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Bodyguards spill VIP dirty secrets. "I was standing in the compound when my boss’ child refused to go to school. Instead, my boss told the child that if he didn’t want to study, he would end up like that dog with a gun"
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Meet 23-year-old beans trader that unseated Semeo Nsubuga. "We may be young; we may not be the people they expected, but we are the leaders now. We are going to work hard and surprise them. We may not be the best, but we love our country"
#UGElections2021
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President of Uganda's Bloggers Association, Ibrahim Tusubira aka Isma Olaxess aka Jajja Ichuli has reportedly been gunned down by unknown assailants near his home in Kyanja, a Kampala suburb. It comes just days he warned in one of his vlogs that there were plans to kill him
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Queen Sylvia Nagginda Luswata launches her book. Although the Kabaka and Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga were conspicuously absent, several Buganda kingdom dignitaries were in attendance
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This is a road in Kampalahole city that teaches drivers how to balance a car on 3 tyres
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How iPhone stolen from Jinja led to arrest of 2 suspects in Kampala. Police used iPhone's iCloud to track Julius Nuwamanya & Mark Kisakye in Kyebando. They were found with 23 phones stolen from Vumbula concert last weekend in Jinja
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Parliament paid Shs 1.7bn for Oulanyah's chartered flight to USA. Parliament allegedly paid $500,000 to Uganda Airlines on Wednesday - a slight discount off the $563,000 market price to fly the speaker and about 10 others on the 252-seater plane
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After a 2hr-interview at his home in Munyonyo, musician Ronald Mayinja has made off with our reporter’s mobile phone. He claimed the audio recording was going to land him in trouble with the state. A case of phone theft SD:REF 29/7/1/2021 has been filed at Salama Road police stn
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Statistical impossibilities: Museveni scored 100% at 348 polling stations. At all these polling stations, no one in the area died, no one has migrated, none was sick nor did a single person forego voting for any conceivable reason
#UGElections2021
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Govt, Watoto Church lock horns over demolition of Uganda's first cinema. Watoto wants to replace it with a 12-storeyed building which includes a three-star hotel, 3,000-seater auditorium, a shopping centre and youth centre
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Uganda Breweries Limited (UBL) has officially become the first company in
#Uganda
to give its female employees up to 6 months of fully paid
#maternityleave
. Male employees are entitled to a full month of paternity leave via
@BigEyeUG
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Senior one students of Comboni College Lira display their first project. Under the new O'level curriculum, all students must do a project for each and every subject that they undertake. The projects can be done in any term and in any class but before the final exams in S.4
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How Bobi Wine’s Carolina kept this girl in school. "I grew up on Bobi Wine’s song Carolina. My mother reminded me to often stick to my books instead of flirting around with boys, like beautiful young Carolina who ended up pregnant and missed school"
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Lewis Rubongoya: How this Harvard, Oxford-trained lawyer became the toast of the ghetto. He's Bobi's former lecturer. He talks about how he was betrayed by Museveni in 2017, never initially believed in Bobi Wine but eventually got inspired by him
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Fred Lumbuye is reportedly being held at Gulu Airforce base in northern Uganda as security continues to hunt for 11 of his alleged conspirators who "were feeding him with state secrets". Entebbe airport passenger manifest for August 7-8 allegedly confiscated by SFC 📸:FILE
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This senior citizen does know the exact time that the self-proclaimed Ghetto President
#BobiWine
will arrive in the 'ghetto hood', Kamwokya but she's determined to wait for as long as she can to welcome him with flowers 📸
@bamulanzeki
#BobiWineReturns
#Uganda
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18-year-old
#Malawi
school dropout, Ernest Andrew brings free
#electricity
to his village using a self-made air-powered generator, bypassing use of fuel, oil or batteries. He has so far connected 9 homes and plans to power up the community school
#innovation
#greenenergy
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EC added 440,000 more voters on register, 2 months to
#UGElections2021
. Whereas the the process of voter registration officially stopped on Dec 11, 2019, the Commission in November 2020 added 445, 076 more voters on the register
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Olympic champion Joshua Cheptegei wins again in Eugene, USA and deservedly does his celebratory gollira chest-thumping
#Uganda
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Dr Jim Spire: Threats to my life are serious but I won't quit. "There is a possibility of preventing the intended harm. However, the fact remains that regardless of whether one speaks or not, you can be harmed"
#socialmedia
#Uganda
#activism
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Stanbic bank's CEO Anne Juuko heads to Kenya for new bigger role. She has been promoted to Standard Bank Group regional head, global markets.
