Uganda news

The Minister of East African Affairs, Hon Rebecca Kadaga is once again on the spot for the Nyege Nyege festival this time around clashing with Muslim clerics in Jinja. It should be noted that the former Speaker of Parliament was at the forefront of fighting for this festival to happen last year. This is after parliament had resorted to banning ...

Police in Nansana Municipality, Wakiso District are actively hunting for an unidentified man who is suspected to have stabbed to death his 22-year-old woman. The suspect thereafter attempted to set the room on fire over the weekend. Police have identified the deceased as Rashidah Nakaddu, a former student of Buganda Royal Institute and Technical Institute-Mengo. She was killed in the ...

Reports reaching our news desk indicate that the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) is reportedly in the advanced stages of considering new taxes targeting the operations of Born-again Pentecostal churches. The tax measures still pending stakeholder deliberations, according to reports, will be targeting mainly charity and other non-church activities being run by the churches. The news has since enflamed some of ...

Voters from Lango Sub-region have demanded that in order to cut on public expenditure, Members of Parliament must be cut by over 300. According to them, a parliament of 557MPs has become a colossal economic burden to the people of Uganda. They suggested only two MPs from each district, one male and the other female in their search for political ...

A Police investigation has been launched to determine circumstances surrounding the death of a p7 girl at Edinance Daycare, Nursery and Primary School. 12-year-old Valeria Leisha Namata appeared to have passed away in her sleep on Thursday night. This came after the discovery of her corpse on her decker in the school’s dormitory on Friday at around 5:00 am. The ...