National

Museveni equates drug theft to murder

PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni on Thursday said stealing drugs from the Government hospitals was equal to murder and warned that the culprits would face the law. More...

Bukenya to personally appear before MPs

THE Vice-President, Gilbert Bukenya, has finally bowed to pressure from MPs and agreed to appear before the CHOGM probe committee as an individual and not in a group. More...

Business

The power of the many

THE main issues dogging our country - both in the public and private sectors, are the inadequacy of our management capability and lack of finance, mostly in that order. More than 20 years of chaos in the 1970s and 80s interrupted our progress in the identification and development of management talent. More...

Sports

Cranes promise to fly flag high in Burundi

THE Cranes left for Bujumbura yesterday in a buoyant mood for the Africa Nations Championship encounter with Burundi. More...

Drogba named 2009 African footballer

ACCRA – Ivory Coast captain Didier Drogba was named African Footballer of the Year on Thursday, beating Cameroon’s Samuel Eto’o and Ghana’s Michael Essien for the 2009 award. More...

Today's Column

Being harsh for reasons of caring

AGAIN and again the question will be raised; has already been raised. Could the murderous Bududa landslides have been averted, or at least could the people have been saved from them? On the whole the answer seems: Yes; but only if you could remove human nature from the equation, which is much easier said than done. More...

Editorial

Congress weed could cause national disaster

PADER has become the latest district to complain about the congress weed, scientifically known as Parthenium hysterophorus. This is one of the world’s 10 most dangerous weeds. The weed multiplies rapidly and causes enormous damage. More...