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Five students of Winners Secondary School in Hoima City, their director and sports master arrested after football riots, are out on police bond. They were arrested on Wednesday afternoon after student became rowdy following their school’s disqualification from the ongoing Hoima City Uganda Secondary School Sports Association (USSSA) boys football championships. Winners Secondary School had qualified for the tournament’s quarterfinal after eliminating St. Andrea’s Kaahwa SS with a 1-0 scoreline. However, St. Andrea Kaahwa SS petitioned the organizing committee, stating that Winners SS was not licensed with the Ministry of Education and Sports, which is contrary to the new rules. Consequently, the tournament organizing committee disqualified Winners Secondary School from the tournament. The ...

Parliament has started scrutinizing sub-regional oversight reports on the implementation of the Parish Development Model (PDM), weeks after President Yoweri Museveni’s address to the House. The PDM programme targets 39 per cent of households which are still in subsistence farming, with the objective of enabling them to increase agricultural productivity and value addition through access to a revolving fund at affordable rates. Last month, the Speaker of Parliament Anita Among sent Members of Parliament on a two-week recess to carry out oversight of the PDM programme implementation activities in their respective constituencies and submit to Parliament a sub-regional report of their findings. On Wednesday, Parliament received the oversight report from the Lango sub-region presented by Kole N...

Court has fined Warrant Officer David Okot sh5milllion after being found in unlawful possession of six ostrich eggs. The Standards, Wildlife, and Utilities Court Chief Magistrate Gladys Kamasanyu handed down the sentence. Okot risks three years’ imprisonment once he fails to pay the fine. According to the court, while at Petua Garden Katakwi Town Council in Katakwi District on March 10th, 2023, Okot was found in possession of the six ostrich eggs without a wildlife use right. He pleaded guilty and was immediately convicted. Prosecutors argued for a deterrent sentence, stating that the eggs were ready for possible hatching and are currently at the Uganda Wildlife Education Centre – UWEC. They noted that the eggs should have produced six ostriches and that only four remain in the Karamoja re...

In an incident of suspected suicide, Makerere University fresh graduate Flavia Nagasha was Thursday found hanging dead in a church in Rwampara District, Western Uganda. Nagasha recently completed her bachelors of business administration at the university. Makerere’s outgoing guild president Lawrence Alionzi condoled on social media suggesting that Nagasha has been battling an undisclosed sickness. “I have learnt with great sorrow about her death. She is said to have been sick for some time. My Heartfelt condolences go to the family, friends and all the Makerereans. May her soul rest in perfect peace," Alionzi wrote. A friend to Nagasha who preferred anonymity in order to speak freely said: “The deceased even failed to make it to her February 2023 graduation day due to mental disorders- and...

The Electro Commission (EC) has Thursday 30, unveiled temporary offices in Industrial Area, Kampala district. The Official Opening Ceremony was graced by the commission’s Chairperson, Justice Simon Mugenyi Byabakama. He said the changes are as a result of National Housing Construction Company heeding to the government’s directive to get them a temporary place to establish their office. “On behalf of the Commission, I would like to welcome you all to this very historic and important occasion when the Electoral Commission officially opens its new temporary Head Offices located at Plot No. 1-3/5 Seventh Street Industrial Area, Kampala to the public.” He said “As you are aware, in 2022, the Government of Uganda tasked National Housing and Construction Company (NHCC) to provide the Electoral Co...

There is a heavy police presence in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, after the government banned opposition protests that are scheduled for Thursday. Local media outlets have been sharing pictures of water canons and riot police stationed in opposition strongholds across the city. Road blocks have also been mounted on roads leading to the state house – the president’s official residence. Businesses have been opened in the city centre and public transport vehicles are operating. Authorities have, however, suspended train services in Nairobi ahead of expected demonstrations. Protesters in the western towns of Kisumu, Homa Bay and Migori have already blocked roads with bonfires and rocks, according to media reports. Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua arrived at his office at dawn and urged Kenyans to...

Eswatini has denied reports that it committed some public assets as collateral in case the government failed to pay Taiwan loans. A local website had on 26 March reported that the government pledged to forfeit two national assets in case it failed to repay a loan for their construction. Eswatini took a loan from Taiwan’s Exim bank for the construction of the International Convention Centre and Five Star Hotel (Fish) – to host government offices and meetings. In a statement on Wednesday, Eswatini’s Economic Planning and Development Minister Thambo Gina said he was not aware of such an agreement, saying Eswatini laws do not allow pledging public assets as collateral for loans. Mr Gina said the reports created “erroneous and regrettable disinformation campaign against a loyal and steadfast al...

Uganda national roads authority (UNRA) engineers looked confused as the Parliamentary committee on government assurance closed Seeta high main gate, saying that it was illegally built at the dark spot while UNRA officials were watching. The MPs sitting on the Government Assurance Committee led by Mukono legislator Betty Nambooze were inspecting construction works at Kampala -Jinja highway, specifically at the Seeta Mukono stretch. The MPs said that they can't not allow Seeta High school to continue using the gate which was constructed in the road reserve and on top of that it is in the black spot that anytime children might die. During the inspection, MPs found that the newly constructed canals had blocked others with mud and most of the concrete in the trenches were washed away by running...

The Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) has carried out another surprise attack in which it killed another senior ADF commander inside the thick forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to the deputy defence spokesperson, Col Deo Akiiki, the Ugandan troops under Operation Shuja killed Seka Wankaba in an operation carried out at around 1:30pm in Mwalika Valley in Eastern DRC. “Seka Wankaba, a Ugandan and Musoga by tribe was part of ADF leader Mularo Seguja’s group and a highly trained Improvised Explosive Divice (IED) expert,” Col Akiiki said in a brief statement. A few weeks ago, the UPDF killed Ssegujja, also known as Fezza, Feeza and Mulalo, one of the most wanted ADF commanders. Over the weekend, the Ugandan army announced it had killed 20 ADF fighters in a surprise atta...