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People Power Movt Will Vanish Before 2021 Elections-Gen. Ali
First Deputy Prime Minister of Uganda Gen Moses Ali has described himself as the cock of West Nile and warned People Power Movement that it has no future. “Every home has a cock and that cock is in charge of the home. West Nile has a cock and he is speaking right now,” he sent…
Serial Killer Arinaitwe Life Imprisonment Quashed To 24 years
Convicted Serial Killer Richard Arinaitwe’s Life Imprisonment Sentence has been reduced to 24 years! In February, Arinaitwe petitioned the Court of Appeal to quash his life sentence. He has spent more than 20 years in Luzira prisons for the murder of an American Volunteer Cecilia Goetz, at Hotel Equatorial in Kampala, on July 28th 1998.…
Ponytail Revita Signs For KCCA FC
John Orenia Revita has inked a two-year deal with two times CECAFA Clubs Cup Champions KCCA FC. The former Express FC Captain’s sign on fee is undisclosed but his contract runs from August 2019 to August 2021. The ponytail Uganda Cranes defender arguably one of the best passers of the ball in the local league…
Opposition Cant Win Elections In Uganda Over My Dead Body-Gen Tumwine
The Minister for Security, General Elly Tumwine, who is under scrutiny by the Rules, Privileges and Discipline Committee, has said the lies peddled by opposition MPs Cecilia Ogwal and Godfrey Katushabe show that opposition will never rule Uganda. ”Its because of such lies that opposition in Uganda cant win elections because people understand who they…
Those Who Genetically Mutilate Women Should Not Enjoy Sex-Min.Mutuuzo
Legislators have tasked government to increase efforts to end Female Genital Mutilation, warning that the practice will persist, if not addressed. The MPs called on government to put emphasis on setting up a special fund for women involved in the practice as a way of having them leave it, fast track strategies to address FGM…
African Leaders Must Scrap Off Visas Across The Continent-Kadaga
The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has called on African countries to abolish the issuance of visas to enable free movement of people across the continent. The free movement of persons, according to Kadaga, will facilitate Africans to ply their trade across the continent which is a prospective market. Reacting to the resolutions reached at…
Rwandan General Secretly Chairs East Africa Armed Forces In Kampala
Representatives from the Military, Police, Prisons, civilian components and other stakeholders from all the six East Africa Community (EAC) partner states are meeting at Silver Springs Hotel in Kampala to discuss modalities of conducting the 12th Edition Command Post Exercise (CPX) codenamed Ushirikiano Imara 2019 in Uganda. The main planning conference (MPC) is chaired by…
Vice President, Prime Minister Positions Should Be Repealed -MP Niwagaba
Ndorwa East MP, Hon Wilfred Niwagaba has sought the leave of Parliament to table a Constitution Amendment Bill which seeks to scrap the position of Vice President and Prime Minister, among a cocktail of other proposals. The objects of the Constitution Amendment Bill 2019, outlines its ambitious intentions. Key in the proposed amendments is the…
Ugandan MPs Decry Of Restricted Movements To Partner States
The possession of passports and visas should not be a preserve of a few if Africa is to make advances for a peaceful, prosperous and integrated continent, experts have told Members of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) sitting in Midrand, South Africa. With major restrictions on freedom of movement of persons firmly entrenched in national laws…
Footballer Serunkuma Signs For KCCA
Simon Peter Serunkuma has signed for KCCA FC on a two-year deal from August 2019 to August 2021 on an undisclosed fee. Serunkuma’s joins the 13 times Uganda premier League Champions from Tooro United FC where he played for a year. He has previously played for Victors FC, SC Villa, Express, Bunamwaya and Vipers.…