After announcing that he will not be participating in the 2021 presidential polls, former Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) president Dr Kizza Besigye has said that his next move is to fight for those who feel oppressed in their own country. The opposition strongman announced that his plan B will focus on ousting the incumbent…
A primary teacher in Kamuli district has taken his own life allegedly due to accumulated debts. Jimmy Buyonga, 32, a teacher at Kasambira Preparatory primary school in Bugulumbya sub-county in eastern Uganda hanged himself at the school premises. Rose Namukose, a resident of Bukapere village, where the school is located, says that the school has…
The Uganda Police Operations Director, AIGP Edward Ochom has ordered all territorial commanders countrywide to strictly enforce the Covid19 guidelines given by the Ministry of Health and arrest whoever violates them without fail. He communicated through a memo seen by this website and copied to all Regional and District police commanders as well as officers…
City businessman Moses Kalungi Alias Bill Gates the proprietor of Kalungi Plaza has exchanged bitter with a Uganda Police Force Force Officer for arresting him and family on allegations of evicting a tenant from his building. The worse happened yesterday evening after police on orders of ACP Olugu Francis arrested and detained Kalungi, his wife…
When Uganda announced the first case of Covid-19 in March, companies continuously donated food, cash and relief items to help meet the needs of those who have been denied an opportunity to earn a living due to the limitations imposed by the effort to curb the spread of the lethal virus. While these philanthropic efforts…
Nakaseke South MP Paulson Ssemakula Lutamaguzi has been charged and remanded to Wanyato government prison up-to September 3, 2020. On Wednesday, police arrested Luttamaguzi and scores of his supporters over a planned political rally.He has been charged with doing an act likely to spread Covid-19. The situation comes amid public anger over a number of…
The president of Uganda HE Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has declared the national prayer day a public holiday all over the country. In a statement released on his social media platforms on Thursday, August, 27, the president noted thus.. A certain Ugandan came to me and told me that God had told him in a vision that…
A group of orphans whose parents perished 20 years ago in March 2000 in a cult massacre have petitioned the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga over being denied access to their parents’ burial site and an investigation report into the incident. Chairing the plenary sitting, Kadaga said that Parliament in July 2019 resolved to have…
Police is Investigating circumstances where Five more people have drowned in Lake Bunyonyi, barely a week after three people drowned in the same lake. Mr. Elly Matte the Kigezi region police spokesman identified the deceased as Grolia Tuhimbise, her children, Shanitah Ruhangariyo 1 and half years and Sandra Kyokusiima, 10 months, all residents of Karambo…
The troubled commercial DFCU Bank of Uganda, is nursing five (5) COVID-19 infections from its staff at Lugogo Branch leaving both the management and customers at high risk of contracting the virus. According to the statement released by the Bank management, the affected staff have been accorded the requisite medical and psychosocial support and the…
