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16/01/2024

The media in the last few weeks has been awash with stories of violent clashes involving pastoralist, the most recent

16/01/2024

As we kick-start 2024, I feel compelled to write an open letter to President Museveni on his miscontextualisation of the

16/01/2024

The burning issue of Balaalo invasion of Obongi District, the West Nile sub-region, and wider Northern Uganda should not be

12/03/2023

John Nagenda, like many apologists in NRA/M era, must have died a quietly haunted man. The spin master, who barefacedly defended President Museveni, probably lived the last days of his life in disillusionment and with memories of darker past, writes JACOBS SEAMAN ODONGO.

John Nagenda, like many apologists in NRA/M era, must have died a quietly haunted man. The spin master, who barefacedly

12/03/2023

The Constitutional Court has ordered that de-gazetted land that used to be owned by any customary owner or clan in the Acholi-sub-region be reverted to Acholi communities. The court ruled on February 20 that the lands and proprietary interests be held in perpetuity under customary tenure guaranteed under Artic1e 237(1), (3)(a) of the Constitution of Uganda, 1995. DERRICK KIYONGA highlights the ruling that touches on the following key issues.

The Constitutional Court has ordered that de-gazetted land that used to be owned by any customary owner or clan in

12/03/2023

To my astonishment, he had never been to several shopping centres and supermarkets, which are the staple of the average Ugandan ‘middle class’ existence.

To my astonishment, he had never been to several shopping centres and supermarkets, which are the staple of the average

12/03/2023

President Museveni’s senior advisor on the media, John Nagenda, who died at 84 years in Kampala on Friday, set his own rules. He was a stickler for excellence and we will find it hard to meet his standards. I would compare him to Kenya’s late illustrious attorney general Charles Njonjo in the way he lived; a lifestyle that we will find hard to match, writes EDMOND KIZITO.

President Museveni’s senior advisor on the media, John Nagenda, who died at 84 years in Kampala on Friday, set his

12/03/2023

It is only natural that NSSF, with total assets of Shs 17.2 trillion, would be called to the table to discuss how it can be part of the transformation required to better economic prospects for Ugandans.

It has been weeks of unending drama at the country’s top retirement fund, the National Social Security Fund (NSSF). The

16/01/2023

PERSPECTIVE. Today, we think of marriage as an entitlement and demand anybody to marry for us, including our classmates, workmates, social media acquaintances, and even voters.

Facebooker P’lalur was right to be shocked. “The high number of people getting married in Gulu is alarming. There’s a

16/01/2023

The visitors' book boasts of guests from Uganda, Kenya and far away cities of London, Berlin, Paris, and New York, who flock to see the Okere City miracle.

OTUKE. Most of us find it hard to leave the city and its comfort. So, we make quick visits to

16/01/2023

Lubara pa Acoli tye ki nyig lok magi ma an anongo ki bot wora, Lapwony Luka Labeja ma mwaka me teggi mere d**g i kare ni tye 94, kun ki nywale i mwaka 1928.

GULU. Lubara pa Acoli, Okot p’Bitek (lyeli) aye ocoyo nyig lokke wa ki dwan me wero ne wa i mwaka

16/01/2023

PERSPECTIVE. As it stands, critics say there are no standard flag, colours, anthem, seal and logo of the Acholi cultural models although some sources say the anthem was composed in 1956, six years before Uganda’s Independence.

Last December, the Acholi kicked off their cultural festivities. Fittingly, the first of such events was to celebrate the life

16/01/2023

PERSPECTIVE. As it stands, critics say there are no standard flag, colours, anthem, seal and logo of the Acholi cultural models although some sources say the anthem was composed in 1956, six years before Uganda’s Independence.

Last December, the Acholi kicked off their cultural festivities. Fittingly, the first of such events was to celebrate the life

03/08/2022

For now, the never say die Mao carries to the NRM only his head and quick wits but needs to speedily retreat to rebuild and consolidate his DP party base and regional backyard for any real weight in negotiating national leadership.
https://looknorth.co.ug/news/20220842/norbert-mao-the-crown-prince-without-a-territory.html

My good friend, Eriasa Mukiibi Sserunjogi, the editor of Mainstream Uganda, in an April 12 article, put it almost bluntly

03/08/2022

For us, we say the New Democratic Party (DP) has dared to dream and shake off the fence-sitters, but with our eyes firmly set on making Mao become the president of Uganda.
https://looknorth.co.ug/people-politics/20220845/dp-deserters-should-shut-up-and-warm-nests-where-theyve-moved.html

Even our DP strategic plan facilitator was dazed. He couldn’t grasp the pace and skill with which we moved to

