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The National Resistance Movement’NRM’ Electoral Commission chairperson Dr Tanga Odoi has declared Min.Mwesigwa Rukutana as the winner for Rushenyi County at the party secretariat in Kampala. In a hotly contested race saw Rukutana winning Kabasharira with only 20 votes margin. The incumbent An early result from NRM returning officer saw Kabasharira declared winner, however Tanga…
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has on September 20, 2020 eased on Covid-19 restrictions which were set up in March 2020. The President in today’s speech reopened schools for only candidate classes and university finalists. Below are some of the highlights from President Museveni’s address on Covid19. 1. Schools will re-open on October, 15 for the…
National Unity Platform (NUP) party led by Mp Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi alias Bobiwine has Singer Joseph Mayanja ‘Chameleon’ to carry the party’s flag in the upcoming Kampala Mayoral race. NUP party leadership has chosen lawmaker Latif Ssebagala current member of parliament for Kawempe South as the official candidate. In a statement by NUP’s Election Management…
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni who’s the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Chairperson has given the Party’s Electoral Commission Chairman, Tanga Odoi new results of Bukanga County primary election, overturning the victory of MP Steven Kangwagye. Museveni, who is also the NRM party chairman, wrote to Tanga Odoi on Saturday evening informing the latter on the secret…
Moses Nkonge Kibalama, the man who sold National Unity Platform (NUP) party to Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine has made a u-turn to take back his party saying that the latter failed to stand by his word. In a video making rounds on social media, Kibalama is heard saying that the USD5 million (Shs18.5 billion)…
High Court in Kampala dismissed an application for a temporary injunction in which presidential aspirant, Lt.Gen. Henry Tumukunde sought to have criminal summons against him by the Criminal Investigations Division halted. The former security sued CID director, AIGP Grace Akullo and the Attorney General seeking orders that the arrest threats issued to him through summons…
Justice Musa Ssekaana has dismissed an application seeking to stop Electoral Commission from nominating candidates from the National Unity Platform (NUP) party. He delivered the ruling on Tuesday in response to an application filed by Basile Difas and Hassan Twaha who sought to block the nomination of NUP candidates because of the recent changes in…
The State Minister For Labor Mwesigwa Rukutana has been declared the winner of Rushenyi county NRM Primary elections for the Parliamentary flag bearer in the 2021 general election. Rukutana has defeated his closest opponent Naome Kabasharira after tallying votes from over 12 polling stations that had not been counted. The National Resistance Movement Party Electoral…
Ntungamo Chief Magistrates court has granted bail to state Minister for labour Mwesigwa Rukutana after spending a week on remand at Kitalya prisons. MP Rukutana is charged attempted murder, assault, malicious damage to property and threatening violence. The Chief Magistrate, Ms Sarah Mponye Kolya,last week objected Rukutana’s bail application on grounds that she needed more…
Police have used teargas to disperse rowdy voters from four polling stations in Soroti East division during the NRM party primary elections. The affected polling stations are Kikandani, Acip, TesoIn and Moruapesur. The angry voters said to be supporters of John Robert Esaru, one of the candidates for the Soroti East Division Mayoral NRM party…
