7-day NIRA ID issuance drive brings relief to Kitgum residents
Kitgum District Registration Officer Nancy Adyero said the team had set an ambitious target of issuing more than 16,000 national IDs within the seven-day period.
Gulu State Attorney Sarah Amony accused by Otwal residents of land grabbing, graveyard destruction
Multiple families allege that agents and armed men claiming to act on behalf of a State Attorney have fenced off gardens, demolished homes, desecrated graves, and uprooted crops within the past month.
Museveni wishes outgoing cabinet members “good luck”
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni who was re-elected on January 15 for a seventh term, will be sworn in on May 12.
A country like Uganda – without its elders – has no future
Prof Oweyegha-Afunaduula: “The old and elderly are the only group that can teach the youth to distinguish between genuine identity and manufactured ethnic hatred.”
Why Lango journalists must rediscover and end opportunistic unity
Petty disagreements, personal rivalries, and mistrust have repeatedly overshadowed the collective responsibility they share as watchdogs of society.
Gulu High Court burdened by nearly 2,000 cases as judiciary turns to traditional justice to ease backlog
Justice Philip Odoki explained that before the introduction of formal courts, African societies relied on community-based systems of justice that were accessible, fast, and focused on restoring relationships.
Kole investor Mayur Patel loses 2k liters of soya crude oil worth shs12m
Mayur Patel, 35, is an investor and businessman residing in Abolonyero village, Telela parish, Ayer sub-county, Kole.
Adjumani rallies for massive tree planting ahead of World Environment Day 2026
The World Environment Day celebrations are expected to serve not just as a ceremonial event, but as a platform for awareness, learning, and behavioural change.
Farmers cry as hailstorm destroys crops, homes in Hoima villages
This incident comes two months after the same scenario happened in Kasingo cell in Hoima City, where a hailstorm struck and left over five houses collapsed and crops destroyed.
‘When heaven meets earth:’ Lango examines lightning using faith, tradition and science lenses
Teresa Otim, an elderly woman from Junior Quarters in Lira City, recalls that lightning was once closely linked to moral accountability in traditional belief systems.
The ghost in boarding schools and the rise of juvenile delinquents
A disturbing wave of student youth-led violence in Bukedea, Amolatar, Apac, Lira and elsewhere across the country is forcing us to confront this question.
Amolatar: 16yo S1 student of Kangai SS fatally stabbed by unknown attacker
Odon Keneth was fatally stabbed by an unknown assailant in Abedober village, Arwotcek parish, Amolatar district.