New Vision (Uganda) articles from August 2010

New Vision (Uganda) archives from August 2010

Court Acquits Doctors of Drug Theft.
August 31, 2010... The anti corruption court has acquitted three officials from the ministry of health of drug theft charges. The three are Dr Myers Lugemwa a senior medical officer National Malaria Control program; Dr Richard Ndyomugenyi a program manager and...

Bududa Mudslide Victims to Get Land in Kiryandongo.
August 31, 2010... Each family of the Bududa mudslide victims will get 2.5 acres of land in Kiryandongo. This will be effected in the up -coming relocation exercise to Kiryandongo resettlement camp. The Prime minister professor Apollo Nsibambi has said...

How d'Ujanga Lost.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Ben Okethwengu and Ayiga Ondoga Energy State Minister Simon D'ujanga, who is the MP for Okoro county, as well as Akumu Catherine Mavenjina, the Woman MP for Zombo and Nebbi, lost the NRM primary elections yesterday. It means that...

300 Villages Miss Voting.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Ismael Kasooha Over 300 villages did not get voting materials in Kibaale district, forcing polling officials to postpone the exercise for yet another day. According to the district NRM registrar, Solomon Bigirwa, the 300 villages...

Bitamazire Leading in Butambala.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Joyce Namutebi Education and sports minister Namirembe Bitamazire was in lead for the Butambala Woman MP seat, according to provisional results. By 5:45pm yesterday, Bitamazire was ahead of her closest rival, Mariam Nalubega, by...

Kutesa Happy With Delay.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Dismus Buryegyeya Mawogola MP and Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa said he was happy with the postponement of the polls in Sembabule because he had received information that electoral materials had mysteriously disappeared. "We...

20 Arrested Over Electoral Offences.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Steven Candia Close to 20 people are being held over various electoral offences in the ongoing NRM primary elections, the Police said yesterday. The Force also cautioned 'privileged' aspirants against going to the polling stations...

Vice-President Widens Lead as Votes Tally Continues in Wakiso.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Francis Kagolo and Juliet Lukwago Wakiso polling agents yesterday continued to tally valid votes despite the cancellation of the polls announced by the NRM electoral commission on Monday night. Like in most other districts, the...

Ssembabule Victim for Second Operation.
August 31, 2010... Capt. Habib Nsamba, who was shot and injured during the Ssembabule NRM election violence, remains admitted at Kampala International Hospital a month after he was transferred from Kitovu Hospital in Masaka. Nsamba, whose condition remains...

Ministers Probed Over Poll Malpractice.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Mary Karugaba State minister for industry the Rev. Fr. Simon Lokodo is under investigation over election malpractices in Kaabong district. This was after partial results from Kapedo sub-county, Lokodo's home, showed that the...

Otaala Declares Own Victory in Budama.
August 31, 2010... After losing the bid for West Budama South parliamentary contest, state minister in charge of labour, Dr. Emmanuel Otaala, last evening declared his own victory, ignoring the official declaration of the returning officer. Jacob Oboth Oboth,...

Dr. Kamugisha Rejects Rujumbura Poll Results.
August 31, 2010... Former health minister Dr. Alex Kamugisha has rejected the Rujumbura NRM primary election results, saying the exercise was full of irregularities that favoured the incumbent, Jim Muhwezi, who is reported to have won the election. Kamugisha...

Museveni Set for NRM Top Posts.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Henry Mukasa President Yoweri Museveni has returned nomination forms for the post of NRM chairman and for party flag-bearer in the 2011 presidential elections. The presidential assistant on political affairs, Moses Byaruhanga, on...

Four Join African Leaders' Class.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Andante Okanya Four Ugandans have been included in this year's class of the prestigious Africa Leadership Initiative (ALI), an invention of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. They are David Mpanga, 42, Frederick K. Mutebi, 48,...

Botswana Thumps Cricket Team.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Norman Katende Top ranked Uganda in the U19 Africa Division 1 World Cricket Cup qualifiers lost four early wickets as their chances of qualifying for the global U-19 qualifiers were dealt a big blow at the hands of Botswana in...

Court Freezes National Water Accounts.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Bill Oketch The Magistrate's Court in Lira on Monday ruled that the National Water and Sewerage Corporation's (NWSC) bank accounts would remain frozen until the case between the corporation and one of its clients is settled. The...

Church Told to Cleanse LRA Victims.
August 31, 2010... Children in Dokolo district want religious leaders to conduct spiritual cleansing sessions to prevent being haunted by ghosts from the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) war. Pupils of Iguli, Adok and Baradyang primary schools have been complaining...

