Najjanankumbi, Uganda: Uganda’s oldest opposition party, the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has today tasked Gen. Salim Saleh to come out publicly and clear the air about his purported relationship with the Lord Mayor of Kampala, Erias Lukwago. Addressing journalists at their offices in Najjanankumbi, the deputy spokesperson, John Kikonyogo said that last week, the public was awash with handwritten memos purportedly authored by Gen. Saleh, directed towards Lukwago, threatening to withdraw his support to him. He says that this time around, the FDC will not take a stance as it has been the norm in the past whenever allegations…
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Police in Asian country of India has arrested a notorious male passenger after receiving claims a woman on board an Air India flight from New York who said that he urinated on her. Shankar Mishra was picked up by police in the southern city of Bengaluru and brought to the Indian capital on Saturday, New Delhi Police spokesperson Suman Nalva said on Sunday. Nalva declined to say what Mishra told investigators after his arrest. Local reports cited Mishra as saying he was drunk and could not believe what he had done. A New Delhi court sent him to prison for 14…
Kampala, Uganda: Uganda’s oldest University- Makerere University and Kampala International University shined over others in the performance according to the webometrics rankings . Universities are ranked according to visibility, transparency (openness), and excellence. Below is the list of top ten Universities in Uganda according to the former ranks. 1.Makerere University This is Uganda’s premier University having been the top University position for quite long having gained reputation due to its research and produced notable persons across the globe. Established in 1922, Makerere aims at providing innovative teaching, research, and services responsive to national and global needs. 2.Kampala International University (KIU)…
Kampala, Uganda: Information coming in indicate that Uganda’s leading opposition political party, National Unity Platform (NUP)’s Principal Hon. Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine is brave upon the matter of replacing the now leader of opposition (LOP) in parliament Hon. Mathias Mpuuga Nsamba who also doubles as a representative of Mukungwe people in the 11th Parliament of Uganda. Insiders reveal that Kyagulanyi is very uncomfortable with the way Mpuuga is now politically close to the speaker of parliament Anita Among. Many NUP MPs have been quietly complaining to Kyagulanyi that there is an increasing gap between them and the pompous Mpuuga.…
Kampala, Uganda: Hon. Chris Baryomunsi- Uganda’s Minister for ICT nad National Guidance and the Member of parliament for Kinkizi East in Kanungu District has come out to speak on his illness that led him to be airlifted to Mulago yester. Taking to his Twitter account this afternoon, Minister Baryomunsi wrote; “Friends, yesterday I had a black out while in my constituency. I was moving from one church function to another… …..I was rushed to Kambuga Hosp and then airlifted to Mulago Hospital. Am now stable and out of danger. The medical team is carrying out further tests. No need to…
By Charles Katabalwa/Umoja Standard. Kampala, Uganda: During the consultative meeting on the operationalization of a long awaited cooperative Bank at Serena Hotel Kampala, Former Ntungamo Municipality MP Aspirant Rtd. Lt . Moses Magufuri said, Uganda’s economic problems started with Prof. Paul Collier who advised the president to liberalize the economy, that made government to start privatizing government entities where our indigenous banks were also closed which is starting to negatively impact on us rapidly amidst good government programs that would work successfully if the proposal is to be effected. “Our annual collection in revenue is 20 trillion and our budget…
By Julius Mugaga Tukacungurwa/Umoja Standard. Mityana, Uganda: Taking to his twitter account, Uganda’s veteran opposition politician (Rtd) Col. Dr. Col. Dr. Kizza Besigye stated that ‘It was an honour to celebrate the Orthodox Church Christmas (7th Jan) with Christians of Genuine Orthodox Church of America at Kawanga hill, Buwalula, Mityana District’. “Their new Cathedral & school were officially opened. H.E. Archibishop Nektarios of Uganda led the celebrations”. Dr. Besigye added. More than 200 million Christians around the world are associated with Orthodox Churches. Most of them celebrate Christmas on 7 January as they follow the Julian calendar, unlike those Christian denominations…
Kenya: Police in Kenya has identified Edwin Chiloba- a man whose lifeless body was found stuffed inside a metallic box along the Kipenyo-Katinga Road in Uasin Gishu County as LGBTQ activist and model. Boda boda riders saw a vehicle, whose registration number was concealed, dump the box along the road, and they alerted the police. When police opened the box, they found the man’s decomposing body, dressed in a woman’s clothes. His body was taken to the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, awaiting post-mortem to establish the cause of death. Mr Chiloba, famous within the streets of Eldoret town, often dressed in women’s…
Wakiso, Uganda: Reports indicate that Kakiri Policing Division operations commander Hannington Asiimwe has been detained on accusations of selling six sacks of marijuana exhibits. According to police confidants, Asiimwe conducted an operation in areas of Masuulita, on Christmas eve, intercepting sacks of marijuana that were being transported to Kampala. However, he did not hand over the exhibits to the officer in charge of criminal investigations. It is said that information about the planned sale of exhibits was leaked to division police commander Hassan Mugerwa on Boxing Day and he quickly cautioned Asiimwe about the same. “But on January 3, at…
By Charles Katabalwa/ Umoja Standard. Kampala, Uganda: 6th January 2023 – Kampala: Global Credit Rating Co ltd (GCR) has assigned Uganda Development Bank Limited (‘UDB’) national scale issuer private ratings of AA+(UG)/A1+(UG) in the long and short term respectively, a notch below the highest possible rating with the outlook accorded as Stable. At the same time, GCR has also assigned UDB an international scale long term issuer private rating of B with a Stable outlook balancing for the operating environment to remain vulnerable to domestic and geopolitical instability. GCR Ratings, an affiliate of Moody’s Investors Services has established itself as the…