Osuta Yusuf

Yesterday 23-June was INTERNATIONAL WIDOWS DAY. Who is a widow?  Maimuna married Binojjo who was a village chief at the time. Because of their age difference, Binojjo only lived for another 4 years and passed away. Immediately after his death, Kaddogo (Binojjo's younger and broke brother) came to Maimuna demanding for ‘his brother’s’ house. He even told her that he was willing to let her stay if he could inherit her as the replacement for the heir to Binojjo.  Maimuna refused either of these demands but wants to know what her rights are.  WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY?  Firstly, a widow is a woman who has lost her spouse (lawfully married husband) by death. By law (succession act), a widow is entitled to the home she and her late husband shared during marriage (this is called a matrimonial home). This means the house, compound and anything on that particular land.  So it is illegal to only allow her to take the house and the rest of the land is taken away. I...

PICTORIAL: Former Minister of Security, Gen. Elly Tumwiine hands over office to Major Gen Jim Muhwezi at the Office of the President in Kampala. Photo Credit; Online Publication Site #Nilepost. #osutayusuf

A number of new legislators of the 11th Parliament are operating in corridors as they wait to be allocated offices, nearly a month after they were sworn in. For this reason, the legislators only turn up when they are sure of attending plenary sessions or if they have other tasks to take care of at Parliament. However, those that go to Parliament and are not certain of the day’s proceedings, keep in the canteen, committee halls, library and members’ lounge. Some of the legislators we talked to on the matter revealed that this has complicated their work. “Right now I do not have an office and it is difficult to work because I need to settle and there is a lot to learn through discussions,” Ms Hellen Auma Wandera, the woman MP for Busia District, said. Ms Brenda Namukuta, the Kaliro District Woman MP, says the Parliament administration asked them to wait for premises to be refurbished before they can be allocated space. “The latest is that they have to finish the vetting proce...

Government has disowned a web link that’s being circulated on social media, calling upon vulnerable Ugandans to register for the much-anticipated government Covid-19 relief support fund promised by President Museveni last week. The web link which has been widely circulated on different social media platforms promises payment of relief cash within 24 hours of purported approval. The ministry’s public relations officer, Mr Frank Mugabi on Tuesday told this reporter that the ministry, under the national multi sectoral Covid-19 task force was yet to finalize the process of identifying categories to be considered for government support and as such, the web link is a scam. "The Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development has noted with concern a web based link circulating on different social media platforms calling on the public to register for the Government COVID 19 Support grant....This notice serves to caution the general public against this scheme. The Ministry un...

We are  limiting our policing efforts to violent or serious crimes. All minor incidents shall be handled via phone calls or online as, opposed to physical arrests and detention.  Online reporting of cases can be done via the UPF MOBI APP that is easily downloaded from Google Play Store. We encourage the public to report acts of non-compliance on contact number +256800300100, +256713250391 and +256714012734. https://www.upf.go.ug/the-joint-task-force-warns-the-public-on-tougher-crackdown-on-covid-19-breaches/

#OPINION. For the point of Equality and Relevance, i suggest Government to send Covid-19 relief money to the vulnerable people in all the Districts of Uganda. Last year 2020, most of the people whose Businesses were affected in Westnile region and other regions of Uganda because of the Covid-19 Lockdown did not receive any relief item. #osutayusuf

According to a post this evening on her  official Social Media  Page. MY CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO ALL THE MINISTERS UPON THE SUCCESSFUL SWEARING IN EVENT. I, Driwaru Jennifer would like to extend my sincere congratulations to those who have been appointed as cabinet and state ministers to serve Uganda in the various ministries. The task ahead requires passion, sacrifice and commitment. I therefore pledge my cooperation and commitment to work with each one of you sworn in today as ministers. May the Almighty God /Allah grant all of you protection and wisdom to serve our beloved Country Uganda. I speak all these, For God and My Country. #Woman_MP #Maracha_District #Driwaru_Jennifer

As software supply chain attacks emerge as a point of concern in the wake of SolarWinds  and Codecov  security incidents, Google is proposing a solution to ensure the integrity of software packages and prevent unauthorized modifications. Called " Supply chain Levels for Software Artifacts " (SLSA, and pronounced "salsa"), the end-to-end framework aims to secure the software development and deployment pipeline — i.e., the source ➞ build ➞ publish workflow — and mitigate threats that arise out of tampering with the source code, the build platform, and the artifact repository at every link in the chain. "In its current state, SLSA is a set of incrementally adoptable security guidelines being established by industry consensus," said Kim Lewandowski of Google Open Source Security Team and Mark Lodato of the Binary Authorization for Borg Team.Google said SLSA is inspired by the company's own internal enforcement mechanism called Binary Authorization for Borg...

