On February 28th when President Museveni launched the NRM member registration exercise, he claimed the party had 11 million members. Today when the exercise officially kicked off, there was little evidence to back up that claim. Most centres visited by Bbeg Media had a handful of supporters. In others, those in charge of registration appeared…
President Museveni stressed the need to empower individuals with small pieces of land through the adoption of the innovative four-acre model type of farming. He made the remarks while meeting group of farmers from the districts of Ntungamo and Rukungiri at State House-Entebbe. The group was led by the Minister of Security and Rujumbura County…
Capital FM has apologized for an inaccurate tweet about the Leader of Opposition, Joel Ssenyonyi. In a statement on X, the radio station conceded they had been misled about the agenda of a meeting Ssenyonyi has held with other opposition legislators. The radio station had posted that Ssenyonyi had chaired a meeting to draft a…
Muyenga’s vocal local council leader, Yasin Omar was today beaten at the KCCA youth centre in Kabalagala, where the NRM was holding a sensitization meeting for the party’s registration exercise. Omar, we understand, had not been invited for the meeting and he found it odd since he is the NRM chairperson for Bukasa-Muyenga Parish. However,…
At least 10 people died on the spot after a tanker loaded with molasses collided with a commuter taxi along Iganga-Tororo highway in Bugiri district. The accident happened on 7.50 PM. According to the police, ten vehicles were moving in a line all headed to Tororo. However, the impatient taxi driver decided to overtake them…
Leaders of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) allied to Katonga yesterday held a mobilization tour in Wakiso, where hundreds of their supporters urged them to form a new political outfit and cut links with FDC-Najjanankumbi. It is an idea the Dr Kizza Besigye led faction has been toying with for the last couple of…
More than Shs 220 billion has been paid out to 200,000 beneficiaries of the Parish Development Model (PDM) scheme via PostBank’s Wendi mobile wallet platform, over the last one and a half months. Wendi was launched by PostBank in November 2023. “The wallet centers on group savings, individual savings, transfers, payments, deposits, and withdrawals to…
I was born in Brakpan, Johannesburg, South Africa, and grew up in eSwatini (known then as Swaziland). People in these two countries share one predominant fear: unemployment. Other worries in these countries and others in the region include unwanted pregnancies, low income and food safety. The diseases that are dreaded the most are cancer and…
Five suspects have been remanded to Luzira until April 11 over the murder of Daniel Bbosa, the head of the Ndiga clan. The suspects are Noah Lujja; Harriet Nakiguli; Joseph Nakabale; Ezra Mayanja and Milly Naluwenda. The suspects appeared before the Mwanga II Chief Magistrates Court which read for them one count of murder contrary…
All is not well at Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) between the executive director, Dorothy Kisaka and her deputy, David Luyimbazi, reliable sources have told Bbeg Media. Sources at city hall have told us that the animosity between the two is so bad that even juju (witchcraft) has been cited as a reason why the…