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Two shot dead, several injured as Gulu High school students riot over Man City, Man U match. The students went on rampage after the school administration refused to broadcast the EPL game. Police responded with teargas in vain before calling in the army
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The
#socialmedia
skit that landed Bizonto comedians, also Radio Simba presenters in trouble. The have been arrested on sectarianism charges. They say UNRA, BOU, URA, Ministry of Finance, ISO, NSSF, EC, Police, UPDF, CMI...are all headed by people who hail from the same region
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After Sabiiti shooting, now ministers, VIPs ask to change guards. A top police official from Very Important Persons Protection unit (VIPPU) says they are overwhelmed by requests from ministers and some VIPs, expressing anxiety over their bodyguards
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Archbishop Stanley Ntagali suspended from church duties after cheating on wife with a married woman. Ntagali who retired last year as Archbishop of Church of Uganda has reportedly admitted his 'sin' & has been suspended by Archbishop Samuel Kaziimba
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At 130 years, Lucy Kahubire has witnessed two World Wars, arrest of Kabaka Mwanga. She was born during the reign of Omukama Kabalega, and she vividly remembers when Kabalega and Kabaka Mwanga were arrested in 1899 & how Banyoro celebrated
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Missing Bobi Wine bodyguard found dead. Apedel went missing on Tuesday this week and his body was on Friday found dumped at Mulago mortuary. He was reportedly tortured to death
#Uganda
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Makerere student attempts 'suicide' over suspension from university. Isaac Byaruhanga, a fourth-year student of Makerere University studying medicine and surgery was suspended by the VC Prof Barnabas Nawangwe over engaging in "kimeza" debate
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Museveni: I can do away with parliament. "Btn 1971 & 1979 there was no parliament…Don’t think that you are in heaven... You shd know where the power of that parliament comes from… in fact, I can do away with that parliament”
#Uganda
#FreeBobiWine
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They went for Karamoja minerals, I didn't speak
They went for Mukono vanilla. I was a CEO investing in coffee
They went for the fishermen. I don't even know how to fish
They went for the Busoga sugarcane. I don't even take sugar, honey.
Then they came for coffee, fuel
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Mother spends 2 weeks weeding nurse's garden to clear daughter's medical bills. Margret Iloku, 63, arrived at Princess Diana HC IV in Soroti without any money expecting free health services for her expecting daughter-in-law
#UgandaHealthExhibition
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Luwero priest acquitted of defilement after 5-year-old trial. In 2018, Rev Canon Kezekiah Kalule was arrested on charges of defiling a 16-year-old girl who was under his custody but DNA results proved that Kalule isn't the father of the victim's child
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Here's Muhammad Ssegirinya’s plan for that Shs 321m car cash. "I'm going to get Shs 100m & help the families of our people who lost their loved ones during the struggle, like Rita Nabukenya, Yasin Kawuma, Dan Kyeyune and many others..."
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Joshua Cheptegei: making of a leader. He gave Shs 50m of his winnings to the construction of Kwoti church & another Shs 30m to Glorious Life church in Kapchorwa. During lockdown, he was singlehandedly feeding 100 upcoming athletes and offers scholarships
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That's Africanicity, that's Absa!
#BREAKING
: First Daughter Ange Kagame has been appointed as the Deputy Executive Director, Strategy and Policy Council at the Office of the President.
