Uganda’s power distribution company, Umeme Ltd, is hopeful that the electricity connection policy suspended earlier this month could be restored between June 2021 and June 2022, but this will depend on the success of the current efforts to get funding. The free connection policy, launched in 2018 was aimed at connecting 300,000 customers per year,…
Insurrectionists aiming to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election sent Washington, DC, into chaos on Wednesday, stormed past police barricades into the Capitol building and shutting down a congressional session intended to formally certify Joe Biden’s victory. Inside the House of Representatives chamber, a protester screamed, “Trump won that election!” from the dais. Private…
Judiciary has cautioned four Law Development Centre (LDC) students who were caught in a video dancing to “Tumbiza Sound’. They recorded the video at Civil Division of High Court premises in Kampala. Commercial Court’s Justice on Duty, Lady Justice Anne Mugenyi, described the act as “unprofessional and unethical”. They are part of the 18 students…
President Yoweri Museveni has said that the NRM made developing Uganda an easy job for everyone to see. The President was speaking after flagging off the reconstruction of the 86km Mityana-Mubende road and the upgrading of roads in Mityana municipality on Wednesday. “Developing a country is not an easy job but NRM made it easy.…
Police at Jinja Road in Kampala are holding one Adome Jeremy/Ojok Jeremiah, 36, for allegedly stealing over 80,000 USD (over Shs300m) from Room number 107 at Speke Apartments, Wampewo. The money allegedly stolen belonged to socialite Sheila Don Zella alias Sheila Nandege, 36, who had booked the apartment for 30 days on the December 5th…
More than 10,000 families in six villages in Kigorobya sub-county in Hoima district are on the verge of being evicted forcefully from their ancestral land. The affected families are from Kigomba, Kyamucumba, Kalyambuzi, Kyataruga, Kamugembe 1 and Kyamugembe 2 villages. The residents are feuding with Edgar Agaba, a prominent businessman in Hoima city who is…
National Resistance Movement (NRM) mobiliser Ibrahim Mayanja aka Big Eye’s baby mama Nalongo Sheila Nandege aka Don Zella is in hot soup over allegations that she was robbed of property worth millions of shillings while at tycoon Sudhir Ruparelia’s Speke Apartments, along Wampewo Avenue, in Kampala. Trouble for Don Zella, who is one of Kampala’s…
Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) that include the Network of Women in Politics ( NOWIP), Uganda Media Women’s Association (UMWA) and the Democratic Governance Facility (DGF) have launched an online platform called “Nowip Press”, which will be used to promote the political affiliations of Women in Uganda, in a bid to promote the inclusion gender equality…
Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) court martial has sentenced a soldier to 101 years in prison for murder. The army field court led by Lt. Col Emmanuel Mwesigwa on Tuesday handed a lengthy sentence to private Bobson Amutuheirize on three accounts of murder for 101 years for each and 60 years for each of the…
Prior to the match in Yaounde on Monday, the big talk was on two old friends Uganda Cranes head coach Johnathan McKinstry and Zambia’s Chipolopolo Milutin Micho Sredojevic. Both coaches had targets to hit in this match. McKinstry came out on top with Uganda Cranes winning 2-0 against Zambia. Vianne Sekajugo and Steven Mukwala netted…