It's Exactly a year since My Party Chairman and President of The Republic of Uganda HE  Yoweri Kaguta Museveni appointed me as the Director of Administration and Finance at the National Resistance Movement - NRM Secretariat . This past year has been a challenging one, but again a happy and successful year in so many ways. We have traveled through together in a supportive, encouraging and enduring manner.  Masha Allah 🙏🏿 Today as i mark a year, I want to thank and value even more, the special people I have worked and still work with; HE Yoweri K Museveni,  Hon. CEC Members, the secretariat team; Rt Hon Justine Kasule Lumumba, Rt Hon Richard Todwong, Hon Rose Namayanja, Hon Jacky Kyatuheire, Hon Emmanuel  Dombo, . My Late friend  Hon Kasamba (May His Soul Rest in Peace), staff at the secretariat and districts, the NRM party structures across the country and our supporters.  It doesn't matter where you go in life, what you achieve, or what you do...

Government of Uganda will  give Monetary Support, not food, to vulnerable people during the 42-day lockdown that was enforced on 18 June 2021, Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja has announced. The money to be sent to to beneficiaries through Mobile Money is expected to help those who have been working hand to mouth and other vulnerable people affected by the lockdown. On 18 June 2021, President Museveni announced stricter measures to contain the current wave of Covid-19, banning transport and closing businesses. A total of 49,327 out of the 70,176 COVID-19 confirmed cases have recovered, the health ministry data shows. A total of 626 people have succumbed to the virus ever since the first case in March last year. “Results of COVID-19 tests done on June 17, 2021 confirmed 1,397 new cases. The cumulative confirmed cases are 70,176. There were 42 new deaths and 1,015 active cases in hospitals,” the health ministry announced. According to the health ministry, 42 deaths were re...

By Hon Feta Geofrey MP Ayivu East. This is the bus of the last group of the students 4 whom we mobilized transport for after recieving several calls of no proper cordination amongst many students from different institutions of learning. We had students whose moneycouldn't find buses to West Nile. We had group of students who couldn't afford transport and even money to eat any thing. As Hon. George Boka Didi was cordinating for Madi sub region, I asked members to send contributions to Hon. Lillian Paparu woman MP Vurra because we were to fuel parliament buses to take these stranded students home, so when we failed to secure a second bus from parliament we now resorted to police. I wish to thank all MPs of Madi sub region for the support extended. I wish to thank AIGP Richard Edeagu, for all the connections and advices, I wish to thank Afande Asizua for availing that hot number and also talking to Afande Nakalema who eventually made afew calls ...

Russia's telecommunications and media regulator Roskomnadzor (RKN) on Thursday introduced restrictions on the operation of VyprVPN and Opera VPN services in the country. "In accordance with the regulation on responding to threats to circumvent restrictions on access to child pornography, suicidal, pro-narcotic and other prohibited content, restrictions on the use of VPN services VyprVPN and Opera VPN will be introduced from June 17, 2021," the state agency said in a statement. The watchdog described them as threats in accordance with the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 127 dated February 12, adding the restrictions will not affect Russian companies using VPN services in continuous technological processes. The development comes a little over a month after RKN sent a request to enterprises and organizations that use the two VPN services to inform the Center for Monitoring and Management of the Public Telecommunications Network ...

            MTN Mobile Money.                   Airtel Money. Out of 30.7 million subscribers that were recorded for the period ended December 2020, only 19.8 million were active, according to Bank of Uganda. At least 10.9 million mobile money accounts are inactive, according to Bank of Uganda.  In details contained in the Bank of Uganda Annual Supervision Report for the period ended December 2020, the Central Bank noted that the mobile money sector had recorded 30.7 million subscribers during the period with a substantial number of these not conducting a single transaction in at least three months.  Only 19.8 million customers, according to the report, which represents about 55 per cent of the total subscriber base, were active in the period under review.   A mobile money account, according to Uganda Communications Commission, is considered inactive if it spends at lea...

Threat actors with suspected ties to Iran have been found to leverage instant messaging and VPN apps like Telegram and Psiphon to install a Windows remote access trojan (RAT) capable of stealing sensitive information from targets' devices since at least 2015. Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, which pieced together the activity, attributed the campaign to an advanced persistent threat (APT) group it tracks as Ferocious Kitten, a group that has singled out Persian-speaking individuals allegedly based in the country while successfully operating under the radar. "The targeting of Psiphon and Telegram, both of which are quite popular services in Iran, underlines the fact that the payloads were developed with the purpose of targeting Iranian users in mind," Kaspersky's Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) said. "Moreover, the decoy content displayed by the malicious files often made use of political themes and involved images or videos of resistanc...

