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📸: The Beds been loaded in a tipper lorry truck from a store in Nyadri where Hon Jennifer rented to keep them until she buys their mattresses. The district health department of Maracha has on Monday 22-5-2023 received 20 beds lobbied from Ministry of health by the district woman MP Hon Driwaru Jennifer. The beds which were bare without mattresses, took some time for the Woman MP Hon Jennifer to buy mattresses and its covers to make it complete for usage in the various health centers in the District. 📸: RDC Mr Ayikobua Festus speaking during the flag off event of the beds at Maracha District headquarter. Maracha District Resident District Commissoner Mr Ayikobua Festus who flagged off the distribution of the beds, thanked Hon Driwaru Jennifer for thinking about the health department by lobbying those beds. Mr Festus said, some health centers in Maracha District are really in dire need of beds, adding that, the 20 beds have been distributed to 6 health centers i...

By THN. Researchers have discovered an inexpensive attack technique that could be leveraged to brute-force fingerprints on smartphones to bypass user authentication and seize control of the devices. The approach, dubbed BrutePrint, bypasses limits put in place to counter failed biometric authentication attempts by weaponizing two zero-day vulnerabilities in the smartphone fingerprint authentication (SFA) framework. The flaws, Cancel-After-Match-Fail (CAMF) and Match-After-Lock (MAL), leverage logical defects in the authentication framework, which arises due to insufficient protection of fingerprint data on the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) of fingerprint sensors. The result is a "hardware approach to do man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks for fingerprint image hijacking," researchers Yu Chen and Yiling He said in a research paper. "BrutePrint acts as a middleman between fingerprint sensor and TEE [Trusted Execution Environment]." The goal, at its core, ...

Police addressing the crowd. 📸: The Acting OC Station Koboko district ASP Mugombe Reagan paying courtesy to Koboko General Hospital to visit the victims of violence. The territorial police of  Koboko district have arrested the LC 3 chairman Lobule Subcounty, Koboko district, one Banga Sulaiman, male adult aged 49 years, a Kakwa by tribe, resident of Lobe village, Aliribu parish, Lobule Subcounty. His arrest was effected on Saturday 28th May 2023 to  assist police with investigations into the violence that resulted in to death of two by now and severe injuries on one victim. Police investigations into the whole incident strongly connect the L.C 3 chairman Lobule Subcounty to the incident of violence in Lobule Subcounty. Police has gathered substantial evidence that will lead to the arrest of the other remaining suspects. Before the arrest of the LC 3 chairman, the Acting OC Station Koboko ASP Magombe Reagan and the team of officers paid courtesy to the ...

  The Territorial Police in Nakaseke is investigating a case of Killing animals that occurred on the  25/05/2023 at around 400/C at Mabaale Village Kiwoko Town Council in Nakaseke district.  Preliminary information indicates that on the 25/05/2023 about 0600/C, a one Kalyesubula, woke up at her mother's residence, and found three pigs and three goats dead.  The Police Canine Sniffer dog was introduced to the scene. It picked the scent and tracked up it to a home which belongs to Buraimu onguyo and upon Onguyo. Onguyo's son, Mugisha Wabwire was bathing when he saw the dog. He fled into the coffee plantation from the bathroom shelter. A search was conducted. His clothes and gumboots were containing blood stains. His father was subsequently arrested. However, he, Wabwire came out of the plantation and surrendered himaelf to police. He confessed his involvement in the incident.  We have since established that  Wabwire Peter, the son of Mzee Onguyo h...

By Al-Jazeera. Erdogan declared winner by Supreme Election Council after unofficial vote count, will extend power into a third decade. Supporters of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan celebrate as the president declared victory in the country's presidential elections [Dilara Senkaya/Reuters] By  Andrew Wilks Published On 28 May 2023 28 May 2023 Istanbul, Turkey –  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan  has won re-election , according to the country’s Supreme Election Council and unofficial data from the state-run Anadolu Agency, in a tense run-off after he  failed  to secure more than 50 percent of votes required for an outright victory in the first round on May 14. With almost all of the votes counted,  Erdogan  received 52.14 percent of votes in the second round on Sunday, beating his challenger,  Kemal Kilicdaroglu , who won 47.86 percent, according to the Supreme Election Council. KEEP READING list of 4 items list 1 of 4 Turkey election: What d...

