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Motorists Slapped With UGX2 Million Fine For Overspeeding In New Traffic and Road Safety Amendment Act
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has signed into law the Traffic and Road Safety Amendment Bill 2023 increasing the fine from Shs200,000 to Shs2m for motorists driving beyond the prescribed speed limit. According to the government, the move is intended to restore sanity and reduce on-road carnage on Uganda’s roads. The revelation was made yesterday during…
How It Happened As Uganda, South Sudan Seal Electricity Export Deal
Uganda and South Sudan have signed a Power Sales Agreement (PSA) for trade in electricity between the two countries. Trading of electricity across the border is expected to benefit the towns of Oraba and Elegu in Uganda, and Kaya and Nimule in South Sudan. The signing of the sales agreements comes at a time when…
Govt Moves To Revive Cooperative Bank
Plans are underway to revive the Cooperative Bank, this is according to the State Minister for Cooperatives Fred Gume Ngoobi. Speaking at the launch of national celebrations to mark the International Cooperative Week at Lake Victoria Primary School- Entebbe, Ngoobi said a Cabinet paper to that effect has already been drawn and tabled. The Cooperative…
FARUK KIRUNDA: Leaders Without Cadreship To Blame For Kasese Massacre
The June 16 attack on Lhubiriha Secondary School in Mpondwe, Kasese, at the border with DRC, was a tragedy waiting to happen. This is despite the great assurances that Ugandans generally enjoy in terms of peace, tranquillity and security. In the military, they say that when there is peace, that’s when you train harder so…
‘Uganda Is Capable Of Feeding Over 200 Million People’- Museveni
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has stated that the country has the potential to feed over 200 million people, citing the fertile land and increasing technical know-how of the population. During a meeting with officials from the Presidential Advisory Committee on Exports and Industrial Development, Museveni emphasized the importance of Uganda’s agricultural sector, which produces a…
ONC Boss Uzeiye Delivers President Museveni’s Eid Food Packages To Muslim Community
The Office of the National Chairman Manager who doubles as the Senior Presidential Advisor- Political Affairs Hajjat Hadijah Namyalo Uzeiye has slaughtered four cows that she accompanied with food packages and served Muslim communities in Kampala-Metropolitan and parts of Busoga sub-region. Multitudes of people flooded the ONC – Headquarters in Kyambogo to receive the Eid…
‘Don’t Relax, You Are Entitled To Benefit From All Available Gov’t Programs’- ONC Boss Uzeiye Tips Kampala Ghetto Youths on Their Graduation
The Head of Office of the National Chairman NRM-Kyambogo SPA/PA Hajjat Hadijah Namyalo Uzeiye has presided over the graduation ceremony of Ghetto Youths trained by the Government of Uganda through the Makerere University Research and Innovation Fund under a project named “KAMPALA GHETTO YOUTH TRAINING FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL PROMOTION (KGYTEP). We’ve learnt that the training was…
Speaker Among Demands Report Into Murder Of Five Family Members In Masaka
Speaker of Parliament Anita Among has directed the Minister of Internal Affairs to expedite investigations into the killing of five members of the same family in Bukoto County, Masaka District, on June 23, 2023. Ms Among said the incident is one of the rising killings in the country that have left citizens in fear. She…
Ugandan Man Working In Europe Left Speechless After DNA Confirms All 6 Children Are Not His
A Ugandan man who works in Europe has been left devastated after finding out that the six children he has been providing for and educating in international schools are not his. The man, whose identity has been concealed, has now applied for the cancellation of the children’s passports as he files for divorce with his…
Oyam North: Dr.Eunice Rocks Iceme S/C As 20 NUP Members Cross To UPC
Monday afternoon, 26th June 2023, Dr. Eunice Otuko Apio the UPC Candidate for Oyam County North by-election painted Iceme Sub county red on her Day 4 of campaigns as supporters were chanting her name and UPC at the rally. In the course of speeches, the Party Secretary General Hon. Fred Ebil and Branch Structure Leaders…