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📸: The district security committee taking a group photo after the meeting on Tuesday 8-July-2025. Photo by Osuta Yusuf, Our News Reporter. Story by Osuta Yusuf. Maracha District. 8-July-2025. Click here on the link https://www.youtube.com/live/Xgzu-S0qNe0 to watch the joint campaign at Andeni primary school playground in Oluvu Sub-county which turned chaotic. What You Need to Know: ●Three candidates (Drasiga Dan Elvis, Obeta Moses Drakua, and Uhuru Nelson) were duly nominated by the NRM Party Secretariat, Kampala, to contest in the upcoming 17-7-2025 NRM Party primary elections for the Maracha Constituency MP seat. ● The two Candidates, Mr Obeta Moses Drakua and Uhuru Nelson, have accused themselves of planning to kill each other.   📸: Uhuru Nelson in yellow shirt on the left,  Drasiga Dan Elvis in the middle and Obeta Moses Drakua on the right attending the emergency security meeting in RDC's office. Photo by Our News Reporter, Osuta Yusuf.  Ma...

📸: The voter hit on the head with a stone. Courtesy Photo.  Story by Osuta Yusuf.  Maracha District. 7-7-2025. A year ago, the NRM Party Secretariat in Kampala released its electoral roadmap, including, among others, conducting joint campaigns for candidates contesting for Parliamentary positions. Click here to watch the joint campaign at Andeni in Oluvu Sub-county.  The joint campaigns for the position of Maracha Constituency MP have on Monday, 7-7-2025, 4pm turned chaotic and bloody at the last venue at Andeni in Oluvu Sub-county. Signs of a possible chaos started brewing yesterday, 6 July 2025, at Kijomoro primary school playground rally in Okokoro Town Council when the supporters of Obeta Moses Drakua and Uhuru Nelson started clashing amongst themselves. The situation escalated on Monday as a voter, alleged to be a supporter of Candidate Uhuru Nelson, was hit with a stone on the head by an unidentified person in Andeni primary school playground as the ra...

By Martin Okudi. 3-July-2025. On Wednesday 2-July-2025 Obongi District Local Government officially commissioned a storied staff house for its Production Department, constructed at a cost of UGX 1.9 billion under the Development Response to Displacement Impacts Project (DRDIP). The commissioning ceremony was presided over by the Chief Administrative Officer, Humphrey Benson Otim, and witnessed by Resident District Commissioner Samuel Mpimbaza Hashaka, District Chairperson Hajji Buga Habib Khemis, and other key stakeholders. The facility is expected to improve staff welfare and enhance service delivery in the agriculture and production sector.

Story by Osuta Yusuf.  Arua City. 3-July-2025. What You Need to Know : Three potential candidates, Hon Osoru Mourine (incumbent), Samanya Daphine Draza and Sheila Obia were officially nominated by the NRM Party Electoral Commission to contest in the upcoming 16-7-2025 NRM Party primary election for Parliamentary position. 📸: The crowd addressed by Samanya Daphine Draza in one of her campaign venues on Wednesday. Photo by Osuta Yusuf, Our News Reporter. One of the Arua City Woman MP Candidates, Samanya Daphine Draza has appealed to the voters in Arua City not to allow themselves to be used and get divided because of politics. She re-echoed the statements while campaigning in Kenya Ward, Arua Central Division in Arua City on Wednesday 2-July-2025. It's on record that, whenever political seasons approach like this, some politicians begin to use some Youths by facilitating them with some small monies to cause chaos, quarrels, and fights during campaigns. 📸...

📸: The late Rtd Maj Mahammud Ramathan Lagbe. Courtesy Photo.  We woke up on Wednesday morning 2 July 2025, to hear the unfortunate and painful death of one of our elders, a very experienced, important, and social ex-Soldier, Rtd Maj Mahammud Ramathan Lagbe from Gotri Cell, Rampeta ward in Lodonga Town Council, Aringa South Constituency in Yumbe District. Born in 1940,  Mahammud Ramathan died on Wednesday, 2 July 2025. Having risen through the ranks from Private to Major, Mahammud Ramathan joined the East African Rival Army on 8 October 1960, and on 9 October 1962, after Uganda gained independence, he, together with other soldiers, was subsumed into the Uganda Army. He served through the regimes of Kabaka, Obote, and Amin; thereafter, they fled to exile after President Amin was overthrown in 1979. Rtd Maj Mahammud was a strong pillar in the Aringa tribe! He was a peacemaker! He was a unifier and an ideologist. It's from these strong convictions that we, the Aringa ...

