It has been a terrible time for a census official in Namutumba district who is currently nursing wounds after being bitten by a dog from one of the homes he had gone for the enumeration exercise. https://umojastandard.com/2024/05/14/just-in-kabaka-in-namibia-for-medical-vacation-after-being-discharged-from-hospital/ Patrick Isabirye says he was attacked by a dog at the home of one Madina Nabirye a resident of Kangulumo B village in Namutumba Town Council. Isabirye says since he has not yet received facilitation from the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), he is now stuck without money for treatment and vaccination against rabies. “Iam here stuck after being bitten by a dog which…
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Police fire live bullets to disperse protesters in Zombo, Police from Zeu Police post in Zeu Sub-County, Zombo district fired live bullets on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, to disperse rowdy and protesting youths of Zeu Lor trading centre, who mounted roadblocks to intercept Congolese nationals. The Congolese came to the Zeu Weekly market. The youths were protesting after many of them were reportedly beaten, flogged and fined by Congolese soldiers in DR Congo over the weekend. Local leaders say the youths were allegedly arrested by DR Congo soldiers on Sunday, and subjected to all forms of punishment when they were…
Three more people among them, a former employee of Equity Bank have been remanded in connection with the alleged fraud regarding loss of billions of shillings in unsecured loans from Equity bank. Those remanded are two former employees of Airtel Uganda and now businessmen; Godfrey Mukwaya and Robert Mugumya as well as Fred Kato a former head of Small and Medium Enterprises at Equity Bank. The trio was arraigned before the Magistrates Court of the Anticorruption Division on accusations of Conspiracy to defraud but they were not allowed to plead to the charges. It is alleged that…
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President Museveni has reappointed Johnson Byabashaija as the Commissioner General of the Uganda Prisons Service (UPS), rebuffing U.S. sanctions against him. “In exercise of the powers vested in the President under Article 216 of the Constitution of the Republic of Uganda and in accordance with the advice of the Prisons Authority under sections 10 (1)(b) and 18 0f the Prison Act 2006; I Yoweri Kaguta Museveni do hereby renew the appointment of Dr. Johnson O. R. Byabashaija as Commissioner General of Prisons for a period of 24 months on local contract terms with effect from May 2, 2024,” the new…
If you’re a pareidoliac yet? For all of you that enjoy seeing random objects in places where none exists, Bored Panda has prepared a special treat. We have compiled a list of weird trees that appear to look like something else entirely. From scary trees to ones defying the laws of nature, you’ll find all of them here. It turns out, while most maples and sweetgum look very similar, Mother Nature has sculpted some of them most likely just to prank our eyes. Is that a beautiful tree or a dragon? Nobody can convince me that God is not magnificent; he…
High Court International Crimes Division Judge Andrew Bashaijja was asked by five people accused of terrorism to compel prison authorities to take them to hospital for medical examination and treatment. Credit: URN. Through their lawyer Zephania Zzimbe, the group including Ibrah Muwonge commonly known as Kimbowa Ibrah, Mustafa Lule, Wycliff Makabayi, Opio Patrick commonly known as Wasswa and Vincent Ssenyonga told Court that they were tortured and suffered bruises and pain on their body. According to Zzimbe, Muwonge complains of chest pain, having been allegedly tortured at CMI headquarters in Mbuya after his arrest Makabayi suffered bruises and pain in…
Just after the top leadership of the ruling National Unity Platform met Katikkiro of BUganda Charles Peter Mayiga and guided them on how to handle issues tearing the party apart, Principal Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine has suspended Nyendo-Mukungwe Division Member of Parliament Mathias Mpuuga from his position of party Deputy President. The decision was revealed in a Social Media statement released on Thursday evening via the party’s Social Media Channels. “The President of the National Unity Platform has suspended Hon. Mathias Mpuuga from the position of Deputy President (Central Region) for engaging in actions of corruption and abuse of…
Turbulence rages on in Uganda’s leading opposition party National Unity Platform as president Robert Kyakulanyi Ssentamu has turned his gun to the opposition Chief Whip in Parliament, John Baptist Nambeshe, who is being accused of pocketing extra per diem from parliament. According to documents from Parliament seen by this website, Nambeshe, who is also the NUP’s deputy president for eastern Uganda, requested five days of facilitation from Parliament together with the Leader of Opposition (LOP), Joel Ssenyonyi, to pay a visit to their ailing colleague, Muhammad Ssegirinya, in Nairobi, Kenya. However, the two NUP parliamentarians visited Ssegirinya for only a…
Kigezi-based electorates under their umbrella Rubanda Farmers Association have issued out a protest letter accusing their own woman MP Prossy Akampurira Begumisa Mbabazi also commissioner of Parliament, for allegedly pocketing shs400m saying that the action is a misuse of public funds and abuse of office. They want her to refund MP Prossy Akampurira the taxpayers’ money, apologize to the Bakiga and Ugandans, and resign. ”As concerned and deeply invested citizens of Uganda, we, the voters of MP Prossy from Rubanda district, hereby issue this urgent our dismay and outrage at the recent allegations of corruption and misuse of public funds…