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Chinese company accuse Uganda army of stealing fuel meant for Kapchorwa-Suam road construction. China State Construction Engineering Corporation presented CCTV footage as evidence showing suspected UPDF officials stealing over 3000 litres of fuel
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DRC: President Tshisekedi rules out talks with
#M23
rebels. He says the rebels usually use the peace process to regroup and infiltrate govt security. He also said once Angolan troops arrive, the EAC regional force will be asked to leave DRC
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UPDF mistook al-Shabaab militants for Somali farmers - surviving soldiers. The surviving soldiers say they delayed reacting to the attack thinking the militants were just farmers in the gardens busy drawing water to irrigate their crops
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Steal from yours
Make yours poorer
Invest in theirs
Theirs sanction
Back to yours
Plant malls in wetlands
Yours too poor to shop there
Now sick
Yours hospital too sick to treat
Yours foreign-learned sons can't toil
Yours grandsons now back to the stupid you caused
Stupid vanity
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Mpuuga tours expose the rot in government hospitals and schools. Entebbe regional referral hospital reported having only 16% of its approved staffing structure filled. Entebbe Grade A hospital is operating in buildings as old as 118 years
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Machete-wielding (bijambiya) attackers captured on CCTV today morning at about 3:15 am inside a residence in Kibwa, Nabweru in Nansana municipality. The country is gripped by fear over bijambiya attacks that have already claimed 29 lives in Masaka. 📹
@esteri4
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Why Ugandans would rather spend on Dubai than their own country. A trip to Queen Elizabeth NP for 3 nights at a high-end safari lodge costs $1400 (Shs 5m)/person at discounted Ugandan rates. That would take 2 people to Dubai and back + nights in a hotel
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Now, just for a moment, imagine if those kids were still in Magere; surrounded by all that security detail and deployment
#RandomThoughts
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Bobi Wine must justify bulletproof car donation else it becomes govt property by March 31, 2021 - IGG. Acting IGG Bamugemereire says where a leader fails to or refuses to justify that they are entitled to the donation in question, it becomes govt property
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Oulanyah: Acholi MPs offer to refund Shs 2bn, demand apology from NUP. They say if it's money that will stop Ugandans from humiliating the speaker, then they are willing to refund the Shs 2bn that was spent to charter the one-way flight to US for Oulanyah
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Opinion: Who killed Jajja Iculi? What President Museveni cryptically calls ‘PIGS’ are, in reality, his ‘People In Government Security’
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Prof Nyeko calls for merger of O&A levels, ban of boarding sections for nursery kids. The former NCHE boss says it's "madness" for nursery kids to be at school at 6am or writing exams. He also wants "useless" pre-entry university exams scrapped
#Uganda
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EC 'gifted' Katumba with Bobi Wine's votes at 7 polling stations. At Maganjo B C/U polling station, Katumba obtained 333 votes followed by Museveni with 61 votes & Kyagulanyi with 1 vote. But DR forms show it's Bobi who scored 333 votes
#UGElections2021
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UAE blacklists Ugandans, Nigerians. "The new guidelines apply to all Ugandans and Nigerians. Whether you are a tourist or a casual labourer or a housekeeper. You need to have Shs 5 million in your pocket to come to UAE"
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I have no evidence but I know Joyce Bagala bribed voters, Nabakooba tells court. Asked to present DR forms to show that she was cheated, the Lands minister said she didn't have any. On bribery allegations, she said she was simply told by her agents
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On the left, is a 1863 actual picture of "Whipped Peter/Gordon" who survived American slavery.
On the right, is a 2022 actual picture of novelist Kakwenza Rukirabashaija who survived Ugandan security torture
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#Senegal
: Govt cuts off mobile internet access amid deadly riots that have claimed 16 lives. Govt had earlier limited access to
#socialmedia
, but many were able to bypass the outage with the use of VPNs. Now access on all mobile devices has been cut off
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They will not only bully you off the road, they will also draw guns on you after knocking you.
