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Bumper To Bumper: Jimmy Akena Warns NRM Against Rigging As Oyam North Goes Into Polls On Thursday By-Election
The Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) president Jimmy Akena has demanded impartiality and vigilance from voters and electoral Commission ahead of Thursday Oyam North by-election. Akena said that there are plans to rig the polls in favour of the National Resistance Movement candidate but said he will follow them bumber to bumber to avert such schemes.“I…
Bushenyi: Administrators Decry Underfunding Of Schools Under U.S.E
To boost the literacy rates in Uganda, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Government under President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni introduced Universal Secondary Education (USE) policy to enhance enrolment at the secondary level in February 2007. Under this policy, every government school is supported with a quarterly grant that is determined by the number of students in…
Oyam North By-election: 2 UPC Leaders Arrested Over Voter Bribery
The Oyam Central Police Station has apprehended two individuals on suspicion of engaging in voter bribery. “Today, on the 6th of July 2023, at approximately 6:10 hours, police officers deployed to provide security in Otwal Sub-County intercepted Ocen Ronald, a 31-year-old resident of Minakulu Town Council, and Ogwal Robert, a 46-year-old resident of Kut Odongo…
Brand Africa Back To Award Top 100 Performing Brands In Africa
The popular annual Brand Africa 100 Awards are back, bigger and better this year and are scheduled to be held on July 11th, 2023, at Golden Tulip Canaan Hotel, Kampala. The Brand Africa Awards aim at recognizing, appreciating and awarding the best 100 companies across Africa, in a bid to acknowledge their endless efforts at…
Wanted: Col Lutaaya Runs Into Hiding As Court Remands Makindye Chairperson Over Theft,Malicious Damages
Court in Makindye has remanded Local Council one ‘LC1’Chairman of Klezia zone one Mr Chrizestoma Wakayamba to Luzira prison following his arrest on charges of theft and malicious damage of property. Wakayamba appeared before Magistrate John Okipi Robert,on Thursday 6 July 2023 afternoon and pleaded not guilty to charges. On court documents, Wakayamba is charged…
City Lawyer Kwesiga Bateyo Ordered To Cough Shs 86m Over Fraudulent Land Transaction
City lawyer Kenneth Kwesiga Bateyo has been ordered by Buganda Road Chief Magistrate’s court to Shs 86 million or be jailed for 3 years over his involvement in a fraudulent land transaction. The same court also sentenced businessman George William Salongo Kagwa and land broker Chrispus Sali in the same matter. Court found the trio…
WSO Advocates For Sustainable Coffee Production In Uganda
Director of the World Sustainability Organization, Paolo Bray has made an urgent appeal to the government and farming community in Uganda, for coffee farming and production to be made more sustainable.He stressed Uganda risks losing its position as one of the world’s major coffee producers, if immediate action is not taken.Coffee is one of the…
Hajjat Hadijah Namyalo Uzeiye: Uganda’s Only Hope To Fully Eradicate Poverty Is By Embracing and Supporting The Parish Development Model
By Hajjat Hadijah Namyalo Uzeiye Kampala: The President of Uganda H.E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni thought of how to fully eradicate poverty and initiated the Parish Development Model which was the main strategy in the NRM manifesto. He sought how to lift the country’s annual GDP growth rate to at least 7% by 2040 – up…
Education Giants: Parental Care Primary & Nursery School Wins Inter-Schools Debate Completion
Western Uganda-based Parental Care Primary and Nursery School, located in Bushenyi District, has emerged victorious in this year’s Inter-Schools Poetry and Debate Competitions, which were held at St Leo’s Kyegobe High School in Fort Portal City. The competitions, which were held on Saturday, July 8, 2023, and organised by Rwenzori Debate Forum, together with Kawanda…
Residents Task IGP Ochola To Discipline Tuba OC ASP Mugumya For Supretending Over Demolition Of Women Piggery Project
The angry residents of Tuba zone,Kyanja in Nakawa division have asked the inspector general of police Martin Okoth Ochola to intervene in a matter Where a group of machete holding men led by a one Deus Turinawe ,a chairperson alongside his defence secretary accompanied by other goons destroyed the piggery project and slashed the crops…