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📸: State House Anti-corruption Unit officials inspecting the stalled works at Kololo Seed SS on 25-8-2023. Photo by Information is Power. Officials from State House Anti-corruption Unit have on Friday 25-8-2023 traveled to Maracha District for yet another investigation concerning Shs 1.9 billion Kololo Seed Secondary School construction project whose 12 months  contract period awarded to ACHORU United Traders Ltd in 2019, was marred with corruption allegations, shoddy and stalled works which led to arrest of Five Maracha District officials on Tuesday 14-6-2022 , namely; Mr Candia Stephen (CFO), Mr Ezati Timothy Maluma (Acting District Engineer),  Ms Flavia Osoa (DEO), Mr Abiribale T Paul (Internal Auditor) and Mr Oneti William (Senior Assistant Engineer) who were interdicted later on 19-9-2022 over Abuse of office and Mismanagement of public funds but they were reinstated back to office in April 2023 after serving 6 months interdiction period. After separ...

A previously undocumented Android banking trojan dubbed MMRat has been observed targeting mobile users in Southeast Asia since late June 2023 to remotely commandeer the devices and perform financial fraud. "The malware, named after its distinctive package name com.mm.user, can capture user input and screen content, and can also remotely control victim devices through various techniques, enabling its operators to carry out bank fraud on the victim's device," Trend Micro said. What makes MMRat stand apart from others of its kind is the use of a customized command-and-control (C2) protocol based on protocol buffers (aka protobuf ) to efficiently transfer large volumes of data from compromised handsets, demonstrating the growing sophistication of Android malware. Possible targets based on the language used in the phishing pages include Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, and the Philippines. The entry point of the attacks is a network of phishing sites that mimic...

📸: Parliament of Uganda main gate. Following the enactment of "The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Bill, 2023" by Parliament of Uganda on Tuesday 22-8-2023 which show Marungi / Mira amongst the list of banned substances, its growers, sellers and consumers in Arua City have on Monday 28-8-2023 blamed MPs for passing the bill without prior consultation concerning positive and negative effects of the drug,  and they have asked Parliament to exempt the substance from the list of banned drugs in the bill. 📸: Boda Boda Rider Bosco at Sansiro Stage. Mr Bosco, a Boda Boda rider at Sansiro Stage says, they chew Marungi to keep them steady when working. 📸: Student Asiku Walter sprays on Marungi plantations. Photo by Information is Power. An 18-year-old S.4 student Walter Asiku whom our reporter found spraying pesticides on Marungi plantations, says  he earns an average money of 15,000 Shs daily just for spraying pesticides on people...

📸: Daily Mail. Tata Brian's business is keeping and selling healthy, delicious chicken. He always says that the reason why his chicken is the best is because they eat from everywhere, including on the road and in the trenches. So he lets them loose every day so that they 'find their own food'. This morning, a 'mugaaga' who drives a big car stepped and killed one of his prized chickens.   Taata Brian wants one million as compensation for his 'rare' chicken, which would have educated Brian up to university. Does he have a case? WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY?.  When a person destroys another person's property, the person who destroyed the property is legally supposed to either compensate or replace the property. For example, if you break someone's phone, then this person has every right to demand that you repair their phone. This is the law when this happens when you are legally in a place or at your own property. For example, if someone knocks you...

📸: Minister Joyce Ssebugwawo (R) with some of the clan heads. The Buganda clan leaders’ council has distanced itself from a group of individuals who recently met with President Museveni and requested Shs 9 billion to acquire land for their offices. A reliable source within the council informed The Observer that the organizers of this initiative took these actions without informing or seeking consent from the leadership committee. Former Buganda minister Joyce Nabbosa Ssebuggwawo, who led the group, has been accused of attempting to deceive President Museveni by using opportunistic and self-serving individuals. In a similar vein, Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga emphasized that all clan heads derive their authority from the Kabaka of Buganda and could face dismissal if they veer away from the cultural norms and principles. During an address to the Buganda Lukiiko on August 28, Katikkiro Mayiga stressed that the Kabaka holds the authority to remove any clan head and even disba...

