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President Yoweri Museveni has called on the Japanese business entrepreneurs to explore opportunities in investing in recycling organic waste management among other things, saying one of the battles now is managing waste in the city. The President was yesterday meeting with Japanese entrepreneurs from Art Yuichi Company in Japan led by Mr. Ito Yuichi at State House Entebbe. The former Vice-President of Kenya, Dr. Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka who introduced the delegation to President Museveni, accompanied the entrepreneurs. The President served his guests with fresh tasty Ugandan fruits and later told them, that the accumulated biodegradable peels from the fruit basket…
Three convicts of the infamous Katosi road scam have this afternoon been granted bail. These include Joe Ssemugooma, the former director of finance and administration at Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA), former UNRA regional accountant Wilberforce Ssenjako and businessman Apollo Senkeeto. The trio regained their freedom after a ruling delivered by the Court of Appeal registrar Ayebare Tumwebaze on behalf of Justice Cheborion Barishaki, pending the disposal of an appeal they filed challenging their conviction and sentences. Two of them; Senkeeto and Ssenjako were bailed on health grounds. Senkeeto presented a medical report from Kampala Chiropractic and Wellness Health Centre…
MPs on the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee have put the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) to task over the recurring abuse and mistreatment of opposition politicians. Hon. Asuman Basalirwa (JEEMA, Bugiri Municipality) said UHRC needs to act on the gross human rights abuses and reign in on security forces. He noted that in spite of the complaints, the police have persistently abused the freedoms of opposition politicians. “People are not free to associate and opposition politicians cannot hold political rallies anymore because every time we try, the police frustrate us,” he said. He remarked that the police have hidden…
Government has confirmed that the long awaited First Uganda Airlines Bombardier CRJ900 will soon land in the Pearl of Africa. According to the State House spokesperson Don Wanyama, On 23rd April towards 3pm, Ugandans need to look up in the skies. “You will see this bird making its way to Entebbe. The first of Uganda Airlines’ Bombardier CRJ900 will touch down at Entebbe International Airport at 3pm. It will mark the official revival of the national flag carrier.” Wanyama noted. This comes at the time when Ugandans were being feed on speculative information regarding the leagality of the Bombardier. It…
As the world has always known Bobi Wine for being a ‘Mubanda Wa Kabaka’, his absence at the highly anticipated marathon early this morning has raised a lot of mixed reactions. Though this might sound like a minor issue, but in politics, there is nothing called small or minor since one can lose an election by a difference of only one vote. Bobi Wine who is said to be in Berlin for a certain leadership conference, made several people in at the Lubiri grounds ask a lot of unanswered questions on how the Kyadondo East lawmaker can miss such a…
Why are you hitting hard your colleague? Is the question our insider asked Ms. Shanita Namuyimba aka Bad Black but the reply was just a simple mockery laugh. The Mudguard singer went on revealing her bedroom secrets with the Uganda’s self-proclaimed Big Size alias Bebe Cool. Bad Black claimed that Bobi Wine’s Kyarenga verse ‘Obalaba Bapika Obunyama, Naye Nga Work Wa Mbwa’ a Luganda statement meaning that not all masculine and mugged men are good in all areas. Black who just turned 32 claims that her relationship with the 18 and Over singer was a total mess. This all…
Realistically, it might not be so easy for Museveni to leave power soon, but ever since the Kyadondo lawmaker Hon. Kyagulanyi Robert Ssentamu declared his ambitions to contest for the country’s top most office, one of the hardships he has encountered, is to convince people that he can fit in Kaguta’s Shoes. Forget about the ‘Fiscal Policy’ Saga, His critics have also endlessly claimed that he does his works alone thereby concluding that he can’t run a state as singlehandedly. Well its evident Bobi Wine has a monotonous team he walks with left right and center (Nubian Li, Eddy Mutwe,…
The Minister of State for Internal Affairs, Hon. Obiga Kania, has refuted claims that government has failed to issue passports to applicants and attributed the delays to increased demand for the travel document. The Minister told Parliament that the Department of Immigration, which is mandated with processing and issuance of passports to Ugandans, could not hurriedly scrutinize documents submitted to them to avoid issuing the passport to non-deserving persons. “We issue between 650 – 800 passports per day. The labour exporting companies submit their papers in bulk and we need to scrutinize each application to make sure that the owners…
As its always said that short and black men never disappoint when it comes to ‘bedminton’(Mukazanyo!) Free Kicks, singer George William Kigozi aka Geosteady has again proved that he never made a mistake to pay dowry early this year. This website can reliably confirm that this celebrity family is expecting another member soon. Due to this excitement, the ebisembayo singer has intensified the rate of positing his pictures with the baby mama as a way of acknowledging his love captivity. The couple have a daughter Kigozi Soraya who has already started going to school implying that the good news was…
Hope Radio station a local radio station in Rubanda district has been closed over unclear reasons. The station was sealed off at the time when former presidential candidate Dr. Kiiza Besigye was being hosted for a political talkshow. According to the Forum for Democratic Change’s KCCA Councilor Ms. Doreen Nyanjura, revealed that first, the electricity was switched off, something that was followed by the switching off of the radio station in the middle of the talk show. Besigye was escorted by Busongora North Lawmaker Hon. William Nzoghu who doubles as the FDC Western region Vice Chairperson. The four time presidential…