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An officer of the Uganda Police who was attached to the Field Force Unit at Kabalagala Police Station in Kampala is dead after he was knocked dead while enforcing curfew guidelines. The officer was killed on Sunday in Kansanga near Rubis Petrol Station at 8pm in the night. The deceased has since been identified as Police Constable Bosco Owili while the driver who knocked him was identified as Haman Rujjumba. According to Dan Muhindo, a boda boda rider at Kampala International University (KIU) stage, a witness to the incident, Owili was riding a police motorcycle on Ggaba Road near KIU…

Katakwi District Woman MP Maj. Rtd. Jessica Alupo has sworn in as the Vice President of Uganda. Ms Alupo was appointed Vice President by President Museveni to replace Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi who had been his deputy for the last 10 years. “I thank the president for entrusting me with this honour of the second highest office in the land. I will not spare any energy in serving this country on this appointment,” Ms Alupo told MPs during a Parliament sitting that approved her appointment. She has been sworn in at a ceremony organized at the Kololo Independence grounds attended by…

President Yoweri Museveni has released the list of Cabinet and State Ministers that he will be working with in his 2021-2026 term of office. The list has shocked many who had been speculating names of entrants with Former Education Minister Jessica Alupo being appointed Vice President and Robinah Nabbanja taking the Prime Minister’s position. “I hereby inform the country that by virtue of the Authority given to the President of Uganda by Articles: 108(2), 108A(1), 113(1) and 114(1) of the 1995 Constitution of the Republic of Uganda, I hereby appoint H.E. the Vice President, Rt. Hon. Prime Minister, Honourable Cabinet…

President Yoweri Museveni, in his address to the nation on the surging COVID-19 cases last night, banned and suspended a number of activities in a move aimed at halting the rise in infections across the country. With deaths rising, daily confirmed cases have also spiked with over 1,200 registered on Sunday and majority of the infected being the young people between the ages of 20-39. President Museveni has attributed the resurgence of the pandemic to failure by Ugandans to observe the set standard operating procedures. We have summarized his action points from the address here below; All schools and institutions…

Crown Beverages Limited (CBL) has announced the addition of a 20 litre Jumbo Size bottle to their Nivana Water Brand. The reveal was made by the CEO, Paddy Muramiirah at the new plant in Kakungulu, Entebbe Road where two dedicated water production lines targeted to enhance capacity have been set up. In a question and answer session with the press, Mr. Muramiirah has expounded more on the new undertaking by the soft drinks giant. Below, we bring you the excerpts. QN: The move to add the Jumbo Size 20 liter bottle to the Nivana Water Brand, why now? It is…

Following the recent unprecedented shootings that downed on the for former Army CDF and current Minister of Works and Transport, Gen Katumba Wamala taking the life of his daughter and driver today morning in Kisaasi, President Museveni has issued out a statement on the happenings. “The pigs who do not value life shot at Gen. Katumba killed his daughter and driver and injured him. Condolences on the loss of the two Ugandans. I talked to Gen. Katumba twice on the phone. He is being managed well” Museveni Posted on his social media. He added that , “We shall defeat the…

News reaching our desk indicate that General Katumba Wamala, the former UPDF Commander, who doubles as a Minister of Transport and Works has been involved in a nasty assassination incident along the Kisaasi-Bukoto route in Kampala. The Army General who was driving in a green UPDF land cruiser was shot at about 7 times by unknown assailants that were driving on a motor bike. Gen. Wamala came out of the incident alive but his driver whom we’re yet to identify and his daughter Belindah died on the scenes, still according to eye witnesses. The Minister was rushed to hospital on…

The Ministry of Health has started a mass COVI-19 vaccination camp at Kololo Independence Grounds to increase access to vaccination and to tame the COVID-19 surge. The exercise that kicks off today, Monday, will run for 10 days. The Ministry of Health spokesperson Emmanuel Ainebyona says they are doing the camp to ensure no vaccines are wasted given the expiry date of July 10th. Ainebyoona, however, warns those who are going for the vaccine to strictly adhere to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs.) The country started COVID-19 vaccination in March after receiving 964,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine through Covax and the…

According to reports, there is strange wave of cough and flue that is currently sweeping around Kampala and its close neighboring districts that has continued to raise alarms on whether it could be a wave of COVID-19 the Ministry of Health has been talking about. This cough and flue does not come like the normal cough that people normally suffer from, this specific type comes with intense headaches and fever to some extent make you lose appetite for almost a week. One could deduce that it could be COVID-19 because of almost similar signs and symptoms however, according a some…

Ugandans have been asked to stop criticizing the new Speaker of the 11th Parliament Rt. Hon. Jacob Oulanyah and instead give him space and support to work. Since he took the oath of office after he was declared winner of the speakership race in which he defeated his former boss, Rebecca Kadaga, many have alleged that Oulanyah is a mere state agent who will not deliver on the interests of the people. However, Mike Sebalu, a senior NRM member and former East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) MP says, it is too early and unfair to judge Oulanyah who has barely started…