Gen Kale Kayihura After He was Freed on Wednesday 30-8-2023. Former Uganda police chief Gen Kale Kayihura in the dock at the Makindye Court Martial on August 30, 2023. PHOTO/ISAAC KASAMANI By  Andrew Bagala . What you need to know: Gen Kayihura was accused of failing to protect war material and abetting illegal repatriation of Rwanda exiles. Uganda's top military court has freed former Inspector General of Police Gen Kale Kayihura, dropping charges of failing to protect war material and abetting illegal repatriation of Rwanda exiles. On Wednesday, all charges against Gen Kayihura were dropped with the General Court Martial chairman Brig Gen Freeman Mugabe telling the ex-police boss that "he is now a free man." "The state has withdrawn the charges. You are accordingly set free. I wish you all the best," Brig Gen Mugabe said.

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Gabon Military Leaders on Wednesday 30-8-2023 Have Issued a Statement After Seizing Power, Dissolving Majority Institutions, Closing the Borders and Annulled Election results that were conducted during the weekend 26-8-2023. Following series of events in the Saturday polls where Foreign journalists were chased, internet shutdown and imposed curfew, the coup leaders argued that, the election was not free and fair. Below here is Timeline of Bongo Family Rule in Gabon: 1967 Omar Bongo  1968 Omar Bongo 1969 Omar Bongo  1970 Omar Bongo 1971 Omar Bongo  1972 Omar Bongo 1973 Omar Bongo  1974 Omar Bongo 1975 Omar Bongo  1976 Omar Bongo 1977 Omar Bongo  1978 Omar Bongo 1979 Omar Bongo  1980 Omar Bongo 1981 Omar Bongo  1982 Omar Bongo 1983 Omar Bongo  1984 Omar Bongo 1985 Omar Bongo  1986 Omar Bongo 1987 Omar Bongo  1988 Omar Bongo 1989 Omar Bongo  1990 Omar Bongo 1991 Omar Bongo  1992 Omar Bongo 1993 Omar Bongo  1...

A top NRM Member of Parliament (MP) in the West Nile region (names withheld for now) has joined the record books of horny wedded men bonking people’s women like no one’s business in Uganda. The MP who happily wedded in the Catholic Church, promising to stick to his wife till death separates them has already made a U-turn, pocketing his wedding ring wherever he goes out. Reports reaching our news desk indicate that the relatively short MP has so far ballooned two ladies from his constituency and dumped them to suffer with the kids. The women are now living with their parents whom the MP on different occasions requested to surrender their daughters to him for sponsorship. He promised to take the girls to school in Kampala but reaching there, the MP who also loves choir business in the church turned his seven-inch whopper on the innocent girls. As a result, the MP ballooned both of them and later brought them back to his border constituency with DR Congo where th...

📸: One of the Old Classroom blocks at Kololo Seed SS built by the Parents 2 decades ago. Photo by Information is Power . Education stakeholders in Kololo Seed secondary school in Vurra parish, Tara Sub-county in Maracha East Constituency, Maracha District have decried the inadequate infrastructures in the school, which they said, has hampered academic performance in the school. The director of studies for the school, Mr James Anyaku blamed the unoperationalization of the A level section at the school on lack of teachers. Deputy headteacher of the school Mr Martin Agondua Adrama admitted that, congestion in the class rooms has made writing to become difficult for the students, as well as their monitoring has been affected. Kololo Seed secondary school, a community founded school in 1994 is still operating in community built structures, with no borehole or any other clean source of water. Stay tuned here for more updates and news on regional, national and international stori...

Kabaati has just been arrested, and he is on his way to the police cell. What happened is that he bought a new car today from the bond, and he was driving out, he was rammed by another car. When the owner of the other car came out to escape on foot, Kabaati tried to block him and instead knocked him and the poor man died. Police arrived and arrested him. They have told him that he is going to be charged with murder. One of the people who was in the car with Kabaati wants to know if this is not a traffic offence.  What does the law say ?. It is not true that every time a death occurs, it is a case of murder. First, it is illegal to take another person's life without lawful justification. For example, if you take someone's life because you were defending yourself, it would mean you have a lawful justification called "Self Defense". Usually, when a person is killed by a motor vehicle on the road, it is a traffic offence. This means that when a person causes t...

