Author: Alexandra Katusiime

Former Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) commander Dominic Ongwen has been handed 25 years by the International Criminal Court (ICC) sitting in Hague.  While delivering the judgement, Judge Bertrum Schemit said the prosecutor asked for 20 years imprisonment, victims’ representatives asked for life in prison while Ongwen through his Defense Attorney Chrispus Ayena asked Court to consider the time he spent in detention or give him ten years in prison.  However, the court did not consider Ongwen’s request to refer the matter to a traditional Acholi Matoput Court. The judge has further emphasized that Court did not consider the insanity defense…

The Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) and the Police Fire Brigade department have kicked off investigations to bring to light the cause of the fire that ravaged Grace House in King’s College Budo yesterday. The fire which we have since established started at 6:40 am while students were in morning prep, ravaged the dormitory that was housing S.1 and S.3 students. According to the Deputy Director of Fire Prevention and Rescue Services, Mr. Hassan Kihanda, his team handed over the crime scene to the investigators immediately, who started off with their job. “Many security bodies including the CID and Fire Brigade…

Archbichop Stanley Ntagali’s woes are not over, even with a public apology in Church records. The Ugandan Wire has established that the husband of the woman he was involved in steamy adultery sessions with is intending to sue the Archbishop for 500M. Rev. Tugumehabwe Christopher has, through Bikangiso and Company Advocates written a stern warming to former Archbishop Ntagali alleging that the Man of God has been mercilessly bonking his wife and even claimed that the baby they have together is his. Rev. Tugumehabwe blames the Archbishop for being behind his wife’s divorce application which she filed in the Chief…

It was tense at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Namirembe yesterday as the 8th Archbishop of the Church of Uganda Rt. Rev. Stanley Ntagali publicly made an apology over an affair he had with a big bummed woman that also turned out to be one of the Priests’ wife. The Archbishop publicly confessed that he had committed the sin of adultery and requested forgiveness from God, the Church, Rev. Christopher Tugumehabwe, and his big bummed wife Judith among others. “I fell into the sin of adultery and I confess to the Lord to forgive me; bishops, partners, brothers, sisters and the entire…

37 Year Old Gen. Mahamat Kaka, the son of the late Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno is the new leader (interim) of the Country. The Chadian army has confirmed that Mahamat will replace his father as the head of a military council to replace the late president. The development followed an announcement by the army spokesman General Azem Bermandoa Agouna who said, Idriss Deby, 68, “has just breathed his last defending the sovereign nation on the battlefield” over the weekend. The new President previously served as the second in command of the Armed Forces for the Chadian Intervention in Northern Mali (FATIM).…

Alan Rogers (England) – 1965–1966 Alan Rogers is 96 years and has held coaching positions in Uganda, South Africa, Iran, the USA, Qatar, Zambia, Libya, Philippines and Iceland. He was at the helm of the Uganda Cranes from 1965-1966. Robert Kiberu (Uganda) – 1967–1969 A former Uganda Cranes player turned coach, Robert Kiberu is the first Ugandan head of the Cranes. In 1963, Kiberu was drafted in the first team and due to his outstanding game-reading, was handed the national team’s arm-band. He captained Uganda to the 1963 Gossage Cup title in which they walloped Zanzibar 8-0 in the decider…

The Federation of the Uganda Football Association (FUFA) will have to pay Former Uganda Cranes Coach Johnathan McKinstry, who was sacked earlier today, some USD 255,000 or Shs 943M for pre-mature sacking. This website has established that FUFA will have to part with that amount as compensation for relieving Mr. McKinstry of his duties before the due date in the contract that was signed with him at the beginning of his term. In a statement, earlier today, FUFA sacked McKinstry but praised him for registering a close to 70% winning rate. “The Head Coach of the Uganda Men’s National team,…

Ugandan comedienne Anne Kansiime and her musician boyfriend Abraham Tukahiirwa alias Skylanta are expecting their first child, we can confirm. Ms Kansiime shared the good news on her Instagram page where she posted a silhouette picture of herself revealing a baby bump. “I have been looking for the perfect way to break it to you my dearest Ninjas that soon my Kantu Skylanta and I shall have a little Ninja added on to our family and I thooooought and thought, what better way!!?” she wrote. Tens of her celebrity friends and other people in showbiz were quick to congratulate the…

The president of the Federation for Rwandan Football Associations – FERWAFA Rtd Brigadier General Sekamana Jean Damascene has resigned from his position effective immediately. Mr. Sekamana’s resignation was posted on the association website in a statement on Wednesday evening. Preliminary reports indicate that Gen Sekamana wrote to members of the FERWAFA General Assembly informing them of his resignation which he said was “due to personal reasons.” “This requires me to do it as a normal daily routine. I find that combining it with my other personal responsibilities would have a negative impact on the development of football,” he is reported…

“For me it is time to go. Thank you & good bye!” Robert Kabushenga, the outgoing Vision Group CEO wrote on his Twitter handle as he shared a joyful moment at his now former office with his successor Don Wanyama. Mr. Wanyama, who has hitherto been the Senior Presidential Press Secretary has assumed office at the Vision Group offices along Third Street in Industrial Area, Kampala. “So the man himself Don Wanyama trying out “the chair” of Managing Director/CEO at Vision Group. For me it is time to go. Thank you & good bye!” Kabushenga said. Kabushenga, who now says…