Transporters Storm URA Warehouse.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Samuel Balagadde The Uganda transporters union on Tuesday stormed the Uganda Revenue Authority warehouse on Entebbe Road and intercepted two trucks with suspected excess axle load. The trucks had already been cleared by the tax...

DP Wants Cleaned Voters List Displayed.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Jeff Lule The Democratic Party (DP) has asked the Electoral Commission (EC) to publicise the names that are to be deleted from the voters' registers as recommended by the parish tribunals. Addressing journalists at the party...

Injured Ugandan AU Peacekeepers Flown to Nairobi.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Steven Candia Eight Ugandan peacekeepers injured on Monday in the Somali capital Mogadishu when al-Shabaab militants fired mortars at the presidential palace have been evacuated to Nairobi. In an interview last evening, African...

Besigye is IPC Flag-Bearer.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Jeff Lule and Barbara Among Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) president Dr. Kiiza Besigye was yesterday elected the joint opposition flag-bearer for next year's general elections, pittying him against President Yoweri Museveni for the...

Kisekka Traders Start Rebuilding Market.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Eddie Ssejjoba Kisekka Market vendors have launched a campaign to raise funds for rebuilding their stalls destroyed by fire on Monday. The traders spent most of yesterday clearing the place and sorting out the debris. In a...

Victims of July 11 Kampala Bombings Receive Money.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Herbert Ssempogo The next-of-kin of the July 11 bomb victims and those injured in the blasts yesterday received what the Government called a "compassionate contribution". Several beneficiaries turned up at the internal affairs...

Journalists Win in DP Primaries.
August 31, 2010... Three journalists from Masaka Municipality, who contested in the Democratic Party (DP) primary polls, were elected unopposed as party flag-bearers. Denis Lukanga and Joelia Ndagire of Radio Equator were elected in Masaka Central Division and...

Lugogo Indoor Stadium Floor Completed.
August 31, 2010... Byline: James Bakama Construction work on an ultra modern floor has been completed on the Lugogo indoor stadium sports hall. A Dutch firm Descol Sports Services finished the multi-discipline floor last week and duly issued a delivery note....

German Envoy Blames Local Coaches.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Norman Katende German power and fitness professor Dr. Dietmar Schmidtbleicher has blamed Uganda's poor performance in international events to coaches, who prefer to concentrate on training athletes endurance other than their muscle...

Three Health Officials Acquitted.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Edward Anyoli Two senior doctors and an administrator from the health ministry who allegedly mismanaged malaria drugs were yesterday acquitted of corruption charges. Justice Paul Mugamba of the Anti-Corruption Court acquitted Dr....

Works Engineer Dies in Accident.
August 31, 2010... An official in the works ministry and another unidentified female passenger died instantly when their car crashed head-on with a bus at Kyazanga on the Masaka-Mbarara highway. Kafeero Musoke, 60, a resident of Kayonza in Mbarara, was the...

Rugby Sevens to Involve Women and Schools.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Johnson Were In a bid to promote and develop sevens rugby, the women and schools shall play alongside the men's national circuit that kicks off this Saturday in Entebbe. Thunder birds, Rangers and Black panthers will be battling...

Kalangala Gets Sh100 Million to Construct Boys' Dormitory.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Dismus Buregyeya President Yoweri Museveni has donated sh100m towards the construction of a boarding facility for boys at Bukasa Primary School in Kalangala district. During his visit to the district last year, Museveni was told...

Matembe Tips Women on Politics.
August 31, 2010... Women activist Miria Matembe has cautioned women against joining politics for the sake of it. Matembe urged women contesting for leadership positions in next year's general elections to be focused with a mission and vision to empower women....

Beef Up Somali Deployment Quickly.
August 31, 2010... Four Ugandan peacekeepers were killed and eight others injured when Somali insurgents shelled the presidential palace in Mogadishu on Monday. Al-Shabaab rebels, an off-shoot of international terror group, Al-Qaeda, last week declared that...

UCU Starts Sh8 Billion Library Construction.
August 31, 2010... The Uganda Christian University (UCU) Mukono has laid the foundation for a modern sh8b library structure at its main campus. The vice-chancellor, Can. Dr. John Senyonyi, said the construction of the two-storey structure will be complete by...

Afidra Set for Nkumba.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Charles Mutebi Power have a mission for the second round of the FUBA men's first division. "We said to each other that we are not going to lose in the second around," said Power all-star forward Isaac Afidra. Three games in, that...

Travelling to Somalia Gave Me Hope.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Dr Opiyo Oloya On the eve of my departure from war-torn Mogadishu, I met the President of Somalia, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed. My audience with the president at state house scheduled for two-thirty in the afternoon was delayed while...

