UPDF’s Deputy Chief of Defense Intelligence and Security, Brig. Abdul Rugumayo has challenged legal officers to desist from soliciting for deployment opportunities, but rather focus on career growth. While presiding over the pass out of legal officers at the legal training center-LTC in Jinja City on Saturday, Rugumayo argues that, opportunities await only for those…
Vice President Maj. (Rtd) Jessica Alupo arrived in Seoul, South Korea on Sunday, June 2, 2024, to represent President Yoweri Museveni at the first-ever Korea-Africa Summit. The summit, scheduled for June 4 to 5, 2024, is themed “The Future We Make Together: Shared Growth, Sustainability, and Solidarity” and aims to foster a mutually beneficial, sustainable,…
The diplomatic protocol and the demands of the presidential dress-code leave a narrow margin of freedom to express oneself freely. Nandala Mafabi has the best taste when choosing what to wear to take charge of this country, Uganda. He is a powerful man who accessorizes political acumen with perfect tailoring and his idiosyncratic touch. Mafabi…
Dispatch In a shocking turn of events, John Babirukamu, a seasoned digital marketing specialist and General Manager at Hedge Marketing, tragically passed away on Friday, May 31, 2024, at the age of 40, in what appears to be a case of suicide. Reports indicate that Mr. Babirukamu committed suicide by jumping off from the fifth…
The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission and Head of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), Ambassador Mohamed Al-Amine Souef, visited the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) troops at the Ceel Jaale Forward Operating Base in Somalia today to assess the security situation and brief them on the upcoming…
Police has halted opposition party the National Unity Platform consultative meetings after a fatal accident occurred near St Lawrence College, Maya, along Kampala Masaka Highway,leading to the loss of lives of three people and many others injured. The injured were taken to medical facilities yet to be identified by police. The accident involved 02 motor…
There was drama at Mpigi High Court on 28th May 2024 when the resident judge Justice Anthony Oyuko is visibly angry that a litigant had written to him to step down from hearing his case because of bias. The judge took two hours denigrating and berating a lawyer for representing such a client despite the…
The Supreme Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei has addressed to American students in an open letter, hailing their courageous move to stand in solidarity with the oppressed Palestinians. In this letter, Imam Khamenei talks about the issue of Palestine and refers to the overwhelming support of students for Palestinians and their…
Members of Parliament sitting in the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) were left in shock after it emerged that Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital does not have a single delivery bed. Officials from the hospital, led by Dr John Bosco Nsubuga, the Acting Director, and Richard Tumwesigye, the Senior Hospital Administrator, appeared before the committee on Tuesday,…
Uganda’s participants in the upcoming 13th Field Training Exercise, “Ushirikiano Imara,” have been urged to demonstrate the country’s capabilities in peacekeeping missions fully. The participants are currently undergoing an induction exercise at the Non-Commissioned Officers Academy in Gaddafi Barracks, Jinja. The 13th East African Field Training Exercise, scheduled to take place in Rwanda in June,…
