Author: Evans Kalyango

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…

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni who is seeking the seventh term of leadership was nominated yesterday by the Electoral Commission to run for presidency in the forth-coming elections of 2026. Museveni after nomination briefly addressed journalists before heading to Kololo independence grounds where he unveiled his campaign manifesto under the theme PROTECTING THE GAINS to his supporters who showed up in big numbers. The president unveiled new plans for a better Uganda which he has led for the last 40 years since taking over power in 1986 after a 5 years bush war in the jungles of greater Luwero in Buganda…

The Electoral Commission yesterday commenced the nomination of Presidential candidates for the forth coming General elections happening on 14th January 2026. Over 200 Ugandans picked nomination papers but only 38 returned the nomination papers with signatures of nominators from atleast 98 districts in Uganda as required by law. The commission by Sunday 21st September had only cleared two aspirants; Yoweri Kaguta Museveni who is also the incumbent for the last 40 years and Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Nathan Nandala Mafabi and the rest of the aspirants had been informed they fell short of the required number of signatures. In…

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Tibuhaburwa also Ssabalwanyi Ssemalungu has today been nominated by the Electoral Commission to run for presidency in the upcoming general elections as seeks for a 7th term. His campaign theme dubbed Protecting The Gains consolidates all that he has managed to do in the last forty years since he became president in 1986 after toppling the government then through a guerilla war. Prior to his nomination today, President Museveni had earlier handed over power to Democratic Party president General Norbert Mao who also serves in his government as a minister of justice and constitutional affairs. Museveni…

The Electoral Commission has confirmed the signatures submitted by National Unity Platform in the last minute rush hour as the party fell short of nomination signatures on Friday last week. Now the Electoral Commission has confirmed Kyagulanyi as an aspirant after meeting the threshold of signatures and has issued him with a certificate. The Commission has also pushed the nomination of National Unity Platform presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine to Wednesday 24th at 2pm. He becomes the 5th confirmed aspirant after NRM’s Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, FDC’s James Nathan Nandala Mafabi, Robert Kasibante and Elton Joseph Mabirizi.

The nomination of Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine the head of National Unity Platform (NUP) to run for presidency in the 2026 General elections has been met with bad news from the Electoral Commission over signatures. According to the party’s Secretary General David Lewis Rubongoya, he says the Commission had informed them that the signatures they submitted are inadequate for guarantee Bobi Wine’s nomination for presidency. ADVERT: FOR THE BEST WEB HOSTING, WEB DESIGNS AND DOMAIN NAMES, CALL OR WHATSAPP +256758201313 By law according to the Presidential Elections Act particularly Section 10 (1) b “the nomination is supported by…

In the news this evening, Former Deputy Inspector General Of Police Maj Gen Sabiiti Muzeyi has been involved in a serious road accident as he returned from the give away function of President Museveni’s grand daughter Nsasiirwe Keinembabazi in Ssembabule. Preliminary reports indicate that Muzeyi’s convoy involved in a head on collision with a fuso truck which was carrying cows causing great damage on the driver’s side. In videos circulating on social media, locals are heard saying the Gen was driving himself. He has since been airlifted to Nakasero hospital aboard a UPDF chopper but in critical condition but the…