Invest in Higher Education, Church Told.
August 31, 2010... Byline: John Semakula and Henry Nsubuga Church leaders in Africa should invest in higher education to transform the continent, Can. John Senyonyi, the vice-chancellor of the Uganda Christian University (UCU) Mukono, has said. Addressing...

Mwesigwa Claims Third Mug.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Phillip Corry Brian Mwesigwa, Phillip Kasozi, UPDF's Flavia Namakula and Lillian Anguparu, where the toast of the Uganda Golf Club monthly mugs of July and August. National golfer Mwesigwa shot 72 gross to claim his third mug in...

Nambawa Heads for World Meet.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Norman Katende Africa women triple jump champion Sarah Nambawa is amongst hundreds of athletes expected in the Croatian city of Split, for this weekend's Inter Continental Cup in athletics. All competitors arrive today for the IAAF...

David Obua Could Jet in Today.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Fred Kaweesi Hearts midfielder David Obua is determined to make Cranes' Nations Cup qualifier against Angola despite his groin injury problems. Obua had previously been ruled out of the game following a groin operation he underwent...

Fort Portal Town Closes School Road.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Hope Mafaranga The closure of an access road by Fort Portal municipal council has drawn protests from parents of Green Circle Primary School in Kabarole district. Fort Portal municipality is constructing its new chambers 100 meters...

Namata, Tabitha Win Fifth Consecutive Title.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Swalley Kenyi Andrina Namata and Mercy Tabitha remained unchallenged as they won their fifth consecutive title this season at the National Beach Volleyball Circuit at Lido on Sunday. Namata and Tabitha ejected a regrouped duo of...

Some Clubs Frustrate Pro League Kick-Off.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Swalley Kenyi The smooth kick-off of Uganda's first professional league is being hampered by many clubs being reluctant to fulfil their requirements to take part in the competition which rolls off on September 17. Uganda Super...

Heathens Sign Kimuli.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Johnson Were Moments after learning about the move of their young player Steven Kasozi to Impis, Heathens rugby club has responded fast and signed Pirates and Uganda Rugby Cranes fly half Joel Kimuli. Kimuli is set to replace...

Onyango Promises No More Goalkeeing Blunders.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Fred Kaweesi Calamity goalkeeping was among the primary reasons Uganda Cranes' attempt to making the 2010 Nations/World Cup finals ended in failure. A clear case in point transpired during Uganda's 4-1 humiliating defeat to Benin. ...

Seven Held Over Robbery.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Chris Mugasha The Police in Bushenyi district are holding seven men suspected of terrorising residents. The district criminal investigations officer, Ronald Bogere, said the men were rounded up during the Sunday night operation...

VP Bukenya Woos UK Investors.
August 31, 2010... Byline: David Mugabe About 200 investors will gather in London on September 15 for an investment forum to promote Uganda as a top investment destination. Vice-President Prof Gilbert Bukenya is also expected to lead the Ugandan delegation...

Power Cable Theft Rising in East.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Charles Kakamwa Theft of electric cables has increased in Mbale, Sironko, Pallisa and Bugiri districts. The Umeme eastern manager, Robert Mubiru, on Friday told New Vision that at least 30 kilometres of conduct cables had been stolen...

Nakapiripirit Gets Power.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Ronald Kalyango Amudat and Nakapiripirit districts will soon be connected to the national power grid. The districts will benefit from the sh9.7b power line that was launched on Saturday. The project is funded by the Government....

30 Kaliro Govt Schools Lack Permanent Structures.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Frank Mugabi At least 30 government-aided primary schools in Kaliro district conduct lessons under trees and makeshift structures. This makes it difficult for the pupils to concentrate on their studies as lessons are sometimes...

Bravo Govt on Bududa Victims Resettlement.
August 31, 2010... This is a critical moment for both the Government and the landslide survivors. The Government's decision to move people to Kiryandongo and not Kayunga, Sironko, Buikwe and Bunambutye as earlier suggested, could be the best move as long as the...

Kabwegyere Accused of Degrading Bushenyi Swamp.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Chris Mugasha The residents of Nyakahanga parish in Kyamuhunga sub-county, Bushenyi district have accused the area MP of reclaiming the only wetland in the parish. Prof. Tarsis Kabwegyere is accused of degrading the Nyakahanga...

Jinja LC3 Boss Vows to Fill Potholes.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Jackie Nambogga The Jinja Central Division LC3 chairperson, Mubarak Kirunda, has vowed to resume filling potholes in the town. The authorities had stopped Kirunda from patching the potholes in the area and instructed him to dismantle...

