The Supreme Court is sitting today Tuesday, 9th February, 2021 to hear an application by NUP President Robert Kyagulanyi seeking leave to amend the petition he filed last week challenging the Election Victory of the incumbent President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. A panel of nine Justices led by the Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny Ddollo have convened […]
The Forum for Democratic Change four-time presidential candidate, Dr Kiiza Besigye, has criticized his colleagues in the opposition who mocked the National Unity Platform (NUP) for petitioning court over the recent presidential election results. NUP’s Robert Kyagulanyi who lost to the incumbent President Yoweri Museveni in the January 14 election, petitioned the Supreme Court this […]
Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) has hailed the leader of National Unity Platform (NUP) Robert Kyagulanyi for challenging President Yoweri Museveni’s election victory in court rather than leading protests in the country. Addressing the media at the party headquarters in Kampala on Wednesday, Sharon Arach, the party’s spokesperson said Kyagulanyi did the right thing which is […]
Nyanzi, of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) was beaten by Shamim Malende of the National Unity Platform (NUP) for the Kampala Woman MP. Nyanzi fled the country on Tuesday (February 2, 2021) together with her children. She sought asylum in Kenya claiming she had become a target of the State. Nyanzi’s lawyer, Prof George […]
President Yoweri Museveni has been served with a copy of the electoral petition by the legal team of the National Unity Platform (NUP) president, Robert Kyagulanyi. Museveni’s lawyers were served by Kyagulanyi’s lead counsel, Anthony Wameli, at the Supreme Court in Kampala on Wednesday. According to the secretary-general of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM), […]
Barbie Itungo Kyagulanyi the wife of National Unity Platform (NUP) president Robert Kyagulanyi has left the country. Itungo flew out of the country from Entebbe International Airport aboard Qatar Airways on Monday evening to the US. Leaked CCTV footage at the airport showed Itungo clearing at the immigration department before she boarded the plane. Efforts […]
Former presidential candidate, Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine has petitioned the Supreme Court, seeking nullification of President Yoweri Museveni’s election victory. On January 16, this year, the Electoral Commission declared incumbent Yoweri Museveni the winner of the presidential election, extending his 35-year rule. Kyagulanyi, also the National Unity Platform (NUP) party president, filed the petition […]
The Constitutional Court has dedicated two weeks of day-to-day hearing to handle 25 petitions out of the 249 cases pending before it. The hearing of the petitions started Monday and the selected panel of five justices handling the petitions is led by the Deputy Chief Justice, Richard Buteera. The other justices on the panel are […]
The Republic of Congo’s main opposition party will boycott the March 21 elections in which President Denis Sassou Nguesso, in power for decades, is running for re-election. The 77-year-old has held office for a total of 36 years, making him one of the longest-serving leaders in the world and head of a deeply poor nation. […]
The Uganda Woodball Federation’s (UWbF) ambitious plans of putting up a standard woodball course, a woodball complex housing woodball offices, a clubhouse, accommodation facilities, conference hall and a factory will be the main focus for the incoming executive that resumes office on Saturday. All the top executive members of the federation headed by president Mark […]