Police in Kampala are hunting for a thug who was filmed last week on Thursday 23rd Jan 2020 breaking into a car at Fairway Hotel, from which he stole a video camera and other gadgets belonging to Bukedde scribe Obeid Lutale,attached to parliament. This is the thug who stole the camera The yet to be…
Today marks thirty-four years since the resilient and glorious National Resistance Movement/Army (NRM/A) under the leadership of Yoweri Kaguta Museveni captured Kampala. The battle for Kampala, marked the defeat and retreat of UPC and UNLA remnants, which also ended the reign of terror, uncertainty, and political anguish that accompanied national ruin and state collapse in…
The former Tanzania president Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete has commended President Yoweri Museveni for mentoring a number of leaders on the African continent. Speaking at the 34th NRA/M celebrations at Kagongo Demonstration Primary School in Ibanda District, Kikwete said that President Museveni mentored many into leaderships from his time at University of Dares Es salaam and…
Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) ranger whose photos went viral as he saved a number of women and children from Bundibugyo floods has been awarded with a medal at the 34th NRM Liberation Day celebrations in Ibanda District. Hannington Agaba was among the 95 people rewarded in honor of their heroic acts towards the development, peace…
The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) has passed out 3,000 Local Defence Unit (LDU) personnel who have been undergoing training at Olilim army training school in Katakwi District. They were passed out on Friday by the Deputy Chief of Defence Forces (D/CDF), Lt Gen Wilson Mbasu Mbadi. Lt Gen Mbadi cautioned LDUs against hiring out…
Burundi’s ruling party said Sunday that party leader General Evariste Ndayishimiye will stand as its candidate in a presidential election in May. Ndayishimiye is an ally of current President Pierre Nkurunziza who will not seek a new mandate after his controversial election to a third term in 2015 plunged the country into crisis. Nkurunziza was…
Kyaddondo East legislator and leader of the People Power movement Robert Kyagulanyi has rejected governments recent offer security. This comes a few days after State Minister for Internal Affairs Obiga Kania told MPs on the committee of Defence and Internal Affairs that government had taken extra steps to protect Robert Kyagulanyi because he is a…
National Resistance Movement (NRM) party Secretary General Hon. Justine Kasule Lumumba was entertained to a cold reception from NRM delegates attending the party National Conference at Namboole, forcing President Museveni to intervene and save her from the embarrassment as delegated heckled and chanted in disapproval. Immediately as Lumumba took to the podium to give her…
Thirty-four US service members have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries following theIranian Missile attack on US forces in Iraq earlier this month, Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said Friday. Seventeen service members who were injured have since returned to duty in Iraq, sixteen of whom were treated locally in the country. Nine service members are…
The Deputy Chief of Uganda (DCJ) and Head of both the Court of Appeal and Constitutional Courts, on Friday, suggested to Parliament, that the 65 year age limit imposed by the Constitution on a High Court Judge’s tenure of office be lifted. The DCJ, Hon. Justice Owiny Dollo, was speaking at a handover ceremony on…
