Bobi Wine: UCC report finds NTV, NBS 'guilty'
The Uganda Communications Commissions (UCC) has found five Kampala based broadcasters culpable of breaching minimum broadcasting standards and asked them to show cause why their licenses shouldn’t be...
View ArticleMuseveni blasts URA for failing manufacturers
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has blasted the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) leadership for not being forthcoming on the needs of the manufacturers. Museveni, who officially opened the Uganda...
View ArticlePolice cancels another Bobi Wine concert
The inspector general of police Martins Okoth Ochola has canceled Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine’s independence music show.Ochola in his letter dated October 2, but released today...
View ArticleIOM donates bus, medical equipment to Immigration
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has formally handed over a 30-seater Coaster bus as well as sickbay equipment to the Immigration Training Academy Uganda (ITA). The donation was made...
View ArticleRoll back deaths by drowning – Makerere researcher
Deaths by drowning are climbing and Makerere University research fellow Dr Olive Kobusingye has challenged African governments and entrepreneurs to stop lamenting about the high fatality figures on the...
View ArticleWhy IGG Mulyagonja returned to Judiciary
Justice Irene Mulyagonja’s seven-year tenure as the Inspector General of Government (IGG) is coming to an end after President Museveni appointed her to the Court of Appeal. DERRICK KIYONGA looks back...
View ArticleLDC pre-entry exam ban won’t affect quality
In the past, any student intending to become an advocate had to first sit a pre-entry examination in order to study the one-year diploma in Legal practice course at Law Development Centre (LDC). But in...
View ArticleNew tech devices to fight kidnaps, house break-ins
The new tide of insecurity has triggered a wave of worry in the country and in equal measure, innovations in deterring security systems. Young innovators have invented devices that can detect house...
View ArticleNnabagereka donates to Ugandan Muslims
The Muslim community in Uganda has received an assortment of items donated by the Nnabagereka of Buganda, Sylvia Nagginda. The donation comes on the coat-tails of Nnabagereka’s February 2019 visit to...
View ArticleMuseveni defends China's loans to Uganda, Africa
President Yoweri Museveni has praised the Chinese government for extending loans to Uganda and Africa where other development partners have been hesitant. Museveni was fielding questions at a press...
View ArticleBobi Wine escapes police arrest
Police have maintained heavy joint security deployment at One Love Beach, Busabala, to stop a planned music concert by the Kyandondo East member of parliament, Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine. The...
View ArticleMigrant deaths in Mediterranean hit 1,000 in 2019
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) reports fatalities from a shipwreck Monday off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa has pushed the migrant death toll on the Mediterranean Sea...
View ArticleFather throws his two children into lake, commits suicide
Police in Rubirizi district is investigating circumstances under which one of the residents threw two of his children into the lake, and burnt another, before ending his life. The man identified as...
View ArticleAll four Serere district ambulances grounded
Serere district is grappling with the provision of emergency services due to the absence of a functional ambulance.Joseph Opit Okojo, the Serere district LC V chairperson, says the three ambulances...
View ArticleEC official: Hike nomination fees to Shs 100 million
To get rid of the large pool of unserious political candidates that come up every election cycle, Mustapha Ssebagala Kigozi, a national electoral commissioner, has suggested nomination fees should be...
View ArticleMeet Bujirita, man on mission to transform mental treatment
Haruna Nyanzi Bujirita is an addictionologist consultant in child and adolescent mental health based in the UK. Also a researcher, motivational speaker and part-time lecturer, Bujirita is applying his...
View ArticleBritish divide and rule policy in Uganda
There is no record of a concerted effort by indigenous Ugandans to resist or rebel against British colonial rule. Why was that the case? After sharing Africa as a cake during the Berlin conference...
View ArticleFIFA suspends Moses Magogo from all football activities
The world football governing body, FIFA has today suspended Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA) president Moses Hassim Magogo for two months over his involvement in the resale of 2014...
View ArticleUgandans richer than previously thought - UBOS
Ugandan economy is bigger than previously estimated, with new numbers showing Ugandans are much richer than had been thought, according to the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (Ubos).According to Ubos,...
View ArticleBolivian nationals arrested at Entebbe with 200 cocaine pellets
Aviation Police (AVIPOL) at Entebbe international airport have arrested two Bolivian nationals accused of swallowing over 200 drug pellets.Deputy Kampala Metropolitan police spokesperson, Luke...
View Article