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Nambooze to push for the Anti-alcohol Bill again

PARLIAMENT: Mukono municipality Member of Parliament Betty Nambooze Bakireke is to resume plans to push for her Anti-alcohol Bill. The vocal legislator...

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Speaker Kadaga launches Institute of Parliamentary Studies to train MPs

KAMPALA, UGANDA: The speaker of Parliament Rt. Hon. Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga has launched an institute of Parliamentary studies to orient and train new...

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Crime

JUST IN! Another Journalist Mike Muhima abducted by police

KAMPALA, UGANDA: Mike Muhima a digital journalist working with Kawowo Sports, an online newspaper who has been missing since Friday last week...

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Red Pepper and BTM TV Journalist Hadad Mubiru found dead

KANYANYA, KAMPALA (UG): Police in Kanyanya, Kampala Division is investigating the death of Former Red Pepper and BTM TV journalist Hadad Mubiru...

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Suspended district polls to be conducted today – EC confirms

KAMPALA, UGANDA: The Electoral Commission (EC) has set today to conduct elections for local government positions in more than 50 electoral areas...

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KABALE: UCC Principal dead after fighting with son over rentals

KABALE, DISTRICT: Justus Ariho Twinomujuni, the Deputy Principal of Uganda College of Commerce (UCC) Kabale is dead after picking up a fight...

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Minister Janet Museveni on Reopening of Schools, ‘children below 6yrs to stay home’

SCHOOLS REOPENING: The Education Minister and first lady Mrs. Janet Museveni has clarified that nursery schools handling children aged three to six...

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Court

Museveni asks Court to dismiss Bobi Wine’s petition with costs

ELECTION PETITION: President Yoweri Museveni has through his lawyers asked the Supreme Court to dismiss Bobi Wine’s election petition seeking to challenge...

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Two arrested over circulating leaflets castigating Museveni’s 35-year rule

MASAKA, UGANDA: Police in Masaka have arrested two people for allegedly circulating leaflets with messages ‘demeaning’ the person of Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta...

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Gov’t Says DGF was Suspended for sponsoring NUP activities

The suspended Democratic Governance Facility (DGF) was allegedly sponsoring activities of the National Unity Platform (NUP), government spokesperson Ofwono Opondo has said....

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Education

Nursery, Kindergarten schools suspended until Covid-19 is no more

KAMPALA, UGANDA: The Minister of Education and Sports, Janet Kataaha Museveni has said that there will be no more Nursery / Kindergarten...

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Bobi Wine Is ‘Dishonest And Incapable’ To Be President, claims NBS TV’s Kasumba

In the wake of NBS TV Feud with NUP Former Presidential Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine, The station journalist and news anchor...

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UBTEB stuck with over 10,000 certificates and transcripts

KAMPALA, UGANDA: The Uganda Business and Technical Examinations Board (UBTEB) says the examination body is stuck with over 10,000 certificates and transcripts....

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FULL SPEECH: Key Notes from Museveni’s Thursday Address

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: President Yoweri Museveni on Thursday addressed the nation at 8pm on matters concerning Covid-19 Update and reopening of schools for...

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Man defeated by ex-wife in Kasangati councillor race

2021 ELECTIONS: Ms Lillian Kayinza, an ex-wife of Mr Madi Walakira Kabanda beat her husband in the councillor race for Namayina-Jolwe at...

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‘Bobi Wine’s Petition is just a waste of paper’ – Museveni’s lawyers

Jet John Tumwebaze one of the lawyers on the National Resistance Movement (NRM) legal team representing President Yoweri Museveni has rubbished an...

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Crime

Police arrest 7 with Counterfeit US Dollars

KAMPALA, UGANDA: Police in Katwe division in conjuction with the Directorate of Crime Intelligence have confirmed arrest of a seven man criminal...

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Mathias Walukaga Wins Kyengera Town Council Mayoral seat

2021 ELECTIONS: Kadongo Kamu singer Sir Mathias Walukagga has emerged winner of the mayoral seat in Kyengera Town Council after Wednesday’s local...

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Former LRA Commander Dominic Ongwen found guilty of murder

BREAKING NEWS: The International Criminal Court (ICC) has found the former Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) commander, Dominic Ongwen guilty of murder, enslavement...

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NUP distances self from planned countrywide protests

KAMPALA, UGANDA: The National Unity platform (NUP) has disowned countrywide calls for protests aimed at denouncing President Museveni’s election victory. NUP said...

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Man commits suicide after testing positive for HIV

SADDENING: A 40-year old man i Mayuge has committed suicide after allegedly testing positive for HIV. The deceased (names withheld) has been...

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Museveni promises to refund NRM losers, says they were cheated

President Yoweri Museveni has promised a special fund for the National Resistance Movement (NRM) flag-bearers who lost in the recent general elections...