Author: peacock kaweesa

Kimaanya – Kabonera lawmaker Abed Bwanika has petitioned the Opposition Chief Whip in Parliament and National Unity Platform (NUP) President for Eastern Region, John Baptist Nambeshe, for a meeting of a lawful organ to debate and pronounce the party position on LGBT+Q. In the petition, Bwanika states that the public regards NUP, either by association or omission, as supporting homosexuality. Bwanika’s petition is triggered by remarks made by NUP President, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, aka Bobi, when he appeared on British and French media recently. “That the NUP President-Robert Kyagulanyi’s interview on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in December 2023 raised…

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In one way or another, the superrich have always been trying to extend their lives. Ancient Egyptians crammed their tombs with everything they’d need to live on in an afterlife not unlike their own world, just filled with more fun. In the modern era, the ultra-wealthy have attempted to live on through their legacies: sponsoring museums and galleries to immortalize their names. Today’s elite take life-extension a lot more literally. Skipping neatly over the matter of Bryan Johnson’s nightly penis rejuvenation regime, billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Peter Thiel are sinking big money into the prospect of therapies to extend…

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The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) Customs Enforcement team at Entebbe Airport has stepped up its efforts, using technology to uncover hidden mobile phones. In the past month, URA has made a significant discovery, confiscating a total of 506 concealed phones from passengers arriving from Dubai. In a surprising development, a female traveller on a flight from Dubai was apprehended with 40 assorted smartphones concealed within artificial hips. These phones were attached to the traveller’s hips, with additional devices hidden in her clothing layers. This operation, known as ‘Kwata Essimu,’ was initiated based on intelligence received from the United Arab Emirates,…

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A son of a police officer has died in a suspected bar brawl. The deceased has been identified as Vincent Ssemata. He was 28, and a son of Cpl Fiikil Ssekate, an officer attached to the Central Police Station, Luweero. Regional Police Spokesman Sam Twiineamaziima confirmed the incident that occurred at New Style Guest House and Bar, located in Kasoma Zone, Luweero Town Council. Preliminary findings indicate that on Sunday, January 28, 2024, James Mutebi, the Manager of New Style Guest House, reported on duty and found an unknown person, male adult, dead with deep cut on his neck, near…

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Our attention has been drawn to the Editorial of the Sunday Monitor of 21st January, 2024, Page 6, titled “Government Should Curb Wastage of Medicines”, and another article in the Saturday Monitor of 20th January 2024 page 6 thereof, under the heading “Lawsuits, expired drugs leave NMS on its knees”. Both the Article and Editorial, deriving from the Auditor General’s Report, created an impression that NMS was being wasteful in the management of the resources entrusted to it, which is not true. We wish to clarify to the Public as follows: – The Auditor General’s Report on NMS for the…

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Cecilia Barbara Atim Ogwal, the powerful Member of Parliament for the Dokolo District Women’s Constituency and former Miss Uganda, Cecilia Ogwal, is dead. Ogwal was 77. Close family members said Ogwal succumbed to cancer at a hospital in India on Thursday morning. “It is sad, Mama Cecilia Ogwal is no more, she is gone,” said a source who preferred anonymity citing privacy concerns. Parliament spokesperson Chris Obore was yet to respond to calls seeking comment on the development. Ogwal has been serving as a member of the parliamentary Committee of Physical Infrastructure in charge of overseeing and covering policy matters…

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Kenyan Police have arrested two suspects in the murder of Kenyan-born Ugandan athlete Benjamin Kiplagat. The lifeless body of the 3000m Steeplechase record holder was discovered inside his brother’s car in Texas near Kimumu Secondary School along Eldoret-Iten Road, Eldoret, western Kenya this past Saturday night. Police said Kiplagat’s “body had a deep knife cut wound on the neck.” CCTV footage obtained by Citizen Digital shows the two suspects tracking Kiplagat’s car before leaving the estate on December 31, 2023 at around 1:10 am. The camera captured a motorbike rider speeding off from the estate; a minute later at 1:11am,…

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President Museveni has blocked the resignation of Uganda Supreme Court Judge, Esta Kitimbo Kisaakye.  Kisaakye, who had served on the Supreme Court bench for 13 years and 10 months wrote to President Museveni on July 19, 2023, informing him of her decision to take early retirement. “Article 144 (1) of the Constitution of Uganda permits a judicial officer to retire at any time after attaining the age of 60 years. I am now aged 63 years,” Kisakye, who was appointed Supreme Court judge on October 12, 2009, wrote to Museveni. Kisaakye’s resignation came five months after the Judicial Service Commission…

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Jovia Mutesi (born June 15, 1992, Age: 31 years old) is the newly crowned Inhebantu (Queen) of the Busoga Kingdom, one of the four constitutional monarchies in Uganda. She is married to Kyabazinga William Wilberforce Gabula IV, the King of Busoga, and has two children with him. Marriage Details & Spouse On November 18, 2023, Jovia Mutesi and William Gabula IV had their official wedding ceremony at Christ Cathedral Bugembe in Jinja City, after a traditional ceremony at her ancestral home in Mayuge Town Council in Mayuge district. The wedding was attended by thousands of guests, including President Yoweri Museveni, Prime…

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Uganda’s renown and first female lecturer, Joyce Mpanga, has passed on at the age of 89. News of her death was communicated on Twitter (X). Her family is yet to formally communicate Mpanga’s death. In a post on X, Makerere University described the deceased as a politician, women-rights-crusader and educationist in the past six decades. “Joyce Mpanga was one of Makerere’s illustrious female alumni. She was a woman of many firsts, including being the first female lecturer in the faculty of education at Makerere University and Gayaza High School’s first African deputy headmistress. May the joy and grace of the…

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