Activists in Lango are reportedly receiving threats following their petition over construction of Akii-Bua stadium in Lira City. Last month, the activists petitioned Confederation of African Football (CAF) over the removal of Akii-Bua Olympic Stadium in Lira City from hosting the African Cup of Nations, AFCON 2027. Subsequently, the group launched a drive to generate […]
The Speaker of Parliament Anita Annet Among has proposed a meeting with President Yoweri Museveni over fresh demands by Opposition legislators regarding the forced disappearance of citizens and human rights violations. The Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Mathias Mpuuga Nsamba presented four fresh demands to the Government on Tuesday to unconditionally release all political […]
The Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) General Court Martial sitting in Makindye, has remanded 31 suspects, including seven soldiers, to Luzira and Military Police Barracks on charges related to an alleged plot to overthrow the government of Uganda. Captain Denish Oola Oyaa, Lieutenant Benjamin Oduru, Warrant Officer 2 Oryek Sunday Jenaro, Sergeant Bernard Morris Leku […]
Security has announced a sh20m bounty on two men they believe are behind the two blasts that went off on Saturday night injuring one person. In a statement released by the deputy UPDF spokesperson, Col Deo Akiiki, the two improvised explosive devices exploded in Kikubamutwe parish in Kabalagala and another in Nabweru, Nansana Municipality. “The […]
Road safety experts and activists, including representatives from Hope for Victims of Traffic Accidents (HOVITA), United Nations Association Uganda (UNAU), Zembo Motors, and Africa Youth Leadership Development and Health (AYLDH), have cautioned parents against transporting their children top of motorcycle fuel tanks, stressing that it poses significant risks to their lives. Rev. Evatt Mugarura, the […]
A prominent businessman in Lira City is in police custody for shooting his son dead. Haji Joe Ogwang, a resident of Ireda Estate in Lira City East Division shot his son Aaron Okello, during a heated altercation at Tipper stage in Kamuswahili Cell on Tuesday. Reports suggest that a confrontation arose when Okello demanded money […]
An officer of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF), Sgt. Stephen Kawuki is admitted at Mulago hospital nursing wounds of dip cuts including one of his hands which was on Thursday night cut off allegedly by his wife. Sgt. Kawuki who is one of the guards of the Minister of State for Defence, Jacob Oboth […]
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 […]
Gen. Museveni noted that the electronic number plates will significantly close the criminality gap especially terrorism, now that the force is using all the comprehensive means and assets at their disposal to defeat criminals. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has continued to insist and express trust in the digital motor number plates project, saying it will […]
By Lawrence Mayanja The Minister for Luweero Triangle, Alice K. Kaboyo has commissioned another civilian veteran’s house for Peter Wanku Mpiima a.k.a Kazimoto who was brutally killed on January 22, 1973 alongside Martin Mwesigwa a.k.a Black by former President of Uganda, Iddi Amin’s soldiers in the struggle to liberate his motherland in Kodiri Parish, Kachumo […]