N.P.B

Investigation ordered into CHOGM fraud THE Auditor General has instituted an independent probe into the CHOGM road works, The New Vision has learnt. The probe was ordered after it was established that procurement procedures had been flouted and that there were variations in the prices quoted for the different CHOGM roads. More...

Forty baby pythons hatched in Entebbe Lutembe the 30-year-old mother python LUTEMBE, a 30-year-old giant python that was rescued from Lutembe Beach Hotel last year, has become the proud mother of 40 babies. More...

National

Former basketball MVP murdered

WILBROD Oketcho, a leading Ugandan basketball player, died of gunshot wounds after armed thugs attacked him at his home near Kampala. More...

Salesman wins New Vision’s sh1m

TWO readers of The New Vision have won sh1m each in the Cashlines game. Andrew Kateu, an employee of Uganda Breweries Ltd, and Isaac Masola, a plant clerk of Stirling, a construction company, won the cash in the third week of the game. More...

Business

Coffee earns Uganda sh440b in 2007

UGANDA earned $265m (about sh440b) in 2007 from coffee exports, making it the leading foreign exchange earner. A report by the Uganda Export Promotion Board, said the revenue from coffee had risen since 2001 when $97m was earned. More...

Royal Daisy starts flights to Kisumu

Today's Column

Odinga’s path is littered with landmines

I left for Tanzania the day all roads were leading to Kisumu for the Prime Minister’s
homecoming celebrations. However, soon after the Kisumu rallies were over on Saturday, signs that all was not well were all there to see. More...

Editorial

Chicken coming home to roost!

THIS week, sections of the Jinja-Iganga railway line were washed away bringing traffic to a halt on the line. Estimates are that the repairs on the line will take up to a month to complete. More...