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Ethiopian PM Abiy Receives Controversial Nobel Peace Prize

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this year, mainly for the 2018 deal he reached with Eritrea to end a long-running border conflict. In accepting the prize in Oslo on Tuesday, Abiy insisted the prize also belonged

December 11, 2019

News

Kanyamunyu Brothers Murder Case Flops, Pushed To 2020

Hearing of a murder case against the Kanyamunyu brothers in the High court has been scheduled to start next year in January. Mathew Kanyamunyu and two others are accused of murdering child activist, Kenneth Akena in November 2016. Kanyamunyu is jointly charged alongside

December 11, 2019

Lifestyle

NRM SG Lumumba Remarries Embattled Husband

Justine Kasule Lumumba, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Secretary General, has today renewed her marriage vows with husband Patrick Lumumba. Our Spy reveals that the Lumumbas renewed their marital vows at a magnificent ceremony that was held at Rubaga Cathedral on Wednesday

December 11, 2019

News

Preserve NRA Bush War Liberators Achievements -Gen Muhoozi Cautions Soldiers

The UPDF Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Gen David Muhoozi has re-echoed the joint commitment to preserve the achievements of the country’s security agencies. This was contained in a speech read for him by Maj Gen Sam Kiwanuka who represented the CDF

December 11, 2019

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Brig.Charles Okidi Takes Over Mantle As Air force Chief Of Staff

Brig Gen Charles Okidi has taken over the office of Chief Of Staff of Uganda Air Force from Maj Gen Paul Lokech who has been assigned special tasks in South Sudan. The ceremony was Presided over by the Commander Air forces, Lt

December 11, 2019

Politics

Clerics Storm Kadaga’s Office Over Rearrests And Torture Of Muslim Suspects

Muslim leaders under the Kampala District Council of Imams have sought Speaker Rebecca Kadaga’s help in having an end to re-arrest of bailed Muslim suspects. The leaders, in a petition presented by their spokesman Mr Ali Kinobe, said Muslim suspects are highhandedly

December 11, 2019

Crime·News

LDU Official Guns Down A Colleague In Kisekka Market Operation

Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) is investigating a case in which a Local Defence Unit (LDU) personnel reportedly shot dead his colleague in Kisekka Market. The LDU Spokesperson, Major Umar Katamba, said the LDU personnel, whose identities haven’t been disclosed was killed

December 11, 2019

Politics

FDC Starts Filling Vacant Grass root Positions For 2021 Elections

Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has launched a campaign aimed at mobilising its supporters countrywide to fill all vacant positions in the FDC party grassroot structures ahead of the 2021 General Election. The former FDC national treasurer, Mr Jack Sabiiti, told Daily

December 11, 2019

News

Uganda’s First Black Health Minister Passes On At 103

Uganda first indigenous Health Minister, Dr Emmanuel Bijugo Ssajjalyabeene Lumu is dead. Dr. Lumu breathed his last at his residence in Bakuli in Kampala on Wednesday morning aged 103 years. His daughter, Vivian Kityo, says her father died in the early hours

December 11, 2019

Hot News

Scandal As NWSC Managers Share Billions In Procurement Of Fake Water Billing Meters

Officials of the National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) have come under fire after allegedly procuring a large consignment of water supply meters which have since turned out to be fake, yet they cost government hundreds of millions of Shillings. According to

December 11, 2019