Author: John Kamau
NRM Sironko chairman Suleiman Mafabi Lumolo has petitioned the president of Uganda Yoweri Museveni asking him to take action against Denis Sekabira, a NUP opposition MP who he says is sleeping with his woman Barbara Nekesa. Lumolo who fell out with Nekesa at the beginning of this year and was chased from his own home, says that Museveni should punish Nekesa and remove her from the job of being the treasurer for the ruling party because it’s not safe to have a person who uses NRM money to fund her NUP boyfriends. She is also accused of mistreating her junior…
Ugandan junior minister Justin Nameere has banged the tables, making it clear that her fellow minister Haruna Kasolo is low-grade and not the type she can do. In a viral video Nameere, who has been at war with Kasolo for years and believes he too has been fighting her every day and night, says its not true that she has ever behaved seductively towards the NRM CEC member. In the same video, the outspoken minister says she is aware that Haruna Kasolo, a self-professed polygamist with more 14 documented and many more undocumented women, craves sleeping with every nice looking…
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni who just started a new term which he dubbed Kisanja No More Sleep” with focus on fighting corruption has reportedly ordered an investigation into alleged financial irregularities surrounding the recruitment of Assistant Resident District Commissioners (A-RDCs) and Assistant Resident City Commissioners (A-RCCs), placing Minister for the Presidency Milly Babalanda under intense scrutiny over the management of the exercise. The directive follows the submission of a detailed whistleblower dossier alleging that approximately Shs15 billion may have been lost during the recruitment process, with additional claims that billions more allocated for salaries and allowances remain unaccounted for. The investigation which will be conducted by the Internal Security Organisation…
Charlotte Komugisha, a tiktok queen in Kampala now aged 48 years old, first met her man in 2003 and they started having sex there and then. She has been cohabiting with the boyfriend since that time. They got three children together who are now aged between 12 and 19 years. In 2018 sharp disagreements erupted after the boyfriend accused her of cheating with other men. She went to live with her grandmother in Bunga from where she returned last May, saying she had reformed and was now ready to be a good person. The boyfriend reluctantly allowed her back because…
Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who was killed in US-Israeli strikes, has been chosen as his successor. Unlike his father, the 56-year-old has largely kept a low profile. He has never held government office, nor given public speeches or interviews, and only a limited number of photos and videos of him have ever been published. But for years there have been rumours that he held considerable influence behind the scenes in Iran. US diplomatic cables, which were published by WikiLeaks in the late 2000s, described him as “the power behind the robes” who was widely regarded…
Chief Justice Martha Koome has gazetted new Court of Appeal stations and additional Small Claims Courts across the country in a move aimed at expanding access to justice and reducing case backlogs. In a press statement, the Chief Justice announced the establishment of two new Court of Appeal stations at Kakamega Law Courts and Nkubu Law Courts, increasing the total number of appellate stations nationwide to eight. Additionally, a Court of Appeal sub-registry has been set up at Embu Law Courts, bringing the number of sub-registries to five. Other Court of Appeal stations are located in Nairobi, Mombasa, Nakuru, Nyeri,…
NAIROBI: Police officers have intercepted a vehicle transporting 181 kilograms of suspected narcotics along the Webuye–Kitale Highway in an operation targeting drug trafficking networks, the National Police Service (NPS) confirmed. NPS officers flagged down the vehicle during the operation, but the driver defied an order to stop and sped away, triggering a high-speed pursuit. The chase ended at Malaha Junction when the vehicle developed mechanical problems, forcing the driver to abandon it and flee on foot. “A thorough search of the vehicle revealed that it was transporting substances suspected to be bhang, carefully packed in multiple bales,” the NPS said…
Bloggers, journalists, and digital rights activists have secured a major victory after the Court of Appeal in Nairobi struck down key sections of Kenya’s Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act, 2018, that criminalized the publication of false information online. In a judgment delivered on Friday, a three-judge bench comprising Justices Asike-Makhandia Kiage, Aggrey Muchelule, and Weldon Korir partially allowed an appeal filed by the Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE), Article 19 Eastern Africa, and other petitioners who had challenged the constitutionality of several provisions of the law. The court declared Section 22 (False Publications) and Section 23 (Publication of False Information)…
Over 18 bodies have been retrieved from vehicles along Kirinyaga Road in Nairobi following the devastating floods that struck the city on Friday, March 6, 2026. Residents continue retrieving bodies of flood victims and bringing them near Shell on Kirinyaga Road, as locals protest what they claim is the county government’s slow response. pic.twitter.com/1xvPH7i6DI — The Standard Digital (@StandardKenya) March 7, 2026 Recovery efforts are still underway after many victims were swept away by fast-rising floodwaters, with some dying while inside vehicles that were carried away by the raging currents. This is devastatinng🥹 pic.twitter.com/yxMMuxYEfA — lizah mutuku (@l_lizah) March 7, 2026 Nairobi Police Commander…
Last Monday, a Kampala lawyer called Leila Katusiime and also a commissioner of oath was led into presiding over a secretive swearing in ceremony at a hotel in Kololo. Unknown to her, the swearing in of a few fearless Uganda national drug authority board members, she presided over as Hajjat Anifa Ssengendo, wife to MP Latif Ssebaggala witnessed, had been halted by the inspector general of government, the IGG of Uganda. This is why chief magistrate judge Gladys Kamasanyu had boycotted the event. Even many board members boycotted fearing arrest by the IGG. Now some of the board members who…