Grace Matsiko & Robert Mwanje
Kampala/Nakasongola
The government has barred the Kabaka of Buganda, Ronald Muwenda Mutebi, from visiting Nakasongola District headquarters where he was scheduled to celebrate the kingdom’s 46th independence anniversary today.
Buganda attained Independence as a federal state from the British colonial government on October 8, 1962 but the Kabaka’s visit to Buluuli County headquarters, [...]
UPDF on high alert over LRA rebels
By Henry Mukasa
THE Uganda People’s Defence Forces are ready to strike back in case of any fresh incursion of LRA rebels into the country, according to the army spokesman.
“Our forces are on the alert and we have the means to protect the Ugandan border,” Maj. Paddy [...]
Customer denied condoms over timing
By Robert Wabomba
Is there such a thing as the wrong or right time for having sex? Well, according to Molly, a shopkeeper, it is not appropriate to have sex at 11 O’clock in the morning as one of her customers recently found out. Jacob went to Molly’s shop to buy condoms [...]
Busoga mourns Kyabazinga
Pauline Kairu, Solomon Muyita & Abubaker Kirunda
Jinja
Throngs of mourners poured onto the streets of the eastern town of Jinja Friday night while others gathered at the Bugembe Busoga Kingdom Lukiiko and the Nakabango Palace to pay their last respects to the fallen Kyabazinga Henry Wako Muloki.
And as the shadow of grief continues to [...]
BY EVELYNE NJOROGE
Uganda has become the latest member of the East African Community (EAC) to express discontent over the trade arrangements that have been entered by the five partner states.
In a draft report contained in the Ugandan’s Sessional Committee on Tourism, Trade and Industry, Ugandan businessmen complained that trade issues that are agreed upon by [...]
By Solomon Muyita & Gerald Bareebe
Kampala, Jinja
The Kyabazinga of Busoga Henry Wako Muloki, who died at 4a.m. yesterday at Mulago Hospital Cancer Institute in Kampala at the age of 87, was the longest-surviving traditional ruler in the country.
The news of the Kyabazinga’s death, following a long battle against cancer of the throat, was received with [...]
Army will not allow ‘bad people’ to rule - Aronda Emojong Osere
The Chief of Defence Forces Gen. Aronda Nyakairima has said the army will not let “bad characters” take power from the ruling National Resistance Movement party.
Gen. Aronda, who only a month ago said the army would respect whoever wins the 2011 presidential election, [...]
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By The Citizen Team
Tanzania was on high alert yesterday after terror suspects were reported to have escaped a police a dragnet in Kenya last weekend.
One of the suspects is Fazul Abdullah, an al-Qaeda associate and the mastermind of the simultaneous bombing of the US embassies in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi on August [...]
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