When the Minister of Finance, Henry Musasizi, presents the 84.3 trillion shillings budget for the 2026/27 financial year on Thursday, one figure will stand out among the revenue projections. The budget comes at a time when policymakers are positioning mineral resources, especially oil and gas, as
police officer attached to Nebbi Central Police Station on Saturday evening shot dead a colleague and injured four others in an attempt to quell an angry mob in Nebbi Municipality, Nebbi District.The victim, PC Joseph Olupot, attached to the same station, died shortly on arrival at Nebbi G
Kampala, Uganda | URN | Ali Saloongo Kony, the son of fugitive Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony, has expressed frustration over delays in his deployment by the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF), nearly two years after completing formal military training.Kony Ssalongo
The FIFA World Cup is the biggest stage in sports, and thanks to an expanded 48-team format for 2026, every player knows this is the biggest audience they'll ever command.It's the kind of spectacle that can launch careers and generate blockbuster transfers, as excitement over particular pl
WOLVES have announced ten players have exited the club after their relegation from the Premier League.Wanderers finished rock bottom this past season with a staggering 24 losses and a mere three wins out of 38 Prem matches that led to just 20 points.A man in a light purple t-shirt c
Even after deploying his blue-eyed boy Vincent Bagire there, President Museveni’s attitude towards civil servants working under the Foreign Affairs Ministry (MoFA) didn’t change from lukewarm to more favorable.He, for years, had been quarreling that the Ministry wasn’t doing enough t
President Yoweri Museveni has strongly criticised a recent opinion piece published in the Daily Monitor by columnist Gawaya Tegulle, dismissing its claim that Uganda has spent 40 years “wandering in the wilderness” under his leadership.Speaking on Thursday during the State of the Natio
The morning sun burns through the dusty roadside of Bulindo and Kitukutwe, falling on broken timber, bent iron sheets and torn tarpaulins scattered where small kiosks once stood.A place that was once filled with the smell of frying chapati, boiling tea, laughter from customers and women ca
L-R: Captain Denis Oola, Dr Kizza Besigye, and Obeid LutaleLast week inside Uganda’s courtrooms, justice unfolded in dramatically different ways.In one courtroom, appellate judges confirmed a prison sentence for a man convicted of rape more than a decade ago, bringing a long and p
When President Museveni delivers the State of the Nation Address on Thursay, Ugandans will be listening keenly for the direction he plans to steer the nation in the first year of his seventh term. The SONA is a constitutional mandate under Article 101 (1), delivered at the beginning of eac
