Author: Citizen Editor

As court scheduled on 10th December last year to have Dr. Kiiza Besigye and his co-accused Hajj Obed Kamuregeya to return on 7th January 2025, the military court martial sitting at Makindye is back in action. It was good news to Besigye after the Uganda Law Council issued a temporary practicing license to their lead counsel and Kenyan politician Martha Wangari Karua who is also present at court today. Karua had re-applied for for the license on 23rd December 2024 following a rejection of the previous one on several grounds. Court returned today but the hardliner lawyer Eron Kiiza who…

Happy New Year to you our readers and clients, today the national unity platform has held it’s first press conference of 2025 and the party’s president addressed a number of issues some of which have since elicited mixed reactions. Bobi Wine called out the regime on corruption which is a disturbing cancer eating Museveni’s government. Ugandans lose a whooping Shs27bn daily and Shs10tr annually per year. According to the NUP principal, government prioritizes bribing opposition politicians to fight fellow opposition instead of social services. He also urged the youths to engage in leadership at all levels sounding the drums and…

The government of Uganda is thrown into excitement and happiness after new statistics revealed that Ugandan women are nolonger fertile like before and will have fewer children moving forward. According to the State Minister for Planning Amos Lugolobi, the fertility rate has drastically reduced to 5.2 per woman in the financial year 2022-2023 from 6.2 children per woman in the previous financial year. Amos Lugolobi further contends that the drop in the fertility rate of women also reduces the danger to Uganda’s economy to avoid costs on health, education and other social services which government spends on children and Ugandans.…

For many years, President Museveni has been very passionate about diminishing the levels of poverty and material deprivation among the people of Uganda. The 2024 census final report shows that Uganda, as of May 2024, had 10.7m households of which 3.5m (or 33%) were living under very depriving poverty while surviving under subsistence means-implying that they can’t afford their basic needs of life. Because they don’t have that much income to write home about, people in such subsistence agriculture households largely thrive on nature-enabled means of survival such as gathering, hunting and rudimentary agriculture. Determined to end their deprivation and…

In the news this afternoon, after submitting another application on 23rd December 2024 to be granted a temporary practicing certificate to represent her clients Dr.Kiiza Besigye and Hajj Obed Kamuregeya, Martha Karua Wangari has finally been granted the certificate. Her second application follows one that was denied on several grounds including Lukwago using his KCCA email on his private law practice activities. This rejection of the Law council caused backlash in legal circles and even the Kenya Law Council threatened revenge on Ugandan lawyers. Karua will now be able to lead a team of over 100 lawyers tomorrow in General…

After firing Dorothy Kisaka who he had just handed another term after an IGG report pinned her and other two KCCA bosses for neglect in the fatal Kiteezi landfill collapse, Museveni has named her successor who is now Hajjat Sharifah Buzeki. The president also named Benon Kigenyi as her Deputy. Buzeki becomes the third woman to take the helm at KCCA after Jenifer Musisi (April 2011-December 2018) and Dorothy Kisaka (June 2020- September 2024). The only two men have all been on interim basis; Eng Andrew Kitaka between December 2018- June 2020 and Frank Rusa between September 2024- December 2024.…

Owing to the Kiteezi landfill collapse that left over 35 dead, 100s displaced, president Museveni basing on an IGG report fired Doroth Kisaka, Eng David Luyimbaazi and Dr Daniel Okello from their positions as KCCA bosses and ordered police to institute investigations against the three. Frank Rusa Nyakaana, the authority’s legal director was named an acting KCCA boss, Robert Nowere as Deputy Executive Director Sarah Zalwango as acting Director Health. As Rusa and his other two colleagues were taking at KCCA, their predecessors were undergoing investigations. ADVERT: FOR THE BEST WEB HOSTING, WEB DESIGNS AND DOMAIN NAMES, CALL OR WHATSAPP…

Sad news this afternoon indicate that veteran politician Dr.Frank Nabwiso has died from a hospital in Kampala. The outspoken opposition politician has died from Namirembe hospital  where he had been admitted for some time. A cloud of sorrow hovers above the FDC party he has served diligently, the Busoga region and Kagoma constituency which he served as member of parliament in the 7th parliament. He’s also a former Vice Chancellor of the Busoga University. ADVERT: FOR THE BEST WEB HOSTING, WEB DESIGNS AND DOMAIN NAMES, CALL OR WHATSAPP +256758201313 The veteran politician and educator even contested for the mayorship of…

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