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South Sudanese officials rally Ugandan media to boost economic development

JUBA: A team of South Sudanese officials have rallied Ugandan media houses to promote the country as one of the best investment destinations in the region. Senior government officials from the Embassy of the Republic of South Sudan in Uganda embarked on an initiative in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation to promote South Sudan’s visibility in trade and economic development within the region. The initiative aims to shed more light on the investment opportunities in the country and on the forthcoming General Elections scheduled for December 2024. Ugandan media houses were engaged in a five-day media tour from 11th – 15th March to showcase South Sudan’s significant achievements and highlight its potential as a key player in the East Africa. Media houses such as the East African, KFM Radio, Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC), Nile Post, […]

admin March 20, 2024

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Breaking News: NRM CEC hunt for Among replacement as impeachment looms

As the ruling party goes up in flames over extravagant Speaker Anita Among's lifestyle, the NRM Central Executive Committee (CEC) has been directed to hunt for a new head of Legislature. News reaching out headquarters indicates that despite meeting president Yoweri Museveni, Among did not give satisfactory explanation over her spending, resulting in the party Chairman directing otherwise. The CEC Members who returned from supervising the registration exercise after pocketing shs50m each from the party Secretariat are now hunting for Among's replacement. Thomas Tayebwa, the Deputy Speaker has already been tipped for the job given his warm relationship with the CEC members. It is said Tayebwa and some CEC members such as Mike Mukula, Chris Baryomunsi, Godfrey Kiwanda, Mwesigwa Robert Rukaari, Gaddafi Nasur and Rebecca Kadaga as well as Al Haji Moses Kigongo are quite friendly. Sources say that Among […]

admin March 19, 2024

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NRM village registrars protest over shs10,000 daily allowance

Village registrars taking part in the National Resistance Movement (NRM) membership register update have protested over the sh10,000 they are given daily, claiming the money is too little yet billions of shillings were released for the exercise. In Kampala, the registrars raised alarm on one of their whatsapp groups saying “bosses” are eating all the money….nebatuwa obutwalo without lunch!” Another one called Ritah said: “We are doing excellent work on top of creating enmity and they are giving us peanuts”. The exercise which started earlier this week will run until Sunday. President Yoweri Museveni launched the update at Plot 10, the home of NRM where he warned the registrars against corruption and registering non-party members. However, the men and women on the ground have vowed to include ghost members if they are not given more cash. Reports indicated that the […]

admin March 15, 2024

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UNOC defends appointment of Muhwezi daughter as COO

KAMPALA: The Uganda National Oil Company (UNOC) has explained that the recruitment of city lawyer, Samantha Muhwezi, as their Chief Operations Officer went through a legal process. Daily Secrets has learnt that despite reports that the board was removed by President Yoweri Museveni over the illegal recruitment of Muhwezi, UNOC says she did not pass through the back door. Samantha is daughter of Jim Muhwezi, the minister for security. The mother, Suzan Muhwezi, heads the controversial AGOA project. “The Board of Directors at UNOC has not been removed by President Museveni or any other authority,” said UNOC in a statement.  UNOC explained that the laws only allow the board to superintend for only terms and that was the reason the President appointed a new board. Consequently the new board was vetted by Parliament’s appointment committee earlier this week.  “The current […]

admin March 15, 2024

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Kumi rebel Christians block Archbishop Kaziimba from accessing church

A section of Christians in Kumi district blocked Archbishop Stephen Kaziimba from entering St. James Church grounds. Trouble begun Tuesday when Kumi Bishop Mike Esakhan called a break-away faction wasps during Kaziimba's ongoing tour of the diocese to reclaim properties lost to Reformed Anglican Church. Not even police could stop the angry congregation, which broke away from the main Anglican Church after their choice for bishop, Rev Charles Okunya, was denied the chair by both court and House of Bishops. The aggrieved community had taken over a number church property in Kumi. Archbishop Kaziimba who arrived in Kumi Diocese for a four-day official pastoral visit last Friday reclaimed three churches and commissioned St. Stephen CoU Oladot in Mukungoro Archdeaconry. The other reclaimed churches are; St. Peter’s Kanyum CoU, Aterai CoU and Onyakelo CoU in Kumi district. During the operation, priests […]

admin March 15, 2024

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Magnum Security guards sent to Luzira over illegal deployment on disputed land

At least 11 guards of Magnum Security have been sent on remand for illegally protecting a disputed piece of land. The Anti-Corruption Unit of State House said in a statement Friday "11 personel of Magnum Security have been arraigned before the KCCA Chief Magistrates Court on Charges of Forcible Entry on Property." "The accused took possession of the land belonging to the late Eng. Eliba Johnson in a violent matter yet there was a temporary injunction on the property," the unit said. They have been remanded until 20/03/2024. According to State House, the 11 were arrested on March 11 after they "illegally deployed to evict and consequently guard a contested property on Plot 106, Old Kira Road, Ntinda." "On 26th December 2022, the family home of the late Eng. Johnson Eliba Orech that was on the said land was demolished […]

admin March 15, 2024

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P.5 pupil commits suicide after being forced to go to school in Soroti

A primary five pupil of Awoja Bridge Primary School in Soroti district, eastern Uganda has allegedly committed suicide. Julius Alou, 17, was found hanging on a mango tree on Thursday by residents of Awoja village, Aukot sub-county after going missing for days. It is reported that Alou had consistently refused to return to school since the term opened last month.His widowed mother reportedly kept pleading with him to go back to school in vain and was forced to take the matter to the clan leaders."The clan leaders were called to discuss the matter of his education and in the discussion, they agreed that Alou should be taken back to school by Monday, March 5, 2024," a statement from the East Kyoga regional police spokesman, Oscar Gregg Ageca reads in part.Information in the village indicates that the boy was given two […]

admin March 10, 2024

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NUP leader Kyagulanyi explains tough stand on Mpuuga

BY URN The war of words between National Unity Platform (NUP) Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine, and Nyendo-Mukungwe MP Mathias Mpuuga is far from over. A few hours after the former Leader of the Opposition declined to resign over the controversial 500 million Service Award he got from the Parliamentary Commission, the NUP leader, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu hit back insisting that Mpuuga was bribed. “I couldn’t believe that my Deputy President would get involved in a matter of this gravity and not say anything about it- not least, to me,” said Kyagulanyi, adding that, “the moral thing for him to do would be to apologize to the nation and step down from the Parliamentary Commission.” Kyagulanyi went on, ” The LOP like all MPs earns a salary and allowances. However, on top of that, the LOP also earns extra allowances and gets […]

admin March 4, 2024

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Masaka NUP leaders slam party President over Mpuuga’s service award

MASAKA. The National Unity Platform-NUP leaders in Masaka have lashed out at the top leadership of their party over its demand for the resignation of MP Mathias Mpuuga Nsamba from the position of parliamentary Commissioner. The NUP secretariat released a statement on Thursday evening, calling for Mpuuga’s immediate resignation. The party accused him of being culpable of corruption and abuse of office when he accepted a Service Award of 500 million Shillings from the Parliamentary Commission. The statement indicates that acting on public rage, the Party President Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu convened a meeting of senior party leaders, who unanimously indicted Mpuuga for corruption and abuse of office in violation of the party’s values of; discipline, reliability, inclusiveness, integrity, patriotism ad service. However,  NUP leaders in Masaka are now demanding a public apology and immediate withdrawal of the statement, which they […]

admin March 3, 2024