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LORD MAYOR Erias Lukwago and legislature Medard Ssegona can make better presidential candidates than Bobi Wine, this according to Hon. Odonga Otto. And the legislator has also insisted that it’s his right not to support Bobi. Writing on Facebook, Odonga Otto also advised Bobi to remain calm and not hope to defeat President Yoweri Museveni in the upcoming presidential elections. He claimed the elections are designed for Museveni’s victory. He wrote: “I hope you are aware I have a right not to support Bobi Wine my my owns reason? The same way you have a right to. I was not recruited to the opposition I joined voluntarily. What makes you think that supporting Bobi Wine means you are in opposition. and not supporting him mean you are NRM or a mole? The later view is trivial and myopic. Any struggle devoid of knowledge and ground philosophy is not worth my time a graduate of political science. Bobi Wine, who is now the most popular opposition politician in Uganda need to be warned o...

Hundreds of people reported problems with the popular messaging app on Sunday morning, though WhatsApp is yet to publicly acknowledge the issue. Website health tracker Down Detector recorded troubles with sending and receiving messages on WhatsApp. Europe is the worst affected region, though parts of Africa, Asia and South America also face severe disruptions. It is the latest in a series of outages to hit the Facebook-owned app, with a major incident in March last year leaving users cut off for nearly an entire day. More than 500 million people use the app each day and many have taken out their frustrations across Twitter and Facebook. A spokesperson for WhatsApp did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A report earlier this month revealed that WhatsApp is the worst-hit platform for internet shutdowns. The app suffered 6,236 hours of deliberate disruption in 2019, largely as a result of authoritarian governments blocking access to it. The app's secure encrypti...

Russian military spies have hacked a Ukrainian gas company that is at the heart of an impeachment trial of President Trump, who sought last year to pressure Ukraine to investigate the company and its links to Joe Biden’s son, according to a cybersecurity firm. Beginning in early November, the Russian spy agency known as the GRU launched a cyber “phishing” campaign against Burisma Holdings to trick unsuspecting employees into giving up their email credentials so the hackers could gain access to their email accounts — once again entangling Moscow in domestic U.S. politics, according to Area 1 Security, a Redwood City, Calif., company. The operation’s launch coincided with a congressional impeachment inquiry into Trump and whether he abused his office by seeking to press Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into announcing a probe of Burisma and Hunter Biden — an action that conceivably would aid Trump’s reelection bid. The GRU was active in the 2016 presidential campaign, hacki...

Just Today 18-January-2020, CDF General David Muhoozi, Hon Ayaka, Deputy CDF Gen Otema and Mr Atima Jackson Joined Other Army Generals and Dignitaries in attending the Wedding Ceremony of Brigadier General Bonny Bamwiseki and Rose Bamwiseki at Ruharo Mbarara.

MTN Uganda in collaboration with its technology partner ZTE hasshowcased theirFifth Generation (5G) Cellular Networkproof of concept trial today as part of the company’s strategy of delivering next generation mobile broadband benefits to the country, making MTN Uganda the first operator in East Africa to carry out a 5G trial in the region. This follows successful 5G trials in South Africa and Nigeria last year, by MTN Group and MTN Nigeria respectively. MTN Uganda seeks to give customers a glimpse of what the future holds, showcasing the next generation of applications for consumer and enterprise customers. 5G offers true mobility, robust connections and incredible reliability through blazing fast download speeds with seamless connectivity, ultra-realistic graphics and human-like reflex response times. The test run of 5G technology by MTN is a groundbreaking achievement; the technology will enable the simultaneous connection of billions of devices worldwide, instant streaming o...

You can now use your iPhone or iPad, running iOS 10 or later, as a physical security key for securely logging into your Google account as part of the Advanced Protection Program for two-factor authentication. Android users have had this feature on their smartphones since last year, but now Apple product owners can also use this advanced, phishing-resistant form of authentication as an alternative to a physical security key. Adding extra security later of two-step authentication is one of the more essential steps you can take to secure your online accounts, which makes it harder for attackers to log in to your account, especially when they steal your password. "According to a study we [Google] released last year, people who exclusively used security keys to sign into their accounts never fell victim to targeted phishing attacks," said Shuvo Chatterjee, Product Manager at Google's Advanced Protection Program. google security key iphone Google recentl...

Prominent Baptist Pastor Keith Gomez argues slavery was a good thing because it helped Africans escape Africa and come to America. Pastor Keith Gomez, who leads the Northwest Bible Baptist Church in Elgin, Illinois, wants everyone to know that slavery was not really a bad thing, and that it actually helped African Americans escape Africa. In a recent sermon Gomez argued slavery was a good thing, because: “If it wasn’t for slavery, those folks would still be in Africa with a bone in their nose…” The following is an excerpt from Pastor Gomez’s racist remarks on slavery: … we’re talking about 13 books in the Bible, Romans through Philemon. You ought to write that down. I could really shake you up now, but I don’t know if I oughta wake you up that bad… when you get in the Pauline — are y’all listening to me? — when you get into the Pauline epistles, you’re getting in the doctrine. So why would you get in Philemon when he’s trying to teach you how to treat your slave?… If they shoul...