and engaging in crime including rape and theft. The officer in charge of Bardege Division police post, Mr Patrick Acobo, said...

Tonku Quizzed Over Mixed-Up Facts.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Anthony Wesaka and Jacinta Odongo Mr Thomas Nkulungira alias Tonku, the prime suspect in the septic murder case, was yesterday subjected to a rigorous questioning as prosecution cross-examined him on his Monday defence in court. Mr...

Kanyeihamba, Mbabazi Clash Over Bail.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Isaac Imaka and Sheila Naturinda Retired Supreme Court Judge George Kanyeihamba yesterday morning advised the ruling party to refrain from the anti-democracy practice of stifling free debate using its parliamentary caucus. ...

Media Owners, Advertising Agencies Sign Partnership.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Justus Lyatuu The Uganda Advertising Association and Uganda Media Owners Association have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that aims to streamline operations between the two associations. The MoU seeks to enhance professionalism...

Farmer's Diary - There is a Tragic Similarity Between HIV-Aids And Some Crop Diseases.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Michael J. Ssali The issues in today's column have a strong bearing on food insecurity and impoverishment. These issues are a curse of present day Ugandan agriculture and present a grim prospect of harder times ahead. In the last...

Regional Scientists Develop Quick-Growing, Weed-Resistant Sorghum.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Martin Ssebuyira Scientists from the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (Asareca) through a project "Fighting Striga: Resistance genes deployed to boost sorghum productivity" have...

Have Faith, By 2030 Uganda Will Be a Democracy - Pointers From Kenya.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Charles Onyango-Obbo On Monday, something unusual happened in Africa, and in Kenya. Dr Willy Mutunga, until a few days ago the Eastern Africa Representative for the Ford Foundation, was sworn in as Kenya's first Chief Justice under...

Army, Police Deny They Have Byamaka.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Gerald Bareebe The whereabouts of Dr Aggrey Byamaka, a prominent Mbarara businessman and opposition politician, arrested by military intelligence officers last Thursday, remain a mystery after police sources yesterday said he is not...

Environment Activists Petition IGG Over Wetland.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Martin Ssebuyira and Joan Mulikatete Environment activists have petitioned the Inspector General of Government (IGG) over the high rate at which developers are reclaiming Lutembe Bay wetland ecotourism - Ramsar site. The...

Lawyer, Two Others Arrested Over Death of Journalist.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Andrew Bagala The police have arrested three people, including a lawyer, to help with investigations into the death of a journalist who was hacked in Gayaza in Wakiso. Enoch Mutabazi was killed while supervising the opening of...

Scientists Link Up to Introduce West African Yams in Nation.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Lominda Afedraru Farmers specialising in growing yams which is a fixture on the Ugandan food menu, both in eating places and in homes in various areas around the country, will soon benefit from the importation of West African yams...

Witnesses in Case Against Local Vice President Disappear.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Emmanuel Mulondo Two key prosecution witnesses in the petition seeking to nullify the election of former Vice President Prof Gilbert Bukenya for Busiro South Parliamentary seat have disappeared, prosecution lawyers told court...

Activists Want HIV Fight Diversified.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Emmanuel Mulondo Participants at the Civil Society Fund annual review conference have called for adoption of a varied combination strategy in the anti-HIV/Aids struggle. The participants said a combined effort would include...

Onek Wants MPs Salary Reduced.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Diana Wanyana and Andrew Bagala Internal Affairs Minister Hillary Onek wants the salary for Members of Parliament reduced to save funds for the construction of health centres and roads. Mr Onek, who is also the MP for Lwamo County,...

Bobby Warns Kobs of Complacency.
June 22, 2011... Byline: James Ssekandi If there is a team that has suffered in Uganda's firing line, it is Kenya. However, the law of averages always calls us back to our senses. It's often used and Uganda Cranes coach Bobby Williamson understands it well...

Construction Inflation Climbs to 19 Per Cent.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Faridah Kulabako and Annet Kabakumba The housing deficit in the country is set to increase due to the escalating prices of raw materials used in the construction sector. According to the Construction Sector Indices released by the...

Nation's Chance to Make Amends.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Innocent Ndawula Africa Division I T20 event July 8-15, Kampala, Uganda After a dismal showing at the Division II ICC World Cricket League in Dubai early this year, the forthcoming Africa Division I Twenty20 Championship...

Scarcity Throws Cauliflower Prices Up.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Sharon M. Omurungi Cauliflower is one of the vegetables that is not often talked about yet liked by many people, according to Mr Isaac Kalemwa, a vegetable trader in Nakasero market says. "It ranks first among all the vegetables in...

Without Protection, Modern Agriculture Only Hurts the Poor.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Richard Mugisha I loved the article which highlighted the value of goat milk (Making a case for goat's milk, Daily Monitor, June 8, 2011). Goats apparently flourish during droughts because they do not need a lot of water. Any food...

