By Western Focus Team GULU: The Annual Ambassadors’ Conference 2025 kicked off this week at Gulu University in Gulu City. The week long conference which has been organized by the ministry of foreign affairs in coordination with the Operation Wealth Creation (OWC) is being attended by all Uganda’s envoys to the overseas. The conference is…
By Chris Mugasha BUSHENYI: Following the commitment by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to allocate over Sh312billion to stabilize the tea industry, a cross section of members of the business community have commended AlHajji Hassan Bassajjabalaba for having ably presented issues which led to the collapse of the tea industry. The business community said Bassajjabalaba used…
By Chris Mugasha BUSHENYI: City tycoon Dr. AlHajji. Hassan Bassajjabalaba has announced a mega plan to grow Bushenyi/Ishaka Municipality. Bassajjabalaba the Bushenyi district NRM chairman said he has already finalized plans of establishing a mega project at Rweibango in Nyakabirizi Division which will increase the population in the area and in the periphery. This…
By Chris Mugasha As tempers flare between candidates and their supporters in the on-going NRM party primaries, the Bishop of Diocese of West Ankole Rt. Rev Johnson Twinomujuni has come out to express his concern over the manner in which some candidates and their supporters are ‘behaving.’ In a message released today Sunday morning,…
By Chris Mugasha BUSHENYI: Hundreds of people yesterday thronged the home of Paul Kahiigi Turyamureba in Rwanshetsya in Kyamuhunga sub county Bushenyi district to witness the official launching of his manifesto and campaign trail in the on-going NRM party parliamentary primaries. Kahiigi the former Bushenyi district Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) secretary general excited his…
By Aggrey Twesigye MBARARA: The Igara West Member of Parliament, Louis Gafa Mbwatekamwa, who is seeking for the Mbarara city mayoral seat on the NRM ticket, has accused fellow aspirants of plotting to derail his nomination. Addressing his supporters at the Mbarara city bus park on Saturday, Mbwatekamwa alleged that fellow contenders in the race have petitioned…
By Chris Mugasha BUSHENYI: The National Resistance Movement (NRM) today ended its party leadership structures with two rival political camps extending an ‘olive branch’ to each other. The two top Bushenyi politicians have used the period to open their ‘gates’ to each other. For the first time, those who have never sat together on a…
By Chris Mugasha MITOOMA: The Deputy speaker of Parliament Thomas Tayebwa has urged Ugandans to stop comparing their Country- Uganda with some of the developed countries like America. According to Tayebwa, every Country has got its achievements, challenges and opportunities. “Even America is still ‘grappling with some pockets’ of citizens who are poor. During winter…
By Chris Mugasha As millions of Christians across the World started their lent season, the Bishop of Diocese of West Ankole Diocese Rt. Rev Johnson Twinomujuni has called upon the believers/Christians to commit the nation-Uganda and its leaders to God especially now that the Country is getting closer to the challenging time of elections come…
By Chris Mugasha President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has today started his trip to the Ankole region to monitor the progress of the Parish Development Model (PDM) and the Four- acre model programs. Museveni started his tour from Magambo Sub County in Rubirizi district where he visited a PDM beneficiary. Tumusiime Dezirata told the President that…