Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform-NUP president, Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine spent between Shillings 7 and 10 million per day during his presidential election campaigns. The party Secretary-General David Lewis Rubongoya told Uganda Radio Network in an interview that the money covered the basic needs of …
Read More »NUP MPs-elect to meet over Speaker election
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform (NUP) party is set to have a retreat with its MPs-elect to decide who they will be supporting to the position of speaker and deputy speaker of parliament. Speaking to reporters today leaders of NUP led by John Baptist Nambeshe, …
Read More »NUP leaders in Mukono denounce petition challenging victory of DP candidate
Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform-NUP leaders in greater Mukono have denounced a petition challenging the victory of Democratic Party-DP’s parliamentary candidate in the Mukono South County race. On Tuesday, Wilson Male, who lost the seat on the NUP ticket petitioned the High Court challenging the victory …
Read More »Battered journalist Ashraf Kasirye withdraws case against Government
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ghetto Television Journalist Ashraf Kasirye has withdrawn his case seeking compensation for the damages caused to him during the just concluded elections. Kasirye who wanted to be compensated with an unspecified amount of money has today withdrawn his case against the Attorney General before …
Read More »Inside Kadaga, Oulanyah race for Speaker
Museveni, CEC, ethnicity feature in second face off Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | The second battle for the Speakership of Parliament between Rebecca Kadaga and Jacob Oulanyah threatens to be more bruising than the first in 2016. Speaker Kadaga and her deputy Oulanyah are wooing a House that has …
Read More »Armed men raid Fred Nyanzi’s home, arrest 15 year old son
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A group of armed men yesterday morning raided the home of former parliamentary candidate Fred Nyanzi, a brother to the National Unity Platform-NUP party president Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu. The group, according to the family was searching for who however escaped from the home as soon …
Read More »Learning from the past
Lessons for NUP from the failure and disintegration of FDC THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | With former presidential candidate, Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine opting out of court and going to the “court of public opinion” (i.e. street protest), the stage is now set for increasing …
Read More »Oulanyah clashes with former NUP coordinator for supporting Kadaga
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Deputy Speaker of Parliament Jacob Oulanyah has clashed with Tonny Olanya Olenge, the former Northern region coordinator for the National Unity Platform-NUP party for his support of Rebecca Kadaga. Olenge, a biosystems engineering student of Gulu University and former NUP Northern Youth MP aspirant …
Read More »Tooro NUP leaders divided over Kyagulanyi’s call for demonstrations
Fort Portal, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Leaders of the National Unity Platform-NUP in Tooro sub-region are divided over calls for peaceful demonstrations by the party president Robert Kyagulanyi. For the past few weeks, Kyagulanyi, a former presidential candidate has been calling for peaceful demonstrations across the country in a bid …
Read More »NUP candidate seeks to nullify Nantaba’s victory in Kayunga
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Harriet Nakwedde, the runner up for the Kayunga Woman Member of Parliament race on the National Unity Platform-NUP ticket in the January 14, elections has petitioned the High Court in Mukono seeking the cancellation of results and also order for a by-election. Former minister Idah …
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