Gulu Sanitation Drive Launched.
August 31, 2010... The Youth Social Association, together with Uganda water and sanitation network, has launched a water and sanitation hygiene campaign in Gulu district. The campaign is aimed at addressing the myths surrounding sanitation especially in...

Bomb Suspect Confesses to Working for Al-Qaeda.
August 31, 2010... Byline: Andante Okanya and Edward Anyoli MUHAMOUD Mugisha, one of the suspects charged with the July 11 Kampala twin bombings, yesterday appeared at Nakawa Magistrates' Court and recorded an extra-judicial statement. He recorded his...

Four Ministers Defeated in Ruling Party Primaries.
August 31, 2010... FOUR ministers were defeated in the NRM primaries to choose parliamentary candidates for next year's general elections. Provisional results show that ministers Janat Namuyangu, Simon Ejua, Simon D'ujanga and Dr. Emmanuel Otaala were trounced...

Woman Held Over Murder.
August 30, 2010... Byline: Frederick Kiwanuka A woman in Nakseke district has been arrested for allegedly strangling her new-born baby and dumping the body in a school latrine. Grace Bukirwa, 28, a cook at Kasana Primary School, was arrested on Saturday after...

Implications of UPC Pulling Out of IPC.
August 30, 2010... Byline: Moses Mulondo The Uganda People's Congress (UPC) yesterday announced that it had pulled out of the Inter-Party Cooperation (IPC). The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) now remains in the alliance with only small parties, Social...

IPC Women Reject Magistrate.
August 30, 2010... Byline: Andante Okanya The 33 women of the Inter-party Cooperation (IPC), who are battling charges of holding unlawful society, on Friday asked Buganda Road Grade One Magistrate John Wekesa to disqualify himself from hearing their case after...

We Must Protect Wetlands at All Costs.
August 30, 2010... Byline: Peter Sunday Other than filtering waste water, wetlands are of paramount importance in ecological stabilisation and water retention. They are a habitat for important micro-organisms. One of the reasons why there is flooding in...

Health Units Stuck With Expired Drugs.
August 30, 2010... Byline: Jackie Nambogga and Doreen Musingo Government health units have failed to destroy hundreds of cartons of expired drugs due to lack of resources, according to health workers. They said the drugs were meant to be destroyed from...

Fire Guts Kisekka Market.
August 30, 2010... Byline: Eddie Ssejjoba Traders of Kisekka Market in downtown Kampala were on Monday morning awakened to the news about a fire that gutted over 500 stalls and destroyed merchandise worth billions. The fire, which is suspected to have been...

'Country Tops in Failed Businesses'.
August 30, 2010... Byline: Gladys Kalibbala Uganda tops the countries with the highest rate of failing businesses, Charles Ocici, the Enterprise Uganda executive director, has revealed. "As a nation, we are a highly entrepreneurial country. For the last five...

Govt Appeals CBS Ruling.
August 30, 2010... Byline: Andante Okanya The Government is to appeal the ruling on its counter-claim against the CBS radio that was dismissed on August 20 by High Court judge Vincent Zehurikize. The Attorney General (AG), on August 26 informed the High...

Eagles Keep Play-Off Dreams Alive.
August 30, 2010... Byline: Charles Mutebi The Miracle Eagles still harbour playoff ambitions. They may be slim but they are alive. Sunday saw the Eagles keep their post-season dream alive with a 94-53 hammering of Berkley in the FUBA men's top division at YMCA....

UPC Quits IPC, Forms Pressure Group.
August 30, 2010... Byline: Barbara Among The Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) has formed a civic new group, the National Social Movement, after officially declaring it has pulled out of the Inter Party Corporation (IPC). The group is aimed at bringing together...

Chaos, Arrests Mar NRM Polls.
August 30, 2010... Violence and chaos played out, and scores were arrested in yesterday's NRM primary elections. The exercise was riddled with irregularities, causing it to be aborted in several parts of the country. In Kibuku district, shots were fired and...

40 Year Old Gets 26 Years for Murder.
August 30, 2010... Byline: Hope Mafaranga The High Court in Kabarole district has sentenced a 40-year-old man to 26 years in jail for murder. The court, presided over by Justice Owinyi Dolo, on Friday heard that Francis Mugarura on December 14, 2005 murdered...

Hippos Land Yemen Trip.
August 30, 2010... Byline: Swalley Kenyi The victorious U-20 national team (Hippos) has landed invitations to tour Yemen, Eritrea and Sudan after an impressive performance at the just concluded CECAFA U-20 Championships in Asmara. The Hippos fascinated a...

