Kampala, Uganda: Dr. Winfred Nakanjako attached to Mulago hospital has been found after news had reported her missing. Edward Victor Kato a brother to the doctor says they were able to find and take her back home. Kato who says Nakanjako has been depressed for a couple of weeks didn’t disclose where she was found. “Thank you Uganda Police, she’s my young sister and we have been able to find her, we have taken her home, she has been depressed for a couple of weeks. I appreciate your efforts from yesterday when I reported the case at Wakasenke police station.…
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Kampala, Uganda: Renown NTV Journalist Solomon Kaweesa joined a growing list of popular figures that have taken aim at Spice Diana. Diana has come under criticism after she had a dancer named Ritah nasazzi arrested on the back of threatening beat her. The conflict between the two started after Nasazzi, also known as Ritah Dancehall,said she wasn’t impressed by Diana’s performance after her recent concert. Credit: Pulse.ug After learning about her comments, Diana and her manager, Roger Lubega, threatened that they would revenge. It’s after dancehall was arrested that people came out to put Roger and Diana on the spot…
By Julius Mugaga Tukacungurwa/Umoja Standard. Kampala, Uganda: NBS TV stylish News Anchor has this morning hit twitter community with a statement that mesmerized many when he said, never voted since 1996. Taking to his twitter handle, Kasumba wrote, “We won’t be alright as a nation until we agree on the things that are wrong irrespective of who does them and our relationship to that person. I am sick and tied of things being right bse they are done by those who vote like we do. Well, in truth I have not voted since 1996!” Samson Kasumba is a Ugandan pastor, news…
SPORTS: Manchester United have become only the second team in the history of the EFL Cup to qualify for at least 10 finals. United booked their 10th final appearance by beating Nottingham Forest 2-0 in Wednesday’s semi-final second leg. The Red Devils had won the first leg 3-0 at the City Ground seven days earlier. Forest battled hard at Old Trafford but conceded twice in four minutes late the second half as Anthony Martial and Fred extended the aggregate score to 5-0. Both of United’s goals were assisted by Marcus Rashford, who had started the game on the bench. Fred…
It was love at first “like” when American Maria Angelo and Ugandan Simon Asiimwe got connected on a dating site in January this year, they clicked immediately. They quickly fell in love while dating long-distance. The duo finally met face-to-face for the first time last week on Thursday as Maria, 35, traveled to Kampala, Uganda, to tie the knot with her boyfriend Asiimwe, 23, a student of Bachelor of commerce at a local university. It all started when they met on a dating website. Both claim they fell in love at first “like” but still took time to decide either to get married…
Kanungu, Uganda: Police in Kanungu District have arrested a radio station manager over assaulting a female journalist at the same station. Ms Anita Tumuramye, a female presenter at Kanungu FM was allegedly assaulted by her manager identified as Nelson Kagote Twinamatsiko after she demanded her commission for an advert she brought for the radio station. According to Tumuramye, she secured the advert on January 26, 2023, worth Shs200,000 which was paid in cash, and was entitled to a commission of Shs40000 in line with the station guidelines. She, however, says that after recording the business, Twinamatsiko declined to release her…
KAMPALA, UGANDA: Uganda’s State Minister for Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Hon. Persis Princess Namuganza has run to courts of law (The High Court Division in Kampala) to challenge Parliament’s decision that ended up in censuring her. It’s should be remembered that last week, Uganda’s Parliament censured the embattled minister over derogatory remarks and disrespectful conduct which the Chairperson of the committee Hon Mwine Mpaka described as; “…the matters raised in the interview [which Hon Namuganza gave to various media houses] was obnoxious, reckless, insufferable, beyond the pale and in per incuriam.” During the plenary presided over by Deputy Speaker Thomas…
DRC/PAPAL VISIT: The 86-year-old Francis says a ‘forgotten genocide’ is under way in the DRC as he begins his trip to two African nations. Pope Francis has demanded that foreign powers stop plundering Africa’s natural resources for the “poison of their own greed” after he landed in the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of a trip to two African nations. The 86-year-old Francis is the first pontiff to visit DR Congo since Pope John Paul II did so in 1985, when the country was still known as Zaire. “Hands off the Democratic Republic of the Congo! Hands off Africa!” Francis said on…
PARLIAMENT: There is a proposed move to inflict tough restrictions on the consumption and sale of alcohol in Uganda. On Tuesday during during the stakeholders meeting organised by the Parliamentary department of legislative and procedural services regarding the prposed Alcohol Drinks Control Bill the matter was highlighted The proposed bill seeks to regulate the manufacture, importation, sale and consumption of alcoholic drinks and also provide for the licensing of persons trading in alcoholic drinks and premises. The bill also seeks to prohibit the sale of alcohol to specified persons and regulate the promotion and advertisement of alcoholic drinks. Whereas clause…
GOSSIP: Recently, Masaka city businessman Emmanuel Lwasa made headlines when he publicly revealed hooking himself with a new Kenyan lover known as Haffie. He went live on TV and went down on one of his knees and proposed to Haffie, asking for her hand in marriage as he put a ring on her finger. Additional reporting by MBU. Lwasa then scoffed at his critics and his ex-lovers bragging about how he had landed himself a very good-looking woman who was to take care of him for the rest of his life after being dumped by Vanessa. A few days later,…