Author: The Albertine Journal.com

The Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among, has directed the Prime Minister to give government’s position on the status of construction of the International Specialised Hospital in Lubowa, Wakiso district along the Kampala-Entebbe Road. “A team went to the construction site and they were denied entry, on this one, we must speak as Members of Parliament. We need to know what is happening in Lubowa hospital before we finalise the budget,” said Among. Her directive followed a matter of national importance raised by Hon. Muwanga Kivumbi (NUP, Butambala County) during plenary sitting on Thursday, 14 April 2022. “In the current budget,…

Parliament’s Committee on East African Community Affairs has tasked the finance ministry to prioritise funding for the Ministry of East African Community Affairs. Committee members say low budget allocation to the ministry has affected its capacity to discharge its key activities on national and regional level. The committee chairperson, Hon. Noeline Basemera, said the budgeting of the Ministry of East African Community Affairs has been on a downward trend for the last two consecutive financial years, yet the EAC is expanding its frontiers. “The activities of the ministry are so minimal that it sometimes goes unnoticed. The ministry is poorly…

There were 60 and now, there are just eight. The cream of African football steps up the battle towards the most coveted club trophy in the continent, the TotalEnergies CAF Champions League, with the quarter finals starting this weekend. Defending champions Al Ahly lead the lot of the teams to earn a ticket to the last eight, and the journey to whittle down the number to the top side takes a new gear. ES Setif vs Esperance – Stade du 5 Juillet 1962, Algiers, Friday 21h00 GMT Esperance was one of the only two sides to finish the group phase…