Bishop Edward Stanley Engena-Maitum, the eldest son to Former President, the late Milton Obote has joined the Kawempe North MP byelection race. Maitum was nominated on Thursday by the Electoral Commission. He was among the six candidates who were nominated on the second and last day of the exercise. The others are Moses Nsereko, an independent […]
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 […]
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 […]
Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, the National Unity Platform (NUP) president, has accused security forces of planting tracking devices, cameras and fetishes at the party’s Kavule offices following a recent raid. Kyagulanyi said that from Monday, a technical team had been investigating the premises to uncover items potentially planted by the operatives. “While it’s difficult to establish […]
In a dramatic turn of events, members of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) parliamentary caucus have decided to support a bill for amending the UPDF Act due to be presented today (Tuesday) before parliament, to restore a provision running contrary to the recent Supreme Court ruling concerning trial of civilians in the general military courts. […]
Regarding the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba’s declaration made on Sunday February 23, 2025, anyone putting on a National Unity Platform (NUP) uniform does it at his or her own risk. Gen. Muhoozi said anyone found wearing NUP clothing is going to be killed. This week has seen numerous reports of military […]
Mukono Municipal Council male councillor for People With Disabilities (PWDs) Ramadhan Lubowa Kamau a.k.a Nkwenge has enumerated gaping shortcomings in the National Resistance Movement (NRM) in Mukono Central Division, and stepped out to contest for the party chairmanship to reverse the trend of failure registered in the 2021 elections. Lubowa says he has been compelled […]
Security personnel have raided and cordoned off the National Unity Platform (NUP) headquarters. The personnel comprising of the police, army and operatives from the Joint Anti-Terrorism Taskforce-JATT also sealed off the party’s leadership training centre in Kmawokya. Acting Maj Gen Felix Kulayigye, the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) Spokesperson, said the raid follows videos that […]
POLICE CONDUCTS SEARCH ON ILLEGAL MILITARY TRAINING AT NATIONAL UNITY PLATFORM PREMISES 1. Following reports of unauthorized military drills at the National Unity Platform (NUP) headquarters in Kavule and their premise in Kamwokya in Kampala City, the Uganda Police Force, in collaboration with other security agencies, has mounted a coordinated security operation. 2. Our […]
Whether out of desperation, inability to cope with the commoners’ lifestyle, missing the red carpet type of lifestyle, or genuinely responding to voters’ outcries for the mistakes they (voters) made in dropping former National Resistance Movement (NRM) ‘darlings’, the now undoubted (and almost official) stand is that over ten former ministers are determined head-over-heels to […]