Disgruntled election officials in Kampala metropolitan are reaching out their upcountry counterparts for a demo against the Electoral Commission over non – payment of their allowances. Smlnews has learnt that officials who conducted Special Interest Group (SIGs) elections (Youth, Pwds, Women and Elderly) from village, parish, sub-county, city and district levels have not received a…
Heavy rains accompained with hailstorm on Wednesday afternoon destroyed crops and houses in Rubuguri subcounty, Kisoro district. A total of 445 people from 65 households in the villages of Rushaga, Higabiro and Kasheija have been affected. The affected residents are now in fear that if this continues they won’t be able to harvest anything from their gardens…
The Electoral Commission (EC) has established a Query/Complaints Desk at the EC Headquarters to support the exercise of nomination of candidates for Local Government Councils Elections, which will start on Monday 21st September til 1st October 2020. According to the EC Spokesperson Paul Bukenya, the Query/Complaints’ Desk will provide any required information to the public…
Police at Kira Road on Thursday carried out an operation in the area of Bukoto and arrested over 30 teenagers, who were having a party in a friend’s house. According to Luke Owoyesigyire the Kampala Metropolitan Police deputy spokesperson, the arrests came as a result of the public complaining about a group of teens over…
Private school proprietors in Uganda have expressed worry that a big number of children in the country is likely to drop out of school due to prolonged lock down on educational institutions. According to Joseph Kiggundu the chairman of the National COVID-19 committee of Private Educational Institutions, many children have been married off, others have become young…
Korea: The Shincheonji Church of Jesus has proposed for a Prayer Meeting of Religious People Around the World in a bid to end the corona Virus pandemic. The church which is the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony (under its chairman Lee Man-hee) proposed that all religious people around the world to hold an…
The Electoral Commission (EC) Chairperson Justice Simon Byabakama has said that the responsibility to have violent free elections lies in the hands of all Ugandans and not just the commission. His comment comes amidst concerns that the violance episodes that were witnessed in the recently concluded National Resistance Movement (NRM) party primaries could repulicate themselves…
One person has died and two others injured in a fatal accident that happened this morning at Namboole Fly over in Bweyogerere. It is alleged that an Engineering plant (concrete mixer ) UBG 217x lost control and overturned. Two occupants allegedly ran away with minor injuries and left a colleague who happens to be the…
Agnes Namaganda one of the aspiring candidates for the woman Member of Parliament for Kampala on the National Unity Platform (NUP) has revealed that she is living in fear after receiving death threats from her husband for joining the opposition party. Namaganda says her husband Dick Twinomujuni who is a National Resistance Movement (NRM) supporter and…
The Inter-Party Organization for Dialogue (IPOD) has condemned the increasing levels of violence and intolerance among political actors and voters especially in the periods preceding elections. In the past few days, various media outlets have reported a number of incidents of violence including loss of lives in the ongoing primary elections of the various parties…
