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Uganda Prisons Officer Dismissed Over Criticising NRM

The Uganda Prisons Service has dismissed Lawrence Ampe, a warder with Ngora Prisons from service over allegedly engaging in partisan politics and criticising the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) through social media. In a letter dated December 17, 2025, addressed to the Officer in Charge, Uganda Prisons Ngora, the Prisons council resolved to dismiss No. […]

Electoral Commission Reassures On Biometric Kits As It Starts Issuing Voter Location Slips

The independent Uganda Electoral Commission has started the countdown to the 2026 General Elections by commencing the exercise of issuing Voter Location Slips (VLS) to voters across the country and also demonstrating to stakeholders, including the media, how the Biometric Voter Verification System (BVVS) will operate. “The Electoral Commission has commenced the exercise of issuing […]

Court Sets December 22 to Decide Walukaga’s Fate

The High Court has set 22nd December as the date to deliver it’s judgement in the election petition filed by Mathias Walukaga, over his disqualification by the Electoral Commission over academic qualification requirements. On Tuesday, Walukaga, the National Unity Platform (NUP) Flag bearer for the Busiro East Race appeared in court with his lawyers, Alex […]

Walukagga Petitions Court Over Disqualification from Busiro East Race

The National Unity Platform (NUP) Flag bearer for the Busiro East Race Mathias Walukagga, has through his lawyers petitioned the High Court challenging his recent disqualification from the race by the Electoral Commission (EC) this week over lack of the required academic documents. While addressing media after petitioning court on Friday, Mr Elias Luyimbazi Nalukoola […]

How 16 Year Old Student Died After Attack at Bobi Wine’s Gulu Rally

A Senior three student of Excel High School Mukono, Joshua Leon Otim succumbed on Tuesday evening to injuries he suffered following an attack by National Resistance Movement (NRM) Tshirt wearing gangs on the National Unity Platform (NUP) Presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu aka Bobi Wine on Saturday in Gulu City. According to Bobi Wine, Otim […]

NUP to Petition High Court Over Walukaga’s Dismissal from Busiro East Race

The Secretary General, National Unity Platform (NUP) David Lewis Rubongoya has revealed that the party will petition the high court on the Electoral Commissions (EC) denomination of Mathias Walukaga from the Busiro East Parliamentary race. Rubongoya who addressed media at the party headquarters in Makerere – Kavule, hours after the EC announced Walukaga’s denomination, said […]

PFF’s Busia MP Candidate Remanded over Misprision of Treason

The Nakawa Chief Magistrates Court has charged and remanded the People’s Front for Freedom’s (PFF) flag bearer for Busia Municipality MP seat, Samuel Makokha, to Luzira over misprision of treason. According to prosecution, Makokha got to know that the party founder and four-time presidential candidate Dr. Kizza Besigye allegedly planned to commit treason last year […]

Electoral Commission Denominates Singer Walukaga from Busiro East Race

The Electoral Commission has denominated National Unity Platform’s Mathias Walukaga from the Busiro East Parliamentary race after he failed to meet the required academic requirements for the elective office of Member of Parliament. According to the EC chairperson Justice Simon Byabakama Mugenyi, the commission launched an investigation into singer Walukaga following a petition to the […]

Electoral Commission Condemns Security Attack on Bobi Wine in Gulu

The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Justice Simon Byabakama has condemned the Saturday attack on National Unity Platform (NUP) Presidential Candidate Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine together with this supporters by security personnel in Gulu. In a statement released on Monday, Justice Byabakama called on the police force to investigate what led to both uniformed […]

Airport Taxi Driver Abducted after Declining Pinning NRM Posters on his House

Residents of Mayanzi village in Kigungu, Entebbe municipality are in fear of their lives after security operatives allegedly kidnapped an Airport Taxi driver, Peter Mbaziira at his workplace at Entebbe International Airport recently. According to an eyewitness who preferred anonymity to speak freely, the NRM supporters found Mbaziira a staunch National Unity Platform (NUP) supporter […]