Museveni, Kiir Discuss Sudan.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Benon Herbert Oluka President Museveni yesterday met Gen. Salva Kiir Mayardiit, President of South Sudan, ahead of the independence of the semi-autonomous territory on July 9. The meeting, which took place at Mr Museveni's country...

Reasonable Maize Yields May Push Prices Down.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Fred Muzaale The current high food prices in the country are likely to go down next month due to the reported bumper maize harvest this season in most of the maize growing areas. According to farmers in Kayunga, Mubende, Kibaale,...

Matooke Growing Thrives in North.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Lominda Afedraru The ancient belief that the various banana species grown here are commonly consumed amongst the Bantu speaking population in Uganda has come to cease. Farmers in northern Uganda especially in Dokolo district, are...

Six Proline Players to Join Spanish Club.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Andrew Mwanguhya Proline will, in their newly established partnership with San Roque de Lepe, send six of their players to Spain. Roque de Lepe are a third tier Spanish club playing in Segunda B. Defenders Ivan Bukenya, who has...

Mbale Vendors, Officials Feud Over Relocation.
June 22, 2011... Byline: David Kazungu and David Mafabi Mbale main market vendors yesterday vowed to resist attempts to relocate them to temporary locations by the municipal council to pave way for the refurbishment of the facility expected to commence next...

Nation Needs to Move From Politics to Entrepreneurship.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Maalik Fahd Kayondo Uganda continues to grapple with unemployment but the powers that be seem not to be prepared enough to provide a lasting solution. Recently, the new Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga was on Radio CBS 89.2 with...

Journalists Urged to Defend Labour Rights.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Stephen Wandera A two-day conference, aimed at building the capacity of journalists' unions and associations in Eastern Africa, ended this week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital, with a clarion call to all journalists in the region...

Dulah Glad to Be On the Verge of Signing for Falcons.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Ismail Dhakaba Kigongo Today (Division III) Jackets v City Oil (8.30pm) Bush Court v TLC (6.30pm) He gets cheered and booed in equal measure but all the same, Tanzanian Abdullahi Ramadhan has grown to love playing in Uganda....

Emirates Announces Its Local Agency.
June 22, 2011... Emirates Shipping Line today has appointed Equator Shipping Line Uganda Limited as its agency in Uganda. The appointment of the new agency is in line with Emirates' strategy of expanding its Africa presence and further develops its Far East,...

EAC Tells Uganda MPs Not to Politicize the Budget.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Sheila Naturinda and Isaac Imaka The East African Community Deputy Secretary Beatrice Kiraso and the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance Chris Kassami have told the Ninth Parliament MPs to avoid politicizing the budget, but...

Kamya is Reading Political Graph Wrongly.
June 22, 2011... Byline: John Ken Lukyamuzi I recently addressed Ugandans in the Diaspora about the quest for federalism in our motherland at the University of East London in the UK. Ngoma Radio and its coordinator, Mustafa Ssemanda, must be congratulated for...

Who Licensed This 'Open-Air' Church in Nakasero?
June 22, 2011... Byline: Tabu Butagira Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago must be settling at City Hall now. He, and equally new chief executive Jennifer Musisi, have the unpleasant onus to purge extreme mishmash in the capital, operationally and at...

Makerere Don Hits at MPs for Failing to Curb Govt Expenditure.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Isaac Imaka and Sheila Naturinda Makerere University Economics Professor Augustus Nuwagaba has bashed Parliamentarians over failure to hold the Executive accountable; a thing he says has led to the loss of huge amounts of money and...

Walking Out of Parliament is Outmoded and Pointless.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Henry Mayega In 1994 during the Constituent Assembly (CA) deliberations on the then draft constitution, my old friend Afunadula and I attended several of those sessions as invited guests. Both of us belonged to the Uganda Peoples...

Farmers Reject Genetically Modified Crops.
June 22, 2011... Byline: David Kazungu Farmers in the eastern districts of Uganda that constitute the Elgon zone have rejected a proposal by Mr. Arthur Makala, the executive director at Science Foundation for Livelihoods and developments, to start engaging in...

Governor's Talk is Worth Commending.
June 22, 2011... The recent pronouncements by the Central Bank Governor, Mr Tumusiime Mutebile, have in many ways cast the veil off government's financial indiscipline. The Governor was recently quoted by a UK-based financial newspaper which he told that...

School Children Demand an End to Child Labour.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Ephraim Kasozi School children have asked government to explain its commitment to end rampant child labour in the country. The children, in both primary and secondary schools, said despite several efforts and the laws in place,...

