Three bodyguards of the National Unity Platform (NUP) president Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentantu alias Bobi Wine have been charged with five counts of robbery and assault on female journalists. The suspects including Achilleo Kivumbi, Grace Wakabi alias Smart-wa Bobi and Gadafi Mugumya, were on Wednesday charged before Masaka Grade One Magistrate, Abudallah Kayiira who remanded them […]
The National Unity Platform (NUP) president, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu has visited his detained supporter, Yasin ‘Machete’ Ssekitoleko, at Luzira Prison, raising alarm over his deteriorating health. Machete, who has reportedly been held incommunicado for four years, was transferred from Kitalya to Luzira Murchison Bay Prison after refusing to eat for seven days in protest against […]
The 12th edition of the Kabaka birthday run, an annual event has been launched today, Wednesday February 26, 2025 in Kampala. The launch has taken place at the Buganda Kingdom headquarters at Bulange-Mengo, attracting officials from the kingdom and Airtel Uganda, the main sponsors. This year’s run scheduled for April 6, will be celebrating Kabaka Ronald Muwenda […]
Five people have perished in an accident which occurred on Kampala-Jinja Highway opposite Kampala Cement factory at Kibaati village in Namataba Town Council, Mukono district. The accident which involved a speeding cement trailer registration number UBJ 930T/UAW 217A is reported to have occurred at around 9:00am on Wednesday February 26, 2025. According to eyewitnesses, the truck driver […]
Kawempe North National Unity Platform’s (NUP) candidate, Erias Luyimbaazi Nalukoola has been brutally beaten, undressed and abducted few minutes after his nomination. Nalukoola has been abducted by security personnel who were moving in drones and driven him to unidentified destination. Nalukoola is vying with a number of other candidates in a by-election intended to fill […]
The leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), Joseph Kony’s family, has been repatriated to Uganda from the Central African Republic (CAR). The group includes Kony’s wife, Ruth Achan, their children, Maisa Amu, Betty Akidi, and Pope Kony arrived at Entebbe International Airport on Wednesday February 26, 2025. They were received in the early hours […]
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has commended the people of Rubirizi district for utilizing the Parish Development Model (PDM) funds well. “I want to thank the people of this area for utilizing the PDM money well. We shall continue adding you more money every year. The money belongs to you through your Parish SACCO,” he said. […]
Security officers at the Parliament of Uganda were on Wednesday taken by surprise as a National Resistance Movement (NRM) cadre set himself on fire. The angry and frustrated young NRM supporter has been identified as Benjamin Agaba. He set himself ablaze near the main entrance to the Parliament of Uganda. Agaba alleges that his property […]
Police have started investigating circumstances in which a yet to be identified man set himself on fire near the main gate of the Parliament of Uganda on Wednesday. According to an eyewitness, the man who is in his 30s soaked himself with petrol before igniting the flames a few meters from the parliament entrance. Raid […]
A 22-year-old Bukomansimbi man has been arrested and handed to Bukomansimbi police for beheading his father after a simple row erupted between the two. Rogers Lukyamuzi of Butemi village, Bukango sub-county in Bukomansimbi district is said to have been involved in a minor accident while riding a motorcycle belonging to his father Remegio Kasibante, 52, […]