📸: Mr Letia Jimmy, the Maracha District NRM Party Registrar during a meeting with all the Candidates yesterday Tuesday 1-July-2025. Story by Osuta Yusuf. Maracha District. 2-July-2025. Following the release of the joint campaigns guidelines on Wednesday morning, 2-July-2025, the NRM Party leadership has scheduled to begin conducting the joint campaigns on Friday 4-July-2025. 📸: Page 1 of the Joint Campaign Guidelines 📸: Page 2 of the Joint Campaign guidelines.  During a telephone interview this morning with the District NRM Registrar Mr Letia Jimmy, he confirmed that, indeed, the NRM Party Secretariat has released the guidelines for the joint campaigns for the Parliamentary and LC5 Chairpersons elections. 📸: Page 3 of the joint campaign guidelines.  He stated that, as the Maracha District NRM office, they have scheduled the joint campaigns to start on Friday 4-July-2025, with Paranga Sub-county as the first venue for Woman M...

2-July-2025.  Modern women are addicted to the attention. She said, “I do.” But what she meant was: “I’ll stay... until a better offer comes along.” And today? Those offers never stop coming. Because modern wives aren’t leaving their marriages to be alone. They’ve been texting their replacements long before they filed the papers. And they didn’t just fall out of love. They fell into DMs, into brunch tables, into backup plans that were already waiting. Let’s talk about the real issues: — 1. She Has a Backup Plan—And You Probably Know Him He’s the "big brother" from college. The “we’ve been friends since forever” guy. The co-worker she says is “harmless.” He was at the wedding. He’s liked every post since. And the moment your marriage hits turbulence? He’s right there, offering “emotional support.” But he’s not there to help her heal. He’s been rehearsing her replacement fantasy for years. And now? You’re the dead weight she needs to shed. — 2. It’s Not ...

Story by Osuta Yusuf. Maracha District. 1-July-2025. 📸: The candidates attending the meeting convened by the Office of RDC and NRM Party leadership at Maracha District. Photo by Our News Reporter. Following the release of the electoral roadmap by the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party to have its internal party primary election rallies held under joint campaigns effective 1-July-2025, the method has left several potential candidates who got nominated in various Constituencies and Districts to contest for Parliamentary and LC5 Chairperson positions in disarray after the party secretariat has delayed to release to its District Electoral structures, the guidelines that can be used to organize and manage the joint campaigns. During a meeting held at Maracha District headquarters on Tuesday, 1 July 2025, several Parliamentary Candidates expressed their frustration with the systematic delays by the NRM Party to release the joint campaign guidelines they had preached about....

Story by Osuta Yusuf. Arua City. 30-6-2025. 📸: Some of the Youths who crowded this morning to listen to Arua City Woman MP Candidate, Samanya Daphine Draza. Photo by Our News Reporter, Osuta Yusuf. The Arua City Woman MP Aspirant, Samanya Daphine Draza has promised to reduce the Youth unemployment in the city through lobbying for factories if she is elected to become the woman MP, 2026 - 2031. 📸: Samanya Daphine Draza, Arua City Woman MP Aspirant. While addressing the Youths of Arua Central Division this morning, Monday 30-6-2025, the youthful Samanya Daphine who is a teacher by profession, testified and spoke to the pain of the Youths who are facing biting poverty and joblessness in the newly created regional City. “Look at some of the districts in WestNile, like Nebbi District, Maracha District, and Arua District who elected good Women MPs and they have established for them skilling centers and they are also donating over 5M Shs each group to empower Saccos”...