In Igbo culture, there are four days in a week; namely, Nkwo, Eke, Afo, and Orie. Just as there are four types of week days.  Afo means the formative market day. Orie is the day before Afo, as such, is the day farm produce are made ready for the market day. In Igbo land, the most important farm produce is the yam. This produce is stored in a barn after harvest and kept for storage either to be sold on the Afo market day or replanted   during the next planting season. This topic is however not the purpose of this expose.   Nkwo is a market day with a mill importance. Suffix me to say that, It is ordinary market day.   The most sagacious of all these market days is the Eke market day. It is considered significant because it signifies a lot of meaning, of which bad omen, is the most pronounced. It is regarded as the least favoured day in most Igbo communities.  Activities are also constricted outside this day as a severance day. For example, it is not wise to ...

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Telecom giants MTN Uganda has been given 0760 as the new code in addition to the existing 077 and 078 codes, the company has announced. “MTN Uganda has been granted a new number range by Uganda Telecommunications Commission. We are now issuing new customers on the MTN Network mobile with prefix range number 0760 000000 and 0760 999999,”MTN said in a statement. The company said the move done by Uganda Communication Commission (UCC) was made inevitable after the exhaustion of the existing 077 and 078 codes which have been in use for over 20 years of the telecom giants’ existence. According to MTN, new and existing customers will now be able to select their preferred numbers from their customer service centres and various outlets in the new code. MTN is still leading in terms of subscriber base in Uganda after their subscribers increased by 12.3% from 12.6 million by December,31, 2019 to 14.2 million by the end of the year 2020. The number of active data users for the company ...

  What was "Impossible" in the political history of Maracha Constituency has become "Possible" in the tenure of Oguzu Lee, says an excited voter. The area MP has since his election from 2016 pursued what's due to the people, the most recent being hoes which were lobbied and pursued from Ministry of Agriculture.  According to Hon Oguzu Lee, "where as many nations have advanced from use of hand hoes to tractors, land fragmentation in some of the communties still warrant use of handhoes. Besides, some farmers are too poor to afford tractor hiring and miss out on such government programs. Hoes are not the only programs the MP has pushed through with government.  Now areas that didn't have electricity are being connected. Subcouties like Oluvu which didn't have government secondary schools have their works in progress. Health Centre IIs are being upgraded to IIIs and IVs. Tractors have been delivered to SACCOs to support farming. Stalled Urba...

The LC5 Boss whose Body was found hanging on a tree this morning has not yet been confirmed if he committed suicide or he was strangled to death by some gangs.

Instagram has patched a new flaw that allowed anyone to view archived posts and stories posted by private accounts without having to follow them. "This bug could have allowed a malicious user to view targeted media on Instagram," Mayur Fartade said in a Medium post.  "An attacker could have been able to see details of private/archived posts, stories, reels, IGTV without following the user using Media ID." Fartade disclosed the issue to Facebook's security team on April 16, 2021, following which the shortcoming was patched on June 15. He was also awarded $30,000 as part of the company's bug bounty program. Although the attack requires knowing the media ID associated with an image, video, or album, by brute-forcing the identifiers, Fartade demonstrated that it was possible to craft a POST request to a GraphQL endpoint and retrieve sensitive data. As a consequence of the flaw, details such as like/comment/save count, display_...

PICTURED: Minister of Foreign Affairs-designate, Gen Jeje Odongo, arrives at Parliament wearing a face mask said to cost about Shs 3.7 million. He is to be vetted today. Photo credit Herbert Ziwa.

In response to malicious actors targeting US federal IT systems and their supply chain, the President released the "Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity (Executive Order)." Although directed at Federal departments and agencies, the Executive Order will likely have a ripple effect through the Federal technology supply stream. Private companies and enterprises will look to the Executive Order to build their best practices. At a high level, the Executive Order includes information-sharing requirements, a push toward cloud and Zero Trust architectures, and enhancing transparency throughout the software supply chain. Understanding the fundamentals of the White House Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity The bulk of the Executive Order focuses on administrative tasks associated with it, including redefining contract language, setting timelines, and defining agency roles and responsibilities. For enterprises that don't sup...

