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Kampala, Entebbe load shedding to continue

We have learnt with great shock that load shedding in most parts of Kampala and Wakiso district including Entebbe Municipality is to continue because ‘Mutundwe power station is under restoration. The power station burnt last night under unknown circumstances. Currently most parts of Kampala and Wakiso are in too much darkness unlike before. UMEME in […]

Museveni, Somali president discuss offensive against al-shabaab

President Museveni of Uganda and his counterpart, the president of Somalia, Sheikh Ahmed Sharif have held a closed door meeting at statehouse Nakasero, Kampala. Sheikh Sharif Ahmed secretly arrived in Uganda on Tuesday this week and straight away headed to Statehouse Nakasero. The meeting was a one on one and no minister or aide of both Somalia or Uganda government attended it. […]

Ugandan musicians bootleg other artists’ songs

Ultimate Media The habit of copying other peoples’ songs in Uganda is growing every week, every month and every year. Reports of singers complaining that their colleagues in the music industry have duplicated their songs are found at police stations, courts and heard on radio stations. For example, a little known Ugandan artist, M Jeff last week […]

Uganda urged to tackle HIV transmission drivers to reduce prevalence

As Uganda prepares to mark World International day the government has been challenged to address all areas that have been identified to be dangerous in as far as Aids transmission is concerned. Musa Bungudu, the Country  Director of UNAIDS, the UN body responsible for HIV/AIDS, told a joint press Conference at Parliament that unprotected sex and […]

Jude Mbabali resumes case against Vice President Edward Sekandi

Jude Mbababali the man who contested the vice president Edward Kiwanuka Sekandi for the Bukoto central Mp seat has revived intensions to un seat sekandi in court. After he lost the election, Mbabali sued Sekandi challenging his victory, but in a turn of events Mbabaliwithdrew the case after the Katikiro Of Buganda J.b Walusimbi and Masaka Bishop John Baptist Kamyaconvinced him that the Council had passed are solution to create another district […]

James Ogoola approved to head Judicial Service Commission

The parliamentary appointments committee has approved the former principal judge James Ogoola as the new chairman of the judicial service commission. This follows demands by mps to the president asking him to immediately appoint commissioners in the judicial service commission who can help to recruit judges in the courts. After a long period of this demand, […]

Donors meet Kizza Besigye over walk to work protests

It has emerged that representatives of donors in Uganda secretly visited the FDC leader, Col. Kiiza Besigye on Monday night at his home in Kasangati. The donors according to sources in FDC wanted to discuss with Besigye the effects of walk to work protests on the economy, government and the country in general. The representatives of donors […]

Mafias want Tamale Mirundi sacked

We cannot tell exactly who the mafias in the government are but the presidential press secretary Tamale Mirundi insists that mafias now are pressuring president Museveni to sack him. Sources at statehouse have informed us that the so called mafias have already told Museveni that it is better to sack Mirundi alleging that it is […]

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