New Vision (Uganda) articles from February 2009

New Vision (Uganda) archives from February 2009

Fire Guts St. Balikuddembe Market.
February 28, 2009... Byline: Esther Namugoji ASH Wednesday this year will forever be remembered as the day when part of the legendary St. Balikuddembe market, popularly known as Owino, came down in ashes. An early morning fire, suspected to have been...

The Country's Best A'Level Teachers.
February 28, 2009... Byline: Vision Reporters BEHIND every successful academic performance, there is a hard working teacher. However, the excitement that comes with the release of the results overshadows teachers' roles in the performance of the...

Bibanja Holders Reassured.
February 28, 2009... PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has assured the bibanja holders that he will not let them down and promised not to compromise their rights during his talks with the Buganda Kingdom leadership. Museveni was meeting over 300 members of Bibanja...

Corruption Undermines Development.
February 28, 2009... President Yoweri Museveni has described corruption as the worst vice that undermines service delivery and once again vowed to wipe it out of the country. Meeting the visiting British Minister for International Development Co-operation,...

Construction of Collapsed City Building Had Been Stopped - KCC.
February 28, 2009... Byline: Chris Kiwawulo CONSTRUCTION at the city site where one person died and four survived with injuries had been stopped a week before, Kampala City Council (KCC) has said. KCC spokesperson Simon Muhumuza said: "Our directive was...

Former Budo Junior Teacher Pins Kayongo.
February 28, 2009... Byline: Edward Anyoli Patrick Kawuka, the former director of studies at Budo Junior School, on Thursday told court that William Kayongo would admit extra pupils after formal interviews were done. Kayongo, the former headmaster at the...

Court Commits Disputed Land Seller to Prison.
February 28, 2009... Byline: Chris Kiwawulo THE businessman who sold the disputed land in Kituntu Sub-county, Mpigi District, to ex-finance minister Gerard Sendaula has been committed to prison over contempt of court. High Court land division deputy...

Embuutu Y'embutikizi On Today.
February 28, 2009... Byline: Chris Kiwawulo THOUSANDS of revellers are expected to flock Nakivubo Stadium today for a grand show dubbed "Embuutu y'Embutikizi." Embuutu y'Embutikizi, loosely translated as 'drum of the conqueror', is organised by Vision...

Kyambogo Holds Fifth Graduation.
February 28, 2009... Byline: Catherine Bekunda INADEQUATE space and dilapidated buildings are among the greatest threats to the students' enrolment at Kyambogo University, officials have said. The university held its 5th graduation ceremony at the East...

Monitor Private Universities.
February 28, 2009... THE five public universities in the country can absorb only 25,000 out of the 57,510 students who qualified to join them, after passing their A'Levels. The rest, over 27,000, have to join private universities and other institutions of higher...

Tam's Destructive Legacy.
February 28, 2009... I first met him all those years ago and he immediately struck me as paranoid. I was the Returning Officer at the Uganda Athletics Federation (UAF) elections and Dan Tamwesigire was one of the candidates for presidency. His opponent, Dr...

Technical Centre Starts Operations in June.
February 28, 2009... Byline: Norman Katende and Swalley Kenyi THE FUFA technical centre in Njeru will become operational in June, the project architect Patrick Rubongoya said this week. Rubongoya revealed as much while taking various officials including...

Its a Mind Test Today.
February 28, 2009... Byline: Charles Mutebi MEN'S national cricket team assistant coach Francis Otieno says he'll be looking to see how far the "temperament" of his players has improved when they face each other in a 50 over trial-match today at Lugogo. ...

Kip-Siro Vows to Push for Sh78 Million Jackpot in Puerto Rico.
February 28, 2009... Byline: Norman Katende ATHLETE of the Year Moses Kipsiro hopes to claim the top prize of sh38m when he takes part in the World's Best 10K, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, to be held on Sunday in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Uganda's long...

Why Obama is Good for Women.
February 27, 2009... Byline: Lydia Namubiru HE is good looking, educated, confident, eloquent and the most powerful man in the world. His charisma and good looks have made him a favourite of women. He is Barack Obama and yes, he is good for women. He...

Top Schools Dominate Final Exams.
February 27, 2009... Byline: Lydia Namubiru UGANDA Martyrs S.S Namugongo has emerged the best performing school in last year's A'level exams according to a Saturday Vision ranking of 61 schools across the country. Kings College Budo closely follows...

