Kilak North Member of Parliament Anthony Akol has been granted leave to present a private members bill that will reverse the autonomy of the Institute of Parliamentary Studies, recently named after the former Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga. The institute ...

Members of Parliament want a public holiday declared so as to scale up vaccination of learners in order to achieve the vaccination target required to reopen schools. The MPs on the Parliamentary forum on children noted that the prolonged lockdown on schools ...

The Deputy Speaker of Parliament Annet Anita Among has urged members of parliament to allow the law to take its course in the matters of the arrest of two members of parliament. This follows the opposition boycott of parliament sittings ...

The Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, the Most Rev. Samuel Stephen Kaziimba Mugalu has appealed to security forces to respect human rights and desist from disrespectful acts like the recent brutal re-arrest of Kawempe North MP, Muhammad Ssegirinya and ...

Parliament Speaker, Jacob Oulanyah says there is a need to ensure that all Ugandans understand the value of the right to access to information. He said while Uganda and other countries have enacted laws guaranteeing the right to access to ...

Members of the parliamentary committee on health have today resolved to demand a monthly report on maternal deaths in the country. This was among the committee’s 14 resolutions to improve maternal and child health in the next five years following ...

Members of Parliament called upon Government to prevail over telecommunication companies that are charging exorbitantly for services.  The legislators say this is affecting communications countrywide. The Members of Parliament raised the matter during a presentation on the state of quality of ...

The Minister of State for Higher Education, John Chrysostom Muyingo says that government plans to prioritize learners in P.1, S.1, and S.5 when schools reopen. Muyingo who was appearing before Parliament’s Committee on Government Assurance on Thursday chaired by the ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah has tasked the government to intervene in the ongoing strike by Butabika Mental Referral Hospital medical workers and support staff. The Nakawa East MP, Ronald Nsubuga Balimwezo on Wednesday raised a matter of national ...

The Parliament’s Committee on Defence and Internal Affairs today met with the Minister of Internal Affairs Gen. Kahinda Otafire over the machete attacks in greater Masaka and also answer key security issues but also on the budget of the entities ...