Opinion
Opinion | Gen Otafiire Incident No Laughing Matter By Dismas Nkunda
Dismus Nkunda — We indeed live in strange times. I never thought that one of the most quoted ministers and feared generals, Kahinda Otafiire, could take to his heels, fearing for dear life! I am told this is what happened...
Opinion | Lifting Presidential Age Limit — Why Uganda just can’t stop! By Charles Onyango-Obbo
So, as long expected, the process of amending the Uganda Constitution to remove the 75-year age limit and allow President Yoweri Museveni to continue in office and stand for the nth time in 2021 is underway. Many people are ang...
Opinion | Coffee and Bananas – The end of Buganda, rise of Kampala City State By Charles Onyango Obbo
By Charles Onyango-Obbo — Since the column last week “Ahead of big refugee meet, we go back to old Buganda and Ankole”, I have been inundated by questions about Uganda’s past – and future. Made me realise that the...
Opinion | The Cost of the Peace – Why Bribing MPs to Lift Age Limits is Not a Hare-Brained Idea
By Angelo Izama — The purging of age limits from the Uganda constitution will cost approximately $50 million. This is what MPs are demanding from the NRM according to several interviews – and the gravy rumour mill at Pa...
Opinion | How Ugandans can become billionaires by 2021 — Prof. Samuel Sejjaaka
By Samuel Sejjaaka — One of my favourite sayings is ‘do not ask for too much, the gods might just give it to you.’ Our Zimbabwean brothers and sisters asked for financial freedom and wealth and they became zillionaire...
The Observer Editorial | Kudos to Parliament for passing law ending payment of rent in dollars
Last week, parliament passed a piece of legislation that did not get a lot of media attention but must have, nonetheless, put smiles on the faces of many tenants of commercial properties, especially in the capital Kampala. This...
Daily Monitor | Hurry up and lease your own land! Mengo is onto something on this one — By Daniel K. Kalinaki
By Daniel K. Kalinaki — Plans by the Buganda Land Board to offer 49-year leases over land it manages on behalf of the kingdom have sparked widespread fury. In Bunyoro, the government plans to cancel a land title given to ...
Opinion | Are Ugandans lazy? By Dr. Ian Clarke
By Dr. Ian Clarke — The World Economic Forum has rated Uganda’s labour productivity among the bottom 25, out of 144 countries over the past five years. Also, the Global Competitiveness Report 2014 indicated that Uganda ...
Opinion | Uganda – Nothing to Sell but Museveni Is Looking for Foreign Markets By Ssemujju Ibrahim Nganda
Opinion — Our great brother revolutionary leader Gen Yoweri Museveni and his dear wife Janet Kataaha who is also minister of education and sports were in Qatar last week. They were accompanied by, among others, their in-l...
Stella Nyanzi | Has Social Media Gone Haywire? By Nobert Mao
By Norbert Mao — The arrest and incarceration of Dr Stella Nyanzi has grabbed international headlines. Many commentators say she has been sinned against more than she has sinned. The State is now groping in the dark as he...
Uganda | An Economy of Per Diem By Timothy Kalyegira
By Timothy Kalyegira — In the late 1980s, Rakai District in southern Uganda became the epicentre of the Aids pandemic. At the height of the crisis, the entire young adult population of homes and villages was wiped out. Ch...
Opinion | Here is the naked truth about trying to silence Stella Nyanzi By Daniel K. Kalinaki
By Daniel K. Kalinaki — I have never met Stella Nyanzi in the flesh, not even when she, uh, laid bare her frustrations – and a lot more than just the proverbial pound of flesh – in her infamous fight with Prof Mahmood...
Opinion | The Confusion, Ingratitude As Well As The Danger Of Western Liberals And The Trump Therapy – By President Yoweri K. Museveni
I have been either closely following or actively involved in World and African political events for the last 56 years. In those 56 years, I have noticed many happenings, behaviours, etc. One of the groups that I have observed w...
Opinion | African Nations Increasingly Silence Internet to Stem Protests — The New York Times
DAKAR, Senegal — Julius Ikena’s trade business is at a standstill because he cannot make electronic payments to his partners. Andrew Mofor cannot get access to the small fortune — 800 euros, or about $850 — that his dau...
Daily Monitor | Opinion | If Eala Aspirants Have to Bribe MPs For Votes, What’s Left? By Charles Onyango-Obbo
Opinion — When I read in Daily Monitor that money was changing hands in the campaigns for what it called “the much coveted East African Legislative Assembly (Eala) seats”, I wondered why it took so long. The report sa...
Daily Monitor | Presidential Handshake Is A Sign Of The Oil Curse
By Expedito Olimi — It’s close to a fortnight that Uganda is filled with utterances against the action of presidential handshake which saw the government’s treasury lose Shs6 billion. The money in question was given a...
Opinion | Western neo-imperialism and Africa’s weaknesses By President Yoweri Museveni
In recent months, two western ruling groups have suffered defeat in the elections. Although it is not the culture of Africans to talk about other people’s “houses” (internal affairs of other people), I feel compelled to c...
US Elections | How Hillary Clinton Lost The Election And Donald Trump Won The Electoral College Vote – By Ronnie Mayanja
By Ronnie Mayanja — On November 8th, like most Americans, I went to the polls to carry out my civic duty by exercising my right to vote as enshrined in the 15th Amendment of the U.S Constitution. In a race that had so div...
Opinion | The October Surprise and Why This US Election Will Shock The World — By Ronnie Mayanja
By Ronnie Mayanja — They say 24 hours is a very short time for a news cycle in America. The debates came and went and we are about one week away from what will go down in US history as perhaps the dirtiest and most stress...
The Observer | Why our economy is on shaky ground — By Moses Khisa
It’s rather post-hoc, but looking back, it’s not difficult to see there was something superficial about Crane bank: the rapid opening of new upcountry branches complete with fancy and palatial buildings, reported exponentia...
Opinion | What We Got Wrong on Privatization — By Samuel Sejjaaka
Opinion — Through out the eighties and nineties, the buzzword in economic management was liberalization. Arising out of the ‘Washington Consensus’, and the reforms of Margaret Thatcher in the UK, we in the third world...
