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FDC Women’s League Leader Ingrid Turinawe released from prison

The Leader of the women league of the Forum for Democratic Chnage, Ingrid Turinawe has been released by court. This is after she was arrested and charged in court after her standoff with the police who blocked her accessing the city centre. Turinawe was stopped from attending a press conference by the Activists for Change, […]

David Pulkol denies mismanaging UPC funds

David Pulkol denies mismanaging UPC funds The former UPC Mobilisation and Policy chief, David Pulkol has denied allegations which were published in the media that he had embezzled 250 million shillings from Uganda Peoples Congress. Pulkol told the media that he and other party officials used the money to run party activities. He threatened to […]

Uganda parties front candidates for East African Parliament

The list of candidates vying for the 9 Uganda slots in the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) which most parties have been keeping as a top secret has been revealed now. The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has three candidates in the race: Salaam Musumba, former MP for Busongora South, Christopher Kibazanga and former Lead […]

Tamale Mirundi’s girlfriend fights waitress

  A pompous gal believed to be touchy to president Museveni’s press secretary, Tamale Mirundi last night engaged in a fight with a waitress working at Casabianca bar on Acacia Avenue . It all started when Mirundi reportedly entered the club with a woman and the two sat at the counter. The woman whom Mirundi […]

Uganda musicians bootleg other artists’ songs

The habit of copying other peoples’ songs in Uganda is growing every week, every month and every year. Cases of singers complaining that their colleagues in the music industry have duplicated their songs are found at police stations, courts and heard on radio stations. For example, a little known Ugandan artist, M Jeff last week […]

Uganda’s prime minister Amama Mbabazi starts own press unit

Prime Minister, Amama Mbabazi is meticulously warming up to replace president Museveni the moment the Ugandan head of state quits statehouse. The info we have got from statehouse indicates that Mbabazi even though he is being probed over his reported illegal oil deals, he is traversing the country mobilizing support for NRM while selling his […]

Former Mayor of Kampala Nasser Sebaggala may return in Democratic Party

We have heard that the former mayor of Kampala Hajji Nasser Sebaggala is preparing to get back into the Democratic Party. May be he has realised that he is not relevant to NRM, lost his political weight and had no capacity of driving opposition members to NRM. With most of his political capital already spent, […]

Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi to deploy in Darfur

Uganda Peoples Defence Forces have started a training programme to prepare its soldiers for deployment to the African Union United Nations hybrid operation in Darfur (UNAMID). According to a source in the ministry of defence, Uganda will deploy in Darfur early next year as per UNAMID programme. We are reliably informed that UNAMID has requested […]

Journalists protest failure by Uganda Human Rights Commission to hear their case

Hearing of case lodged with Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC)  Court four years ago by journalists has failed to take off under unclear circumstances. A case in which journalists protested brutal attacks by police and other security  agencies had been fixed for hearing on  December 9th 2011 at 9 00am local time at the Commission premises on Buganda […]

Muslims persuade pastor Kakande to join Islam

Shocking information has just reached our news desk that the leadership of Uganda Muslim Supreme Council is persuading Prophet Samuel Kakande of synagogue church in Mulago to join Islam. We have heard that Kakande is being lured to join the faith by the UMSC spokesman Hajji Nsereko Mutumba. A source says that Kakande would be […]