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The Electoral Commission is today expected to start receiving nomination forms from aspiring presidential candidates. 48 aspiring candidates picked nomination forms since the exercise was opened on August 17th. The commission over the weekend announced a one week extension of the deadline for returning the forms, setting Sept 29th as […]

Over 9,000 residents of Gulu district have appended their signatures on a petition, calling for the passing of an ordinance that bans the sale and consumption of waragi packed in sachets. The residents mobilized by Religious Leaders under the Acholi Religious Leader Peace Initiative, collected the signatures within a period […]

Six people have died in a road accident along the Kampala-Masaka highway. The accident occurred today at around 4 a.m. at Kakoni village in Nkozi subcounty, Mpigi district. The Mpigi District Traffic Officer Michael Duncan Ensinikweri, says the accident involved a Kampala bound minivan, a Toyota Noah registration number UAL […]

President Yoweri Museveni has today been declared the NRM flag bearer for the 2016 presidential race. He was nominated by the Prime Minister Dr. Ruhakana Ruhakana Rugunda and seconded by Youth affairs minister Evelyn Anite and Hajji Abdul Kiyimba. The declation of Museveni’s sole candidature was made by the NRM […]

Government is to establish more technical oil and gas institutions in Nwoya and Kicwamba districts respectively. The move is aimed at producing more skilled people who are to boost the oil sector in the Albertine region. The head of petroleum directorate at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development, Ernest Rubondo […]