11/07/2022

From Steven to Donna, and Donnas to Donald and then to Don and back to Donna, the founder of Okere City traces his 33 years of struggle with foreign names and how he finally dropped them for his roots.
https://looknorth.co.ug/our-history/20220750/my-struggle-with-5-shades-of-foreign-names-and-how-i-threw-them-away-for-ojok-okello.html

Sensational Argentinian soccer star Diego Armando Maradona and I have a tight connection. On the day I was born, June

11/07/2022

An Associate Professor has expressed shock that Acholi’s greatest brain export and her greatest cultural ambassador has no monument at home to celebrate his universally acclaimed literally achievements. Prof Jimmy Spire Ssentongo expressed shock that some people who his visiting team asked near St Philip’s Cathedral in Gulu, at which cemetery the remains of p’Bitek were interred, only vaguely knew him, but not where he was buried.
https://looknorth.co.ug/our-history/20220600/prof-shocked-that-no-monument-no-school-or-even-road-to-a-kiosk-is-named-after-okot-pbitek.html

An Associate Professor has expressed shock that Acholi’s greatest brain export and her greatest cultural ambassador has no monument at

11/07/2022

FORT PORTAL: The absence of a fully-fledged physical plan is responsible for the mushrooming of illegal structures in Fort Portal Tourism City, the authorities have revealed. Several developers are rushing to erect unapproved structures in the city, whereas others are degrading wetlands.
https://looknorth.co.ug/business-finance/20220400/lack-of-physical-planning-fuels-illegal-structures-in-fort-portal.html

FORT PORTAL: The absence of a fully-fledged physical plan is responsible for the mushrooming of illegal structures in Fort Portal

11/07/2022

KITGUM. The State minister for environment has warned Kitgum municipal leaders to get ready for grilling over the misuse of Shs23.8b meant to build Kitgum Central Market. Ms Beatrice Anywar said: “We don’t want to get any shortage out of this market. So it [the mess] must be exposed. The monitoring unit from the President’s Office is already coming,” Ms Anywar said.
https://looknorth.co.ug/business-finance/entrepreneurship/20220734/presidents-office-to-quiz-kitgum-leaders-over-misuse-of-shs23-8b-for-central-market.html

KITGUM. The State minister for environment has warned Kitgum municipal leaders to get ready for grilling over the misuse of

11/07/2022

We revisit this painful topic not to touch a sore wound, but to give ourselves a dose of what the Israelis call chutzpah or assertiveness to have no reservations to call out our leaders that they’re wrong and not choose silence, or speaking behind others’ backs, which risk us repeating the same mistakes and be left behind.
https://looknorth.co.ug/people-politics/20220601/death-of-oulanyah-exposes-acholi-as-proud-and-loud-without-leadership.html

In in their book, Start-up nation, the story of Israel’s economic miracle, authors Dan slater and Saul Singer, assert that

11/07/2022

LAMWO. A Ugandan soldier was shot dead and another injured by suspected South Sudan gunmen in a Tuesday night clash in Lamwo District. The UPDF 5th Division public relations officer, Capt Amos Nsamba named the deceased as Lawrence Kassagga. https://looknorth.co.ug/news/20220725/updf-soldier-shot-dead-by-suspected-south-sudan-gunmen.html

LAMWO. A Ugandan soldier was shot dead and another injured by suspected South Sudan gunmen in a Tuesday night clash

11/07/2022

Ms Beatrice Anywar said she had already made follow ups in the last two years on how to bring home breeds of the giant edible rats from a West African country that has domesticated them.
https://looknorth.co.ug/news/20220713/minister-anywar-moots-plan-to-rear-anyeri-the-acholi-bush-rat-delicacy.html

KITGUM. Lovers of anyeri, a rare bush rat delicacy across northern region, may soon stop bush-firing to make a kill

11/07/2022

LAMWO. The army on Wednesday night shot dead a resident of Madi-Opei Sub-county in Lamwo District.
The 24-year-old Robinson Owot from Locimidik Village in Lawiye-oduny Parish, was gunned down at about 10.30pm when he reportedly entered an ambush as he crossed from South Sudan into Uganda using an irregular route. https://looknorth.co.ug/news/20220735/updf-shoots-man-dead-in-lamwo.html

LAMWO. The army on Wednesday night shot dead a resident of Madi-Opei Sub-county in Lamwo District. The 24-year-old Robinson Owot from

11/07/2022

So far three meetings have been held between the Chinese firm, Kitgum District and municipal leaders, and Pader District authorities to break the deadlock, but without success.
https://looknorth.co.ug/news/20220729/kitgum-town-roadworks-stop-over-shs4b-debt-for-pader-stone-quarry.html

KITGUM. The improvement of seven roads in Kitgum municipality have been halted after Pader District authorities closed the stone quarry