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Mbarara councillors, deputy RDC clash over qualifications

Mbarara councillors, deputy RDC clash over qualifications

Mbarara District councillors are demanding the removal of Deputy Resident Commissioner Simon Peter Kaswabuli due to alleged insults about their qualifications. During a council meeting held at the district council hall in Kamukuzi, Mbarara City, on Wednesday, councillors overwhelmingly v

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Life is good, says 99-year-old former magistrate and medic

Life is good, says 99-year-old former magistrate and medic

The lively atmosphere at Hajj Hussein Ssengendo’s home in Masaka City’s suburb of Soweto, is a reflection of a man who has lived his life to the fullest. The home has all that an ageing senior citizen should have for life to move on. “At this age of 99, I actually have nothing

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Outrage after Gen Elwelu razes Teso's key cultural site

Outrage after Gen Elwelu razes Teso's key cultural site

There’s outrage in Teso sub region, Eastern Uganda after one of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) representative in Parliament, Lt Gen Peter Elwelu, , demolished a revered Ongima initiation site in Usuk, Katakwi District.   The site, also known as Airiget Ongima, held immens

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Seven arrested over revenge attack after Lira businessman shot dead

Seven arrested over revenge attack after Lira businessman shot dead

Police in North Kyoga Region have arrested seven clan members in connection with a revenge attack following the death of Dickens Odongo, a local businessman in Lira City. Odongo was allegedly shot dead on October 29, 2024, by a private security guard deployed at Navroz Supermarket on Olw

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Kadaga, Busoga clerics clash over Nyege Nyege fete

Kadaga, Busoga clerics clash over Nyege Nyege fete

Jinja-based Born Again pastors have joined Busoga East Diocese Bishop Paul Hannington Suubi to protest the hosting of the forthcoming Nyege Nyege Music festival in the area. The International Nyege Nyege Music Festival is scheduled for November 14 to 17 at the Jinja Golf Ground in Jinja

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Recovered human body parts were samples in transit, police say

Recovered human body parts were samples in transit, police say

The controversy surrounding human body parts recovered last Friday night in the middle of the road in Masaka City has taken a new twist with police handing them back to medics. News about these human body parts emerged after SGA Security Company guard Bernard Okello, riding a motorcycle,

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When Uganda danced to product adverts

When Uganda danced to product adverts

The transition of FM radio in Uganda in the early 90s was met with many opportunities. Musician Ragga Dee real name Daniel Kazibwe mentions that this is when the Deejay job started to gain respect locally. He notes that music radio hosts progressively imported freestyling from dance club

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Absa in push to ease access to electric motorcycles

Absa in push to ease access to electric motorcycles

Financial technology company, Mogo, has said it has obtained a loan facility from Absa to ease access to electric motorbikes. The company, which indicated that it had previously benefited from Absa’s financing at the group level, said the first tranche of Shs5b had been disbursed.

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Two years later: Did dead pupil foresee Salama fire?

Two years later: Did dead pupil foresee Salama fire?

Rebecca Namulondo, 9, had a chilling premonition of impending doom. In an emotional revelation, Godfrey Wamunyokoli, a Mathematics and Science teacher at the Salama School of the Blind, 40km east of Kampala in Luga Village, Kisoga Sub-county, Mukono District, shared a chilling detail abo

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Most households in Uganda still use firewood, charcoal for cooking

Most households in Uganda still use firewood, charcoal for cooking

Despite the deliberate effort by the government to increase electricity generation, distribution and extend cooking gas cylinders, most Ugandan households are still using either firewood or charcoal for cooking, a survey by Twaweza, a nongovernmental organization working in East Africa has f

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