Rwot David Onen Acana II, the Acholi Paramount has  asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) to help in the documentation of massacre sites in northern Uganda, a region still recovering from two decades of a devastating war. Rwot David Onen Acana said there is a need to map out sites were massacre victims were buried […]

Security forces in Lamwo district are persuading a local farmers to surrender a 62MM that he recovered from the bush. The farmer, identified by police only as Obol is demanding for unspecified amount of cash from bomb experts under the 5th Division Infantry Army Headquarters based in Acholi Pii in Pader district before he can hand […]

Police in Aswa River Region have arrested a local businessman who tried to access Paimol Martyrs’ Shrine in Paimol Agago district while armed with a cocked pistol. Police identified the man as Peter Odyek, a resident of Abe in Oyam district. On interrogation police however established he had legally acquired his pistol. According to police, […]

  President Yoweri Museveni has accused Gilbert Olanya, the Member of Parliament for Kilak South County in Amuru district of frustrating government in northern Uganda. President Museveni explained that he (Olanya) has for long has been against the giving of land for setting up investment in Amuru district. Speaking on Mega FM in Gulu town […]

Tension remains simmering along the Amuru- Adjumani districts after Tom Butiime, the Minister of Local Government on  Friday last week handed Apaa to Adjumani district officials. The handover ceremony took place at Junction Corner in Labala parish, Pabbo Sub County in Amuru District. There was heavy security deployment in the area prior to the handover […]

Isaac Isanga Musumba, the State Minister for Lands, Housing and Urban Development has pointed out that poor garbage management and old buildings are likely to stand on Gulu’s way to attain a city status. Minister Musumba observed that there are dozens of grass-thatched structures, old buildings, bushy empty commercial plots and unpaved walkways dotted around […]

  Benjamin Oteka, the Gulu-based Pastor serving a jail term for battering his American wife has lodged fresh application before Gulu High Court seeking to be released on court bail. Pastor Oteka, 36, was convicted in July this year by the Gulu Chief Magistrate court for assaulting his estranged American wife, Carol Ward, 53 and […]

Parents of children suffering from albinism have called on the government to set up a special clinic at public health facilities to offer services to children suffering from the condition. Albinism is a group of inherited disorders that results in little or no production of the pigment melanin, which determines the color of the skin, […]

Police in Pader district is holding two men in connection with the murder of a mobile money agent. Moses Mambo, 31, was shot three times—on the chest, thigh and head—killing him instantly. The gunmen attacked him on Sunday this week at his shop in Acholi-Bur Trading Centre along Lira-Kitgum road. The assailants took off with […]

Catherine Bitarakwate, the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Public Service has ordered striking non- teaching staff of Gulu University to resume work immediately. In a letter dated September 21, 2017 copied to Gulu University Vice Chancellor Prof Jack Nyeko Pen-Mogi, Bitarakwate said salary arrears for non-teaching staff for the Financial Year 2015/2016 had been paid. The […]