Mongers Keen to Go All the Way.
February 27, 2009... Byline: Peter Ofong AFTER looking at the chances of the big three, I now focus on the fortunes of the chasing pack. Here come the fishermen from Entebbe. Newly promoted Entebbe Mongers raised eye brows when they ended the 2008...

Kabenge Tells Clubs to Think.
February 27, 2009... Byline: James Bakama TO Kampala lawyer Kavuma Kabenge, the controversies currently surrounding Nakivubo stadium should serve as a wake-up call to local soccer teams. Kabenge, also a former secretary of Super League side Express,...

Kobs Engage Pirates Today.
February 27, 2009... Byline: Douglas Mazune CHAMPIONS Uganda telecom Kobs, who have enjoyed high score victories in the past four weeks, encounter their first test against G4S Pirates in the Super 8 Rugby League at Kampala Club today. Kobs new coaches...

Fufa Fines Mayanja and Basena.
February 27, 2009... Byline: Swalley Kenyi JACKSON Mayanja and his Cranes' counterpart Sam Ssimbwa, URA tactician Moses Basena, and his striker Patrick Ochan were handed bans and fines for disciplinary reasons. Mayanja was suspended for two matches and...

Kabenge Out to Retain Squash Title.
February 27, 2009... Byline: Norman Katende VETERAN Katie Kabenge will appear in another squash final today after downing Sharon Asiimwe in the Bank of Uganda women's semifinal at Kampala Club yesterday. The top seed won with ease to take another step...

Uganda Golf Club Polls Called Off.
February 27, 2009... Byline: Douglas Mazune UGANDA Golf Club (UGC) captain Okullo Odom's tenure of office has been extended by one week after elections were put off on Thursday. The highly anticipated polls that pitied Odom against Sam Nahamya were...

KCC Should Invest in Fire Prevention.
February 27, 2009... SINCE Kampala's Park Yard market went up in flames on Wednesday, many people have been piling blames on the Police Fire Brigade for a slow response. Whereas the Fire Brigade is poor, they should not become the boo boys for every fire. ...

Kigungu Received Missionaries in 1879.
February 27, 2009... Byline: Juliet Lukwago EVERY February 17th, many Catholics make a pilgrimage to Mapeera-Kigungu to commemorate the arrival of the religion on the soil of Uganda. Over 130 years ago, the first two French missionaries landed at this...

Cranes' Striker Umony is Economist.
February 27, 2009... Byline: Fred Kaweesi BRIAN Umony scooped a Bachelor of Arts in Economics degree yesterday and stated: "I can now become the complete football star I have always wanted to be' The Cranes and KCC FC star striker was among the hundreds...

Team Plots for Rwanda in Zone V.
February 27, 2009... Byline: charles mutebi AS the national women's team might come to attest, having one's destiny in their own hands may not be enough without the ability to seize that opportunity. As the second leg of women's round robin at the Zone V...

The Temperature is Rising.
February 27, 2009... Byline: John Nagend ON his recent travels in Arua, (he has always been a very travelling president, and latterly the tempo has magnified), President Museveni gave a clear-cut warning on wrongdoers and how they were going to be brought to...

President Gives Owino Traders Sh1 Billion.
February 27, 2009... Byline: Herbert Ssempogo President Yoweri Museveni tours Owino market and Nakivubo downtown where he pledged sh1b to victims of the fire that gutted the market on Wednesday morning. Merchandise worth millions of shillings was destroyed...

What Next? Vendors Speak Out.
February 27, 2009... GOVERNMENT should assist us. We have no alternative. Some of us have bank loans and Micro-finance institutions. We fear that our debtor may grab our household property." These were the pleas of a number of vendors who lost merchandise...

All Your Eggs in One Basket?
February 27, 2009... A peculiar sight struck on lookers after the Owino market fire had ravaged nearly one half of the market - scores of traders were using sticks to dig into the earth as if searching for a hidden treasure. Indeed, had the fire not been so...

What Kampala Needs to Fight Fires.
February 27, 2009... Byline: Ben Okiror FIRE Masters, the company that helped the Police to put out the Owino market fire said one of the reasons it took them long to extinguish the raging fire was because there were no hydrants (water points) in the...

Owino - Will Vendors Lose Out?
February 27, 2009... Byline: Lydia Namubiru MY back hurt, my knees shook. I felt like I was about to have a baby," Sylivia Namuleme who was until Tuesday, a shoe vendor in Owino market describes her reaction at being told that Owino was on fire. Another...

