Lawyer Muwada Nkunyingi has vowed to moblise Ugandans to protest against the electoral Commission for refusing to avail him academic documents of president Museveni. On 21st August 2020, lawyer Nkunyingi wrote to the electoral commission seeking access to academic documents submitted to the commission by President Museveni for nomination in the 2016 presidential elections. Adressing…
President Yoweri Museveni who is also the National Chairman of the Electoral Commission has directed that all National Resistance Movement (NRM) members with cards but are not in the party register should be allowed to vote in tomorrow’s primary elections for parliamentary aspirants. In a letter dated 2nd September 2020, president Museveni directs that any NRM member whose name is not in…
Police in Kabalagala have arrested one suspect on allegations of assault and disrupting elections. It is alleged that on the 02/09/2020 at Jack and Jill polling station, Kyene Zone in Kabalagala Makindye Division, Musingizi Ronald, 20, a resident of the same area unlawfully assaulted Lunkuse Hasifah, 25, who had lined up for voting thereby causing…
President Yoweri Museveni has opened up on tribalism, a debate that has headlined recent national conversations. Police have recently issued summons and arrested creative artists and other public figures critiquing the reality of tribalism in the country. The president has now come out to refute the allegations that most jobs especially in the public service and army…
The ministry of health has today launched the Board of Directors of Malaria Free Uganda an innovative Public-Private Partnership recently established to sustain and accelerate the National Malaria Response. The Board is comprised of 11 members including Kenneth Mugisha, Patrick Bitature, Solomon Ossiya, Lillian Ajarova and Fabian Kasi. The others are Barbara Mulwana, Harrison Mutikanga,…
Panic has gripped the busy trading center of Musita in Mayuge District along Jinja – Iganga – Tororo road after a vendor was discovered positive for coronavirus. Police has condoned off the area where the victim is confirmed awaiting Police escorts and an Ambulance to transfer the victim to Jinja Hospital. The victim is Fred…
The court of appeal has set free former leader of the Tabliq Muslim sect Sheik Muhammad Yunus Kamoga who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for uttering statements that resulted in the death of two Muslim clerics Mustafa Bahiga and Hassan Kirya in 2014. This is after three justices of the court led by the…
Singer and BET award winner Edirisah Musuuza aka Eddy Kenzo has been unveiled as Uganda’s Tourism Ambassador. Kenzo was unveiled by the state minister for tourism Godfrey Kiwanda at an event held this afternoon at the Sheraton Hotel in Kampala. Kiwanda remarked that the ministry is proud to be associated with a man like Kenzo…
Kaliro District youths are planning a district-wide demonstration against the District Registrar of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Mr. Eric Dyaka who they accuse of stealing their allowances amounting to Twenty Seven Millions (Ugx 27,000,000). The youths want the area Resident District Commissioner Ms.Billy Mulindwa to prevail over Mr. Dyaka and the District NRM Chairman…
Kenya’s Victoria Rubadiri is the 2020 winner of the BBC World News Komla Dumor Award, making her the sixth person to win the prestigious award since its inception. The Komla Dumor Award is a journalism award sponsored by the BBC established in honour of Komla Dumor, an exceptional Ghanaian broadcaster and presenter for BBC news….
