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By Gad Masereka Apollo Nyegamehe, a wellknown businessman from Uganda, was killed when the vehicle he  was riding in collided with a stopped truck on the Mbarara-Kabale highway in the Ntungamo District. According to one of his company managers and eyewitnesses, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) chairman for Rukiga District, known as Aponye, perished in the Thursday evening crash in Itojo. the businessman’s vehicle’s wreckage that was being driven at the time of the collision. After surviving the collision with injuries, the driver and two other passengers were sent to the hospital. Nearly 200 metres from the collision site, at Itojo Hospital, Nyegamehe’s body was collected. In order to further their investigations, police were also seen at the scene searching for other exhibits. According to reports, he was driving to his hometown of Kigo in Muhanga town council’s Rukiga District to attend a burial ceremony when the tragedy occurred. Nyegamehe was the owner of numerous companies operating under the name Aponye Uganda Limited, including those involved in produce, supermarkets, transit, and real estate. After providing the government with beans and maize flour to be supplied to vulnerable Ugandans impacted by the measures set by President Museveni to prevent the spread of the virus in the country, he gained additional popularity during the Covid-19-induced lockdown in 2020.
By Gad Masereka Following a gunshot on Lake Victoria in Namayingo District by a Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) soldier assigned to the Fisheries Protection Unit,...
By Gad Masereka Kampala: A lady who allegedly kidnapped a 4-year-old boy from his mother after she allegedly failed to pay a Shs 200,000 debt has...
By Our Reporter TotalEnergies and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation signed a $10-billion agreement last year to develop Ugandan oilfields and ship the crude through...
By Our Reporter John Winston Katende one of the few senior lawyers in the city with experience of over 50 years, has today launched a life-changing...
Salva Kiir, the president of South Sudan, announced that the nation’s long-delayed elections will take place as scheduled in 2019. The first time since the nation...
By Gad Masereka Every family of a student slain in the attack on Mpondwe-Lhubiriha Secondary School in Kasese District would receive five million shillings from the...
Yoweri Museveni, the president of Uganda, issued an order on Sunday to send extra troops into the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to hunt down the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels who are thought to have murdered 39 secondary school pupils last Friday in western Uganda’s Kasese area. In a statement, Museveni claims that the ADF should be completely destroyed in light of the most recent attack. The president’s significantly revised remark is provided below. I offer my condolences to the affected families and the entire nation. This latest crime committed by ADF members is illegal, desperate, terroristic, and pointless. The ADF, who had occupied the region for nearly 20 years, has been under intense pressure from the Congolese army and our troops ever since “Operation Shujja” began. We have inflicted so much damage on these criminals. To help you understand the situation, take my rough sketch of...
MOURNERS GATHER FOR THE FUNERAL OF FLORENCE MASIKA AND ZAKAYO MASEREKA DURING THEIR BURIAL RITUALS IN MPONDWE ON JUNE 18, 2023. (CREDIT: AFP) Kasese:Â Following the Allied...
arrested a 25 year old shop attendant who posted a video on social media bragging about being an ADF member. In the aftermath of the Friday...