The ministry of health has today officially received Mandela National Stadium Namboole stadium as a temporary COVID-19 treatment unit. This follows three months rehabilitation activities of the facility by Catholic Relief Services (CRS) to make it habitable. According to the ministry, the purpose of this facility is to handle COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms who…
Court of Appeal has nullified James Akena’s election as Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) party president and ordered for a fresh election. Three justices of the court led by Irene Mulyagonja have further warned the party that it’s credibility will continue to be in doubt if its leadership is not in line with provisions of the…
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…