📸: One of the trapped immigrants. Compiled from January to May-2025 By #iip_updates investigative Sources.  Asia. 30-6-2025. Numerous African migrants—including individuals from Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, and Cameroon—have been trafficked into Myanmar, where they find themselves trapped in remote compounds controlled by armed groups such as the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) and the Kayin Border Guard Force.  These compounds are notorious for exploiting individuals in illegal online scam operations.  🎥: Video of some of the Immigrants. How African Migrants End Up in Myanmar’s Scam Compounds . Traffickers often lure victims with promises of legitimate employment opportunities in countries like Thailand.  Once in Thailand, many are deceived into believing they are being transported to jobs in other nations.  However, they are instead smuggled into Myanmar, where they are confined in heavily guarded compounds.  These facilities are typ...

Story by Osuta Yusuf. Yumbe District. 28-6-2025. The Member of Parliament for Aringa South Constituency, Hon Alioni Yorke Odria has bought 40 Tents, with each accommodating 100 seats, to be used during sad or happy moments in the communities of Aringa South in Yumbe District. The Tents, which cost Hon Odria over 130M Shs, are set to be launched in a mega function and then handed over to the society for management. With the community and individuals having gone through a dilemma when looking for Tents to be hired expensively at the tune of 100,000 Shs and above for functions and funerals, this initiative by Hon Odria is expected to save the community members from getting drained in the lookout for Tents for hire. Stay tuned here for more updates and news. #iip_updates  #Information_is_Power  #we_inform_the_uninformed 

📸: The mammoth crowd captured in different locations across Aringa South Constituency during Hon Odria's homecoming welcome on Thursday 26-6-2025. Photo by Osuta Yusuf, Our News Reporter. Story by Osuta Yusuf. 27-6-2025. Yumbe District. What You Need to Know: ⚫️ The 16-7-2025 NRM Party primary elections seek to identify one candidate who will become the party's flag bearer. ⚫️ The NRM Party flag bearer will compete with Independent candidates and Other opposition Candidates who will be nominated by the Independent Electoral Commission to tussle in the February 2026 general elections for those positions. In an applauding twist of events, hundreds and thousands of people gathered from one venue to another starting from the border of Koboko and Yumbe, to welcome their incumbent Member of Parliament Hon Alioni Yorke Odria after his successful nomination at the NRM Party secretariat last week to go and contest in the upcoming 16-7-2025 Parliamentary primary ...

Stakeholders taking a group photo after attending to last engagement meeting at district headquarters. Photo by Our News Reporter. Story by #Information_is_Power Reporter. 25-6-2025. stakeholders of Right 2 grow in maracha district have drawn strategic action plans to sustain knowledge acquired from 5 years implementation of nutrition ,Water  sanitation and hygiene activities in the district.  The implementing partner, the hunger project Uganda in the last five years has  been undertaking Right2 grow project that focused  on advocacy for improved nutrition ,water ,sanitation and hygiene status of community in four districts of kabale ,Nwoya , bugwere including maracha district.  However,stakeholders in maracha district have been prepared to take over as pilot program in the greater subcounties of Oluffe and Nyadri phases out. Maracha district nutrition focal point person, dramani ceasor explains the structure that played pivotal role during project i...

21-6-2025. Click here on this link to watch the nomination of Hon Adiga Lawrence Wilfred. 📸: NRM Party Electoral Commission Chairman Dr Tanga Odoi in Yellow Shirt nominates Hon Adiga Lawrence Wilfred with a tie during the nomination exercise at the party headquarter on plot 13 Kyadondo road in Kampala. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EnSaJT884/ Pictorials: Former Maracha District LC5 Chairperson Hon Adiga Lawrence Wilfred duly nominated at NRM Party Secretariat in Kampala on Saturday 20-6-2025 as he seeks to reclaim the position via NRM Party ticket. He served as the LC5 Chairperson for Maracha District from 2016 to 2021, and then decided to contest as an Independent candidate in 2021 Maracha East Constituency MP elections but he lost the race. Upon his nomination, he will be competing against the incumbent LC5 Hon Obitre Stephen, District speaker Hon Wanni Emmanuel, and the former LC5 Chairperson Hon Adripiyo Emmanuel in the upcoming 24-7-2025 N...