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Drama ensued in Makindye after Maj. Gen. (Rtd) Kasirye Gwanga fired bullets at Kadongo Kamu singer Catherine Kusasira’s car on Tuesday. This was revealed by Superintendent of Police Patrick Onyango, the Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson on Wednesday morning. Onyango said the fracas followed a disagreement between Kusasira’s assistants and Maj. Gen. Gwanga’s
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Opinion: Mugisha Muntu I have heard some people spread rumours that I am an NRM mole in FDC. Today, I would like to address this issue in detail. I am a founding member of FDC. In fact, I was one of the people that got the party registered. Once we had done
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Opinion: Andrew Mwenda The real crisis of the NRM The debate on the proposed amendment of the constitution to remove the age limit has gathered a lot of momentum. Across the country people are debating. Yet the NRM which began it still lacks a sense of purpose and direction. It has no
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Uganda’s president and chairman of ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) Yoweri Museveni has pledged to set up more government-aided schools to the residents Kalungu District in an effort to better education services in the district. The President was campaigning for Richard Kyabaggu, the NRM flag-bearer in the Kalungu LC5 Chairperson by-election
Read MoreThe candidate for the National Resistance Movement, Moses Walyomu Muwanika, has been declared winner of the Thursday by-election in Kagoma county parliamentary by-election. Rogers Sserunjogi, the Jinja District Returning Officer, declared Walyomu winner at around 11am. According to Sserunjogi, 53,169 ballots were casts; 1,025 were invalid while 47 ballot papers were spoilt. Walyomu
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President Yoweri Museveni told a campaign rally at Pajule Primary School in Lapul Sub-county, Pader District on Tuesday that opposition politicians wanted his government to fail by pressurising him to do many things at once. “These people… Opposition, they don’t want planning, they want okutomera [crash] , they want us [government]
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When Uganda’s Parliament picked the nation’s nine representatives to regional assembly, the East African Legislative Assembly, all the eyes were on the winners and one loser: opposition strongwoman Ingrid Kamateneti Turinawe. The winners were: former internal affairs minister Rose Akol; former Kakuuto County MP Mathias Kasamba; policy analyst Paulo Mwasa Musamali,
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The former Rubaga North MP Singh Katongole Perminder has finally completed his A’level, The Tower Post has learnt. During the 2016 parliamentary elections, he was barred from representing the NRM after his piqued opponent, Brian Tinyebwa, dragged him to court over alleged forgery of A’level documents. For now, he’s a bonafide Advanced
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