Uganda: Guns, Power, Money, Impunity in that order
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Video:
#Uganda
's Ambassador to Burundi, Maj Gen Matayo Kyaligonza with his military guards assaulting a yet-to-be named female traffic officer who stopped them after they made a wrongful U-turn in Seeta, Mukono today, Sunday
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#Cameroon
: Govt threatens to close TVs that broadcast programs with
#homosexuality
scenes. CRTV reported that foreign media groups such as the Walt Disney Company are trying to represent homosexuals by airing cartoons like "Miraculous LadyBug"
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Businessman Hamis Kiggundu claims Attorney General Kiryowa Kiwanuka and Edwin Karugire, a son-in-law of the first family are after his life. He accuses the duo of intimidating Ugandan judges
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The plot script for Zebra Mando was simple: confront Bobi Wine and his NUP. Deliberately start a fight in the streets which would give chance to the army to 'intervene'. When he developed cold feet & with fears of leaking the details, the end result was 9 bullets into his body
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Muhoozi project runs into trouble. President Museveni reveals that Muhoozi was born in Tanzania and that he can't prepare any individuals for presidency
#Uganda
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Pistol used to kill Isma Olaxess not registered - ballistic experts conclude after 4-month investigation. Also, all the 7 suspects earlier arrested have been released after investigators hit a dead end
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EC asks court to dismiss election petition against Ssegirinya. Electoral Commission which is the second respondent in the case says the Kawempe North MP was never served as a respondent in the case, which makes the case bad in law
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Reminder: Ssegirinya, Ssewanyana still on remand. How did Mr Update come from feeding the people, giving news updates via social media to murder? Why did he choose machetes, and not poison the food he donated to the vulnerable poor in his constituency?
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Ministers reject old cars, chairs. Karamoja Affairs state minister Agnes Nandutu rejected an official car bought 2 years ago at about Shs 650m, saying it was previously used inappropriately to carry things like charcoal
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#Uganda
's first
#satellite
complete, awaits launch into space. On Tue, 3 students; Edgar Mujuni, Derick Tebusweke & Bonny Omara successfully finished their work on PearlAfricaSat-1 and handed it over to Japan
#Aerospace
Exploration Agency for final testing
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Former MP Odonga Otto charged with theft of 380 bags of charcoal, released on police bond
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Makerere University professor Kerali found dead in his bedroom. For his incredible construction designs, a section on the Kabale-Kisoro was named the 'Kerali corner' in recognition of his talent.
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SHAME:
#Uganda
People's Defence Forces (UPDF) soldiers captured on phone video flogging, forcing half naked Makerere University students to roll on a tarmac road near the Senate building and
#Freedom
Square
#MakerereStrike
#torture
#education
Video: Courtesy
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#Homosexuality
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Derrick Nyeko the 28-year-old Japadhola on being a Muganda, winning Makindye East MP seat and his mother getting detained for 5 hours at Kabalagala police after she came to see him
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Grace Nakimera: I believe in kneeling for my man. "I am a very good cook, I bake and I’m also a typical Muganda – a traditional woman who believes in kneeling for her man, serving him food when he gets back home..."
