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Buganda Kingdom Marks 50 years of Lubiri attack

The Buganda Kingdom commemorated the 50th anniversary of the historical assault on the palace, on the orders of the then of Uganda, Milton Obote, triggering the 1966 crisis. Kabaka Edward Muteesa II, the president of the post Colonial Uganda escaped narrowly and fled into exile, after three years of what Obote openly called a puppet government. The attack sparked […]

UPC calls extra ordinary meeting over leadership crisis surrounding Milton Obote Foundation

  Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) has called for an extra ordinary meeting over leadership wrangles surrounding the management of Milton Obote Foundation. According to sources, the meeting has been influenced by the family members of late Milton Obote. We are reliably informed that the meeting will take place on 17th April 2012 on the 11th […]

Akena gets own home in Entebbe

  He has been putting up at Uganda house building in Kampala. Prompting many people to wonder how the Lira Municipality MP Jimmy Akena could fail to build or buy his own home. The members of Uganda Peoples Congress would even throw pieces of paper in his room advising the MP to save part of […]

Soldiers split women bellies

  Today in history! It was like today when the soldiers under the Milton Obote II regime reportedly split pregnant women’s bellies. The LC5 chairperson of Luweero district, Hajji Abdul Nadduli recalls that during that time some people had their hands and lips cut. He also recalls that some soldiers in Obote II regime would […]

Uganda to relocate capital city

Like Tanzania relocated its capital city from Dares Salaam to Dodoma, the republic of Uganda is also planning to relocate its capital city from Kampala to Nakasongola. Sources in government have told us that the ministers behind the idea of relocating the capital city to Nakasongola have already sold the idea to president Museveni who […]

Tamale Mirundi insists Type of federalism Buganda advocates is impossible

President Yoweri Museveni’s Press Secretary, Tamale Mirundi continues to shock his fellow Baganda. Mirundi has recently been preaching that the type of federalism the kingdom of Buganda is demanding is not only impossible but unworkable. The acerbic Mirundi says that it would be a fraud if Buganda ever gets full federal status it demands. Mirundi […]

Milton Obote’s family partying

The family of the former president of Uganda , Milton Obote could have lost its strong say in Uganda Peoples Congress but its desire to have fun remains so live. We have been told that the family members converged at their home in Kololo last evening to celebrate the 11th birthday of Puli Akena, the second […]

Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu refuses to receive Museveni’s car gift

It is very rare to hear stories of someone given a gift of a car and s/he rejects it. However this happened to president Museveni when he gave a car toUganda’s former army commander Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu and he rejected it.  Muntu told this informer that by law former army commanders receive cars, house […]

Otunnu evicted from house of Oyite Ojok’s son

Things have continued to swiftly falling apart for the Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) president Dr. Olara Otunnu, our reporters have been informed. We have learnt that several cabinet members of Otunnu’s cabinet have resorted to boycotting the UPC headquarters onKampalaroad-because their party president declined to give them written instruments of appointment since last year. Some […]

MP Akena rides bicycle to parliament

Everyone would expect that a son to the former president ofUgandatwice, Apolo Milton Obote, Mr. Jimmy Akena would be driving escalades to go to parliament but this is not the case for Akena. Our informers got the surprise of the day yesterday when Akena, who is also the Lira Municipality MP, arrived atUgandaparliament riding a […]