IGG Orders Sacking of Speciosa Kazibwe.
June 22, 2011... Byline: John Njoroge The Inspector General of Government has directed the Minister of Finance to immediately suspend former Vice President Dr Speciosa Wandira Kazibwe as board chairperson of government-owned Microfinance Support Centre Ltd...

Tension in UPC As New Group Forms.
June 22, 2011... Byline: Bill Oketch and Al-Mahdi Ssenkabirwa Tension is brewing in Uganda Peoples Congress over a newly formed pressure group. Top party officials have, however, disowned the group saying it is not part of UPC organs. Launched at Christ...

Kanyeihamba, Mbabazi Clash Over Bail Conditions.
June 21, 2011... Byline: Sheila Naturinda AND Isaac Imaka Prof George Kanyeihamba has on Tuesday openly disagreed with session facilitator and Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi over the impending scrapping of constitutional bail as suggested by President Museveni...

FDC's Major Kazoora Case for July 7.
June 21, 2011... Byline: Rajab Mukombozi High court in Mbarara has set July 7 the date on which it will make the final verdict on the election petition filed by Major John Kazoora who is challenging NRMs Dr Medard Bitekyerezo February parliamentary election...

Bebe Cool Excites Rwanda.
June 21, 2011... Byline: Phoebe Mutetsi One of Rwanda's biggest Calender event took place over the weekend. The 7th annual Kwita Izina (baby gorilla naming) ceremony, in which 22 baby gorillas, including a set of twins were given names, was held in Musaze...

MPs, Minister Clash at Meeting.
June 21, 2011... Byline: Hudson Apunyo A meeting called by Lango paramount Chief Yocam Odur turned chaotic when Housing State Minister Sam Engola said it was only Lango sub-region which is still glued to the Uganda Peoples Congress party. Mr Engola, who...

What You Need to Know About a Staff SACCO.
June 21, 2011... Byline: Nathan Were I have always been confronted by employees in organizations for basic education on how to start, manage and operate a savings and credit Cooperative Society (SACCO). In many organizations, a few employees already run what...

Centenary Bank And USAID in Mobile Bank Deal.
June 21, 2011... Byline: Agencies The United States Government, through United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in partnership with Centenary Bank, has launched a state-of-the-art, fully on-line, mobile banking unit (MBU). The MBU is a...

Minister Calls for More Investment in Forestry, Agricultural Research.
June 21, 2011... Byline: Fred Muzaale Agriculture Minister Tress Buchanayandi has called for more funding for agricultural and forestry research to increase the country's farming productivity. In a speech read for him by State Minster for Fisheries Ruth...

Police Officer Arrested Over Shooting of Suspected Defiler.
June 21, 2011... Byline: Bill Oketch A police officer working at Adwoki outpost in Dokolo District has been arrested for allegedly shooting dead a suspected defiler. The officer was picked up from his work station on Saturday after his alleged act sparked...

The Nation Marks World Music Day.
June 21, 2011... Byline: Edwin Nuwagaba A pleasant evening it was on the World music day at Alliance Francaise. Worldwide, people were celebrating their music, but were the local celebrations worth it? Yes and no. Yes, because the music cut across from hip...

Luclay Remains Favourite in Big Brother.
June 21, 2011... Byline: Robert Kalumba When the Ethiopian Danny and the Kenyan Nic were announced as the contestants that had kissed the M-net Big Brother show goodbye, few seemed sad. However, many erupted in screams and ululations for the person who had...

The Budget Cannot be Concluded in a Single Day.
June 21, 2011... Byline: Francis Kamulegeya Over the last two weeks there has been a lot of media coverage on Honourable Maria Kiwanuka's maiden budget that was presented to Parliament on 8th June. Analysts, commentators, economists, civil society,...

Eagles Drown Marines.
June 21, 2011... Byline: Ismail Kigongo Stephen Omony and Norman Blick didn't check in for Miracle Eagles until the second quarter of their MTN Fuba League game with Nkumba Marines on Sunday night. None of them looked worried when Miracle had a slow start...

Reformed Practitioners of Female Genital Mutilation Receive Aid.
June 21, 2011... Byline: Steven Ariong At least 254 former traditional surgeons of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Sebei have received grinding machines to start up alternative means of living after they voluntarily left the age-old vice. The machines...

Investment in IT to Spur Coffee Revenues.
June 21, 2011... Byline: Lominda Afedraru Coffee exports from Africa's second-largest producer of coffee-Uganda have been estimated to fall by 10.6 per cent in the month of April compared to last year's figures for the same period and if this expectation is...

Inspectors Find School With Two Licences.
June 21, 2011... Byline: Patience Ahimbisibwe From ghost schools, ghost pupils and ghost teachers, officials on yet another round of school inspections yesterday found what they say is a school with two registration certificates. During the new round of...