Security has contained a planned Makindye Ssabagabo council meeting after the councilors attempted to demonstrate over what termed continued arrests,detention, torture of opposition members and supporters plus continued hike in fuel prices. About 25 opposition councilors had earlier in the morning converged at Makindye-Ssabagabo council head quarters from Kampala along Entebbe road off Namasuba to…
Secondary school teachers are worried about the amount of work students in senior six need to learn before they sit for national examinations in November. According to the teachers, the students who normally spend the majority of their time in S.6 carrying out revision ahead of the Uganda Advanced Certificate Examinations will now have to…
The government has set February 19 as the date for the burial of the Iteso cultural leader Augustine Osuban Lemukol. Emorimor died on Saturday at Mulago National Referral Hospital where he was admitted since January 27. Before he was referred to Mulago, Emorimor was admitted to the Covid-19 unit in Soroti for nine days. On…
The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has voted Harold Kaija as its flagbearer for the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) race. Kaija was voted on Tuesday during the party’s National Executive Committee-NEC held at its headquarters in Najjanakumbi, Kampala. In a voting exercise was presided over by the FDC Electoral Commission chairman Boniface Toterebuka Bamwenda,…
The State Minister for Investment and Privatization, Evelyn Anite has directed Uganda Investment Authority-UIA to repossess plots of land in Namanve industrial park that have not been utilized by investors. Anite who visited the park on Tuesday noted that five investors who were allocated land at the park have failed to develop the land ten…
History is set to repeat itself as the Opposition in Parliament start a process seeking to censure the Minister of Security, Maj. Gen. Jim Muhwezi for abdicating responsibility in the face of torture of Ugandans by security operatives, which President Museveni himself has repeatedly condemned. This would be the third time Jim Muhwezi faces censure…
The President of Uganda who doubles as the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces has appointed Maj Gen Abel Kandiho as Chief of Joint Staff of Uganda Police Force. According to the UPDF Spokesperson, Maj Gen is replacing Maj Gen Jack Bakasumba who has been appointed the Ugandan Delegate to the South Sudan Peace…
The Deputy Speaker of Parliament Anita Among has revealed that its indeed true Speaker Jacob Oulanyah is sick. Among informed the House on Tuesday that Oulanyah has been unwell for the last two weeks. Without disclosing what her boss is really suffering from, Among added that he was flown out of country last week to…
Police in Mayuge district is investigating circumstances under which six year-old Precious Nayiti, was electrocuted at a retail shop on Monday. It is reported that Nayiti, a resident of Nango trading center in Malongo sub-county, Mayuge district, had been sent to purchase drinking water from a neighboring shop, but she accidentally held on the fridge,…
The Uganda Peoples Defence Forces-UPDF have discovered at least seven mass graves near Kambi Ya Yua in North Kivu, the former stronghold of the rebel group Allied Democratic Forces-ADF. Kambi Ya Yua found in Virunga forest is estimated to have hosted over 500 ADF members. The forces say that the mass graves contained bodies of suspected…
