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The High court in Kampala has dismissed the election petition against Kawempe North MP, Muhammad Ssegirinya after the petitioner’s lawyers confirmed that they had not served Ssegirinya with the petition as he was in Kitalya Prison where he had been remanded. This comes after Electoral Commission (EC) had on Wednesday asked the court to dismiss…
President Yoweri Museveni has declined to assent to the Sexual Offences Bill, together with the Succession Amendment Bill passed by the Tenth Parliament earlier this year. The Sexual Offences Bill which was presented before parliament by former Kumi Woman MP Monica Amoding provides for the criminalization of a range of sexual offences such as indecent…
Zambia’s opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema has emerged as the winner in the Aug. 12 presidential election, beating incumbent President Edgar Lungu. Electoral Commission of Zambia Chairperson Justice Esau Chulu declared the result in the early hours of Monday after full and thorough scrutiny of the votes from 155 out of 156 constituencies. The Capital Times…
Kawempe North legislator honourable Ssegirinya Muhammad has yet again come up with another project for his constituents dubbed ‘The Bus Project’. Through his social media handles, the legislator has revealed that before the end of September, Kawempe North bus will be in place operating. He further thanked Ugandans who live in Amsterdam and it is…
Controversial city lawyer Male Mabirizi Kiwanuka has dragged President Yoweri Museveni to court for abandoning his new name, Tibuhaburwa that he formally adopted in 2020. On October 6, 2020 during the presidential campaigns, Museveni swore a declaration to rectify his names and have them written in proper order in accordance with the law on the…
The Inter Party Organisation for Dialogue-IPOD has appealed to the government to lift the suspension of the Democratic Governance Facility-DGF, a consortium of donor for good governance programs in Uganda. President Yoweri Museveni wrote to the Ministry of Finance in February last year to halt the facility and accused the Permanent Secretary of irregularly and…
Former Members of Parliament on committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) are being accused by city landlords of witch-hunt in the ongoing row involving properties of Departed Asians. According to Eagle Online news website, the new MPs are finding it hard in implementing some of the resolutions passed by the former legislators…
Members of Parliament have vehemently rejected a proposal tabled by Zombo district womanMP Esther Afoyo Chan requesting each legislator to contributes 2 million shillings towards the procurement of COVID-19 vaccines to help school-going children. The proposal did not last for a minute after being rejected by members of parliament with the Packwach woman mp Jane…
The Foreign Affairs State Minister Henry Okello Oryem says that Ugandans should be happy that blogger Fred Lumbuye who has been breaking the law has been arrested. Speaking to reporters at the government-owned Uganda Media Centre in Kampala, Oryem said although he couldn’t confirm whether Lumbuye had been arrested, it should be known to everybody…
Turkey-based Ugandan anti-government blogger, Fred Lumbuye was reportedly arrested on Tuesday and taken to unknown destination. Fellow bloggers claimed that he was arrested by Ugandan embassy in Turkey following attempts to renew his passport. However, the Ugandan Embassy in Ankara, Turkey has denied involvement in the alleged arrest of popular blogger Fred Kajjubi Lumbuye. According…