📸: WestNile Region Police Spokesperson SP Angucia Josephine during the press statement over the incident. ARUA CITY POLICE RESCUES A MAN FROM ANGRY PEOPLE WHO FORCEFULLY DEMANDED A FINE (KASURUBE) FOR THEIR DAUGHTER  The territorial police of Arua Central Business Division rescued a man from angry people who  found their daughter with the man in Savella Palace Lodge, in Arua City. On the 23rd May 2023 at about 3:00pm at Arua CPS, the OC Station ASP Jokkende Julius received information of a man who had been unlawfully confined and forcefully being demanded Kasurube (a fine) after having been got with a student at Savella Palace Lodge in Arua city. 'Kasurube' is a cultural fine paid by a man for unlawfully having had sexual intercourse with a lady. A team of officers responded with a patrol car and rescued the man, and brought him to Arua CPS with the student. Upon interrogation of the two, it was established that the rescued man was called Gulume Abdullah male adul...

By THN. A new stealthy information stealer malware called  Bandit Stealer  has caught the attention of cybersecurity researchers for its ability to target numerous web browsers and cryptocurrency wallets. "It has the potential to expand to other platforms as Bandit Stealer was developed using the Go programming language, possibly allowing cross-platform compatibility," Trend Micro  said  in a Friday report. The malware is currently focused on targeting Windows by using a legitimate command-line tool called  runas.exe  that allows users to run programs as another user with different permissions. The goal is to escalate privileges and execute itself with administrative access, thereby effectively bypassing security measures to harvest wide swathes of data. That said, Microsoft's access control mitigations to prevent unauthorized execution of the tool means an attempt to run the malware binary as an administrator requires providing the necessary credentials. "...

The Obongi District Woman MP Hon Maneno Zumura has urged young environmentalists in Uganda to continue spending and also practicing the gospel of planting trees in order to save our environment in the Country. She made the remarks at Parliament on Friday 26-5-2023 during a plenary session on environment, which was attended by environmentalists from various parts of Uganda, youth leaders, representatives from Action Air Network and other NGOs and other stake holders in the fight against environmental degradation. Hon Maneno said, in her District, Obongi, she has agreed with youth leaders to ensure each person plants 10 trees to avert climate change. Climate disaster and waste management were other items on the order paper during the Friday's session. Stay tuned here for more news and updates on regional, national and international stories that matter to you.  #iip_updates  #Information_is_Power  #we_inform_the_uninformed

By BarefootLawyers. Earlier, we told you about Nakku who wanted to buy a 32inch Samsung TV, but she ended up buying a "salamsung" instead of a Samsung. Her husband specifically wanted something they could use for Netflix, and their favourite shows in “Full HD”. The seller has refused to take it back because “goods once sold are not returnable” and it was cheaper.   WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY? When a person wants to buy something and they rely on the skill and expertise of the seller to get them the ‘best’ for a particular purpose, then the seller must make sure that what they sell is fit for the purpose of the buyer and fits their description. Since Nakku made it clear that she wanted a Samsung, and it should be able to play her Netflix and her favourite shows and movies, she should have been given this. It is not enough for the seller to say she saw the label and took it especially when it was a confusing label. As it turns out the TV is not fit for Nakku’s purpose. W...

By BarefootLawyers.  Nakku has finally saved enough money to buy a 32inch TV. When she reached kikuubo in downtown Kampala, the first shop she saw had a tv playing the video of her favourite song. Nakku saw the label and saw the familiar logo of Samsung. She quickly paid her 400k and went home.  Her husband was furious when he returned to find that she had brought home a “salamsung”. Now they want to know if it is even legal to be tricked like this or it is “goods once sold are not returnable”.   WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY? When a person makes their products look like yours or tells the public that you are ok with the products that they are selling, this is a form of imitation that the law does not allow. This is called “Passing off”. This is because such imitation deceives and confuses customers who may end up buying the wrong product thinking it is something else.  For example, Nakku really thought she had bought a Samsung tv because of the blue Samsung log...

By BarefootLawyers. Nsubuga’s business is in trouble. One of his rivals keeps taking his lotions and changing the labels so that they are sold as his own. He even caught them pretending to explain the difference between ‘their lotion’ and his own. He wants to do know what the law says about this, because he does not want to just burn their stolen products and get into trouble. WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY? In business, customers sometimes buy things because of the brand or label on those things. For example, you are likely to buy a shoe from a well known brand. This is why the law protects a business’s name or label on their products to avoid confusion among the customers who may pick up the wrong product unknowingly. This protection is known as a trademark. It is given to any symbol, word, colour, phrase that allows people to easily identify that product. When someone gets a product and puts labels belonging to another business like Nsubuga’s without Nsubuga’s permission, it is k...