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#Uganda
's public debt hits Shs 81 trillion. Each Ugandan to pay Shs 1.7m to clear it. "We borrow to almost do every major project, yet the money is being squandered by the political class...Almost every govt entity is duplicated in State House"
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Army arrests 3 Bobi Wine supporters in Nansana over dancing to his music. "Sometimes, I don't understand these people in govt. The boys were just dancing... our shops were open & there was no trouble whatsoever. Then bullets..." FILE 📷
#UGElections2021
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Speaker Oulanyah secretly flown to US for treatment. Oulanyah who was last seen in public in December, was flown to Seattle aboard Uganda Airlines via Iceland, flight no. UR2 on Thursday. It was the first time the revived airline was flying to the US
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Among censure: NUP MPs scared to speak. We reached out to 40 of the 57 NUP MPs, of whom 15 were able to answer their calls. Among those who answered, only 2 (Derrick Nyeko & Francis Zaake outrightly stated they would sign the petition to censure Among
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Tooro NRM councillors write to Bobi Wine, seek Shs 256m for sick cadres. It is a strange request of the ruling class to the opposition leader. The letter was written by Kenneth Kaliba the Fort Portal Central Division NRM chief whip
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Bitature signed & got $10m loan by mistake - lawyer Muwema. "You can sign under mistake, you can think it is okay, and later when you come to your lawyer, they tell you this is not allowed…Even the government of Uganda sometimes signs by mistake"
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Govt borrows Shs 4.4 trillion to clear salaries. Ministry of Defence and the army will receive Shs 620bn, State House & ministry of Education will receive Shs 193bn and Shs 50bn respectively for salaries and wages
#budgeting
#Uganda
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Spire Ssentongo & the difficult life of an activist. Perhaps the most creative to ever use
#socialmedia
in recent history after the Arab Spring over 10 years ago, Spire has been turning necks, inviting responses from often indifferent fellas
#activism
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Bobi Wine says the results that the EC used to announce President Yoweri Museveni as winner were manufactured and not a reflection of the people's choice. He says Ugandans must reject the results and must disassociate themselves from Museveni because he's not their president
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Speaker Tayebwa presents fallen MP Okabe's son as replacement in parliament. Tayebwa introduced to the mourners Emmanuel Omoding as he called on the NRM vice chairperson for eastern Uganda, Capt Mike Mukula to bless him for the upcoming by-election
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Army stays mute on Muhoozi's presidency pronouncements. Muhoozi has publicly expressed interest to run for president in 2026 - an abomination for a serving military officer. Such pronouncements previously landed Sejusa, Besigye, Tukunde into trouble
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We were tortured to pin Ssegirinya, Ssewanyana - co-accused. Kanyike one of the suspects told court that there is no evidence linking the MPs to the Masaka murders. He alleges that he was
#torture
-d by CMI who told him to pin the MPs
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Joel Ssenyonyi on why he is proudly a virgin at 32. "There are many temptations & more come in when you're in the limelight, but you take a stand & decide like I did that I will have sex when I marry, and only with my wife"
#virginity
#marriage
#abstinence
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NUP president Bobi Wine has demanded that justices; CJ Owiny-Dollo (Museveni defense lawyer in 2006), Mike Chibita (M7 private secretary for 7yrs) and Ezekiel Muhanguzi (relative to Security minister Elly Tumwine) recuse themselves from
#KyagulanyiPetition
HT
@WitnessUg
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Edison Akankwatsa: pancake vendor that loves neckties. "I'm always working on tension because of fear of KCCA men coming anytime & confiscating my merchandise. We're literally always on the run; so, if I end the day without being disturbed...I thank God"
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Life of a journalist on the run from
#Uganda
's security forces. Katumba walked away from his job at BBS TV just before the Jan 14 general election & went into hiding in Tanzania. A week ago, he called
@observerug
to narrate his ordeal
#kidnap
#PressFreedom
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Gen Katumba to Bobi Wine: I want you to be president of
#Uganda
. "Mister Bobi Wine, I wish that one day you govern this country...”
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In real life, Patrick Kanyomozi is an introvert. At KFM, he met his 'sister' Lucky then along the way the ‘brother’ developed feelings for the ‘sister’ (Nation Media tings). At first Lucky was mad about the whole idea but when they gave it time, it worked
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How Kato Lubwama fought unresolved election battle for 8 years till death. Habib Buwembo sued Kato Lubwama in 2016 following his election victory. 8 years later and with Kato dead, court is yet to determine the case
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Kabaka proposed to me via email, Nnaabagereka reveals in memoirs. In the email in 1998, the Kabaka simply wrote: “Dear Sylvia, I think I am ready if you are.” Like that! Nagginda doesn’t remember her exact response, but she said yes
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When Ugandans travel abroad. When you go outside
#Uganda
& see how countries are making progress, you seethe with helpless rage & anger. You feel stupid, on well-organised trains, buses. You feel dehumanised in well-facilitated healthcare systems
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