UPDF’s Deputy Chief of Defense Intelligence and Security, Brig. Abdul Rugumayo has challenged legal officers to desist from soliciting for deployment opportunities, but rather focus on career growth. While presiding over the pass out of legal officers at the Legal Training Center (LTC) in Jinja City on Saturday, Rugumayo argued that, opportunities await only for […]
The renowned Nyege Nyege Festival, now in its 9th edition, will take place from November 14th to 17th and has been relocated from Jinja to the Source of the Nile in Njeru. This move is intended to provide festival-goers with a more convenient experience, eliminating the need to walk long distances between stages. Festival co-founder […]
The 1st Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of East African Affairs Rt. Hon. Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga on Tuesday officiated at the graduation ceremony for Busoga Zonal Presidential Industrial Hub in Jinja City. Kadaga urged the skilled youth to put into practice what they have learnt. This event marked the successful completion of vocational training for […]
BY BEN SSEBUGUZI A few weeks ago, it was exciting to learn that Hajjat Hadijah Uzeiye Namyalo, the manager Office of the National Chairman (ONC) dispersed her team to Jinja City to hold National Resistance Movement (NRM) party leaders’ reconciliation meetings which was causing bruises and hampering service delivery. Reconciliation is the act of coming to […]
Three people are dead and 100 others are admitted at different health facilities following alleged poisoning at a funeral in Bukasami village, in Buyengo town council, Jinja district. The deceased include; Faisal Magumba (20), Suleiman Byanguwa (4) and a six-year-old Shamim Nangobi. St. Joseph Naggalama’s Best Scores 10 in 10 A health worker who spoke […]
The victim says that their father would buy her fast foods and soft drinks, lock up her two young brothers outside their two-roomed house, and then defile her. Police in Kiira region have confirmed the arrest of a 35-year-old, Paul Mwanje on Sunday on allegation of repeatedly defiling his Primary Six daughter aged 14 years. […]
Police in Kiira region working with local divers have retrieved the bodies of two boys who reportedly drowned in Lake Victoria, along the Masese landing site pier in Jinja City on Christmas evening. It is reported that the duo had gone swimming along the shoreline. However, unexpected storms swept over the area, causing them to […]
President Museveni noted that even the terrorism that is going on in most of Africa and other places was the handiwork of the West. President Yoweri Museveni has hit out hard against the United States and the United Kingdom embassies for issuing advisories to their citizens not to travel to Uganda over terrorism concerns. In […]
The lawyers, Mugerwa and Partners Advocates and Solicitors said that any other marriage to another woman by the Kyabazinga would amount to committing bigamy. Busoga Kingdom’s Premier, Dr. Joseph Muvawala has dismissed claims that the Kyabazinga, William Gabula Nadiope IV is married to another woman. On Thursday, lawyers representing Anna Alison, a woman based in […]
From Nyege Nyege to Woodstock: The Debate About Freedom, Sex, And A New African World Rages By Charles Onyango-Obbo One of Africa’s biggest – and most controversial – indie musical festivals, Nyege Nyege, is underway (Nov. 9-12, 2023) in the eastern Uganda industrial town of Jinja. Nyenge Nyenge season tends to be one of the […]