Joseph Kitawu, the vice coordinator for Kagoma North constituency in Jinja District under the National Unity Platform (NUP), has tragically lost his life in a series of three machete attacks. These violent incidents have also resulted in two other individuals being hospitalized. Kitawu, a businessman in the cattle industry, was assaulted near his home in Magamaga village, Buwenge Rural sub-county. Gerald Ssentembo, the area’s LC1 Secretary for Defence, reported that Kitawu was strangled and then hacked, with his body later found in the Magamaga swamp. Ssentembo expressed his fears for his safety following the brutal murder. Nicolas Nkola, the NUP…
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Uganda Wildlife Authority has suspended hiking activities to Margherita Peak in Rwenzori National Park as a precautionary measure. According to UWA spokesperson Bashir Hangi this follows a comprehensive assessment by their team showing crevasse formation in the Margherita glacier. A crevasse is a deep, wedge-shaped opening in a moving mass of ice called a glacier. Crevasses usually form in the top 50 meters (160 feet) of a glacier, where the ice is brittle. “To make hiking safer, we are exploring the option of installing a permanent ladder at a strategic location on the right side of the Margherita glacier. This…
A pastor is accused of a “years-long pattern of abuse” by using religious scripture to pressure female churchgoers into having sex with him in Delaware, law enforcement officials say. https://umojastandard.com/2024/05/14/just-in-kabaka-in-namibia-for-medical-vacation-after-being-discharged-from-hospital/ Major Foster, of Lincoln, is facing additional charges after a grand jury indicted him for unlawful sexual contact in November. Officials are calling for any additional potential victims to come forward, according to the Delaware Department of Justice. The alleged abuse occurred between 2013 and 2020 while Foster was a pastor at the Philadelphia Pentecostal Holiness Church in Ellendale, Delaware’s government said in a March 31 news release. https://umojastandard.com/2024/05/14/young-boy-arrested-for-balooning-four-police-officers/ He’s…
According to the Daily Monitor Uganda’s big appetite for pork was disclosed by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). On average one Ugandan eats 3.5 Kgs of Pork annually, the East African nation the biggest pork consumer in Africa and coming in second globally after China. 1.1million households in Uganda rear pigs while 3.5 million small-scale farmers depending on pig rearing for their income and million others are employed in the value chain. Although there the demand and supply of pig is huge and growing the pigs in Uganda have poor weight gain and growth due to potential feed according to the…
A Nigerian student by the name Jamil Ezebuike has seen himself in a legal maze in the United States for impregnating four police officers. https://umojastandard.com/2024/05/14/just-in-kabaka-in-namibia-for-medical-vacation-after-being-discharged-from-hospital/ Ezebuike is accused of impregnating four female police officers while enrolled in a women’s security course at a prestigious institution in New Jersey. He arrived in the United States as an international student after obtaining a non-immigrant study permit.The detailed account of his arrest reveals a well-planned lie. Ezebuike was able to engage romantically with four female police officers simultaneously without any of them being aware of it. This went on until one of the…
Exclusively by Blizz After his treatment, Kabaka Mutebi took a vacation in Namibia on the advice of the medical professionals. He took a break from work to focus on recuperation. Buganda has released statement confirming that while also attaching the first images of the king in over appeared two months appeared. “The doctors advised that he take some rest before he can resume his official duties,” the Kingdom stated on Sunday. While in Namibia, he was visited by Joseph Ndawula, the Ugandan Ambassador to Namibia. It should be remembered that during the last Kingdom cabinet meeting (Lukiiko), several chiefs tasked…
By Uganda Radio Network. Police in Wobulenzi town council have detained a self-proclaimed Jesus and one of his followers for their refusal to participate in the ongoing National Population and Housing Census. https://umojastandard.com/2024/05/14/ugandan-mp-four-others-arrested-over-wearing-military-like-outfits/ Enumerators encountered strong resistance at Katikamu Luyima Zone in Wobulenzi town council when a man who identified himself as Jesus Navas Vera, claiming to be the King of Star Glopper Eden church, along with his follower El Shadai Gracy, rejected the census enumeration. Daniel Kikonyogo, the LC 1 Chairman of Katikamu Luyima zone, recounted the incident, stating that he accompanied enumerator Patrick Kato to the church led…
Also Read. On the eve of the census night 9th May 2024, Police in Luwero district arrested and detained one of the Enumerators a student at Bukarasa Agricultural College in Luwero and a resident of Wobulenzi Town Council trained for this 2024 National Housing and Population Census after reporting that unknown people broke into this suspect’s rented house and stole all his phones and the census gadgets Uganda Bureau of Statistics UBOS provided computer tablets to enumerators for the 20242025 census exercise  However Police in katwe have arrested one sekaaya Grek after being found selling the UBOS Census Tablet that exactly was stolen…
Reuters https://umojastandard.com/2024/05/13/breaking-news-president-m7-urges-uk-authorities-to-disclose-source-of-information-against-speaker-among/ May 13 (Reuters) – Melinda French Gates is leaving the charitable foundation she co-founded with former spouse Bill Gates more than 20 years ago and will get $12.5 billion for her own work to uplift women and families, she said on Monday. The billionaire benefactors parted ways in 2021 after 27 years of marriage but had pledged to continue their philanthropic work together. Their final divorce order filed in a Seattle court had no details on an agreement reached between the two on how to divide their marital assets. “Under the terms of my agreement with Bill, in leaving the foundation, I…
The National Population and Housing Census exercise has today Monday, 13th May, 2024 been suspended in three villages in the Northern district of Obongi. https://umojastandard.com/2024/05/13/breaking-news-president-m7-urges-uk-authorities-to-disclose-source-of-information-against-speaker-among/ The Uganda Bureau of Statistics announced the suspension during a meeting attended by leaders and residents of Yumbe and Obongi held at the district head office. The meeting, chaired by RDC Obongi, Samuel Mpimbaza Hashaka and DISO Yumbe, addressed concerns over a border dispute between the two districts. The Defence State Minister, Hon Huda Oleru, ordered for an investigation into the source of conflicting maps causing confusion over the Obongi/Yumbe border. According to Mpimbasa, the three…