Sixteen passengers have been confirmed dead after a moving bus knocked a trailer along Kampala-Gulu highway. Eye witnesses say a bus registration number UAT 259P which belongs to Roblyn bus company was traveling from Kampala to Gulu before it rammed into a stationary trailer that was loading at Adebe trading center. The same has been…
Two Justices of the Appellate Court have directed Daily Monitor newspaper to compensate Pius Bigirimana, a total sum of shs 450 million as damages for defaming him in a series of articles published on several dates between 2012 and 2015. Bigirimana by that time served as Permanent Secretary to the Office of the Prime Minister…
By: Andama Richard Former RDC Yumbe, 2019 – 2021 It is exactly 37 months, as Ugandans are already preparing for another cycle / set of general elections come 2026. Everywhere, you see President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni appearing, endorsements are seen as a sign of political roadmap for 2026. The Office of the National Chairman (ONC)…
Seven people have been confirmed dead while thirty are severely injured in an accident that occurred the morning of December 30th 2022, along Ntungamo-Kabale Highway. The incident follows a head-on collision between two buses. The accident involved Volcano bus reg. no. RAD CO 798B that was coming from Rwanda and Oxygen bus reg. no. KCU…
One of the babies previously dumped at Mbarara Referral Hospital by an anonymous mother has passed on. This was confirmed by Mr. Halson Kagure the Mbarara Referral Hospital Public Relations Officer on December 29, 2022. Kagure informed this website that a four months baby girl was picked by a hospital cleaner while collecting garbage around…
Kampala: A top Kampala software engineer has come out to share with Ugandans his ‘frustrating and exploiting’ experience with Airtel Uganda Data bundles alleged ‘fraud’. Mr Tito [not real name, prefers anonymity] who was once Airtel Uganda’s proud customer is now spitting venom after company allegedly chopped his Ugx 750,000 via multiple monthly data bundle…
The appointment early this month of Patrick Ayota as caretaker Managing Director at the National Social Security Fund (NSSF), was supposed to be a temporary measure to allow the board and appointing authority to conclude on either reinstating Richard Byarugaba as head or name a new chief. A decision on the appointment of (the) Fund’s…
President Yoweri Museveni last week received a Special Envoy from the President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, His Excellency Brahim Ghali who paid a courtesy call on him at State House Entebbe. The Special Envoy, His Excellency Mohamed Salem Ould Salek conveyed to President Museveni warm greetings from the President of the Sahrawi Arab…
By Denis JJjuuko Kampala: A friend always prefers to support small businesses in his neighbourhood near Kampala. He shops from small shops and kiosks. Many times, he patronizes the small bar near his home. When a somewhat modern salon opened up in his neighbourhood, he ditched the guys who had cut his hair for more…
By Andrew Mwenda: Kampala: There has grown and consolidated a depressing mindset in our country that for anything good to happen, government must be the one to do it. This mindset is most pronounced among the educated who have been fed onto this ideology of the state as Santa Claus. Visit social media and you…
