Uganda news

Winnie Byanyima has said her husband is being accused of being a public nuisance. Apparently, this is what she was told when she went to visit him in prison. Byanyima used her social media platforms to communicate this message. “Visited my partner ⁦@kizzabesigye1⁩ at Murchison Bay, Luzira Prison. He looks well and his spirit is strong. I asked why he ...

Over 1000 youths have been recruited into the Uganda Peoples’ Defense Forces teams in Eastern Uganda during the ongoing army recruitment exercise. The UPDF’s Chieftaincy of Training and Recruitment (CTR) put together two teams. They tasked them with traversing the Eastern region as part of the nationwide enlistment exercise for 2022. Washaki Ahmada, the Mbale Resident City Commissioner (RCC), confirmed ...

The Uganda Police Force has revealed that motorists who will be caught bribing officers will get locked up. The warning came after an incident involving five officers caught on camera receiving a bribe from a motorist. This incident happened near the Riham factory along Bombo road. Police Constables Pele Boni (driver), Samuel Abedi Kwel, Kevin Bwire, Ivan Kirya, and Special ...

Richard Mwebaze, the Chief Legal Officer of UNATU, has said the salary segregation has brought a separation between arts and science teachers. Apparently, in some schools, science teachers and arts teachers now sit separately. The root cause of this, he says is the government that decided to uphold one group above the other. He said this while on a late-night ...

Legislators under the Public Accounts Committee – COSASE, are probing the controversial Shs 2.039 billion compensation to Natalia Namuli by the Uganda Land Commission (ULC). On Tuesday, witnesses treated them to some revelations as they gave more contradictory information. COSASE considers the 79-year-old Namuli one of the 6 ‘ghosts’ who sold to government their land in 2015 and they hurriedly ...