Court Dismisses Case against FDC’s Habib Buwembo
High Court Judge Michael Elubu has dismissed with costs a case in which an FDC member Nakanwagi Grace was challenging the nomination of Habib Buwembo as the Party Flag bearer for Rubaga South...
View Article28 of 66 Nominated for Kampala MP Seats Are Independents
The number of independent candidates vying for Parliamentary positions within Kampala has grown in comparison to those with political party cards, the Electoral Commission (EC) has disclosed. The...
View ArticleNRM Pulls Out of Mawogola North MP Race
The National Resistance Movement (NRM) party has announced that it will not be fronting any candidate in the parliamentary race for Mawogola North in Sembabule District. This follows failure by the...
View ArticleMbarara: 6 Acquitted of Murder Charges as Court Concludes 33 Cases
The Court of Appeal in its session held in Mbarara has been able to dispose off 33 cases and have the subsequent judgments delivered. All judgments arising from this criminal session were delivered by...
View ArticleFormer Minister Alupo to Contest on Independent Ticket
Former Minister of Education and Sports, Jessica Alupo Epel will be contesting for Katakwi district woman Member of Parliament on and independent ticket. Alupo made her decision after a controversial...
View ArticleBobi Wine Supporters Remanded for Possession of Military Related Attire
City Hall Grade One Magistrate Valerian Tumuhimbise has remanded to Kigo Prison 23 people who were arrested at National Unity Platform (NUP) headquarters in Kamwokya in possession attire related to...
View ArticlePolice to Pull Down Wrongly Placed Campaign Posters
Uganda Police Force in conjunction with the Kampala Capital City Authority has embarked on an exercise to access and dismount all wrongly placed campaign posters in various locations. This, Police...
View ArticleYouth Leaders Want Government, International Community to Condemn Electoral...
Youth leaders under the Platform for Youth Inclusion in Politics (PYIP) have called upon the government, international community and the general public to condemn all acts of violence ahead of the 2021...
View ArticleJournalists Rumanzi, Kakyene Nominated for Parliament in Ntungamo
Three journalists in Ntungamo have been nominated to contest for parliamentary seats in the forthcoming coming elections in Ntungamo district. Perez Rumanzi, a Daily Monitor correspondent for Ntungamo...
View ArticleFDC Chief Mobilizer Ingrid Turinawe Nominated as Independent
Forum for Democratic Change Secretary for Mobilization Mrs Ingrid Turinawe Kamateneti who lost out in the party MP Primaries for Rukungiri Municipality, was yesterday nominated for the same race on the...
View ArticleHumiliated Mbale District Boss Returns as Independent, as Galiwango, Wanyoto...
The Mbale District chairman Bernard Elly Mujasi, who was humiliated in the recently concluded NRM Primaries has been nominated as an independent candidate, to contest on the position of Bungokho South...
View ArticleCovid 19: Labour Export Companies Suspend Operations
The labor export business, being one of those badly hit by the Covid19 pandemic, is still reeling from the adverse impact. With limited or no cash to work with, several of these companies are trying to...
View ArticleUganda’s Kiplimo Takes World Half Marathon Gold
Uganda’s teenage sensation Jacob Kiplimo has stunned a rich field to win the World Half Marathon Championships gold in a new championship record of 59:49 minutes in Gdynia, Poland. Kiplimo beat Kenya’s...
View ArticleUPC Prospective Flag Bearer Nominated on FDC Ticket
Benjamin Mbabazi, a staunch Uganda People’s Congress member was on Friday nominated as the Forum for Democratic Change candidate for Rubanda County East in Rubanda district. Mbabazi, who was meant to...
View ArticleNIRA Grants FIA Access to Citizen’s Data to Reinforce Fight against Financial...
The National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Financial Intelligence Authority (FIA) giving FIA access to citizens’ national IDs as one...
View ArticleMabirizi Challenges Uganda’s Election Process in East African Appellate Court
Lawyer Hassan Male Mabirizi, who lost the case challenging the Age limit amendments in Uganda’s Constitution before the East African Court of Justice last month has now filed an application for an...
View ArticleDP Pays Nomination Fees, Posters for Parliamentary Candidates
The opposition Democratic Party (DP) has said it is funding its candidates contesting for parliamentary seats by meeting the Shs 3million nomination fees to the Electoral Commission and printing their...
View ArticleUCC Lifts Suspension on Sale of SIM Cards to Corporate Bodies
Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has today, October 17, 2020, lifted the suspension on the sale of SIM Cards to corporate bodies, having effected the directive on June 26, 2020, prohibiting all...
View ArticleCongolese Gunmen Abduct 16 Ugandan Fishermen in Fresh Raid on Lake Albert
The UPDF has intensified deployment around Lake Albert after Congolese gunmen on Saturday raided the area and abducted 16 Ugandan fishermen together with their boats. According to the Kikuube Resident...
View ArticleI’m Still NRM – Says Shartsi Ahead of Second Round with Sodo
Mrs Shartsi Musherure, one of the contenders for the Mawogola County North MP seat has vowed to continue supporting and fighting for the ruling National Resistance Movement Party (NRM) despite losing...
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