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Gen Mugisha Muntu issues a statement on why he quit FDC

Gen Mugisha Muntu issues a statement on why he quit FDC

Former Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) president, Gen Mugisha Muntu has issued a four-page statement on why he left his party. He has described the statement as the letter to the nation. Gen Muntu decided to leave FDC with a group of other members due to the differences between them and the current party leader, […]

Am fighting for freedom not the presidential seat – Bobi Wine

Am fighting for freedom not the presidential seat – Bobi Wine

The Kyadondo East Member of Parliament, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, alias Bobi Wine has refuted the claims that his “people power” struggles have presidential intentions. Bobi Wine said that the main issue is to liberate Ugandans from the political bondage before talking about the 2021 presidential elections is somehow ‘premature’ “When I was in the ghetto, my […]

Security tightened ahead of Bobiwine home coming

Security tightened ahead of Bobiwine home coming

Just hours to the return of the Kyadondo East Member of Parliament,Hon. Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu alias Bobi Wine, police and the miltary have teamed to provide a security to ensure that no ‘law is broken’. There has been a heavy deployment of security both in police uniforms and military wear in the places where the […]

PPDA wants a share of 30 per cent oil contracts given to Ugandans

PPDA wants a share of 30 per cent oil contracts given to Ugandans

The Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority (PPDA) wants the guidelines of at least 30 per cent of the oil and gas work given to  local contractors so as to boost local capacity. According to Mr Benson Turamye, the acting PPDA executive director, the guidelines of 30 per cent of contract value works […]

1,332 apply for the 2018 RUFORUM Young African Entrepreneurs competition

1,332 apply for the 2018 RUFORUM Young African Entrepreneurs competition

The 2018 Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) has received over 1,332 applications for the RUFORUM Young African Entrepreneurs 2018 Competition(RUYAEC). Applicants were from 46 countries; 42 in Africa and 4 from foreign continents. The competitions are held with an aim of showcasing and promoting youth innovations in enterprise development and business incubation. […]

MP Zaake admitted to intensive care unit in India

MP Zaake admitted to intensive care unit in India

Upon arrival to the Manipal hospital in India, Mityana Municipality Member of Parliament Francis Zaake has been admitted to the intensive care unit,  according to the MP’s wife, Bridget Namirembe. Ms Namirembe additionally said that the MP has been diagnosed with closed head injury with multiple soft tissue injuries, blunt neck injury due to tear of […]

Cabinet to scrap UNRA , NMS in merger of government agencies

Cabinet to scrap UNRA , NMS in merger of government agencies

 Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) and National Medical Stores are to be scrapped off and merged with other mother ministries to reduce wastage of resources. The decision was taken in two meetings with the first held on August 20 and the last one on Monday last week according to a source. The source said President […]

MP Kassiano Wadri speaks out on Arua election chaos

security operatives broke his hotel door and burst into the bathroom, he promptly volunteered information that he was armed and turned the pistol over to the then Arua District Police Commander, Mr Abbas Ssenyonjo. The DPC was moved to Masaka the day after Yasin Kawuma(Bobi Wine’s driver) was shot dead, six took bullet wounds and […]

Kassiano Wadri swears in as new Arua municipality MP

Kassiano Wadri swears in as new Arua municipality MP

      Wadri Kassiano has officially taken on the seat as the new Member of Parliament for Arua municipality. This was during a parliamentary ceremony presided over by the deputy speaker Jacob Oulanya. He has replaced Col. Ibrahim Abiriga who was massacred by gunmen in June this year. This is his fourth term as an MP, […]

Detained Kassiano Wadri wins Arua Municipality MP by-election

 Kassiano Wadri (Independent) has won the Arua Municipality parliamentary seat after getting 6,528 votes representing 38% of the vote in the by-elections. Although Wadri was not able to cast his ballot as he’s still in police custody in Gulu, he beat 11 others, among them, Nusura Tiperu, a member of the ruling National Resistance Movement […]

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