The Archbishop was responding to a report published in The New Vision on March 25, 2025, indicating that the government, through URA, planned to collect fees from schools, including those founded by the Church of Uganda. AGENDA 2026: Candidates Battling for NRM Cards-Silent Battle Brewing in Different Constituencies The Church of Uganda has strongly rejected […]
Kasirye identified the deceased children as Mirembe Monica (6) and Mugisha Aloysius (5) while their elder brother who survived with fire injuries has been identified as a 9-year-old Antonio Hakuzimana. Three children left in a house by their mother at night were burnt by an accidental fire that gutted their house, beginning with the mosquito […]
He was appointed NRM Electoral Commission Chairperson by President Museveni in 2015 and has since played a central role in organizing key party events, including the 2021 elections. Tanga Odoi has been reappointed as Chairman of the Electoral Commission for the National Resistance Movement (NRM), despite growing concerns over his leadership and allegations of incompetence […]
For more than two decades, Ssali was the face and voice of Straight Talk Africa, where he engaged African leaders, analysts, and citizens in critical discussions on democracy, governance, and development. Renowned journalist and former host of Voice of America’s (VOA) flagship programme Straight Talk Africa, Shaka Ssali, on Thursday, March 27, 2025 died at […]
Their arrest stems from an incident on June 1, 2021, at Kisaasi in Nakawa division, which resulted in the murder of Gen. Katumba Wamala’s daughter Brenda Nantongo and his bodyguard Sergeant Haruna Kayondo. The International Crimes Division of the High Court was forced to adjourn the hearing of a case involving six suspects accused of […]
Onlookers say he was forced into the boot of a probox vehicle in which these thugs were moving and taken to an unknown destination. They managed to take some pictures of these criminals. As the trend of abductions for National Unity Platform (NUP) supporters across different parts of the country keep growing, another Jinja-based opposition […]
Veteran journalist and former host of Voice of America’s “Straight Talk Africa,” Shaka Ssali, is dead. Ssali (71), fled Uganda in 1976, earned a doctorate from UCLA and received numerous accolades, including a United Nations Peacekeeping Special Achievement Award in International Journalism. He retired in 2021 after a distinguished career. His contributions to journalism and […]
The Kyesiiga sub-county chairperson, Gordon Mayanja Ssebuggwawo said the area is in tension following an upsurge of child abduction and sacrifice cases. Masaka police has arrested 12 people connected to the abduction of a 7-year old child from Ddimu landing site and menacingly demanding for a ransom running between sh25m and sh30m from the parents. […]
A Ugandan psychiatry consultant based in the UK has suggested that the government takes a leaf from their UK counterparts and embraces mental and emotional components in the school syllabus, and stops what she called a wrong attitude of looking at the issue as an add-on. She observed that because the children are going through […]