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With less than 3 hours after the request by Mobile telecommunication operators to have the deadline for sim card verification extended, mixed reactions have already started emerging from different people. According to the telecommunication companies verification process has been hampered by lack of an application programming interface that can update the subscriber information in real time. Denis Kakonge, Airtel Uganda’s Director of Legal and regulatory affairs cited a need to gain access to NIRA data so that photographs of subscribers, their names and National Identity numbers are verified instantly. However according to the deputy government spokesperson Rtd. Col. Shaban Bantariza…
David Fred Egesa, from the celebrated Missing Link, a private crime investigators firm has said the Uganda police is much more focused on protecting VIPs and not the civilians. Speaking while appearing on NBS Television on Tuesday morning, Egesa added though Kayihura puts in efforts, some departments lack a strong foundation and drive in executing of the duties. “IGP Kayihura is doing everything but he has allowed CID to be hollow; it’s built on a polythene foundation. The CID headquarters are like a poultry farm and I don’t even know if the officers are facilitated.” Egesa also noted that criminals…
On Thursday 17 August at around 8 pm, unknown assailants threw one grenade at each of two traditional bars selling banana wine on the same street in Buyenzi, Bujumbura. One customer died on the spot and 29 others were injured by shrapnel. As time has gone by, the number of the deceased has increased to six. Staff at a Bujumbura hospital said that three out of 29 wounded may not survive. “We were drinking banana wine in this bar at number 21. We heard a grenade explosion there at number 29. At the same time, another grenade exploded among us.…
The Uganda peoples defense forces has sent 127 Militant Officers code named to participate in the 11th East African Community Military Games and Cultural Events. According to the organization spokesperson, the event will take two weeks from 24th August up to 6th of September in Burundi’s capital Bujumbura and the mission has been dubbed “Mission Uganda”. Mission Uganda is comprised of UPDF sportsmen and women who will participate in games like: football, Netball, Hand ball, Basketball and Cross-Country. The EAC military games and cultural events are part of the annual activities under the Protocol on Cooperation in Defense amongst the…
Telecommunication companies have appealed to government for extension of SIM card verification deadline from August 30 to January 2018 The telecoms argue that the process has been delayed by lack of an application programming interface (API) that updates subscriber information in real time Appearing before parliament’s committee on Information, Communication and Technology (ICT), the telecoms including MTN, Airtel, Africell, K2 among others, expressed discontentment with the failure on part of government to provide real time access to NIRA’s systems for real time verification Mobile telecommunications also fault the National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) for the plodding exercise. The deadline…
Former presidential press secretary Tamale Mirundi has trashed calls for Museveni resignation from active politics by the opposition. Speaking while appearing on NBS TV early this morning, Tamale noted that though some bush war veterans, and opposition figures want the move, but it cann’t force into retirement since he is not voted by veterans but the National Resistance Movement party (NRM) and the entire country. “Museveni is neither hated nor loved by war veterans, westerners so if you don’t want him to rule again then go to his party and deny him a chance to stand again. Will it fail…
The serial murders targeting young women in Nansana and Entebbe municipalities in Wakiso district are orchestrated by the same criminal gang, the Inspector General of Police, Kale Kayihura has revealed. The murders have so far claimed the lives of 11 women in Entebbe and 6 others in Nansana municipality over the past one month. Each of the murder victims was gang rapped before being killed. Now, the Inspector General of Police, Kale Kayihura, says there is a connection between the murders. “We have established that there is a connection between the murders in Nansana and in Entebbe. We are however…
The West Nile Catholic Parish of Moyo in Arua Diocese established by the Comboni missionaries in 1917 on Saturday marked 100 years existence. The colourful centenary celebration held at the parish new celebration grounds presided over by the Papal Nuncio Augustine Blume attracted several hundreds of catholic faithful from Arua and Nebbi Dioceses. President Yoweri Museveni in a speech read for him by the Vice President, Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi, louded the church as important conduit for attitude change towards development saying that Uganda and Africa in general are blessed with abundant resources, good climate, sufficient rains and sunshine but the…
Famous Political analyst Charles Rwomushama has thrown weight behind the fight against the rampant killing of women after being raped in Different Parts of Uganda. Speaking while appearing on NBS TV, Rwomushana asked for explanation from the female leaders who are mute of these killings as if it’s normal for people to continue dying in such a manner. “This rape is political. It’s all arranged. There is a conspiracy of silence of women in that hopeless Parliament.” He said. Charles said if you are to go by media, the number is more than 17 women who have succumbed to this…
Uganda’s Online Youth Media for career development, business and health has organized an event which asks youth, “After School, WhatNext?” focusing on career shaping and life planning happening on 2nd September 2017 at Nakawa MUBS. The event prepares young people in Uganda [from 15 years] for the direction they want their lives to take after school. Uganda has one of the highest youth unemployment rates and to solve that, there is need to guide young people on how to add value to what their parents are doing and to point them towards growing and more viable sectors like Petroleum, Tourism,…