/Magazines/ThoughtIdeas/-/689844/689844/-/kikx1hz/-/index.html http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/ThoughtIdeas/Without+building+integrity++Museveni+won+t+defeat+graft/-/689844/1409082/-/5ieirh/-/index.html The importance of integrity in public life is that society operates more smoothly. If there is no integrity, public servants get paid twice – they get their salaries but also ask for bribes to serve the public they are already paid to serve. 2012-05-19T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/ThoughtIdeas/Grapevine++President+Museveni+keeps+NRM+members+guessing/-/689844/1409080/-/14box2xz/-/index.html It is hot and boiling. That is the situation surrounding the ruling NRM party. The forces against Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi are coalescing but the PM cadres are more than prepared for the battle. Apparently, when President Museveni told his party top figures that he had agreed with Mbabazi that he quits the SG job and the PM said he had changed his mind not to quit, many interpreted it to mean that Mzee had finally broken ranks with Amama. Efforts have been galvanised to ensure that the PM cracks. Everything dirty is now being lined against Mbabazi to dent his Mr clean image. 2012-05-19T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/ThoughtIdeas/A+year+Mr+Museveni+will+want+to+forget/-/689844/1409044/-/hj6ukhz/-/index.html Mr Awori described Mr Museveni’s first year of his fourth term as “hectic” and said the President’s failure to exert control over the 9th Parliament, as his majority ruling NRM party grapples with internal strife, had posed “a challenge to his rule.” The 9th Parliament, marking its first year in office this month, has been credited for exercising its oversight function with its robust debate over allegations of corruption in the oil sector and government, presenting some serious headache for the Museveni administration. 2012-05-19T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/ThoughtIdeas/Parliament+watch++Movement++EALA+is++not+a+Party+extension/-/689844/1409072/-/g48i66/-/index.html Happy to see familiar faces in the lounge, she swiftly turned the tittle-tattle to the current political hoopla rocking Uganda - the election of MPs to represent you and me in the regional parliament. “I am going to Arusha to pick my case ruling, the EALA contest has become hot,” she told us. “And journalists are going to enjoy the debate but let me go and see what the judges have told me.” 2012-05-19T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/ThoughtIdeas/+Local+people+don+t+understand+EALA+/-/689844/1409078/-/15agj3h/-/index.html Similarly, my view is that young people should play a role in EALA because we must use our youthful energies to drive the integration process more especially in the critical stage of these next five years, as we lay the foundation for political federation. 2012-05-19T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/ThoughtIdeas/Uganda++50+should+help+us+understand+our+history/-/689844/1409060/-/yifv1rz/-/index.html The anticipation for Uganda to mark its 50th anniversary since October 9, 1962 is fast gathering steam even though it does seem that most of the ‘talk’ about the occasion is being orchestrated by the media. Most of us seem oblivious to the fact but that is partly because since 1962, so much has changed not less Ugandans themselves. At Independence we numbered only 7.3 million, about one fifth of today’s total population. 2012-05-19T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/ThoughtIdeas/Solving+Uganda+s+joblessness++The+Internet/-/689844/1409066/-/j3xvf8/-/index.html If 200,000 Ugandans who are presently unemployed or barely employed were to find jobs today, it would change the national mood. It would ripple across the economy, driving up the sales of airtime, newspapers, food, clothes, shoes and the other consumer goods on which commerce is dependent. The only industry or field in the world today that I know that is large enough to absorb say up to 200,000 to 500,000 Ugandans today is the Internet. In what way? 2012-05-19T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/ThoughtIdeas/The+Week+in+Review/-/689844/1408988/-/9vny5sz/-/index.html It was a eureka moment for former Supreme Court judge, George Kanyeihamba. “It seems commissions of inquiry are useless because no one listens to them,” he told this newspaper. Whoever gives prizes for novel observations like these, the honorable judge is waiting for his. 2012-05-19T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/ThoughtIdeas/Chronology+of+events+in+Uganda+since+January/-/689844/1409052/-/4slm33/-/index.html President Museveni swore in on May 12, 2011 amidst a 21-gun salute, at Kololo airstrip, technically for his fourth term at the helm. Since then he really never had a chance to have his honey moon, probably in the manner he could have liked as the entire year presented him with challenges most of which continue to press him through 2012. 2012-05-19T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/ThoughtIdeas/+NRM+has+better+plans+for+Uganda+/-/689844/1409056/-/f9s2faz/-/index.html Over the years gone by, the NRM has worked to overcome three major challenges - security, electricity and energy to transform the industrial sector, an educated human resource and of course, coupled with these is the generation of revenue money to transform Uganda. These, one must say are the summation of the 10 Point Programme on which the NRM built the fundamental principles, and these we believe, will drive Uganda’s aspirations into take off. 2012-05-19T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/ThoughtIdeas/-/689844/1404410/-/cngn4u/-/index.html This political trauma has inevitably been produced by cultures which hardly promote or nurture democracy. At best such cultures can produce, and have produced, mere rulers with unquenchable thirst to play the roles of modern monarchs and chiefs. 