One of the elderly pastors and members of the Christ Disciple’s Church (CDC) who left Uganda for Ethiopia on alleged missionary work has recently died. William Ojangole alias Obama, formerly a resident of Owarakwap village in Kadungulu sub-county, Serere district died Saturday evening after suffering a heart attack early in the day. Ojangole reportedly woke up well on Saturday, prayed, and fasted for a half day. At around 4 pm, he reportedly refreshed and broke his fast. Joseph Okuda, one of his sons says that the old man reportedly developed some complications while having a meal. “He looked very fine…
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By Okidi Patrick/ACHOLI,LANGO & WESTNILE CORRESPONDENT. ACHOLI: Amuru Business came to a stand still for close to two hours on Gulu- Pabbo-Atiak-Nimule road as a fuel tank number SSD 912P Masha Allah, overturns in Amuru. The accident occurred at Palukere parish, Atiak Sub county ,Amuru district on Monday morning involving Obongi RDC Samuel Mpimbasa. The accident occurred 57 kilometres away from Gulu city . According to an eye witness who spoke on condition of anonymity,the fuel tank had only one person-the driver who is a Somalia national escaped unhurt from the vehicle. Meanwhile,the number of accidents occurring consecutively due to…
Two university students, Innocent Wasande and Emmanuel Mwijukye, have been arrested by the police on charges of sedating a woman and subjecting her to repeated sexual assault on Independence Day, October 9. The alleged victim, known as Cindy, disclosed that she ventured out to Nakulabye in Kampala City for leisure, leaving her home and business area in the Kabawo zone, Lubaga division, around 7 pm that evening. While at a bar, she was approached by the two suspects, who, as per Cindy, befriended her. Cindy’s memory becomes hazy at this point, and she reported not knowing how she was taken…
CREDIT: THE SOURCE. RUKIGA: A Lay reader from the Church of Uganda and a resilient mother of four have sat for the Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB) exams today in Rukiga District, Southwestern Uganda. Alex Tumushabe Bruce, a 32-year-old lay reader serving at Ibugwe Church of Uganda in Kihanga Archdeaconry, Diocese of Kigezi, and Enid Abampiire Niwabiine, a 33-year-old mother of four married to Wilber Niwabiina, and a resident of Omukishenyi village in Ibumba Parish, Rwamucucu sub-county of Rukiga District, both took their UCE exams at Kihanga Secondary School. Tumushabe, married to Shifrah Kiconco and blessed with three children, hails from…
NTUNGAMO- The Daily monitor correspondent Ntungamo district journalist Perez Rumanzi is among the 164 students of Kyamate Secondary school sitting for this year’s Uganda advanced Certificate of Education examinations. Credit: The Informer. Rumanzi 38, offering (HLD/ICT) the father of three forced to go back to senior six to become a professional lawyer to advocate for less privileged people in the country. He revealed that there has been a normative rhetoric that circumvents metaphorical generalization into veridical reasoning of negative conceptual that courts in Uganda are for the rich and that poor citizens cannot win a case hoping to demystify the fallacy.…
Last Sunday Christians In Luwero fled church after Bishop Ssebaggala showed up for a Sunday service being guarded by BAU Security, commonly known as bouncers. The bishop ended up preaching to empty seats after church members disappeared. The situation in the Diocese of Luweero is getting worse every day, our reporter confirmed to us that the churches are dry because of the tension and fear people are going through while going to worship. There have been various strikes from Christians expressing their dissatisfaction with the cancellation of Kasana, who was earlier elected as the Bishop of Luwero, but later interdicted on grounds of fornication.…
At least four children and injured 15 others on Sunday due to collapse of a church following heavy rain in southern Burundi killed according to a local official and state media. Heavy downpours and strong winds began to lash Kiyange at around 7 a.m. (0500GMT), local government official Esperance Inarukundo said. The bad weather “caused a lot of damage, including the collapse of the Kiyange Pentecostal church,” where children were attending religious education classes, Inarukundo said. “We are continuing to search the rubble and have already found the bodies of four dead children and 15 injured in the church,” she…
Soroti’s Chief Magistrate, Margaret Aanyu, has passed away. She died on Sunday afternoon, October 15, at Kampala Hospital. Aanyu had collapsed at her home and was taken to the hospital. According to the Judiciary Communication Specialist, Sheila Wamboga, Aanyu succumbed to a brief illness. Other News: Heritage Oil Loses Supreme Court Appeal in Ongoing $435 Million URA Tax Dispute A close family member and a friend confirmed that she collapsed at home, and there is suspicion of bleeding in her brain. She was being prepared for transfer to Agha Khan Hospital when she passed away. This is a developing story….. Credit:…
By Okidi Patrick/ NORTHERN UGANDA CORRESPONT. OMORO: Most of the leaders in Omoro district are having sleepless night these days as far as poor performance of the PDM disbursement is taking the PDM secretariat and the government of Uganda by surprise due to intended laziness by the sub- county chiefs and more especially among most of the district leadership of Omoro which is really confirmed to be lagging behind in the whole country. Jovrine Kalisa Kyomukama the deputy National PDM coordinator has caused panic in Omoro district on Thursday last week in a hot meeting that lasted from 5:00 PM…
Frightened by unprecedented violence on the streets and within prisons, Ecuadorians have a universal demand for the president they are choosing Sunday — safety. (Oct. 15) BY REGINA GARCIA CANO AND GONZALO SOLANO QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Daniel Noboa has managed to do what his father failed at five times: Getting elected as Ecuador’s president. And he did it Sunday on his first attempt, winning a runoff election against a leftist lawyer on the resume of a 35-year-old who belongs to the South American country’s elite, which means some schooling in the U.S., some entrepreneurial work, some dabbling in politics. Now, he…