Ugandans are asking one burning question: what exactly is going on at Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited?Ever since Umeme exited and UEDCL officially took over power distribution on April 1, 2025, complaints of persistent blackouts, delayed meter replacements, sluggish custome
A Value for Money audit has detonated a political and administrative bombshell at the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, exposing deep cracks in Uganda’s land administration system despite years of digitalisation and decentralisation reforms.At the centre of the storm is t
British national Samuel Leeds has spent £150,000 (about Shs743 million) to charter a private jet from Dubai to the United Kingdom amid rising tensions in the Middle East.Leeds, who is married to a Zimbabwean, became known in Uganda in 2024 when he donated a hospital ward worth about Shs1
Eleven years at the helm. Billions borrowed. Mega dams commissioned with pomp and glory. Yet today, hard questions are exploding over the management of Uganda Electricity Generation Company Limited as the December 2025 Auditor General’s report exposes troubling cracks in Uganda’s power genera
Former Mbarara MP Medard Bitekyerezo has refused to accept the fact that his tenure as Uganda national drug authority NDA chairman ended on 20th February when his contract expired, along with that of the other 19 members of the board.He has for instance continued holding on to the NDA vehi
Police in Kampala Metropolitan Area have arrested two suspects who were found armed with a panga near Total petrol station in Kabuusu on the night of 26th February 2026. The arrest followed a timely alert from a private security officer who noticed suspicious movement around the petrol station an
Moscow, March 1: Russian President Vladimir Putin has strongly condemned the US-Israeli strikes on Iran, describing the death of Iran's Supreme Leader as a "cynical murder," according to Russian state media agency TASS. In his first official remarks since the targeted operations and the subsequen
Debris of intercepted Iranian missile in UAE.Several Middle Eastern countries hosting United States military bases have strongly condemned Iran’s retaliatory missile strikes, describing them as blatant violations of their sovereignty and international law.Iran launched the strikes
“Obote had his flaws, but he never stole our land.” NUP’s Paulson Luttamaguzi, the outgoing Nakaseke South MP has said former President Milton Obote was not a worse leader than President Yoweri Museveni, and that the people of Nakaseke and greater Luwero owe him an apology.Speaking d
Minister Oryem said the government of Uganda was appealing to Syria to forgive Ajok "for whatever crimes they allege against her, because we are very sure, based on what she has told us that she is innocent and did not murder her employer"The Government of Uganda has condemned reports of a