By Hon Oguzu Lee Denis, MP for Maracha Constituency. 📸: Late President Iddi Amin Dada. West Nile: IDI Amin is more than a political figure. His name can be a source of wealth, jobs and livilihood for the region and nation if we narture. Akin to Nelson Mandela, Amin's name can become a source of wealth and livilihood for many people through tourism and its multiplier effect.  Like Mandela House in Soweto (now Nelson Mandela National Moseum) which  receives 700 to 1,000 visitors every day from all over the world, a proposed IDI Amin Moseum in Arua City can be a destination for global community seeking to explore the mystery sorrounding the life of Idi Amin.  Just like for South African locals cognizant of the opportunities that abound Mandela House located at No. 8115 at the corner of Vilakazi and Ngakane streets in Soweto,  the proposed IDI Amin Moseum can be offer market for local food, arts and crafts to be sold around the Moseum and in the areas adjace...

One of the few known images of Bonomade Machude Omar The government of Mozambique says its armed forces have killed the leader of a jihadist group linked to Islamic State which is fighting in the north of the country. The defence ministry said Bonomade Machude Omar – also known as Ibn Omar – had led the insurgents since the start of the conflict in 2017. A statement said he was killed along with two other senior members. There has been no independent confirmation of the deaths. Two years ago, the US state department designated Omar as a terrorist leader, blaming him for attacks in Cabo Delgado province, including the killing of dozens of people at a hotel in Palma. A month before that, Mozambique’s military launched a major offensive against the Islamists with  the support of hundreds of soldiers from Rwanda and several southern African countries . According to the government, Omar and two associates from the Islamic State-linked group were killed in a forest in Macomia in an opera...

📸: Emmanuel Banya Natal and Hajjat Medina Naham. The 2026 election is about two and half years from now,  but some people in Koboko district  who wants to contest in elective positions especially Koboko county are behaving as if election is tomorrow and they are not leaving anything to chance, they have started subtle campaigns in their bids to realize their quests to represent Koboko county in 2026 election. In that respect, soon or later the grass in Koboko county will be suffering as two big political elephants (tomea lomoro) will unfold their plans into a full open arena to do real battle for 2026 parliamentary election. Right now many names  of fringe politicians are said to be eyeing for Koboko county seat, but without mincing their words about where their tents can be pitched, voters seems to be having a binary choice between Emmanuel Banya Natal the Muni University Secretary and Hajjat Medina Naham the Director for Finance and Admin...

  📸 International Institute of Tropical Agriculture. From the time that the road in his village in Kayuinga was tarmacked, Kiberu has been a happy man. Every morning, he gets up early and spreads his maize to dry on a clean tarmac road. In fact he does not have to remove dust or dirt from his maize anymore. He sells clean maize, and even the flour he makes from it has no dirt or stones. Last weekend, police suddenly showed up and told Kiberu to remove his maize from the road. He told them that he pays his taxes, and it is his taxes that build roads so he refused. As we speak, the police have arrested Kiberu and put him in police cells. Has Kiberu committed any crime? Isn’t the road his to use because he pays taxes?. WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY ?. By law, a public road is any road that the public uses or has a right to use. This means that every road that anyone can freely use without being called a trespasser. For example, if there is a road that only belongs to certain peop...

Gabon President Ali Bongo Ondimba, left, is seeking a third term in the August 26, 2023, election. He will take on 13 other candidates, including Albert Ondo Ossa, running for the Alternance 2023 opposition group [AFP]. A new opposition coalition emerges and unites behind one candidate as doubts swirl about President Ali Bongo’s health, effectiveness and commitment to free and fair elections. Gabon President Ali Bongo Ondimba, left, is seeking a third term in the August 26, 2023, election. He will take on 13 other candidates, including Albert Ondo Ossa, running for the Alternance 2023 opposition group [AFP] About 850,000 people are eligible to vote on Saturday when Gabon chooses a president and members of parliament simultaneously on a single ballot paper under a new electoral system. President Ali Bongo, who has served two consecutive seven-year terms, is standing for a third. The new electoral system is the result of a constitutional reform adopted in April. Among its key...

A VPN server is a server belonging to a  virtual private network . In short, it’s remote physical hardware used to route your connection when you use VPN software. When your VPN is active, your personal web traffic travels via an encrypted tunnel through a server before it is sent to its destination. This process takes place in secure tunnels. But increased security isn’t the only benefit.  When you use a VPN, the server you connect to masks your true  IP address . with its own IP address. As a result, you’ll appear as if you’re actually connecting from your server’s location rather than your true physical location. Why should I use a VPN server to change my IP address? You may not realize it, but your IP address has significant ramifications over your online privacy and freedom. Without VPN protection, your real IP address is vulnerable to the prying eyes of third parties and snoopers. And with your IP address, they can target you with area-specific ads, moni...