National Water and Sewerage Corporation Managing Director Dr. Eng Silver Mugisha has been elected President of the African Water Association (AFWA). Dr. Silver was elected by the African Water Association executive board that sat today 15th November, 2019. He is the first Ugandan to hold the position. The African water Association (AFWA) is a professional…
Gulu municipality member of parliament Lyandro Komakech has raised fears that endless power outages in northern Uganda have hampered the development of the most districts in the region even after the end Lord’s Resistance Army insurgencies which left a lot of people in internally displaced camps. Legislator Komakech blamed electricity supplier UMEME for causing a…
His Holiness, Pope Francis, has appointed Fr Joseph Kizito, as the new Bishop of Aliwal in South Africa. Msgr. Joseph Kizito had been the Vicar-General for the Diocese of Aliwal for many years. He had also been responsible for efforts to help stateless children, in the same diocese, acquire their identity documents so that they…
Police in Kampala are hunting for NBS TV Uncut presenter Zahara Toto’s Dinka boyfriend King Solomon Muleesi AKA Big Papa for issuing a bounced cheque of ten million shillings. Big Papa a self proclaimed Tycoon has been going around night clubs and other posh places around Kampala splashing dollars as if is a son of…
Muhoozi with Gilad and Omri First son Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba last week visited the sons of former Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at the family’s ranch in Negev Desert. The Negev is a desert and semi desert region of southern Israel. The region’s largest city and administrative capital is Beersheba, in the north. At…
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on saturday has held a lengthy meeting with the European Union Delegation to Uganda, during which he discussed various issues, among them climatic change, environmental degradation and the 2021 general election. Shortly after the meeting, President Museveni tweeted thus; “Met with the European Union delegation in Uganda led by the EU…
City businessman Desh Kananura’s marriage is soon hitting the dead end after being accused of allegedly turning his wife Sheila Taratibu into a punching bag of sorts, because he clobbers her whenever and wherever he feels like. The shocking revelation was made by Desh’s brother-in-law Emmy Kwizera Taratibu, who assured him to stop brutalising his…
Richard Okello who was teaching at Seeta Junior School, in Mukono district, owned by the Minister for Higher Education Dr Chrysostom Muyingo has been missing for nine days now, after being abducted from the school’s teachers quarters on November 6, 2018 minister Muyingo’s bodyguard. According to his lawyers of Alliance Advocates, Okello was allegedly arrested…
Preparations to host the 10th edition of the Inter Parliamentary Games (IPG) in Uganda are on course, Hon. Gideon Gatpan, the deputy chairperson of the IPG and also a member of the East African Legislative Assembly, has said. According to Gatpan, the 2019 edition of the regional games scheduled to take place from 7 to…
Killing of Bahaa Abu al-Ata in Gaza comes as Palestinian group says its political leader was also targeted in Damascus. An Israeli air strike killed a top commander of the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad in the besieged Gaza Strip on Tuesday and fighters responded by firing a barrage of rockets towards Israel. Islamic Jihad’s armed wing…
