National Unity Platform (NUP) leader, Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu alias Bobi Wine has said that his family’s security guard, Sharif Higenyi is still missing after he was arrested by the security on Tuesday. Security Officials surrounded his home to stop him from going to Kayunga district to campaign for his party’s flag bearer in the Local Government Councils by-elections. Sharif, who hails from Bududa in Eastern Uganda, Bobi Wine said, has been his domestic security personnel for the past four years, and has constantly been arrested and harassed whenever security surrounded Bobi Wine’s home. “Like many people who I live with,…
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Gulu University’s COVID-19 natural herbal treatment, Covilyce has emerged the best exhibit from Uganda and won the second-best product award at the 21st East African Community Micro and Small Enterprise Trade fair held in Mwanza, Tanzania. The event attracted over 1,500 exhibitors of products from Kenya, Burundi, South Sudan, Rwanda, Uganda engaged in herbal, carpentry, leather products, food processing and culture. Geoffrey Kiiro from Kenya emerged the best in the East African Community with his Crafts and wood creative design and third in the region was Kavimo Limited who deals in Textile and Fabrics from Tanzania. The head of the…
ICT and National Guidance Minister, Dr Chris Baryomunsi has assured the nation that the outbreak of Omicron COVID-19 variant in Uganda will not change Government plan to reopen all education institutions in January, 2022. On Tuesday this week, Uganda confirmed seven cases of the new Omicron variant. Five of the cases came in from Nigeria, and 2 from South Africa. The public has been worried as to whether Government is going to announce a new lockdown and postpone re-opening of schools slated for January next year. Addressing a news conference in Kampala on Friday, Minister Baryomunsi gave assurance to the…
Masaka tycoon Emmanuel Lwasa is back in the news, this time over reports that his marriage with Angel Kwakunda could have ended in tears and that he could have already hooked up a new girl in Entebbe. The Entebbe girl, who is said to be named Ritah, is believed to be four months’ pregnant. Lwasa is also rumored to have bought Ritah a new car. But Lwasa has now told a local television station that the girl in question goes by the name Joan, and not Ritah as alleged in reports making rounds online. The tycoon also claimed that he…
Heavily-armed Counter Terrorism forces last weekend raided a private property in Wakiso District, in search of a Muslim cleric accused of training young fighters for the terrorist Islamic State -linked Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). “Our teams are actively searching for Sheikh Rwangabo, who is on the run after we raided a suspected recruitment and radicalization centre, in Kasengejje village, Kasengjje parish, Wakiso town council, in Wakiso district,” said Police spokesperson Fred Enanga on Monday. “However, two of the coordinators identified as Kaija Ismael and Ssewakiryanga Muhammad were arrested,” he added. Media understands security forces are pursuing all leads to suspected…
Uganda Police in Kole district is holding a born again pastor and two ushers for allegedly strangling a woman to death while performing “deliverance prayers and miracles.” The three suspects are Christians from St Peter’s church in Abeli, Kole district. They have been identified as Oyo Jasper who is the lead pastor, Odong Francis and Ojok Alex. According to police, these went for deliverance prayers in Agwei village and while there, they organised different prayer sessions and in some of the sessions, they identified a 49-year-old woman whom they claimed had demons and need deliverance. “It is alleged that they…
Finance Ministry Permanent Secretary and Secretary to the Treasury Ramathan Ggoobi has urged Ugandans to be vaccinated against covid-19 for the economy to be reopened fully in January. Ggoobi who was speaking during a tour of National Medical Stores on Saturday disclosed that the only reopen the economy fully is for Ugandans to be vaccinated. “The only way we shall recover the economy is for Ugandans to be vaccinated because vaccination has been found to be the game-changer. We want to have as many Ugandans to be vaccinated because it’s the only way we shall live longer,” Ggoobi disclosed. He…
In September, Parliament appropriated a total of Shs 3.5bn to facilitate the traveling and allowances for Members of Parliament led by the Speaker Jacob Oulanyah for the Dubai Expo. The development is contained in a letter written to Oulanyah on September 21, 2021 seeking for approval and permission for MPs to attend the six months long event in the United Arab Emirates. The Speaker swiftly approved the request the next day on September 22, 2021 and few days later jumped on the plane with his crew to Dubai. Parliament, in mid September, established a committee to purposely “prepare and solicit…
Agriculture Minister Frank Tumwebaze has this Monday evening survived a road accident along the Entebbe Express Highway. Tumwebaze, whose offices are based in Entebbe, was traveling to Kampala after work when his official motorcade car was involved in an accident just after the Busega roundabout. “We are safe despite the accident we have just gotten on the express,” said Tumwebaze in a Tweet. “Another car driving ahead of us in an adjacent lane hit a boda boda and the boda boda person was thrown to our lane and hit at our car,” he explained. “My driver dodged him but our…
All is not well for Brig. Gen. Moses Shaban Lukyamuzi plus his bodyguard Hamdan Lutamaguzi after the Administrators of the estate of the late Nekemia Masabo Lwanga Sempagama of Nkumba Bufulu zone, Entebbe sub-district, petitioned the director for chieftaincy of Civil-Military cooperation accusing him and his bodyguard of unprofessional conduct. The army boss and his bodyguard are both accused of malicious damage to property, assault, and disobeying a court order. According to the petition dated 26th October 2021 filed by the petitioner’s Lawyers of Kintu Nteza &Co. Advocates addressed to the Director of Chieftaincy of Civil-Military cooperation, its alleged that…