It seems it is a fashion now in Uganda for prominent people to change names. Recently Uganda’s most feared intelligence officer; Gen. David Tinyefuza changed his name to David Sejusa. Also many people in the recent past have changed names. They include Gen. Salim Saleh. Now we hear unconfirmed reports that the KCCA director has […]
Shock and grief befell on people of Kampala on Friday morning when a woman jumped from the 14th floor of Workers House building and died. The woman was identified as Justine Nalugya, a resident of Kampala district. The relatives to the deceased said that Nalugya was so stressed because she had a degree from […]
My name is Fred Mukasa Mbidde, the legal advisor of the Democratic Party. I have evidence that some of our party members Simon Peter Ochene, Gerald Kobwemi, John Tumusiime among others are being used by the NRM government to destabilize the Democratic Party and I have written to the party to convene disciplinary committee meeting […]
New evidence shows that HIV cases first appeared in human beings in Cameroonin the last quarter of the 19th century. A new book on the spread of HIV alleges that the virus spread to humans from a simian, Walakira Nyanzi reports. The book alleges that HIV/AIDS started when a hunter caught an infected chimpanzee for […]
Micro Provident Uganda Limited (MP Uganda) was incorporated in 2005 and started trading as a subsidiary of Letshego holdings limited, a listed company on the Botswana stock Exchange with other subsidiaries in Botswana, Swaziland,Tanzania, Zambia,Namibia and Mozambique. Pursuant to the shareholders vision of forming a pan African company, MP Uganda has undergone change of name […]
If you thought the Nabagereka (queen) of Buganda Sylvia Nagginda is not happy because her husband, Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II, who is also the king ofBugandakingdom fathered a son outside wedlock you better read this. Nabagereka says that it is normal for an African man to produce children from any woman of his choice but […]
Members of Parliament on NRM ticket say they were under instructions to approve Lt. Gen. Kale Kayihura as the inspector General of Police. President Museveni renewed Kayihura’s contract of the Inspector General of Police in November last year week and Kayihura’s name was sent to parliament for vetting. We have been told that the members […]
The Ugandan law provides that for any person to change his or her name, that person must first get permission from the court. But this was not the case with Birowoozo singer, Ms Iryn Namubiru who recently won the PAM awards trophies in Kampala. We have been reliably informed that Iryn Namubiru has changed her […]
It is like every staff at the Red Pepper made buying a new car by the end of the year his/her year’s final resolution. With a month and so weeks remaining to close the year 2011, most of the workers are busy selling off their old cars and rushing to acquire new ones. In the […]
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 […]