Agnes Nandutu


Agnes Nandutu is a female Ugandan journalist born in Bududa district, Uganda.

Career

She is a senior political reporter at NTV Uganda. Nandutu is also a moderator and a speaker for NTV citizen debate show called "The People’s Parliament." She served as the president of the Parliamentary Journalist's Association from 2011 to 2016. She scripts and narrates the Popular satire Friday segment called Point Blank on NTV Uganda. In 2011, she received a Christmas gift from The Observer for her NTV show, Point Blank.

Background and education

Agnes belongs to the Bantu ethnic group who are the Gisu people. In 1997, she joined Radio Uganda as a reporter. Later, she pursued a diploma in Journalism at Uganda Institute of Journalism and Media studies. She worked at Daily Monitor as a freelance reporter. Between 2002–2008, Agnes worked at Impact FM as a staff reporter before she joined NTV Uganda.

Other controversies

In 2017, Nandutu was denied accreditation to cover the Ugandan parliament by the organization's communications director.