📸: Burial of Mr Etim James. Photo by Information is Power. The association of old boys and girls students from Nyadri Urban secondary school in Maracha town council have on Thursday 18-5-2023 mourned the death of their headteacher Mr Etima James who died during a head-on collision accident near Bura primary along Arua - Maracha - Koboko highway on monday 15-5-2023. Mr Aduma Yeero Justus, the interim Chairperson of Nyadri Urban SS OBs and OGs who read the association's condolence letter, mourned and described the deceased Nyadri Urban SS headteacher as a hero in education and role modeling. They described Mr Etima's death as a tragic and a big blow not only to the people of Nyadri Urban SS but also to the entire education sector in Maracha District and Uganda. The association pledged to stand together with Mr Etima's family both in good and bad times. They also promised to strongly support Nyadri Urban SS to preserve its glory and legacies left by the bereaved...

PRESS STATEMENT Fatal Accident at Kayunga Road Junction along Acacia Avenue The Police at Kira road are investigating a fatal  accident that occurred earlier today at Kayunga Road Junction along Acacia Avenue. The incident  involved multiple vehicles and resulted in the loss of innocent lives. It is alleged that at approximately 01:26 hours, a black Mercedes-Benz with registration number UBL 189R, driven by Mr. Kimera Faziru of Buwate, was traveling at high speed from the Acacia side. Unfortunately, Mr. Faziru lost control of the vehicle upon reaching the Kayunga junction. The vehicle collided with the road barriers, striking three street children who had sought shelter there. The Mercedes-Benz then continued its trajectory and collided with a white Toyota Mark X, registration number UBF 788K, which was approaching from the Mulago side. Immediate action was taken in response to the incident. The injured victims were immediately rushed to Mulago Hospital...

📸: Hon Aliociri Luka Museli interacting with driver of a Caterpillar during a supervision on Monday 22-5-2023. Road users in Maracha district have tasked their area members of parliament to intensively lobby for road culvertes so as to improve on drainage systems of roads been upgraded by Maracha district local government. The appeal of users comes at time the district is in the process of upgrading a number of roads with support of funds received under Uganda road funds. Currently, district road equipments are working on Alikua -Egamara primary school to terego boarder ,a road link that residents say had not been worked on for many years. A section of residents from alikua subcounty have commended Maracha district Council for considering allocation of funds for the road link that had remained death trap for them Incase of accidents. When this online publication team on Monday 22-5-2023  visited the road under construction, the visibly happy residents expre...

By THN. A stealthy China-based group managed to establish a persistent foothold into critical infrastructure organizations in the U.S. and Guam without being detected,  Microsoft  and  the "Five Eyes" nations  said on Wednesday. The tech giant's threat intelligence team is tracking the activity, which includes post-compromise credential access and network system discovery, under the name  Volt Typhoon . The state-sponsored actor is geared towards espionage and information gathering, with the cluster active since June 2021 and obscuring its intrusion footprint by taking advantage of tools already installed or built into infected machines. Some of the prominent sectors targeted include communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education. The company further assessed with moderate confidence that the campaign is "pursuing development of capabilities that could disrupt critical commun...

📸: Hon Leku Joel on the left, takes a photo with his colleagues MPs in East African Committee (EAC) during a monitoring tour at Katuna custom bordering Rwanda. 📸: Hon Leku Joel donates blood at Parliament during HIV / AIDs Awareness week campaign. Following swearing in ceremony of 11th Parliament MPs on 17th, 18th and 19th May 2021, voters from different parts of Uganda have been praising and others criticizing their various MPs regarding their performances since they were sworn in. At Information is Power (iip), we bring to you the lists of performing and none performing legislators from WestNile region since May-2021 to 2023. Today, we have picked Terego west constituency whose MP Hon Leku Joel (NRM) garnered 10,218 votes,    Angundru Moses (Independent) garnered 8,126 votes,    Musema Swali (FDC) garnered 2,631 votes,    Mulema Chris (Independent) garnered 1,066 votes   and    Ajobe Bosco (Independent) gar...

By Whisper Eye. The presidential advisor on Trade and Industry the former Member of Parliament (MP) for Mawokota North Amelia Anne Kyambadde has declared a move to complete her unfinished projects in Mawokota North county as we draw close to 2026. The former minister of Trade, Industry, and Cooperatives said that her successor Hilary Innocent Kiyaga, alias Dr. Hilderman Mazongoto has done totally nothing to their Constituency but rather insult the reigning government at funerals and earning points for singing for people at their functions. Hon Amelia Kyamabadde in circulating audio on social media is heard saying that the musician-turned-politician has disorganized things she had done for Mawokota North Constituency. “I’ve been quiet to give space to my successor (Hilderman) to work for our constituents. But it’s very unfortunate that instead of taking on the development projects I left pending completion, he’s very busy insulting the government and singing for people at fu...