Quicken the Land Fund.
August 30, 2010... As the 2010 presidential and parliamentary campaigns heat up, the problem of absentee landlords and landless Ugandans is rearing its ugly head again in the districts of Nakasongola and Kibale. At the bottom of the Baruuli impasse with the...

Heavy Anti-Terror Personnel for Cranes Game.
August 30, 2010... Byline: Fred Kaweesi. FUFA boss Lawrence Mulindwa has guaranteed top-notch security for the over 40,000 fans expected to throng Mandela National Stadium on Saturday. According to Mulindwa, apart from highly-trained counter-terrorist...

Lira Parents Protest Over Suspension of 300 Students.
August 30, 2010... Byline: Bill Oketch Parents and the managers of King James Comprehensive School in Lira are at loggerheads following the suspension of over 300 students from the school. The students were sent back home on Sunday over indiscipline. They were...

26 Alur Officials Sworn in.
August 30, 2010... Byline: Ayiga Ondoga and Ben Okethwengu A total of 26 cultural ministers and directors of the Alur Kingdom from the DR Congo and Uganda have been sworn in to help steer the kingdom to greater development. The officials were sworn in at Ringa...

Four Soldiers Killed in Somalia.
August 30, 2010... Four Ugandan peacekeepers were killed and eight others injured yesterday in the Somali capital Mogadishu when al-Shabaab rebels fired mortars at the presidential palace, an African Union spokesman said. Uganda and Burundi have deployed more...

Confusion Mars Ruling Party Elections.
August 30, 2010... Partial results of the NRM primaries for parliamentary seats showed mixed fortunes for big party shots, with some cruising to victory while others lost. In Kinkizi West, security minister Amama Mbabazi was leading his opponent, Gad Rugaju, in...

Police Boss Held Over Murder.
August 29, 2010... The commandant of the Mobile Police Patrol Unit in Kigezi region, Benson Ongom, has been arrested for negligence of duty following the murder of three people in Rukombe village in Kibale district. Cox Nyakairu, the resident district...

Court Bars MP Sabila From NRM Primaries.
August 29, 2010... Byline: Joseph Wanjusi The High Court in Mbale has issued an injunction stopping Tingey Member of Parliament, Herbert Kale Sabila, from contesting in the NRM party primary elections slated for today. "An interim order is hereby restraining...

Vision Groups' Presidential Poll Was Spot-on.(Survey)
August 29, 2010... Byline: Ventorino Otto Vision Group recently released results of a national opinion poll it had commissioned. New Vision outlined how the poll was conducted, but this has not stemmed the criticisms from the opposition and NRM party. Both...

Soroti, Serere Vow to Excel in PLE.
August 29, 2010... Byline: Simon Emwamu Head teachers of schools under the Universal Primary Education programme in Soroti and Serere districts have vowed to make over 650 pupils pass in Division One in the forthcoming Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE). "If...

Police Review Chance to Make the Force Better.
August 29, 2010... Byline: James Nkuubi In Uganda, most people believe the Police are brutal. Studies, commissions of inquiry and indexes, one after another, have, over the years, highlighted that the Police force is corrupt, brutal, barbaric, cruel with...

Museveni Formally Announces Bid for Another Term.
August 29, 2010... Byline: Steven Candia and Abdulkarim Ssengendo PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has announced his candidature for the NRM chairmanship and as the flag-bearer for the party in next year's presidential elections. Museveni is the current chairman of...

Political Party Quits Opposition Coalition.
August 29, 2010... Byline: Barbara Among and Moses Mulondo THE Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) party, one of the five political parties that form the Inter-Party Cooperation (IPC), has opted out of the coalition over what it called irreconcilable reasons. The...

Flooded Schools Get Sh40 Million Items.
August 29, 2010... Byline: Joseph Wanzusi About 2,000 pupils from four primary schools that were affected by floods and landslides in Bulambuli, Bukedea, Bududa and Butaleja districts are to receive support from Save the Children Uganda. The beneficiary...

Lango Farmers Get Ox-Ploughs.
August 29, 2010... Byline: Bonney Odongo President Yoweri Museveni has launched the oxen-heifer pilot project for Lango sub-region with a call upon the residents to adopt new farming methods. Launching the project on Thursday at Alebtong Primary School,...

Court Evicts LRA Victims.
August 29, 2010... Byline: Bill Oketch Victims of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) war, who fled the rebels and occupied land in Lira municipality, have been evicted and their houses demolished. More than 22 households that claim to have bought the land at...