All posts tagged "National News"

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...

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Election Watch

NRM wins all seats in Youth MP elections countrywide

2021 YOUTH MP ELECTIONS: The ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party emerged with the ultimate share of the Youth MP Elections as...

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Jinja City Mayoral Polls: Court Dismisses Petition, Uphold NUP’s Kasolo Victory

JINJA, UGANDA: Court in Jinja has dismissed without costs a petition filed by NRM’s Robert Kanusu seeking a recount of votes from...

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Featured

Uganda Airlines to receive 2nd Airbus A330-800NEO Today

ENTEBBE, UGANDA: Uganda Airlines will today receive its second and final Airbus A330-800NEO from Toulouse, France, The Daily Express has confirmed. The...

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Education

Schools Reopening: Cabinet sits today to give final decision on full reopening

KAMPALA, UGANDA:– Cabinet is scheduled to meet today and discuss, among other things, the reopening of schools. This was revealed by the...

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Supreme Courts Readies for Bobi Wine’s Election Petition

SUPREME COURT, KAMPALA: Former Presidential Candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssetamu alias Bobi Wine and his lawyers are expected to appear before the Supreme...

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Bobi Wine in bitter war with NBS TV for conspiring with Museveni’s regime to rig votes

The National Unity Platform (NUP) Party leader and Former Presidential candidate Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine has written a protest letter...

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Swearing Program for the President and elected MPs announced

KAMPALA, UGANDA: The Clerk to Parliament Mrs. Jane Kibirige has released the tentative program for the inauguration ceremony of the 11th Parliament...

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BREAKING! Parliament approves sh45.6trillion draft budget

The Parliament of Uganda has approved the Budget Framework Paper (draft national budget) for the upcoming 2021/2022 financial year. According to the...

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NRM’s Kanusu seeks vote recount in Jinja City Mayor elections

JINJA, UGANDA:- The National Resistance Movement NRM’s Kanusu Robert has petitioned the Chief Magistrates Court challenging the victory of the National Unity...

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HEARTLESS! Luweero Man poisons neighbor’s 8 children

LUWEERO DISTRICT: Police in Luweero is on the hunt for a yet to be identified man who allegedly poisoned eight children of...

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Business

HAM Vs DTB Case: Appellate judges warn against any compromise as DTB struggles with Court Appeal

According to the law, when two parties enter into a contract that is deemed illegal by the court, the parties are neither...

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Two Shot Dead as Armed Robbers attack Residents in Nakasongola

NAKASONGOLA, UGANDA: Police in Nakasongola District have started investigations on circumstances under which unknown gunmen raided and shot to death two residents...

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JUST IN! Supreme court rejects Kyagulanyi’s election petition

KAMPALA, UGANDA:– The Supreme Court of Uganda has denied Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine’s Lawyers to file an election petition challenging Museveni’s...

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Gov’t sued for shutting down internet, social media in Uganda

CONSTITUIONAL COURT: Government has been dragged to court for shutting down the internet before, during and after the 2021 presidential and parliamentary...

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Bobi Wine to Petition Court over President Museveni’s Fraudulent Victory

KAMPALA, UGANDA: Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine, the former NUP Presidential Candidate has confirmed that he will challenge Museveni’s victory in...

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COVID-19: Gov’t to borrow UGX115bn to fight the pandemic

PARLIAMENT: Cabinet has authorised the Ministry of Finance to borrow $31.64m (Shs115.8b) from the African Development Fund (ADF) to boost government response...

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