FUFA CEO Mr. Edgar Watson and his Deputy Mr. Sam Bakiika are in South Africa at the Nelson Mandel University-Port Elizabeth attending the FIFA Executive Programme for African General Secretaries and Top FIFA Forward Staff. The duo is undergoing the two more modules in areas of strategic planning and project management (module 3), marketing and…
Singer Rema Namakula introduced her new man Dr. Hamza Ssebunya to her parents in a lavish ceremony in Nabbigo. Reports indicated that the singer sold one of her cars to facilitate the luxurious functions. The ‘Gutujja’ singer is in debts worth millions of shillings. She has been working non-stop, accepting every gig in order to…
The Catholic Church in Uganda is mourning the death of the retired Bishop of Moroto Diocese, Henry Ssentongo. Bishop Ssentongo died at the age of 83 on Wednesday night at Nsambya Hospital in Kampala. The sad news has been confirmed by the Secretary General of Uganda Episcopal Conference, Msgr. John Baptist Kauta in a phone…
The police disciplinary standby court at Police Headquarters, has found 8 officers guilty, after they neglected to promptly and diligently attend to their duty on the night of the 28/08/2019 and 29/08/2019. One officer was additionally charged, with discreditable conduct when he failed to professionally attend to the relatives of kidnap victims, Maria Nagirinya and…
A Texas man who killed a prison officer was executed late Wednesday, bringing to 22 the number of people put to death in the US this year. Travis Runnels, 46, was pronounced dead at 7:26 pm (0126 GMT), the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said, after a lethal injection at Huntsville prison north of Houston.…
Activist Godber Tumushabe has said that it is very insidious to give the impression that Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine breaks the law “What the regime has done is excel in adjusting the law to the extent that when you adjust to act within the law, you are seen to be breaking…
Christopher Aine, former aide to former presidential contestant John Pactrick Amama Mbabazi has pleaded guilty to charges of distracting traffic flow and obstruction of a police officer. The 36 year old has been produced before Buganda road court grade one magistrate Stella Amabilisi but pleaded not guilty to other three charges including maliciously damaging a…
The government of Iran has revealed plans to start manufacturing tractors in Uganda. The Iranian Ambassador to Uganda, H.E Seyed Morteza Mortazavi, told the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, that a team of Iranian manufacturers had visited different stakeholders in Uganda earlier this year, and was moved by the potential the country possesses in the…
Parliament has passed a motion to inquire into the conduct of the Uganda People’s Defense Force (UPDF). Sponsored by MP Paul Mwiru (FDC, Jinja Municipality East), the motion received unanimous support, save for Local Government Minister Col Tom Butime and Brig Gen Flavia Byekwaso (UPDF). Debate on alleged torture by the army has been amplified…
Tycoon Kirumira Brian aka Bryan White has dragged to courts of law the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party chairman for Eastern Uganda, Captain Mike Mukula. In November this year, police raided Bryan White’s Buziga home in Makindye and arrested him. He was taken to CID headquarters in Kibuli over alleged debts amounting to Shs1bn.…