Finca to Compensate Owino Clients.
February 27, 2009... Byline: Mikaili Sseppuuya FINCA Uganda, whose clients lost merchandise in the St Balikuddembe (Owino) Market inferno, has assured them that their losses will be covered under an arrangement with American International Group (AIG). ...

Who Burnt Country's Largest Market?
February 27, 2009... Byline: Ben Okiror THE cause of the inferno that destroyed property and cash worth billions of shillings in the Nakivubo Park Yard market is still shrouded in mystery. The Police have started investigations but this has not stopped...

I'm Still Around - Museveni.
February 27, 2009... Byline: George Bita PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has assured Ugandans that he is still around. "I saw people knocking themselves over leadership when I am still around and I said these are going to kutomeeza (crash) the revolution...

Cabinet Approves Varsity Loan Scheme.
February 27, 2009... Byline: Fortunate Ahimbisibwe A' level leavers whose results were released on Friday will become the first recipients to education loans that the Government plans to give to university students. The outgoing state minister for higher...

Virus Research Body to Promote Sciences.
February 27, 2009... Byline: Elvis Basudde and Gladys Kalibbala UGANDA Virus Research Institute (UVRI) and Makerere University are planning a fair to promote science in schools. The event, which will take place on Thursday, will run under the theme; "You can...

Gulu Storm Quarters in Zone Three Show.
February 27, 2009... Byline: Dennis Ojwee GULU United and Orlando Peace qualified for the quarter finals of the on-going FUFA zone three mini league yesterday. The two teams earned six points each after a brilliant performance in the competition held at...

Loketo Forms Anyanya Crew.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Jude Katende SINGER Loketo Lee has learnt from the likes of Leone Island and Firebase Crew and come up with a group called Anyanya Crew. The name is drawn from Sudanese mercenaries who were hired to fight alongside the army in...

Gayaza Re-Lives Fear of Amin Era.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Emmanuel Ssejjengo THE era of high profile school dramas was considered past. But Gayaza High School is refuting that. In the last three years, the school's drama club has produced as many plays that have steadily brought back...

Uneb Releases 2008 A'Level Results.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Fortunate Ahimbisibwe and Conan Businge A TOTAL of 57,510 candidates who sat the Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) last year qualify to join public universities, according to the results released yesterday. The...

Private Sector Should Be in Charge of Healthcare.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Philip Stevens THE pressure group, Oxfam, does not like the growing trend of aid donors using the private sector to deliver healthcare efficiently to the poorest parts of the world. According to its new report: "Blind...

Three Arrested Making Fake Juice in Gulu.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Cornes Lubangakene POLICE in Gulu have arrested three people including a police constable (PC) for allegedly producing fake juice. PC Santai No. 13907 attached to Gulu High Court, John Kiyonja 23 and Sharon Apiyo 19, were...

Fish Exports Drop.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Macrines Nyapendi Uganda's fish export earnings for 2008 dropped by $5.2m (sh10,244b) to $112.2m (sh221,034b) from $117.4m (sh231,278b) the previous year. Jackson Wadanya, the assistant fisheries commissioner, said the...

Lubigi Swamp Encroachers Evicted.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Gerald Tenywa A team of environmentalists on Monday evicted encroachers in Lubigi swamp. The swamp forms a belt in the northern and western parts of Kampala where most of the waste water from Bwaise and Nateete drains. ...

Ex-Mayor Sued Over Property.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Dismus Buregyeya A family of seven orphans has filed a suit in the Masaka High Court against the former mayor, Cyprian Bwanika, 82 accusing him of selling their property worth over sh500m. The family led by Deo Mawejje told...

Defiler Begs to Send Him to Luzira.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Frederick Kiwanuka RARELY do convicts ask to be sent to prisons of their choice. But a 54-year-old man whom the Luweero High Court sentenced to 15 years in jail for defiling an eight-year-old girl, amused the court when he...

West Nile Muslims Back Mubajje.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Frank Mugabi MUSLIM leaders from the seven West Nile districts have pledged allegiance to Mufti Sheik Shaban Ramathan Mubajje. The group led by the Arua district Khadi, Sheik Ahmad Amin Maga, also warned the breakaway faction...

Sh45 Billion to Bring Safe Water to Northern.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Patrick Opio THE Ministry of Water and Environment has earmarked sh45b for the provision of safe water and sanitation facilities in northern Uganda. Addressing local leaders from Apac district in Apac Scouts Hall recently,...

