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1 month ago | 
nilepost.co.ug | Sam Ibanda Mugabi |Fred Ssewajje |Lawrence Mushabe |Ivan R. Mugisha
No Excerpt Government leaders in Nakasongola and Masindi districts have been urged to strengthen due diligence in procurement to ensure value for money and prevent financial losses.
Johnson Musinguzi, the acting Commissioner for Procurement Inspection at the Ministry of Local Government, emphasized this during meetings with district officials on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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1 month ago | 
nilepost.co.ug | Lawrence Mushabe |Muhamadi Matovu |Fahad Masereka |Ivan R. Mugisha
No Excerpt The Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Norbert Mao, has raised concerns about security during elections, emphasizing the need for adequate measures to maintain order while ruling out the presence of firearms at polling stations.
Speaking at the 10th Series of the Weekly Press and Public Engagement organized by the Uganda Law Society (ULS), Mao acknowledged that election security remains a challenge.
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1 month ago | 
nilepost.co.ug | Kenneth Kazibwe |Alan Mwesigwa |Lawrence Mushabe |Samuel Muhimba
The minister ruled that the land should be returned to the Uganda Scouts Association and Chwa’s family, rejecting ownership claims by the Kabaka The State Minister for Lands, Sam Mayanja, has directed the Commissioner for Land Registration to revoke all titles held by Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II for the contested Kaazi camping site land in Busabala, Wakiso district.
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1 month ago | 
nilepost.co.ug | Lawrence Mushabe |Shamim Nabakooza |Samuel Muhimba
No Excerpt BBC | US President Donald Trump's administration is pausing its offensive cyber operations against Russia, officials say, as a diplomatic push continues to end the war in Ukraine. The reasoning for the instruction has not been publicly stated, and it is not clear how long the halt might last. The defence department has declined to comment.
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1 month ago | 
nilepost.co.ug | Lawrence Mushabe |Shamim Nabakooza |Samuel Muhimba
Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini are facing Swiss justice for the second time in less than three years BBC - Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini are facing Swiss justice for the second time in less than three years
Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter and French football legend Michel Platini are back in court in Switzerland to face accusations of fraud.
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1 month ago | 
nilepost.co.ug | Lawrence Mushabe |Shamim Nabakooza |Samuel Muhimba |Muhamadi Matovu
No Excerpt The mother of a six-year-old girl who disappeared more than a year ago in South Africa has gone on trial accused of organising her kidnapping. Kelly Smith, her boyfriend Jacquen Appollis and their friend Steveno van Rhyn were arrested after Smith's daughter, Joshlin, went missing from outside her home in Saldanha Bay, near Cape Town, in February last year.
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1 month ago | 
nilepost.co.ug | Lawrence Mushabe |Shamim Nabakooza |Samuel Muhimba |Muhamadi Matovu
No Excerpt BBC | The West African regional bloc, Ecowas, says a mission deployed to Guinea-Bissau to help resolve an election dispute has left the country after the president threatened to expel it. The team was sent in last month to help reach a "political consensus" on how to hold elections this year. Guinea-Bissau's general elections had been scheduled for last November but President Umaro Sissoco Embalo postponed them.
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1 month ago | 
nilepost.co.ug | Lawrence Mushabe |Shamim Nabakooza |Samuel Muhimba |Muhamadi Matovu
No Excerpt BBC | The Islamic police in the northern Nigerian state of Kano have arrested Muslims seen eating and drinking publicly, as well as those selling food at the start of Ramadan, when Muslims are supposed to fast from dawn until dusk. The deputy commander of the Hisbah, Mujahid Aminudeen, told the BBC that 20 people had been arrested for not fasting and five for selling food, and that the operations would continue throughout the month, which began on Saturday.
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1 month ago | 
nilepost.co.ug | Lawrence Mushabe |Shamim Nabakooza |Samuel Muhimba |Muhamadi Matovu
No Excerpt BBC | An elderly man has been killed and four other people have been wounded in what police say was a terrorist stabbing attack in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. It happened at the HaMifratz Central train and bus station, and the attacker was shot dead at the scene by security guards, police said. The victim who died was aged around 70, the Magen David Adom ambulance service said.
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1 month ago | 
nilepost.co.ug | Lawrence Mushabe |Shamim Nabakooza |Samuel Muhimba |Muhamadi Matovu
No Excerpt BBC | US tariffs against Canada and Mexico are set to come into effect on Tuesday but their level will be decided by Donald Trump, the US commerce secretary has said. The US president has threatened to impose 25% tariffs, which are a tax on imports, on his two neighbours on 4 March, in response to what he says is an unacceptable flow of illegal drugs and migrants into the US.