Google on Monday announced that it's rolling out client-side encryption to Google Workspace (formerly G Suite), thereby giving its enterprise customers direct control of encryption keys and the identity service they choose to access those keys. "With client-side encryption, customer data is indecipherable to Google, while users can continue to take advantage of Google's native web-based collaboration, access content on mobile devices, and share encrypted files externally," the search giant said. "When combined with our other encryption capabilities, customers can add new levels of data protection for their Google Workspace data." The development coincides with the Google Workspace and Google Chat's broader availability to all users with a Google account. Workspace is the company's enterprise offering consisting of Gmail, Chat, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Meet, and other tools. Businesses using Google Workspace have the choice of storing th...

Parliament has again varied the number of ministers from 80 to 81 with the new slot going to the Ministry of Information, ICT and National guidance. According to the movers of the motion Fox Odoi and Abdu Katuntu, there is need to add one slot of a state minister for National Guidance in order to enable the president have a cabinet that reflects the national character and social diversity. In her first sitting chairing the House, the Deputy Speaker of Parliament Anita Among first informed Legislators that she had received a communication from the president asking Parliament to vary the number of Ministers from 80 that was approved on Thursday last week to 81. Thereafter, West Budama North East MP Fox Odoi moved the motion and which was seconded by Abdu Katuntu. Odoi and Katuntu said the additional slot will enable the President have a cabinet that reflects national diversity. They pointed out that Kasese had been left out during the recent cabinet appointments and will ther...

Even as a massive data breach affecting Air India came to light the previous month, India's flag carrier airline appears to have suffered a separate cyber assault that lasted for a period of at least two months and 26 days, new research has revealed, which attributed the incident with moderate confidence to a Chinese nation-state threat actor called APT41. Group-IB dubbed the campaign "ColunmTK" based on the names of command-and-control (C2) server domains that were used for facilitating communications with the compromised systems. "The potential ramifications of this incident for the entire airline industry and carriers that might yet discover traces of ColunmTK in their networks are significant," the Singapore-headquartered threat hunting company said. While Group-IB alluded that this may have been a supply chain attack targeting SITA, the Swiss aviation information technology company told The Hacker News that they are two different security incide...

It was all storm and hullabaloo when all the media houses, online segments, radios, social media gurus were all veiled with sock ! Flame was all over, it was a wash all over including Ugandans home and diaspora. The transport and logistics officer Mr. Masagazi Deogracious was used to destroy the blue eyed man of the appointing officer. Mr Masagazi who also doubles as under secretary had a tag on our heads on sectarian and nepotistic basis.  First he deployed police to remove my official vehicle by force from home within one week of my interdiction before i could even do an official handover , this is a vehicle i had maintained and repaired using my personal salary for the last one and half years without any coin coming his office as i demonstrated patriotism and cadetship in line of my duty!  The  manipulated  not procedural interdiction was all office staged. Two occasions i was told by our senior human resource officer that Andama your interdiction was ...

What ladies do for money! She sent this video to her Sugar Daddy who later got fade up of her and sent her videos to social media. Video details; WhatsApp-Video-12-June-2021-at-12.mp4 . Video Credit; Kampala Sqoop.

Here is why Uganda government needs to provide the right statistical information on Covid-19 tests, infections, deaths and recovery. Towards the end of last year 2020, government gave wrongful information on Covid-19,  with President Museveni saying on a LIVE TV that, some of the samples tested were done by reckless Doctors in the virus laboratory henceforth giving false Covid-19 test results, and that, the total number of those infected never reached to that exaggerated figure. If the government doesn't address these concerns  pertaining the fight against  Covid-19, Ugandans will always take Covid-19 pandemic as a joke and a Political ploy by the ruling government to subdue their opponents in one way or the other. CC: #President_Yoweri_Museveni.  CC: #Ministry_of_Health CC: #UVRI Thanks. Yours Osuta Yusuf Activist, 394, Skilled Writer, Editor, ICT Guy and Online Advertiser.

Google's upcoming plans to replace third-party cookies with a less invasive ad targeted mechanism have a number of issues that could defeat its privacy objectives and allow for significant linkability of user behavior, possibly even identifying individual users. "FLoC is premised on a compelling idea: enable ad targeting without exposing users to risk," said Eric Rescorla, author of TLS standard and chief technology officer of Mozilla. "But the current design has a number of privacy properties that could create significant risks if it were to be widely deployed in its current form." Short for Federated Learning of Cohorts, FloC  is part of Google's fledgling Privacy Sandbox initiative that aims to develop alternate solutions to satisfy cross-site use cases without resorting to third-party cookies or other opaque tracking mechanisms. Essentially, FLoC allows marketers to guess users' interests without having to uniquely identify them, thereby eliminating ...