Presidential candidate Joseph Mabiriizi instructs Electoral Commission to withdraw security following his alleged kidnapping. Mabiriizi who is contesting on an independent ticket says the security that was availed to offer protection has failed to guarantee his safety therefore he can live without it. He made the remarks at a press conference organized at MacKinnon suits in […]
Leaders from Kisoro district led by Bufumbira North mp John kamara have threatened not to vote for NRM come 2016 presidential elections if they are not given a district. The leaders from four sub counties of Bufumbira north say that the area has been marginalized with bad roads and bridges yet it is a tourism […]
With only three weeks to the Forum for Democratic Change presidential elections the three candidates continue to traverse the country with some drawing new strategies. Nandala Mafabi is today headed to Kiboga district where he is meeting delegates before heading to the Elgon region in his home towns of Mbale, Manafa and Sironko tomorrow. Geoffrey […]
Forum for Democratic Change leader Kiiza Besigye has this evening been released after he was detained for over 6 hours. Police this morning arrested Besigye at Blue Room along Namirembe Road as he tried to walk through town. He was then taken to the Central Police Station where he was held for several hours before […]
Leaders from Bugiri district have started a campaign on personal hygiene in the fight against jiggers. This follows the media reports that put jiggers in the district on the rise in the families more especially among the youth. Bukhooli central Member of Parliament who is also the shadow minister for works Wafula Ogutu says that […]
Retired Justice Prof. George Kanyeihamba has advised politicians vying for MP seats in the ongoing parliamentary by elections around the country on the National Resistance Movement (NRM) ticket not to invite president Museveni on their campaign rallies. The retired judge says that wherever Museveni has gone to campaign for his party candidates since February 2011 […]
FDC has a candidate in Bukoto South (Lwengo district in greater Masaka) parliamentary by elections. But the FDC president Col. Kiiza Besigye yesterday left the campaign programme of the FDC candidate in the race, Julius Sentamu and went to attend the rallies of another candidate in the same race, Mathias Nsubuga. Nsubuga is the […]
The Inspector General of Police Lt. Gen. Kale Kayihura has moved to Bukoto South Constituency in Lwengo district in greater Masaka to restore peace and order in the by-election campaigns that have turned violent. Kayihura, was seen clad on a Uganda police attire and inside Kayihura was reportedly dressed a yellow T. Shirt, the colour […]
The queen of Buganda lady Sylvia Nagginda has launched the global fight action on Maternal and child health campaign with an aim of achieving the Millennium Development Goals. The MDGs that are set to be achieved through the campaign include strengthening of gender equitable national health sector action plans, ensuring health plans, reducing maternal deaths […]
The government has expressed concern over the high number of patients’ with diabetes in Uganda. The ministry of health has says many hospitals are reporting increased cases of diabetes in different parts of the country. The ministry’s program manager in charge of non-communicable diseases Dr. James Sekajugo says the cases of diabetes have increased by […]