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The Buganda Road court chief Magistrate His Worship Douglas Singiza, has granted former presidential candidate Dr Kizza Besigye, who is leading a pressure group of the People’s Front for Transition and Samuel Walter Lubega Mukaku cash bail of Ugx 2.5 million. The magistrates court in Kampala had earlier refused to grant Besigye and Mukaku bail…
Buganda Kingdom’s Lukiiko has approved a budget totaling 157.84 billion Shillings to support different activities of the monarchy in the coming financial year 2022/2023. The budget was approved following its presentation by the Kingdom Minister of Finance, Robert Waggwa Nsibirwa. The new budget under the theme, “Enhancing Service Delivery to the People As a United…
The National Unity Platform has lashed out at the Electoral Commission for suspending the women council and committee elections over lack of funds. According to NUP spokesperson Joel Ssenyonyi, the suspension of the women council and committee elections may be a well-orchestrated plan by the ruling NRM to prevent the NUP party from winning these…
President Yoweri Museveni has given a small, five-month window to the Democratic Governance Facility (DGF), a major funder of civil society organisations in Uganda, to operate. But does that mean the end of DGF, whose activities were suspended last year, or is another strategy by the President to beat the NGOs into line? Museveni announced…
Information from opposition corridors of power indicates that National Unity Platform ‘NUP’ party president Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine is secretly fronting Hon.Flavia Kalule Nabagabe for the post of Leader of Opposition (LOP) in parliament in a bid to replace Hon. Mathias Mpuuga. Insiders say Kalule has secretly been nursing ambitions to unseat the…
Court of Appeal has upheld the victory of National Unity Platform (NUP)’s Joyce Bagala as the validly elected Woman Member of Parliament for Mityana District. Three Justices of the appellate court led by Geofrey Kiryabwire set aside the Mubende High Court decision that had nullified Bagala’s victory on grounds that there was noncompliance with the…
Thousands of Rwandans lined up on the roadsides from Katuna border to Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda, to welcome President Museveni, who is on a four-day visit to attend the 26th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Chogm). Mr Museveni is expected to also meet Rwanda President Paul Kagame to strengthen ties and find solutions…
National Unity Platform (NUP) secretary general Lewis Rubongoya has been arrested. Rubongoya was arrested from Wandegeya with his driver Agaba Gordon. He has been on wanted list with police claiming his car committed a crime during the recently concluded by-election in Omoro. “They were briefly arrested at Wandegeya Police station and later the Secretary General…
A faction of the National Unity Platform (NUP) led by Moses Kibalama the party Chairman has banned Hon Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobiwine from calling himself NUP party president, using the party stamp and symbol. Tugume Gideon the Secretary for Information said during the launch of the NUP offices in Chuch Zone Kabowa in Lubaga Division.…
The latest information reveals that Moses Nkonge Kibalama, the purportedly elected President of the National Unity Platform and the Secretary General Simbwa Kagombe have opened new party headquarters in Rubaga division. This comes after NUP defacto leaders wrote to the Electoral Commission and the European Union in Uganda, notifying them on change of leadership in…
