Thousands have turned up to welcome HE Bobi Wine on his maiden return to Arua ever since he was arrested and tortured during the MP Re Elections in Which Cassiano Wadri emmerged winner. Bobi who is in Arua to grace fellow comrade Hon. Kassiano Wadri’s thanks giving has been forced to stop over and wave to the myriads as business was put on hold. The people in Arua have spoken one language in a show of might chanting “People Power, Our Power” Jusding by the number of people who turned out to welcome him, we must say the ruling NRM…
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All social media accounts for Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta have been deactivated after someone gained “unauthorised access”, his chief of staff has tweeted. Nzioka Waita gave no details how it happened but added that the platforms will be restored after “remedial action”. On account of unauthorized access to the official social media handles of H.E the President of the Republic of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta .All official social media handles for the President have been temporarily suspended to allow for the necessary remedial measures to be undertaken. — Nzioka Waita (@NziokaWaita) March 22, 2019 Mr Kenyatta’s Twitter and Facebook account…
Three schoolgirls in Burundi spent nights in jail and are facing five years in prison for drawing on the President’s face in their school books, according to Human Rights Watch The girls, who are all minors, were arrested last week and were on Monday charged with ‘insulting the head of state,’ according to the human rights group. They are on remand while they await trial for drawing on President Pierre Nkurunziza’s face during one of their classes, Lewis Mudge, the Central Africa Director at Human Rights Watch said 13-year-old girl was released for being below the age of criminal responsibility…
South Sudan ‘tycoon’ Lawrence Malong Lual Yor who recently posted a video of himself “drowning” in a pile of US dollar notes has been charged with fraud and remanded to Luzira prison. On Thursday, Buganda Road magistrate’s court was told that Malong, 30, and two others including Thaddeus Zikusooka, a Ugandan businessman and Mike Okitalunyi Lota, a Congolese broker defrauded an Ethiopian businessman in a bogus gold deal. It is alleged that the trio duped South African based businessman that they wanted to sell him gold at $23,000 per kilogram. Malong would later offer himself as a gold trader with…
President Yoweri Museveni has dashed to Nakasero hospital where the speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga is admitted apparently in critical condition. Museveni who was on the way to State House Nakasero was informed on Kadaga’s health condition, prompting him to switch convoy route and dash to the facility. “She is in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Nakasero,” a source at the facility confirmed to Nile Post. Museveni on arrival at the facility dashed in alone, leaving most of his entourage outside waiting. Meanwhile, Kadaga was bound to be flown out for further medical attention this morning, but Museveni’s visit could…
Transsion, a Chinese smartphone manufacturer, which dominates the African market, is planning to go public on Shanghai’s technology innovation board. Established in 2006, the company has its headquarters in Shenzhen, with four sub-brands; Tecno, Itel, Infinix and Spice. The company also offers after-sales services under the brand Carlcare, manufactures mobile accessories under the brand Oraimo, and home appliances under the brand Syinix. Its products target over 50 countries and regions, with major focus in Africa. In 2017, the company’s total turnover has reached 20 billion, with shipments of 1,290 million, with Africa’s market share accounting for 45.9 percent The lower…
Koffi Olomidé, one of Africa’s most popular singers, has been found guilty of the statutory rape of one of his former dancers when she was 15. He was handed a two-year suspended jail sentence by a court in France in absentia, as he failed to turn up. The ruling means the Congolese star only faces arrest if he commits further offences, says the BBC’s Nadir Djennad. Olomidé, 62, was ordered to pay 5,000 euros ($5,700; £4,300) in damages to the former dancer. The court in Nanterre, outside Paris, also ordered him to pay a fine of the same amount for…
Relatives and residents of Kalagala-Gayaza village, Buseese Parish in Nkozi Sub-County, Mpigi District in central Uganda were on Monday left lamenting as police recovered mutilated bodies of two pupils of St. Bernard Nkozi Demonstration School, eight days after they were reported missing. Nicholas Muyingo, 10 and Peace Nalweyiso, 12 were reported missing from their grandparents’ home on March 10, 2019. Muyingo was in Primary Three while Nalweyiso was a Primary Five pupil. Police said parts of their bodies were found scattered in Namagongolo forest at Kalagala-Gayaza village on Monday morning. Mr Andrew Ainembabazi, the Mpigi District criminal intelligence officer, said…
Tax body, Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has arrested a one Jude Ssebuliba aka ‘Papa’ who has been disguising self as a clearing agent and defrauding a number of business men in the country. Addressing the media on Monday, the Acting Commissioner for Customs at URA, James Kisale said that for some time, URA has been receiving several complaints from tax payers on reports that they have been defrauded by Papa. The Commissioner said Papa was arrested on Friday last week after he had defrauded a client a total of Shs 11m and had not paid tax to clear his goods.…
A number of journalists were on Monday morning assaulted by activists at the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) headquarters in Najjanankumbi, along the Kampala- Entebbe highway. It all started when some party officials informed journalists that the weekly press briefing could not be held because the person supposed to address it was holed up in a series of meetings. As journalists started complaining of not being informed in time, two activists including Henry Katumba and another only identified as George locked some of them in the pressroom. It took the intervention of journalists who were out to help force open…