Month: March 2025

More lives are lost in traffic accidents in Kampala during weekends and Monday, the inaugural Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA Road Safety report has revealed. According to the report compiled by Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety – BIGRS, the weekend and Mondays accounted for more than half of the

Rev Fr Joseph Mukasa Muwonge, promoter of devotion for Uganda Martyrs. The story of the Uganda Martyrs is often about men. The church has already canonized 22 young Catholic converts who were martyred in Namugongo and other places between 1885 and 1887. Although the Catholic church had 22 martyrs, the

Uganda Revenue Authority-URA has unveiled the Air Cargo Control Unit at Entebbe International Airport. Located at the new cargo center at Entebbe Airport, the unit is the central office for officials from URA, Uganda Wildlife Authority-UWA, Aviation Police, Aviation Security, and Uganda Civil Aviation Authority-UCAA. The team leader of the

Pilgrims are feeling the pinch of the rising commodity prices, with many missing several meals. Fred Muhereza arrived on Tuesday from Isingiro District. He sought to buy drinking water and food when he arrived because he was hungry, but was turned away by the hiked prices. Muhereza, says that during

The government will revoke trading licenses of business entities that are hoarding essential commodities on the market. This was revealed by Matia Kasaija, the Minister of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development while addressing members of the Uganda Parliamentary Press Association – UPPA during a National Budget Conference at Hotel Africana

Pilgrims at Namugongo line up for holy water Unlike in the previous years, the number of pilgrims who undertook the walk of faith from the greater Masaka region to the Uganda Martyrs shrines in Namugongo, Wakiso district to participate in the annual supplication has been low. The disparity is manifesting

Jerrycans being sold at the Martyrs shrine. Business has picked up this morning at Namugongo Martyrs shrine, according to traders. The most sought-after items include jerry cans, scarfs, rosaries, and other religious items. By 9:00 am in the morning, a number of pilgrims were seen buying jerry cans costing between

Members of Parliament on the Public Accounts Committee – PAC have pinned Kawempe National Referral Hospital management for unlawfully reallocating 36.870 million Shillings. The anomaly was confirmed by Dr. Nehemiah Katusiime Arwanire, the Executive Director of the Hospital while appearing on Wednesday before the MPs who are scrutinizing queries raised

Some of the children from Lira Diocese who walked to Namugongo ahead of Martyrs day Fifteen-year-old Bashir Mwesigwa walked over 200km from Hoima to Namugongo Martyrs shrines in Wakiso district. He spent four days on the road. The senior student decided to skip school and make a pilgrimage to Namugongo

A mother and relatives of a one-year-old girl child are stranded at Seeta Junior after the school driver knocked her child in Gulumwa, Goma division in Mukono district, wounding her fatally. According to eyewitnesses, the driver identified as Wasswa had come to drop some children from the elitist Seeta Kindergarten and