Activist Godber Tumushabe has said that it is very insidious to give the impression that Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine breaks the law “What the regime has done is excel in adjusting the law to the extent that when you adjust to act within the law, you are seen to be breaking…
Christopher Aine, former aide to former presidential contestant John Pactrick Amama Mbabazi has pleaded guilty to charges of distracting traffic flow and obstruction of a police officer. The 36 year old has been produced before Buganda road court grade one magistrate Stella Amabilisi but pleaded not guilty to other three charges including maliciously damaging a…
The government of Iran has revealed plans to start manufacturing tractors in Uganda. The Iranian Ambassador to Uganda, H.E Seyed Morteza Mortazavi, told the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, that a team of Iranian manufacturers had visited different stakeholders in Uganda earlier this year, and was moved by the potential the country possesses in the…
Parliament has passed a motion to inquire into the conduct of the Uganda People’s Defense Force (UPDF). Sponsored by MP Paul Mwiru (FDC, Jinja Municipality East), the motion received unanimous support, save for Local Government Minister Col Tom Butime and Brig Gen Flavia Byekwaso (UPDF). Debate on alleged torture by the army has been amplified…
Tycoon Kirumira Brian aka Bryan White has dragged to courts of law the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party chairman for Eastern Uganda, Captain Mike Mukula. In November this year, police raided Bryan White’s Buziga home in Makindye and arrested him. He was taken to CID headquarters in Kibuli over alleged debts amounting to Shs1bn.…
A panel of five Constitutional court judges has dismissed an application by four time presidential candidate Dr Kizza Besigye asking court to nullify the offense of unlawful assembly in the Penal code Act. The panel comprising five Justices Kenneth Kakuru, Cheborion Barishaki, Elizabeth Musoke, Steven Musota and Geoffrey Kiryabwire delivered its verdict Thursday morning. On…
Uganda and South Africa have appreciated the role played by sharing intelligence information in neutralizing global challenges. This was discussed in a meeting between the South African Chief of Defence in charge of Intelligence (CDI) Lt Gen Jeremiah Nyembe and UPDF Chief Of Military Intelligence and Security Brig Gen Abel Kandiho. In a meeting attended…
Among the over 8,000 students who graduated from Kyambogo university on Wednesday, Allan Kajik, the husband to State Minister for Privatisation and Investment Evelyn Anite. Uganda Radio Network [URN] reported that Kajik was among the 151 masters degree graduands at 16th Graduation Ceremony. To the awe of onlookers, when Kajik’s name was read, an overexcited…
President Yoweri Museveni has expressed his condolences to victims and relatives of Ugandans who were affected by mudslides in parts of Eastern and Western Uganda last week. Museveni passed on his condolences in a statement published on his social media accounts on Tuesday, in which he revealed that government will do everything possible to relocate…
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this year, mainly for the 2018 deal he reached with Eritrea to end a long-running border conflict. In accepting the prize in Oslo on Tuesday, Abiy insisted the prize also belonged to his “partner and comrade in peace, President Isaias Afwerki, whose goodwill trust…
