Gen MK Backs Tooro Kingdom Tournament With UGX10 Million, Boosts Youth Sports.
Uganda’s Chief of Defense Forces (CDF) who is also the Special Presidential Advisor on Special Operations, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, has donated sports equipment and a cash contribution of UGX 10 million to support the upcoming Tooro Kingdom Inter-Clans Football Tournament. The competition is scheduled to kick off on April 7, 2026, with the final match set for May 4,...
Jinja’s Orderly City Push Meets Mockery, Memory, Sloppy Memo, Garbage and Darkness.
Jinja City Council (JCC) residents shrug at the City Town Clerk Godfrey B. Kisekka’s latest deadline—bins by 8 March, kiosks gone by 15 March—because similar threats have come and gone without enforcement. What bothers them now are impassable, potholed roads that become mini‑lakes in rain, and dark streets where criminals ambush widows and single mothers walking home. Locals also point to Jinja SSS’s...
Lt Gen Otema Awany Rallies Reserve Commander: Reserve Force Billed Nation Within A Nation, Links Military Discipline To Operation Wealth Creation.
“An army is a nation within a nation,” wrote Marshal Ferdinand Foch, the French general who became Supreme Allied Commander in 1918. He meant that an army mirrors society—its own structure, discipline, welfare and local ties—while serving the larger country. Though the quote is often linked to him, he voiced the idea after World War I, arguing that armies sustain schools, logistics, hospitals...
Through A Journalist’s Lense: From Warden of Lira’s St Augustine Centre To Addis Ababa Embassy, Ambassador Otengo’s Balancing-Book Journey.
By Jimmy Kraft Olot, journalist – former LC3 aspirant for Otwal Sub County. Kololo, 8 March 2026. When International Women’s Day parades spotlight UPDF units, I keep thinking of a different drill: a young mother balancing guest‑house keys, A‑level books and baptism rosters inside St Augustine Community Centre. That center—now home to All Saints University (ASUL)—sat brick‑tight to the Lira Court of Adjudicature, a stone’s throw from...
Archbishop-Elect Bagambaki Casts Christian Life As Olympic Race, Summons Paul’s Athletic Metaphors For Weary Ugandan Church.
Archbishop‑elect Amb. Prof. Mugume Bagambaki Richard of Upper City Covenant Churches has again released a lengthy meditation this week comparing Christian discipleship to Olympic athletics, framing Paul’s racing metaphors as a blueprint for Uganda’s beleaguered believers. In a WhatsApp‑circulated note (signed with his chancellor title at UCCSAT University), Prof Bagambaki strings together 1 Corinthians 9, Hebrews 12, Galatians 5 and 2 Timothy 4 to argue that sanctification requires the same...
VP Jessica Counsels St Lawrence Varsity Graduands To Use AI As a Tool Not a Crutch, Says Technology Without Values Is Dangerous.
Uganda’s Vice President Maj (Rtd) Jessica Alupo used St. Lawrence University’s 16th graduation to press a point she keeps returning to: Artificial Intelligence belongs in lecture halls and labs, but only if it serves Competency‑Based Education and community need. “Technology without values is dangerous,” she told graduands, parents and faculty, urging graduates to treat AI as a tool for practical problem‑solving—not...
Jinja City Hall To Vendors: “Move By Sunday Or Face Demolition Monday”-Kisekka’s Final Notice Launches Operation Orderly City.
“An orderly city is not an accident—it is law obeyed, spaces respected, and trade conducted where it belongs.” That punchy line opens Jinja City’s bluntest circular in years, signed by the City Town Clerk Godfrey B. Kisekka and copied to every security desk from the RCC Richard Gulume Balyainho and his deputies Martin Kasonzi Basalirwa and Amis Nagayi Kiganira to Division...
Integrity’s Price-Tears of Milk or Blood As 66 Jinja Pupils To Repeat P7 After Identical Scripts Expose ‘Operation Front Page’ At Kiira Primary School.
“Integrity is choosing courage over comfort”. Those words rang bitterly in one of the halls at Kiira Primary School in Jinja City where visibly upset parents and guardians learnt their children’s 2025 PLE results had been erased. This after what was most feared came true that 66 Primary Leaving Examination (PLE) results from Jinja City were nullified by the Uganda...
From Bugembe To Jinja City: Longest Serving Soft-spoken Sozi Juma’s Quiet Bet Will Beat Backroom Political Arithmetic At Town Hall.
While national attention fixates on who will wield the gavel in the 12th Parliament, quiet maneuvers are shaping Jinja City Council’s next leadership. Bernard Mbayo’s speakership expires with the outgoing term, and veterans are already positioning themselves for the chamber’s top job. Among them, Sozi Juma—councilor for Persons With Disabilities (PWD)—has stepped forward. Fresh from re-election for another five years,...
Gulume Flags Off Jinja City Team: Unity First, Service Delivery Test Set For Incoming Leaders 2026-31.
Jinja RCC Richard Gulume Balyainho put it bluntly at Tuesday’s meeting: the city will not be rebuilt or guided by hoarse slogans from dusty campaign trails and market corners but by agreements forged in the Council Chambers. He was echoing—without quoting—the German-American political thinker Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), who argued that “power springs up between people when they act together and...