Mbabazi Gives Lira Teachers Land Role.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Patrick Okino SECURITY minister Amama Mbabazi has advised teachers to explain to the public the government's position on land. He was addressing 68 secondary school teachers at Ngetta Agricultural Research Centre in Lira...

Cop Netted Over Selling Fake Juice.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Cornes Lubangakene THE Police in Gulu district have arrested three people, including a Police constable, for allegedly producing and selling fake juice. Constable Santai, who is attached to the Gulu High Court, John Kiyonja...

LRA Threatened Archbishop Odama.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Vision Reporter DURING the height of the Lord's Resistance Army attacks, Gulu Archbishop John Baptist Odama received threats on his life because he urged the rebels to end the war. However, Odama said, despite the threats, he...

Uganda Has No Welfare State to Cushion the Poor.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Robert Shaka ONCE upon a time the global economy was in a boom, we all partied like there will never be a crunch. Donors pumped dollars into Uganda through budgetary support and the NGO sector. There was the global fund, the...

One Dead, Four Injured at Building Site.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Herbert Ssempogo and Chris Kiwawulo ONE person died and four others sustained injuries yesterday when earth at a city construction site caved in on them. The accident, coming about 16 hours after a fire destroyed a city...

Orombi Criticises Materialism.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Hope Mafaranga THE Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, Luke Orombi, has decried child sacrifice, which he attributed to lack of holiness among Ugandans. Orombi said most Ugandans no longer feared God, adding that the love for...

Free Education for Modernity - Museveni.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Cyprian Musoke PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has said the universal primary and secondary education programmes were introduced to transform society. The President, who is launching a country-wide patriotism project yesterday...

Blind Boxing Date Set for March 28.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Swalley Kenyi EAST Coast Boxing Club is set to stage the first ever blind amateur boxers contest between Uganda's Bashir Ramathan and Tanzanian Simon Peter Omar at Lugogo on March 28. The fight has been postponed from this...

No Errors at the Top of the League.
February 26, 2009... Byline: F. Kaweesi, N. Katende and M. Kaboggoza WHEN former domestic league sponsors GTV folded two months ago, much was said of how the league would struggle financially and on the competitive front. Three weeks down the road, the...

Cranes to Face Sudan in Build-Up.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Swalley Kenyi THE Cranes will play Sudan on March 6 in Khartoum in several games soccer governing body FUFA has lined up to keep the national soccer team in shape. FUFA president Lawrence Mulindwa has also promised that...

Cricket Coach Mohammed Returns.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Charles Mutebi NATIONAL cricket team coach Barny Mohammed is scheduled to return tomorrow from South Africa where he returned to write coaching exams three weeks ago. News of Mohammed's return puts to rest speculation that...

Booty Bootsie is New Rugby Captain.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Douglas Mazune HELLEN Buteme was named captain as the Uganda Rugby Union made changes to the national women's team, six days to the start of the Sevens World Cup. The new Lady Cranes captain, who replaces long serving...

Sadolin Power Sign Rugby's Musoke.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Johnson Were MTN/FUBA league champions Power Basketball Club has signed rugby star Allan Musoke and also secured a sh76m sponsorship deal with Dmark Mobile. The team, sponsored by Sadolin Paint for the past five years, will...

Ssezibwa Falls Gets Sh1.4 Billion Resort.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Gerald Tenywa A $700,000 (about sh1.4b) tourism resort is being built at Ssezibwa Falls in Nakisunga sub-county in Mukono to harness the area's natural beauty and cultural tourism potential. The project, under a 10-year...

Bank of Africa Aids Disabled.
February 26, 2009... BANK of Africa and Mengo Rotary Club have donated 40 wheelchairs to poor disabled people in Jinja. The donation is part of the 180 wheelchairs to be given out to needy PWDs as part of the bank's corporate social responsibility, Jude...

Travel Agents to Levy Fee on Tickets.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Ayiga Ondoga EFFECTIVE March 1, travel agents and airlines will begin charging dues for every air ticket processed or purchased from them, the Uganda Association of Travel Agents' (TUGATA) chairman has said. Steven Mworoz...

BoU Okays MTN Money Transfer Service.
February 26, 2009... Byline: David Muwanga BANK of Uganda (BoU) has approved MTN's Mobile Money transfer service. "We have approved a number of banks to partner with MTN. We are ready to support the company to partner with more banks so that the service...

