Author: Evans Kalyango

The four decade rule of president Museveni has been and continues to be met with highs and lows. The National Resistance Movement (NRM) has been losing support in several regions over the years and also regaining others over the opposition. The Museveni led party is doing the same ahead of the 2026 general elections. This has been witnessed in the results of presidential elections and sometimes parliamentary elections. However, the party has been strategizing on how to win in regions it perceives it has lost popularity towards every general election. There’s a time NRM lost in Teso, some time in…

Last week, the electoral Commission nominated 10 candidates for the 13th March By-election in Kawempe North to replace the fallen National Unity Platform legislator Muhammad Ssegirinya who died on 13th January this year. FDC frontend musician Sadati Mukiibi alias Kalifah Aganaga, NRM fronted Nambi Faridah Kigongo, DP fronted Henry Kasacca Mubiru, NUP fronted city lawyer Erias Nalukoola Luyimbazi while PPP fronted Ismael Musiitwa. The other independent candidates include Moses Nsereko, Muhammad Luswa Luwemba, Hanifah Karadi, Muhamood Mutazindwa and Late president Obote’s son Stanley Edward Maitum Engena. On the first day of the nomination, NUP candidate faced the wrath of face…

Jinja: Veteran chef Johan Spape has urged actors in the hospitality industry to avoid competing among themselves but instead work together for the benefit of the industry. The hospitality professional whose experience in the kitchen, restaurant and hospitality training spans over three decades is on a two-week sojourn at the Uganda Hotel and Tourism Training Institute (UHTTI) to share his vast hospitality experience and ideas with staff and students courtesy of PUM, a Netherlands funded program that aims at transforming communities. “It is not a wise idea to compete with other hotels. The industry will reap better dividends if unity and…

The Electoral Commission is today 26th and tomorrow 27th nominating candidates for the Kawempe North elections set for 13th March 2025. The race has attracted more than 10 candidates with NRM, FDC, DP, NUP all fronting candidates. Earlier, National Unity Platform candidate Counsel Erias Nalukoola Luyimbaazi faced set backs when his official agent was reportedly abducted with all his nomination papers including payment receipts for his nomination fees. As Nalukoola was preparing to process new papers for his nomination, his abducted agent was returned and these proceeded to the nomination centre to be nominated franked by NUP’s Secretary General David…

Electoral Commission is today 26th and tomorrow 27th February nominating candidates for the Kawempe North By-election set for 13th March 2025. The by-election has attracted over 10 candidates. Among those set to be nominated is FDC’s Mukiibi Sadat alias Kalifah Agananaga, NRM’s Faridah Nambi, NUP’s Erias Luyimbaazi Nalukoola, DP’s Henry Kasacca Mubiru. The others include Moses Nsereko, Muhamad Luswa Luwemba who have defied NUP to stand as independent and Hanifah Karadi who has also defied NRM to stand as independent among others. ADVERT: BUY HOSTING AND GET A FREE DOMAIN NAME, CALL OR WHATSAPP +256758201313 It may sound dramatic but…

In the news this morning, a man identified as Agaba Benjamin has set himself on fire near the entrance of the Ugandan parliament in Kampala. In videos makings rounds on social media, the man is seen covered in fire and later being helped by police officers and boda boda riders who poured water on him to cool off the fire but sustained serious burn injuries. Reports indicate that Agaba was pushed to the wall after being neglected by his party NRM after his house was allegedly vandalized by NUP supporters leaving his family homeless. It’s alleged that he has sought…

Amidst the renewed raids on National National Unity Platform and abduction of their supporters, Bobi Wine has sent a strong message to president Museveni and his government in a new song. In his new song titled 3rd Revolution, Bobi Wine criticizes of reigning chaos on opposition politicians and parties. The video also features Dr. Kiiza Besigye who was arrested on 16th November last year and presented before the General Court Martial and he’s still incarcerated in Luzira prisons. The NUP principal also criticizes Museveni’s government of corruption and institutions failing to deliver their best to the citizens they serve. He…

By Oweyegha-Afunaduula History repeats itself? Well, characters or personalities also replicate themselves. In this article, I focus on two: one, which dominated France from to and one, which has dominated Uganda since 1986. Both were not really indigenes of the countries they dominated. Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon Bonaparte was born into an Italian family, with his father being a poor nobleman in Corsica His supporters were called Bonapartists. The rise of Napoleon involved the overthrow of the French monarchy and the creation of the French Consulate, and later, the First French Empire. Napoleon’s rule saw the abolishment of many laws and policies…

By Oweyegha-Afunaduula Center for Critical Thinking and Critical Analysis (CCTAA) In President Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s Uganda anything is possible against both domestic and international law with the President himself leading the crusade against the law. This might be against the supreme law whose making he presided over: The Uganda Constitution 1995. When this happens, we use the phrase “Abuse or Threatened Abuse of Law or Legal Process. The term “abuse or threatened abuse of law or legal process” means the use or threatened use of a law or legal process, whether executive, legislative, administrative, civil, or criminal, in any manner or…

The judicial system is in crisis with many cases pending and some have taken years to be concluded. There are cases where people have been many years on remand from 3 to 28 years. This is disregarding one of the fundamental principles of justice that justice shall not be delayed, justice delayed is justice denied. The dispensation of justice in our judicial system is very tedious and slow as a snail. This anomaly has to be rectified so that the citizens can enjoy their rights, liberties and fairness as enshrined in the Constitution. The citizens will always expect expeditious justice.…