UGANDA NEWS

Uganda Joins BRICS: Col Katabazi Highlights Economic Opportunities and Shift from Western Influence

Col Emmy Katabazi, the Deputy Director General of the  Internal Security Organisation (ISO) has highlighted the economic benefits that await Uganda from being a part of BRICS, pointing out...

Inside the Fate of Three Sacked KCCA Officials

Three senior officials from the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) are facing serious legal troubles following the tragic...

Uganda Is Set To Launch First Mass Oil Production Come 2025

The Minister of State for Economic Monitoring, Rose Lilly Akello, has confirmed that Uganda is headed toward having...

Gov’t Boosts Luwero Agriculture with Tractors, Seedlings, and Livestock Support

The Government in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry, and Fisheries, has provided three tractors, 60,000...

Adjumani Health Officials Raise Alarm Over Broken Incinerators and Medical Waste

Health officials at Dzaipi Health Centre III in Adjumani District have expressed serious concerns about a broken incinerator,...

Presidential Candidates Disregard for COVID19 SOPs is Absurd!

A lot of Ugandans are dying now, and the cause of death is known to be Covid-19. I wonder why opposition politicians continue to hoodwink unsuspecting citizens with lies on the campaign trail to attend mass rallies in these campaigns without following the SOP’s. It is therefore shocking that reckless politicians are still moving from one place to another with crowds deliberately spreading the virus to innocent Ugandans. By any health standard public rallies are super spreader of Covid -19 and in...

UN FREEZE STAFF TRAVEL TO UGANDA AFTER ABETTING SURGE IN COVID19 COMMUNITY INFECTIONS

As Uganda gets to terms with the surging Stage 4 of Covid19 community infections, the United Nations has suspended “all non-critical external missions and visits to Uganda” in a memo issued December 12 by the UN Undersecretary General for Safety and Security, Gilles Michaud. Michaud noted that since March when the country registered its first Covid19 case, UN scaled down its operations in Uganda. Seemingly, UN is worried of its staff health amidst a worsened COVID19 pandemic which Centre for Disease...

FDC TO HOIMA’S MILES RWAMITI- “YOU ARE AN NRM MOLE”

Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has accused its candidate in the race for the Hoima East parliamentary seat, Miles Rwamiti of being double-sided and at the verge of defecting to the NRM. Rwamiti, who attended the official launch of President Museveni’s campaigns in Kagadi with a group of youths from Hoima is said to have attended the function with hope of a likely defectionexchange for a ‘meal card’ from Hoima NRM officials. Miles Rwamiti is a political mole said to ‘link...

NWOYA NUP REGISTRAR CROSSES WITH 120 OTHERS TO NRM, ACCUSES BOBI WINE OF TRIBAL- BASED POLITICS

National Unity Platform (NUP) registrar for Nwoya District, Ochira Bosco Lawino has officially crossed to the National Resistance Movement. Lawino crossed with 120 members of the NUP at a ceremony held in Nwoya over the weekend. In his speech, Lawino said  he was a complete member of the NUP, handing over letters of appointment as well as evidence of his membership with NUP. He said he was however tired of Baganda tribal based politics in National Unity Platform that could cause hatred...

COL DR KIZZA BESIGYE CONDEMNS AMURIAT AND BOBI WINE ON DELIBERATE SPREAD OF COVID19

Rtd Col Dr Kizza Besigye has said is deeply concerned by the manner in which the two presidential aspirants, Forum for Democratic Change (FDC)’s Patrick Oboi Amuriat and Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine of National Unity Platform (NUP) have blatantly defied the COVID19 Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) during their mass campaign rallies hence exposing many naïve Ugandans to COVID19. Speaking on a certain National TV on Monday morning, Dr. Besigye, a medical doctor by profession, said he was “intensely”...

KENYAN PROPHET SAYS EAST AFRICAN REGION STILL NEEDS PRESIDENT MUSEVENI’S PROWESS FOR ITS DEVELOPMENT

A Kenyan prophet, Apostle Peter Morwabe of Gospel Embassy Chapel has said God still wants President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to rule for the interest of the East African region, the African continent. Apostle Morwabe said that God’s preference of President Museveni to the weak Ugandan Opposition is because of his pan African-ism. He likened him to the Biblical Saul  Vs Samuel scenario in the Bible. “God’s interest is always different from of the majority of the people. You remember in...