Indian Bikes Topple Japanese.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Frank Sserwaniko Each day throughout the 1990s, BMK Motors - a second hand motorbike importer in Ndeeba, Kampala, was beehive of activity. Buyers from near and far lined up at the company shop, to buy the reconditioned Japanese...

City Businesses Protest Licence Hike.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Florence Nakaayi CITY business operators have warned Kampala City Council (KCC) staff against stepping in their shops to levy or demand trading licence fees. In a meeting held at Kikuubo Lane recently, the traders also...

Kenya Bans Local Banana Suckers.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Reuben Olita KENYA has banned importation of banana suckers from Uganda due to the banana wilt disease that it believes originated from Uganda. The Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS) said the banana wilt disease...

East Africa Cable Firm Expands.
February 26, 2009... ONE of the leading local cable manufacturing firms, East African Cables, has unveiled a Ksh1b (about sh25b) three-year continental expansion plan. The firm's expansion plan would see the firm establish branches in 12 African countries up...

Tanzanian Star to Make Movie in Country.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Thomas Pere FOR the past few years, the local film industry has attracted a couple of foreign directors and producers. Some have come from Nigeria and others from Hollywood. The latest actor with a keen interest in Uganda's...

Embuutu Y'embutikizi to Rock Nakivubo.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Pidson Kareire IT is that time of the year when entertainers will thrill their fans by unleashing something new from the closet. This Sunday, music lovers will be treated to the first grand music gala to rock Kampala this year:...

Haruna Mubiru Reveals His Bold Side at 'Ticket' Launch.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Alex Balimwikungu STAUNCH fans certainly knew where to find the tickets to watch Haruna Mubiru as he launched the conveniently named Ticket Bazigulawa album, at Hotel Africana last Friday. They flocked in their hundreds to...

Lessons From Nakivubo Fire.
February 26, 2009... GOODS worth billion of shillings were lost on Wednesday morning, when the busy Nakivubo Park Yard market went up in flames. Thank God it happened at night, when most traders were away. This tragic incident should serve as a wake up...

Car Kills Iganga Muslim Leader.
February 26, 2009... Byline: George Bita AN elderly woman was recently knocked dead by a speeding saloon car as she attempted to cross the highway at CMS trading centre in Iganga district. Sauya Kasiko, 75, had just disembarked from a motorcycle, when...

Museveni Warns on Living Reckless.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Moses Nampala PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has cautioned district education officials against reckless living. He said the habit would deny them the chance to enjoy fruits of patriotism. Elaborating on one of the six...

Police Recover 36 Illegal Guns.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Gabriel Esiku and Simon Emwamu THE Police in Amuria district have recovered 36 guns and 952 rounds of ammunition in the last six months. The district Police commander, Patrick Karamura, said on Tuesday that the guns were...

Tororo Residents Get Safe Water.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Gerald Tenywa and Moses Nampala A NEW project was on Monday commissioned to supply water to 5,000 residents of Mella sub-county, Tororo district. The project was funded under the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI). The water and...

I Was Not Demoted, Says Migereko.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Charles Kakamwa THE former energy and mineral development minister, Daudi Migereko, has dismissed talk by the public that his new post is a demotion. Migereko was appointed the chief whip in the recent Cabinet reshuffle. ...

The Conservative Nubians.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Titus Kakembo Though some of them speak English, most Nubians communicate in their language or a mixture of Arabic and Kiswahili IN the late 1970s, a Nubian could issue any directive, anywhere in Uganda and no one would dare...

MPs Approve First Lady for Minister.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Cyprian Musoke FIRST Lady Janet Museveni was yesterday approved as state minister for Karamoja after a one hour vetting session by the parliamentary appointments committee. The committee also approved Asuman Kiyingi for the...

Police, Taxi Body Accused of Torture.
February 26, 2009... Drivers and Taxi conductors have accused the Police and the Uganda Taxi Owners and Drivers Assocaition (UTODA) of torturing them and sometimes causing death. The Chairman of the Drivers and conductors association, Mustafa Mayambala told...

More Women Join the Army.
February 26, 2009... More women than men turned up for the recruitment exercise conducted by the UPDF at Kololo airstrip. The army chief of operations and training, Brigadier Silver Kayemba applauded women for turning up in big numbers. He said the...

Riot Police Tear-Gas Irate Owino Traders.
February 25, 2009... Riot Police is right now battling angry traders of Owino market. Canisters of tear-gas have been fired at the irate traders who are demonstrating for loss of their merchandise in the inferno that has left their market in ashes. The Fire...