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How PM Nabbanja Rescued Mother of 7 Jailed Over UGX2.8 Million Debt
Gertrude Nalule, a mother of five with two other dependents has this Monday been released from prison, close to two months after she was jailed for failure to pay a date of 2.88 million Shillings. Additionally, she has been on the verge of losing her home to the moneylender who claims to have bought it…
Byabasaija Orders Prison Warders To Stop Using Phones While On Duty
In the wake of increasing attacks on security personnel, the Commissioner General of Uganda Prisons, Dr. Johnson Byabasaija, has ordered warders and wardresses not to use their mobile phones while on duty. “Staff must not report for duty with phones, for they distract attention and interfere with the level of alertness. The safety and security…
Great: Unique Sounds Ug Mesmerizes Western Uganda With Modern Art Equipment
A new music system has been born in Western Uganda with the State of the art equipment. Unique Sounds Ug based in Ntungamo town is the in thing in Western Uganda with the best music service in the area. They provide public address system and play at wedding ceremonies, birthday parties, introduction ceremonies, live performances…
OP-ED: Those Playing Double Standards In Ham Vs Buganda Case Are Costing Our Kingdom Goodwill
By David Serumaga Kampala: Land disputes in Uganda are escalating every day and are causing a negative impact on our society and the people. One of the major factors fueling these land wrangles are the land professionals in central government and cultural leadership who use their offices to cause confusion in land matters. On 16th…
Big Story: Serena Kigo In Hot Soup! Risks Losing It’s Land Title Over Illegal Trespass
Businessman Hamis Kiggundu alias Ham through Kiham Enterprises, has run to court seeking for the cancellation of a land title created on the contested Kigo land by Buganda Kingdom in favor of Pearl Development Group. The petition addressed to the commissioner land registration looks forward to seeing the contested land titles cancelled claiming that they’re…
OP-ED: I Urgently Need To Inherit Dr Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere’s Big, Black Book
OBITUARY | Alfred Geresom Musamali | Now that former Democratic Party (DP) President-General Dr Paul Kawanga Ssemogere is dead, I urgently need to inherit one of his intellectual property items – to wit, the Big, Black Book in which during the 1980s he conceptualised recording the names of all the perpetrators of human rights abuses in…
Police Fires Teargas At NUP Supporters As They Remember November 2020 Victims
The Police on Friday fired teargas to disperse supporters of the National Unity Platform-NUP political party who had gathered at their party headquarters to remember those killed during the November 2020 riots. Today marks two years since at least 54 people were killed as police and the army tried to quell protests in Kampala and…
Sad News! Former DP President Dr. Paul Kawanga Ssemwogerere Is Dead
The former Democratic Party President Dr Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere is dead. The 90+ year old man breathed his last at his home. According to Wakiso District Chairman Mr Bwanika, Ssemogerere died in the wee hours of November 18, 2022. “Dr. Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere : (11 February 1932- November 18, 2022). KITALO NNYO,” reads a message…
MPs Want Presidential, Parliamentary Polls Conducted Last
Parliament has adopted a recommendation from its Committee on Human Rights that tasked the Electoral Commission to conduct presidential and parliamentary elections last in the cycle. Committee Chairperson, Fox Odoi Oywelowo said the changes will guarantee interest in the local government elections which have historically suffered notoriously low turnout. “The Electoral Commission should organize general…
Good Gesture! Min. Janet Museveni Orders UNEB To Set Special Paper For ’23 PLE Candidates’ Who Missed Paper
First Lady and Education Minister Janet Kataaha Kainembabazi Museveni has directed the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) to set a special Mathematics Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) paper for the 23 P7 candidates of St. Christine Primary School who missed the exam over transport challenges. The PLE set of national exams, comprising four examination papers, was…