Author: Evans Kalyango

Online bully Dean Lubowa Saava has been arrested and remanded to Luzira where he risks spending a total of 8 years. This will be the case if he loses and gets convicted for the three offences with which he was charged at the utilities and standards court based in Makindye on Thursday. He is alleged to have illegally installed and operated online TV broadcasting without having the license from UCC which regulates all communications in Uganda. He was charged with broadcasting illegally without a license and he is said to have started this crime from November 2019 under TV10 Gano…

By Mike Rwothomio Residents of Zombo District are expressing frustration over disruptions in essential services as local government workers, represented by the Uganda Local Government Workers Union, launched an indefinite sit-down strike starting October 1, 2025. The strike, announced by Union Secretary General Hassan Mudiba, aims to pressure the government to address salary disparities within the public sector. According to Mudiba, Despite an increase in the wage bill from UGX 7.8 trillion in FY 2024/25 to UGX 8.6 trillion in FY 2025/26, workers funded under unconditional grant wages have not received salary increments, leading to accusations of selective pay disparities.…

By Mike Rwothomio Parents and stakeholders are urgently calling for intervention to address the sanitation infrastructure crisis at Padea Olyeku Primary School in Serr Parish, Abanga Sub-County, Zombo District. The school, grappling with an overwhelming learner’s population, lacks adequate sanitation facilities critical for fostering pupils health, academic performance, and retention. Despite ongoing government efforts to improve school infrastructure, many educational institutions, including Padea Olyeku, continue to face deficits in basic sanitation resources essential for learner well-being. Padea Olyeku Primary School, a government-aided institution established decades ago, serves approximately 1,086 pupils from Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. As the…

By Mike Rwothomio As the teachers’ strike, led by the Uganda National Teachers Union (UNATU), enters its third week, a significant number of public primary schools in Zombo district are transferring their Primary Seven (P.7) candidates to private institutions to continue their education, according to reports. The industrial action, which began on September 15, 2025, stems from unresolved salary disparities, prompting UNATU to initiate a nationwide strike. This decision coincides with the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) releasing the 2025 examination timetable, with Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) exams commencing on October 13 and Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) briefing scheduled…

Just as the party released lists of successful candidates to carry it’s flag for Member of parliament in the upcoming elections for Central region, they have released another longer list for Eastern Uganda too. It’s also full of surprises especially in Busoga where incumbent MP for Jinja City (the only NUP woman MP) from Easter Manjeri Kyebakutika has been dropped and instead the Flag has been handed to Sarah Lwansasula. Incumbent Iganga Mucipality Mayor Bamu Lulenzi has also been denied the party flag for MP Iganga Municipality and instead it’s been given to veteran politician Abed Nasser Mudiobole. Isabirye David…

The National Unity Platform has released the list of successful candidates to carry the party flag in the upcoming general elections. After a long wait, the lists are now out and have surprised many. While handing over the file with lists to her party president before he hit the road to Jinja for his manifesto launch, NUP’s Electoral Management Committee chairperson Harriet Chemutai assured Bobi Wine that her team had done the best with the best candidates to contest in 2026. After a long of presidential campaigns in Jinja, NUP has now released the first batch of successful candidates starting…

A sense of confusion and amusement is swirling on the internet after a presidential candidate being seen in a video campaigning for president Museveni instead for himself just before nominations a month ago. Robert Kasibante the presidential candidate on the National Peasants Party has been thrown in the spotlight after he was captured campaigning for president Museveni a month ago before he later got nominated last week. Appearing at a local television, Kasibante found hard time to explain how he campaigned for Museveni weeks and now wants to unseat the same person he praised that he was the right person…

The graveyard in that small northern Ugandan village is a quiet injustice. Tiny graves, each with a single wooden cross, line the red earth. In one of them is Amos, three years old. He did not die for lack of science. He died because a fever that should have been preventable met a health system that was not ready, a house that let mosquitoes in at night, and a family for whom a bed net was a luxury they could not always afford. Across East Africa, stories like Grace’s, the mother of Amos, a bright 7-year-old boy from northern Uganda,…

The National Unity Platform’s Electoral Management Committee has today released a list of the successful candidates who will carry the party’s flag for Member of Parliament in the forth coming General Elections. Speaking at the party headquarters while handing over the lists to the party president, Harriet Chemutai who heads the committee told party president Kyagulanyi that her team did the best to get the right candidates, she also encouraged those who have missed out on the flag to back the flag bearers and be hopeful that Bobi Wine will appoint them as ministers, directors and other juicy positions in…

The nomination exercise for presidential candidates of the 2026 General elections has been concluded today by the Electoral Commission with only 8 presidential candidates. All these will move across the country explaining their manifestos to Ugandans who will choose their next president in the second week of January 2026. In the weeks preceding to this nomination, over 200 Ugandans picked nomination forms, 38 returned them with signatures collected from different districts as required by law but only 8 met the criteria of 98,000 signatures from atleast 98 districts in Uganda. Notable among those left out is Ecological Party of Uganda’s…