Author: Evans Kalyango

News coming in indicate that parliament’s Director of Communications Chris Ariko Obore has been arrested by detectives attached to the Inspectorate General of Government and is set to be arraigned before the Kololo-based Anti- Corruption Court. Ever since former Speaker Anita Among fell from the pinnacle of authority and power and had her homes searched leading to the confiscating of her luxury cars and placed under house arrest, several parliament bosses have been worried and on the radar of security agencies on corruption related issues. ADVERT: FOR THE BEST WEB HOSTING, DOMAIN NAMES OR WEB DESIGNS CALL OR WHATSAPP +256758201313…

The Luzira Magistrates court has granted former Ethics Minister Miria Rukoza Koburunga Matembe after spending days missing and sleeping in Luzira prisons for a night when her bail was deferred for today 1st June 2026. Despite her cries infront of Magistrate Atim sheila Gloria who openly told Matembe that despite being sick, she will spend a night in prison. In a court session parked to capacity mostly with politicians, activists and lawyers, Matembe asked for bail on majorly three conditions, her ill health, advanced age and being a senior citizen with a known address. The magistrate granted her bail even…

Former Ethics and Integrity Minister Miria Rukoza Koburunga Matembe who has been missing since Wednesday last week when security operatives raided her home in Luzira has been arraigned in court today and charged with promoting sectarianism in connection to remarks she allegedly made on Television. According to Police Form 53 under reference CRB 638/2026 dated 30th June 2026, Jinja Road police station has charged Matembe of promoting sectarianism contrary to Section 38 1) (d) of the Penal Code Act and the charge sheet has been sanctioned by the Director of Public Prosecutions. It began with Muhoozi throwing some threats and…

NTV Uganda, Spark TV, Daily Monitor, KFM and Dembe were taken off air after a military raid on Sunday 28th. The raid followed a series of threatening posts on X formerly twitter by the Chief of Defense Forces Muhoozi Kainerugaba who revealed that he got the authorization of his father President Museveni to order the security crackdown. The closure of Nation Media outlets has elicited mixed reactions and condemnation from within Uganda and across the globe over the growing crackdown on free speech and the rule of law which has seen the return of abductions and panda gali moments which…

Makindye Chief Magistrate Basemera Sarah Anne has unequivocally denied the former Lord Mayor of Kampala Erias Lukwago bail after state objected to his bail application on several grounds despite the applicant pointing out very important reasons especially need for urgent medical attention. Lukwago’s Lawyer Medard Lubega Ssegona in an interview with media revealed that the former Lord Mayor intimated to him that when he was delivered in Muhoozi’s basement, his hair was cut off, subjected to military exercises, forced to eat posho and beans. As if that was not enough, his tormentors undressed him and took photos of his nakedness…

Drama ensued that Entebbe International Airport this morning as authorities ordered Besigye’s Kenyan lead counsel Martha Wangari Karua entry into Uganda as she arrived to attend Erias Lukwago’s bail application coming up today at Makindye Court as treason case takes turns and twists. Martha Karua arrived at the airport escorted by the Kenya Law Society President Charles Kanjama who was allowed entry but Karua was ordered to return to Nairobi despite holding a valid law practicing license issued to her by the Uganda Law Council early last year. Lukwago was arrested last week as prepared to take court summons to…

After being kept in Muhoozi’s basement for over 48 hours, he was dumped at Kira Division police where his supporters, friends and family thronged in big numbers to check on the seasoned lawyer, the former Lord of Kampala City Erias Lukwago has been arraigned in a Magistrate’s Court in Makindye and charged for misprision of treason. From videos which went viral on Monday morning, heavily armed SFC commandos stormed Lukwago’s home in Wakaliga, jumped over the wall fence and broke into his bedroom where they picked him and bundled him a waiting Drone which delivered him to CDF Muhoozi’s basement…

Special Forces Commandos an elite force with in the army tasked with the security of the President and the first family on Monday this week stormed the home of former Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago in Wakaliga and bundled him in a waiting Toyota Hiace commonly known as a drone. His family, Friends, lawyers searched for him and couldn’t find him. They got to know about his whereabouts on X formerly twitter where the Chief of Defense Forces (CDF) Muhoozi Keinerugaba was sharing photos of Lukwago in what seemed like a torture chamber similar to that where he tortured Bobi Wine’s…

There are clear indications that president Museveni is finally sick and done with Kyotera county MP Haruna Kasolo who in the last cabinet reshuffle was clearly demoted from the loaded docket of microfinance support center to the one of regional cooperation, where there is simply not that much money for him to swim in and play around with. Knowledgeable sources say that Museveni, having received a dirty intelligence dossier earlier this year, long concluded that Kasolo has no political future in the politics of Buganda and more specifically greater Masaka. The president is determined to empower new kid on the…

By Mike Rwothomio The technical department of Paidha Town Council in Zombo District has issued a detailed roadmap for the implementation of the long-awaited Trade Order, a Ministry of Local Government directive designed to formalize commercial activities across urban centers. The policy mandates the relocation of informal street vendors, hawkers, and unauthorized operators to designated formal markets, gazetted trading spaces, or approved business premises. On Thursday, June 4, 2026, during a tense meeting with hundreds of traders ,predominantly kiosk operators at the council premises, Town Clerk Esmond Odota announced that the Trade Order will take effect on July 1. According…