Author: Simon Mbago
The Uganda Cricket Association, on Thursday, June 13, 2024, launched the annual Boys Cricket Week Tournament, 2024. The eagerly anticipated event scheduled from August 24 to 31, 2024, shall be hosted by Jinja at Jinja Secondary School in Jinja city. Organized at the “might school” (Jinja SS) in the morning, the launch attracted several dignitaries, including development officers from different regions, cricket coaches, and players (representatives) from different schools. Serving as the third year event, the tournament will bring together the best cricket-playuing secondary schools from six different regions, including Eastern, Central, Northern, Western, and West Nile, among others. Organized…
Enumerators in Bugweri District, Eastern Uganda, are raising concerns following delays in receiving payments for their work during the recently concluded national population and housing census. On Wednesday, June 12, 2024, they took to the streets in peaceful demonstrations to voice their grievances. The enumerators allege that the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) has failed to fulfill its promise of timely payments, leaving them in financial distress. Holding placards, they expressed frustration over their colleagues in other districts reportedly receiving their facilitation while they have been overlooked. Madina Naigaga, one of the enumerators, expressed disappointment, stating, “We have been patient…
Iganga: The territorial police in Iganga district are probing the circumstances under which two boda-boda riders were reportedly killed by the yet to be identified individuals. These, after ending the lives of the duo, thugs took off with the two motorcycles. Police identifies the victims as Bakari Zijjakiro, 40, and Muhammad Isabirye, a 20-year-old. Their motorcycles taken were established as UFU 315Z and UEZ 932G, respectively. Diana Nandawula, the spokesperson of Busoga East regional police confirmed Wednesday afternoon that the irritating incident happened in the night of Tuesday, June 11, 2024, in swamp connecting Kiwani and Namusisi villages in Nawandala…
Many mothers, especially ageing women, still believe in the traditional birth attendants (TBA) locally known as “Mulelwa” as individuals who have the experience in leading to better deliverances. Some say the TBAs have local drugs that even if the pregnancy becomes abnormal, the can easily perform the local magic that mother gives birth. But Dr. Anita Nansezia, the in-charge of Buzaya health centre III in Buzaya subcounty, Kamuli district, is concerned with the local practice. She describes it as a barbaric practice that wouldn’t be done by the current generation. Nansezia says the current way of life differs from the…
The Jinja city woman member of Parliament, Hon Manjeri Kyebakutiika, on Tuesday, June 11, 2024, led residents to protest against the alleged relocation of the annual agricultural education show from Jinja to Bukalasa, Luwero district. Holding placards reading “we want our our show in Jinja”, the legislator and residents stormed the agriculture show grounds located at the source of the Nile singing songs demanding for the show. Also the shadow minister for tourism in parliament, Kyebakutiika, is against the purported plans of relocating the important event that is estimated to fetch close to a tune of shs2 billion into the…
Moses Kawubanya, a 45-year-old resident of Busana zone, Nabirumba ward, Nabwigulu subcounty in Kamuli district, is nursing wounds in Kamuli General Hospital after his wife reportedly chopped off his genitals. The fate unfolded in the wee hours of Monday, June 10, 2024, when the determined 34-year-old woman identified as Suzan Namuganza carried out the irritating act against her husband over the yet to be established reasons. A director of Serena Children located in the same locality, Kawubanya, according to allegations, woke up to bathe after at 3am, which he resumed his bed with a towel wrapped around the waist. When…
Jinja: Recently, the DP Bloc ended their cooperation with the leading opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) on grounds of individualism and political party dictatorship. The national leadership of the BLOC has now extended the move to various parts, mobilizing the body members to cease the relationships with the NUP party. While meeting members of the DP BLOC in Busoga region over the weekend, during a media interface under the theme, ‘Ending cooperation with NUP’, Michael Mabike, the chairman of the Bloc elaborated on the dirty practices conducted by the NUP party members that could not attract cooperation. In the meeting…
Dr Idi Menya, a born of Wantunda village in Busede sub county, Jinja district in the Busoga sub-region, has formally announced taking on the long-serving president Yoweri Museveni in the anticipated 2026 general elections. He made the proclamations in Jinja City on Tuesday, June 11, 2024, when addressing journalists at Mansion Hotel. “I thank the people of Uganda for enduring the longtime suppression. I today declare that the suppression in ending in 2026,” Dr Menya told the media. “Uganda has been in the dictatorial rule since independence. I am glad that that the long-time awaited president has come, and it…
The Kyabazinga of Busoga HRH William Wilberforce Nadiope Gabula IV on Saturday, June 8, 2024, hosted a delegation of leaders from the Bulamogi chiefdom that paid a courtesy visit to the Igenge palace for what they termed reconciliation engagement. The delegation comprised traditional, religious, and political leaders from Obwa Zibondo Bwa Bulamogi.” The delegation was led by the chief of princes (Isabalangira) of Bulamogi chiefdom James Naita and Elijjah Kagoda Dhikusooka, the chairperson LC5Kaliro district, a basement of Bulamogi. Neita, together with clan heads and other opinion leaders, informed Kyabazinga that “Bulamogi is back home.” Led by Prince Colombus Wambuzi…
The former member of parliament for Bulamogi county constituency, Kenneth Lubogo, wants the expenditure of the subvention of shs10 billion provided by the central government to the Kaliro district local government. Lubogo is concerned and suspicious that the district authorities would have tampered with the money after its intended activities do not match with the shillings. In his letter to the Kaliro district chairperson and the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) through Ambuga and Co. Advocates, Lubogo demands the bill of quantities that was used in the maintenance of all roads where the subvention was applied. He also wants the documents…