2012-05-12T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/ThoughtIdeas/-/689844/1404400/-/cngn3y/-/index.html A look at the worldwide phenomenon called social media and questions about how long the world can continue to put up with oceans of trivia on the Internet. 2012-05-12T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/ThoughtIdeas/-/689844/1404470/-/cngna6/-/index.html At the Kenyatta National Hospital sperm bank in Nairobi, men in white doctors’ coats grapple with moral and ethical issues “such as when a healthy woman asks for artificial insemination using donated sperm.” Our correspondent has been talking to the professors who run the place. 2012-05-12T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/ThoughtIdeas/-/689844/1404396/-/cngmjn/-/index.html In a lengthy piece on the UPDF’s role in Somalia last week, Charles Onyango Obbo (of The-Ear-to-the-Ground) definitely touched President Museveni’s delicate elements inviting a spirited resistance to back pedal over a ‘complimentary gesture’ from “enemy” quarters. 2012-05-12T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/ThoughtIdeas/-/689844/1404388/-/cngmit/-/index.html Even when our honourable members turn up for an important sitting, most of them spend a better half of the session dozing; only to be woken when the House id going for a break. 2012-05-12T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/ThoughtIdeas/-/689844/1404392/-/cngmjj/-/index.html The chairperson of the Women’s League in the opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), Ms Ingrid Turinawe, recently hit the headlines when images of a police officer groping her breast in a scuffle were flashed in the media. 2012-05-12T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/ThoughtIdeas/Mirundi+should+let+church+leaders+be/-/689844/1404404/-/3jt2pfz/-/index.html I am sure that there are some Ugandans thinking that the church has been silenced by the Presidential spokesman, Mr Tamale Mirundi, following comments he made in the local media late last month. 2012-05-12T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/ThoughtIdeas/-/689844/1404384/-/cngmip/-/index.html Not thinking of term limits. President Museveni was early this week hosted on the popular NTV talk show — On the Spot. The President spoke about his retirement at the age of 75; he also gave his views on the term limits, the economy, and how he would want the police to deal with the opposition demonstrators. 2012-05-12T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/ThoughtIdeas/EU+gets+tough+on+free+regional+trade/-/689844/1400014/-/13y696o/-/index.html The EPAs are effectively free trade agreements. The September proposal calls for the removal of ACP countries from having such preferential access to the EU if the ACP countries have not ratified the EPAs by January 1, 2014. 2012-05-05T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/ThoughtIdeas/Govt+accountants+shake+as+Financial+Year+comes+to+close/-/689844/1400012/-/lf8vmfz/-/index.html It is that time of the year when all public departments are required to account for the money they received from the Finance ministry for the soon-to-conclude 2011/2012 Financial Year. 2012-05-05T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/ThoughtIdeas/Nodding+disease+kills+two+more+children+in+Kitgum/-/689844/1400006/-/11049nh/-/index.html Whither go you, nodding head syndrome, and the concern you generated back when you dominated the news cycle? Before police officers squeezing activist’s breasts, demonstrating Muslims, and presidential term limits pushed you off the grid? 2012-05-05T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/ThoughtIdeas/+Sudan+government+has+evidence+that+Uganda+/-/689844/1400020/-/frh71/-/index.html Our policy back in Sudan is peaceful co-existence with our neighbours. It’s one of our pillars. Emanating from this policy, the government of Sudan in 1995 started talks with Uganda. We even reached a military agreement to combat, chase and eradicate the LRA. 2012-05-05T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/ThoughtIdeas/What+killed+Mayombo+++His+family+asks+five+years+later/-/689844/1400022/-/12jdur7z/-/index.html What is true is that investigations were carried out under the leadership of Brig. James Mugira. At that time he was heading the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence. 2012-05-05T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/ThoughtIdeas/Tokyo++Beijing++London++mpo++/-/689844/1400016/-/mpr2t6z/-/index.html A kilometre into the Indian Ocean from Malindi, Capt. John Mwaboza pulls his mobile phone from a pouch dangling from his neck. “Evidence from oral traditions supports the fact that Kiswahili was in existence even before interaction with other cultures,” he reads from his Internet-enabled mobile phone. 2012-05-05T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/ThoughtIdeas/+Revolving+funds+creating+more+jobs+/-/689844/1400018/-/s09ngxz/-/index.html I hope this is not what the Labour Movement and other actors are suffering from. We need to ask ourselves the following questions: “What creates employment? How can the value of labour be enhanced?” 2012-05-05T21:00:00Z