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Rwampara NUP candidate asks Kyagulanyi to forgive him

Rwampara NUP candidate asks Kyagulanyi to forgive him

Jordan Tumwine, the National Unity Platform (NUP) candidate for Rwampara County, has apologized to Party President Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu for briefly switching allegiance to the NRM party. Tumwine said he made the decision due to intimidation but has since realized that the NRM has little to

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Meet the Brains, From Jinja to Istanbul: Kiira College Butiki’s Debating Team to Represent Uganda at ESDC 2026 In Turkey

Meet the Brains, From Jinja to Istanbul: Kiira College Butiki’s Debating Team to Represent Uganda at ESDC 2026 In Turkey

“…Education Is Not the Learning of Facts but the Training of the Mind to Think…”-Albert Einstein.Albert Einstein (1879-1955), a renowned German-born physicist widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century. He is best known for his groundbreaking work

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EC Faces Pushback from Clergy Over Polling Station Restrictions

EC Faces Pushback from Clergy Over Polling Station Restrictions

Meanwhile, police and the military have come under criticism for alleged human rights abuses, including beating, shooting, teargas use, and arrests of supporters of National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi across different parts of the country.Justice

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JUMPING THE SHIP! Key opposition bigwigs defect to NRM, vow to hunt votes for M7

JUMPING THE SHIP! Key opposition bigwigs defect to NRM, vow to hunt votes for M7

Key opposition parliamentary candidates have defected to the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM), pledging to mobilise votes for President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni ahead of the 2026 general elections.The defectors were on Wednesday unveiled by Deputy Speaker of Parliament Thomas Tayebw

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Stanbic launches Kasanje housing project

Stanbic launches Kasanje housing project

Stanbic Bank has launched a new housing project in Kasanje, offering a 16.5% mortgage rate to help Ugandans own homesKASANJE, Uganda — Stanbic Bank, in partnership with Quesi Properties, has officially launched the first phase of La Valle estate, a residential development in Wakiso distr

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Tributes pour in for Richard Obore, early mind behind mobile money idea

Tributes pour in for Richard Obore, early mind behind mobile money idea

Uganda’s tech community is mourning Richard Obore, a quiet innovator credited by friends as an early mind behind the mobile money concept, whose ideas went largely unrecognised during his lifetime.On January 2, 2026, tributes flooded in after the death of Richard Obore, a Ugandan compute

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ULS Isaac Ssemakadde’s Deputy Narrates The Humiliation He & Other Lawyers Endured As They Followed Up On Sarah Bireete Arrest Case

ULS Isaac Ssemakadde’s Deputy Narrates The Humiliation He & Other Lawyers Endured As They Followed Up On Sarah Bireete Arrest Case

The Uganda Law Society (ULS) has revealed what its leadership described as troubling experiences while attempting to access the Executive Director of the Centre for Constitutional Governance (CCG), Sarah Bireete, during her detention at Nateete Police Station.Speaking at a CCG Board of Dir

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Bobi Wine condemns detention of Sarah Bireete, calls charges politically motivated

Bobi Wine condemns detention of Sarah Bireete, calls charges politically motivated

KAMPALA – National Unity Platform (NUP) president Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, has strongly condemned the continued detention and remand of human rights lawyer and activist Dr. Sarah Bireete, describing it as a calculated move by the state to silence outspoken voices ahead o

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Bugisu Cultural Institution Warns Against Undermining Government Projects

Bugisu Cultural Institution Warns Against Undermining Government Projects

Mbale City, Uganda | The spokesperson of the Bugisu Cultural Institution, Hon. Steven Masiga, has warned sections of the Bamasaaba community against using the cultural institution to undermine ongoing and planned government projects in the Bugisu sub-region.Masiga said there is a group ta

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Leaders Push for Electricity Connection at Zombo’s Shs 2.6 Billion Modern Health Facility

Leaders Push for Electricity Connection at Zombo’s Shs 2.6 Billion Modern Health Facility

ZOMBO — Health authorities in Zombo District have called on political leaders and Members of Parliament to urgently lobby for the extension of national grid electricity to the newly commissioned Amwonyu Health Centre III in Akaa Sub-County, citing the need for reliable power to fully optimize s

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