Author: Evans Kalyango

Kampala, Uganda: MTN Uganda has today officially launched MTN Ads, a powerful digital advertising solution that is already helping businesses of all sizes reach their audiences more effectively, efficiently, and with greater relevance. Having been live and tested over the past year, MTN Ads is now fully rolled out digital advertising platform, bringing with it the scale of over 22 million MTN subscribers across Uganda and the intelligence to help brands connect meaningfully with their customers. In today’s competitive market, visibility is no longer enough. Brands need to speak directly to the people who matter most to their business, and…

In the news this evening, National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential Candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine has been ambushed on his way to the 2nd rally of the day in Mbarara and majority of his campaign team arrested by police and army. In the commotion some journalists have been injured as police and army rained chaos on Bobi Wine and his team. It’s not yet clear why police has arrested them including Olivia Lutaaya who spent four years in prison without trial and only regained her freedom after being forgiven by president Museveni. This is the second major incident…

Kampala Metropolitan police region which comprises of Kampala City, Mukono and Wakiso Districts has got a new police spokesperson in the new changes announced by the police Chief Abas Byakagaba. The new Spokesperson of Kampala Metropolitan is Racheal Kawala who has been the spokesperson for Wamala region headquartered in Mityana. She replaces Patrick Onyango who has been the KMP spokesperson since 2018. In the changes, Patrick Onyango has been moved to the Community Policing Command to head publications. The changes haven’t affected KMP Deputy Spokesperson Afande Luke Owoyesigyire who remains put in Kampala as the country prepares for the 2026…

Commissioners of Parliament who were in the news in 2023 and the better part of 2024 for awarding themselves a whooping Shs1.7bn with former Leader of Opposition Mathias Mpuuga taking the lion’s share with Shs500m and the other three commissioner Esther Afoyochan, Prossy Akampurira and Solomon Silwany taking Shs400m each. The service award caused Mpuuga issues and contributed to his unceremonious fall out with his party of National Unity Platform which even recalled his appointment to the parliament commission. He was later dropped as party deputy president in charge of Buganda. A censure motion championed by Rwemiyaga County legislator Theodre…

Some 700 people have been killed in three days of election protests in Tanzania, the main opposition party said Friday, with protesters still on the streets in the midst of an internet blackout. “As we speak the figure for deaths in Dar (es Salaam) is around 350 and for Mwanza it is 200-plus. Added to figures from other places around the country, the overall figure is around 700,” John Kitoka, spokesman from the main opposition party Chadema, said. “The death toll could be much higher,” he warned, saying killings could be happening during the nighttime curfew. President Samia Suluhu Hassan, whose government is accused of…

On Tuesday, parliament of Uganda resumed sessions with top on the order paper approving loans totaling to Shs8 trillions which government is borrowing from different financial institutions including banks in Uganda and abroad. Journalists working for National Media group, the mother company of NTV Uganda, Spark Tv, Daily monitor, KFM, Dembe FM and several others were shocked to learn that they were unwelcome at parliament over reasons they’re yet to be told. As journalists from other media houses were granted access to the precincts of parliament, those from Nation Media were told to go home and had their accreditation cards…

Dear Parents, Students, Stakeholders and the entire public, Kampala International University has noted with concern the ongoing media engagements relating to the state of affairs in the university. The major issues of contention include students’ tuition payment policy, academic issues and welfare among other things. As the Top-ranked Private University in the region, and the Second Best overall university in the country, Kampala International University (KIU) remains committed to maintaining an inclusive, transparent, responsive and conducive learning and work environment that upholds both academic excellence and institutional sustainability. The University emphasizes the importance of timely tuition payment to ensure the…

Nation Media Group the mother company of NTV Uganda, Daily Monitor, Spark TV, KFM, Dembe FM and several other brands are still puzzled and rolling heads to find exactly what moved parliament to kick out their journalists from covering events inside parliament. NMG journalists were shocked yesterday when they reached parliamentary avenue at the entrance of the parliament and were told to go back home with their accreditation tags withdrawn by the security. This would later dominate the deliberations on the floor of parliament when Butambala MP Muhammed Muwanga Kivumbi sitting in for Leader of Opposition of Joel Ssenyonyi tasked…

In a dramatic turn of police after a full month of successful campaigns in the different parts of the country, police has been thrown in the spotlight after it broke into a hotel where Bobi Wine and his team were sleeping in the mid of the night and started pepper spraying every room. Even when there’s no justification for pepper spraying rooms with occupants who are sleeping, police did it but after realizing Bobi Wine’s team were recording everything on camera, the police retreated from the hotel without revealing the reason for the raid. Our hotel in Lira City has…

President Museveni in August appointed Lady Justice Jane Frances Abodo as the new Principal Judge becoming the first woman to hold such a position in the history of Uganda since Independence. Prior to her appointment as Principal Judge, Abodo was the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). She replaced Dr. Flavian Nzeija who was the principal judge who had been appointed the Deputy Chief Justice after the retirement of Richard Butera. After almost two months without a substantive DPP, President Museveni has appointed Lino Anguzu as the new Director of Public Prosecutions. Anguzu has been an assistant DPP in the Office…