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President Yoweri Museveni has directed Vision Group Chief Executive Officer Robert Kabushenga to step down, and handover all necessary office instruments within two months. Sources have revealed to us that President Museveni has given Kabushenga up to end of October to arrange his dishonorable exit from the Industrial Area based Government owned newspaper. Sources say President Museveni is incensed with Kabushenga for turning himself into a power brocker with in the corridors of power, instead doing the job he appointed him to do. It is said that Kabushenga had turned himself into ‘Mr. Fix it’ for troubled politicians and high…
The facts that can never be disputed. How Gen. Mugisha Muntu has walked the talk. Its now visible to those who are lazy at research that FDC is some great work in progress. FDC was formed on the 16th Day of December 2004. The party has since participated in three general elections accordingly, In 2006, FDC got 2.52 m votes ( 37.6%), won 41 Mp seats, 10 District chairperson seats, won 567 District and Sub county councilors and 44 Sub county Chairpersons. In 2011, FDC got 2.06 m votes ( 27.5% ), won 35 MP seats, won two Chairperson seats,…
A new staff overhaul is taking shape at Uganda National Roads Authority(UNRA), the Insider can exclusively reveal. A highly placed source at the Roads’ Authority has intimated to us that UNRA’s Executive Director Ms. Allen Kagina has finalized plans to have a total of about 700 employees fired. While there is no ultimate time set when the axe is going to fall, what is sure though and settled is that a special report containing the names of those to be fired has already been sent to President Museveni for appropriate consideration and subsequent approval. In the report, Kagina is said…
Fired Permanent Secretary for Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development Dr. Robert Stephen Isabalija is reportedly nursing injuries of heart break after receiving matching orders from President Museveni. Our insider sources have intimated to us that after receiving the unfortunate and bitter news from the State House, the embattled Isabalija rushed home sobbing like baby and locked himself in his bedroom where he cried a river. An insider has also revealed to us that, because of the embarrassment and heartbreak of being fired barely a year in office, Isabailja has decide to rush out of the country in the company…
Wayne Rooney has announced his retirement from international football with immediate effect, rejecting a call-up for next month’s matches against Malta and Slovakia. England’s record goalscorer said in a statement: “It was great that Gareth Southgate called me this week to tell me he wanted me back in the England squad for the upcoming matches. I really appreciated that. However, having already thought long and hard, I told Gareth that I had now decided to retire for good from international football.” No outfield player has won more England caps than the 31-year-old Rooney, who scored 53 goals in 119 appearances…
South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar’s former spokesman James Gatdek Dak appeared in court in the capital Juba, nearly 10 months after being deported from Kenya to the capital Juba where he was immediately detained by security officials. Just before his deportation to Juba in November last year, Gatdet had expressed his support for the removal of a Kenyan general of a United Nations peacekeeping force accused of failing to protect civilians after the outbreak of war in Juba in July last year. A top government official, on condition of anonymity, confirmed to Radio Tamazuj this afternoon that Gatdet had…
Burundi National Defence Forces serving with AMISOM has carried out a rotation of troops for a peace keeping mission in Somalia on August 22nd 2017. The 44th and 45th battalions replace the 38th and 39th battalions that have just accomplished their one year mission. 130 soldiers from the 45th battalion took a flight from Bujumbura International Airport early this morning in destination to Mogadishu. They join their battalion and the 44th that were recently sent to replace the 38th and 39th battalions. “The 44th battalion has already gone and the 38th regained the country after one year mission in Somalia.…
City businessman Mathew Kanyamunyu has again been denied bail for the third time on grounds that he is healthy and under no alarm. High Court Judge Yasin Nyanzi, who presided over the case sent Kanyamunyu back to Luzira prison and said he has right to apply for bail as many times as he wishes but not before same judge, under the same circumstances”. Kanyamunyu is accused of shooting and killing a children’s rights activist, Kenneth Akena last year after he allegedly scratched his car at Forest mall.
Angolans are heading to the polls to vote for a successor for their veteran leader. Jose Eduardo dos Santos has been in power in the oil-rich country since 1979, making him the world’s second-longest serving president. He is not contesting this election – Defence Minister Joao Lourenco is standing for the governing MPLA party. His main challenger is expected to be Isias Samakuva, from the MPLA’s rival in the 27-year civil war, Unita. Under Angola’s voting system, people are choosing both the candidate and party in the same election. Analysts says the MPLA, which has been in power since…
The Uganda Cranes conducted a double session in the morning and evening on day two of nonresidential training at Mandela national Stadium, Namboole ahead of the double header 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Egypt. Assistant captain Hassan Wasswa Mawanda told journalists after the training that they are set to conquer Egypt and ready to give in all their energies for the encounter. ‘We are more than ready for the game and only waiting for the day at Namboole. We have unfinished business after the 1-0 slender loss at AFCON in Gabon. We have to pay back. We were just unlucky…