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The Uganda Communications Commission ED Eng. Irene Kaggwa has ordered an investigation into a spat between Zahara Totto and Shamim Mayanja, better known as Zubeda Byantalo. Mrs. Kaggwa ordered the Uganda Media Council (UMC) to look into the bitter exchange between the two media personalities. She asked them to focus on the comments made live on air by Totto against ...

Kazo County MP, Dan Kimosho, has said Uganda Communications Commission, UCC is not doing enough to to fight hate speech. He says it is on the rise of late on social media and no one seems to care to regulate it. “UCC needs to up its game in terms of fighting hate speech. We are talking about hate speech now ...

Local singer Eric Opoka also know as Eezzy of the “Tumbiza Sound” fame has accused the Ministry of Health of failing to fulfill their promise of paying for the remix to his popular song “Tumbiza Sound.” Eezzy says the ministry of health officials asked him to withdraw the song and issue a remix that was less contentious than the original. ...

Many viewers have come out and put different Ugandan media stations on gun point to chose political sides to which they belong. Actually, some viewers have already sidelined some stations claiming they are in support of the ruling party, NRM. It even came to an extent of generating hash tags to boycott some stations. NBS Television is one of the ...