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  Former Malaba town council LCIII chairperson George Alfred Obore cheats death by a whisker. Obore was this after involved in a nasty accident in Rock high school in Tororo town. According to eye witness, Obore who was driving from the direction of Tororo hospital just joined Uhuru drive without stopping prompting a vehicle that was coming from Tororo town towards Tororo police to ram into him. He was rushed to Tororo hospital for medical checkup as the traffic team took charge of the heavy traffic flow.

The defence team in the High Court hearing of the Christopher Okello Onyum, the prime suspect in the murder of four toddlers at Ggaba Early Childhood Development Centre, has closed it’s defence after it failed to trace the two defence witness to appear before court. Richard Kumbuga, the lead defence lawyer told court that the witnesses phone numbers were unreachable and their addresses were not provided by Okello. “My lord, the matter today is for defence witnesses, I’ve been informed by the process server, that the intended witness to appear today in court, he couldn’t be found, and the affidavit is on court record” he said. Kumbuga noted that the same position was discussed with Okello and agreed to close the defence case since the witnesses couldn’t be located to appear before the court. Justice Alice Komuhangi Khaukha, has adjourned the hearing to give time to the prosecution and defence to present their concluding submissions before judgment is scheduled. On Thursday last week, Ju...

  Plans are underway for the establishment of Young Men Christian Association [YMCA] college of business studies in Tororo town. The dream was on Saturday confirmed by Lambert Okure the principal Jinja YMCA College of business studies during a planning meeting held at Amagoro B central village in Tororo municipality. Okure said they were extremely excited to have a new branch opening in Tororo to provide holistic educational skills development to hundreds of youth who will benefit from it. He challenged the main brain behind the initiative Paul Obbo to ensure that he registered more members from the current 23 to at least 200 have the branch opened by September this year. Harriet Chandiru the project director said they are going to kick start with empowering of the members on hands on skills for sustainability purpose. She tasked Obbo and his team to be creative by providing incentives and programs that are attractive to the youth if they are to grow fast. Obbo called u...

  Tororo Resident District Commissioner, Hajji Sadik Bategana has declined to sign an eviction court order forwarded to his office for approval.    According to Bategana, the eviction order has been lying in his office since and was left behind by his predecessor, Nickson Owole.   He says the order seeks to evict two extended families constituting hundreds of people from Amoni ‘’A’’ cell Asinge Ward Malaba Town Council Tororo district.    Mass evictions have become an issue of concern in many parts of the country and normally when court issues an eviction order, it is forwarded to different security offices including the Resident District Commissioner-RDC, Regional Police Commander-RPC and District Police Commander-DPC for endorsement and confirmation that they are aware of the eviction and provide the necessary security to the bailiffs before it is implemented.    He says he declined to endorse the court order after receiving a directive ...

Kalangala District Woman Member of Parliament Helen Nakimuli has died, her party the National Unity Platform has said. The party confirmed that Nakimuli died following an unsuccessful surgery, although details surrounding the procedure and circumstances of her death were still limited by press time. In a statement, NUP president Robert Kyagulanyi described her passing as “terrible and shocking news,” underscoring the sudden nature of the loss. “Hellen Nakimuli was a devoted leader whose service to her people was marked by courage, humility, and unwavering commitment,” Kyagulanyi said. “Her passing is not only a loss to NUP but to Uganda as a whole.” Details of the cause of death or where she passed on from remain scanty as several efforts to contact her relatives have been futile. Kyagulanyi extended condolences to Nakimuli’s family, friends and constituents in Kalangala, calling for strength and unity as the country comes to terms with the development. Nakimuli, 41, who was re-elected...

At least six people have been killed and others injured after a person opened fire in Kyiv on Saturday, the Ukrainian capital's Mayor Vitali Klitschko has said. The incident happened in the southern Holosiivskyi district. The man reportedly began shooting at people on the street and then took others hostage in a nearby supermarket. Ukraine's Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said the attacker was killed in the supermarket following a shoot-out with police. His motive is currently unclear. The exact number of victims also remains unclear, but Klitschko said at least 15 people had been injured. Ten of these, including a child, had been taken to hospital. Klitschko said most of the dead had been killed in the street. One woman, thought to be about 30 years old, later died in hospital. Ukraine's prosecutor general, Ruslan Kravchenko, identified the shooter as a 58-year-old man from the Russian capital, Moscow, and said he had used an automatic weapon to carry out the fatal shooti...

Pope Leo has said he was not seeking to debate Donald Trump when he criticised "tyrants" for spending billions on wars in a speech earlier this week. The pontiff said the remarks, which he delivered days after a high-profile spat with Trump, had been written a fortnight earlier – "well before the president ever commented on myself". "And yet as it happens, it was looked at as if I was trying to debate, again, the president, which is not in my interest at all," he told reporters aboard a flight to Angola on Saturday. On Monday, Trump launched a scathing attack on the first American Pope – who has been a vocal critic of the US-Israeli military operation in Iran – as "terrible for foreign policy". The Pope, who is currently on a tour of Africa, said on Saturday that a "certain narrative that has not been accurate" had developed, citing "the political situation created" by Trump's comments. During a speech in Cameroon on Thurs...

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni took Members of Parliament through a shooting practice session at the National Leadership Institute (NALI) in Kyankwanzi, using the occasion to emphasise national defence, discipline, and the fight against corruption on the closing day. During the event  the President, guided legislators on basic firearms handling, also observed their participation and congratulated them, noting that some were veterans. The President explained that Uganda’s security is anchored on the concept of a people’s army, where citizens are trained and can return to civilian life but remain available as a reserve force when needed. Museveni noted that such a system enables even countries with smaller populations to build strong defence capacity through continuous training and mobilisation of reservists. “This is how you maximise defence. People train, go back to their normal lives, but remain ready. That is what they do in countries like Israel, where citizens are called back...

The National Resistance Movement (NRM) has defended the inclusivity and objectives of its ongoing leadership retreat at the National Leadership Institute in Kyankwanzi, amid renewed debate over opposition participation and criticism of activities at the gathering. Speaking during NBS Eagle last Sunday, the Senior Manager for Information, Communications and Public Relations at the NRM, Rogers Mulindwa, said the National Leadership Institute remains open to all political leaders and serves as a platform for shared learning and national engagement. He said invitations were extended to opposition parties and leaders who had previously participated in the program, though most did not respond. “The National Leadership Institute is for all leaders. We sent letters inviting opposition parties and their leaders who had previously attended to come and study together, but most did not respond, except Hon. Norbert Mao,” he said. Mulindwa added that the NRM expected greater participation from oppos...

  When Charles Peter Mayiga was appointed Katikkiro of Buganda on May 12, 2013, he stepped into one of the most historically weighty offices in Uganda’s cultural institutions. Born in January 1964, the son of the semi-urban centre of Kasanje in Wakiso District was 49 at the time young by the standards of Buganda’s leadership and he carried with him a reputation for intellectual sharpness, organizational discipline, and a deep understanding of the kingdom he was about to serve. He succeeded John Baptist Walusimbi, inheriting a kingdom that was shaken and trying to reinvent against the tides following the deadly Buganda Riots of 2009. The 2009 Kayunga crisis had exposed one of the most fragile periods in recent history for Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II and the broader Buganda Kingdom. At the time, the kingdom was already grappling with mounting political tensions with the central government over land rights, federalism demands (federo), and limits on cultural authority in gover...