President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has commended Kiyinda- Mityana Diocese for working with the government of Uganda in fighting poverty through socio-economic development programs. “Thank you for your slogan and those projects. I have been telling you that yes be religious but hardworking, so I am very happy for those projects,” President Museveni said. The President […]
The Territorial Police in Kamwenge is conducting an investigation into an attack by unknown assailants that happened at 2:00am on the early morning of December 19, 2023. Police says the incident happened in Kyitehurizi village, Kyabandara parish, Kamwenge sub-county, Kamwenge District, resulting in the loss of ten lives. The deceased persons include Banyazaki Margaret, aged […]
The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) has started evicting encroachers on Lubigi swamp in Wakiso district. On Tuesday, a joint task force comprising officials from the Police Environment Protection Unit, National Environment Management Authority, and KCCA among other agencies started destroying all structures and plantations in the wetland. Bulldozers demolished kiosks, eateries, taxi stages, and […]
All Parliament Speakers who served Uganda since 1979 on Monday received new official government vehicles, and will be assured of replacement every five years. “You will be required to bring your own driver, who we will recruit as Parliamentary staff. The car remains a property of Government of Uganda and Parliament will maintain and fuel these […]
The two-week-long East African Community (EAC) Inter-Parliamentary Games came to a successful end in Kigali, Rwanda on Monday, 18 December 2023. The closing ceremony that took place at Kigali Conference and Exhibition Village was climaxed by the award of medals in recognition of the best East African parliaments and outstanding individual performances in the annual […]
Paddy Sserunjogi a.k.a Sobi a notorious Kampala based Kifeesi gang leader has been killed. A self-confessed hard-core criminal, Sobi is reported to have been killed in Maddu-Gomba in a botched land eviction. The news of Sobi’s killing has been confirmed by the acting Katonga Region Police spokesperson, Karim Majid. Majid says Sobi was killed by […]
A panel of five Constitutional Court Justices in Kampala has concluded the hearing of four consolidated petitions challenging the Anti-Homosexuality Law and promised to deliver its verdict on notice. The panel comprises the Deputy Chief Justice Richard Buteera, Geoffrey Kiryabwire, Muzamiru Mutangula Kibeedi, Monica Mugenyi, and Christopher Gashirabake. The petitioners comprising Makerere University Law professors, […]
The fraternity of the Little Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi is dismayed by the san news of the death of an educationist, Sr. Mary Thereza Kabananura (64). Sr. Kabananura is reported to have died from Nairobi in Kenya where she had been taken to seek medical attention. Preparations to have her body back and […]
The Chairperson of the Mbarara District Public Accounts Committee, Herbert Mutungi has warned of a likely loss of government funds extended to government aided primary schools. Mutungi said while the government has continued to provide funding to the schools, some of them don’t have land titles to prove ownership. He revealed that 84 primary schools […]
The Speaker of Parliament Anita Annet Among dismissed claims that each Member of Parliament is going to receive sh100m as a bribe for passing the supplementary budget worth sh3.5 trillion budget. Among said the claims were diversionary, and a strategy used by politicians who are in a bad light over their involvement with gay movements. […]