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Vipers and the Azam Uganda Premier League reigning champions, KCCA registered away victories on Friday. Striker Geofrey Sserunkuma scored KCCA’s lone strike in the 1-0 victory against The Saints at the Champions stadium. It was the 12th goal of the season for the current league top scorer, who was also part of Uganda Cranes 23 man team at the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon. Vipers rallied from a goal down to defeat BUL at the Kakindu Stadium in Jinja. Villa Oromchan scored the opener for the home side in the 38th minute. Former Jinja Municipal Council left back,…
A Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) soldier was shot dead and another injured during a gunfire exchange with suspected M23 rebels in Kisoro District. The deceased, identified as Lance Corporal David Ochuna and the injured, Private John Jackie Kusuba attached to the UPDF 63 Battalion, were shot as the army and game rangers exchanged gunfire with the rebels. Fighting erupted on Tuesday when a group of suspected M23 rebels who were crossing to Uganda from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) via Mgahinga Gorilla National Park resisted arrest by game rangers and UPDF. One suspected M23 rebel fighter was…
FUFA President Eng. Moses Magogo has sent a congratulatory message to Mr. Lawrence Mulindwa upon completion of the construction of St Mary’s Stadium in Kitende. Mulindwa is the owner of Vipers SC and also former FUFA President who served for 8 years from 2005-2013. He is now the Honorary President of FUFA-a title bestowed unto him during the FUFA Assembly in 2013. Here is the message from the FUFA President to the FUFA Honorary President Mr. Lawrence Mulindwa; Date: 2nd March 2017 The FUFA Honorary President, Mr. Lawrence Mulindwa, St. Mary’s Boarding Secondary School Kitende. P.O Box 30583 Kampala- Uganda…
The father of the Late Hon. Charles Willy Ekemu has also died just a day after the death of the son. Former Soroti Municipality MP Charles Willy Ekemu was battling liver cancer at Nsambya Hospital. Ekemu was elected Member of Parliament after he defeated Capt. Mike Mukula in 2006. He however lost party primaries to Comrade Attan Okia Moses in 2011 hence contesting as an independent. He eventually lost the seat to Capt. Mukula and in 2016 he went to Ngora District but was unsuccessful. The public has described him as a humble, soft spoken, loving and a gallant promoter…
The Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Rebecca Kadaga, had demanded that the Minister of Kampala, Beti Kamya, presents a list showing vendors evicted from the Park Yard Market and where they have been relocated to. The Speaker’s directive followed a Statement made by the Minister about the Monday night eviction of vendors from the Park Yard Market, owned by the Nakivubo War Memorial Stadium. The yard is now being developed into a modern sports complex. Speaker Kadaga said that the eviction of vendors was an indictment on everyone in government having failed to find solutions for problems affecting the ordinary…
Members of Parliament have elected new representatives of Uganda to the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA). Parliament held a special sitting on Tuesday 28th February, 2017, during which candidates vying for posts in EALA were allowed to campaign to MPs. This was followed by MPs casting a secret ballot to vote nine candidates of their choice out of the 46 who had been nominated. The Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Rebecca Kadaga, under rule 14 (2) of the Rules of Procedure of Parliament, announced nine candidates as the winners of the election and new representatives of Uganda in EALA. These…
Uganda will host the first regional seminar on the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals. The Seminar, that has attracted Members of Parliament from 49 countries in Sub Saharan Africa will focus on finding solutions to problems of poverty, and malnutrition that is causing deaths, and climate change. “According to the National Planning Authority, the number of people living in extreme poverty has reduced considerably. There are however, people especially in the rural areas who remain insecure as they live on less than a dollar a day despite the fact that in the urban areas, the number of people…
The Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Rebecca Kadaga has said that Parliament will support the development and growth of football in Uganda. Kadaga made these remarks while meeting the President of Federation of International of Football Association (FIFA), Gianni Infantino, at a breakfast meeting held at Serena Conference Centre in Kampala, on Saturday, 25th Feb. 2017. The Speaker thanked Infantino for bringing FIFA near to Uganda, and added that his visit projects well for the development of football in the country. “It is encouraging to hear that FIFA has increased its funding to African member teams and projects, which means…
Tanzania’s most notorious elephant poacher, nicknamed “The Devil”, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Boniface Matthew Maliango was responsible for killing thousands of elephants, a conservation organisation said. He was arrested in Dar es Salaam in September 2015 after a year-long manhunt. His crimes were the focus of a Netflix documentary film, The Ivory Game, produced by actor Leonardo DiCaprio. Maliango’s nickname, Shetani, means devil in Swahili. The Elephant Action League, which fights wildlife crime, said he ran an ivory trafficking network across five African countries: Tanzania, Burundi, Zambia, Mozambique and southern Kenya. He was sentenced alongside his…
Two Makerere University Students female opposition activists identified as Maria Nalwoga and Nakimbugwe Shirat have gone missing in the Police cells where they were detained after the chaotic Wandegeya pre-election crackdown that left several youths behind bars. The missing students are active Democratic Party (Makerere University chapter) Leaders who are said to have been arrested at Akamwesi hostel. They were conducting a strategic meeting lead by to Democratic party official Gerald Seranda and Walter Lubega Mukaku. “The girls are part of the people who were arrested on Yesterday evening in Makerere, but to our surprise we have not found them…