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 👆 Arua District RDC Mr George E Owanyi. The association of Disco operators in Arua District (Vurra Constituency) yesterday 25-8-2022 pleaded with the Resident District Commissioner Mr George Emmanuel Owanyi to have mercy on them after the Council of Arua District passed a resolution to ban Discos in the new District of Arua (Vurra Constituency). The decision arose from complains by elders and other concerned residents in the District who claim, over 2000 young girls have been impregnated as a result of rampant Discos. The Disco operators have denied the allegations of rampant teenage pregnancies as a result of rampant Discos. They shifted the blame on Bar / Shop operators who sale none consumable and consumable goods like Alcoholic drinks, juice drinks etc etc who play loud music for free to attract customers. "How can someone pay 1000 Shs for entry into a Disco Hall when a shop seller has put another disco with a woofe...

The Territorial Police in KMP and Kira Division, has charged to court, Bishop Kibuuka Jacinto, of the Evangelical Orthodox Church, located at Mamre Prayer Center, Namugongo, for the alleged Aggravated Torture of Othieno Denis, a 14 year old, pupil of Christ the King Junior School, Namungoona. The facts gathered indicate that on the 22.08.2022, the victim was at Mamre Prayer Center, with his mother, Kemigisha Juliet, who works as a cleaner. The mother left him behind and went to town. It was during her absence that the Bishop called the victim and started demanding his money, Ugx. 10,000 which was allegedly stolen by him. Instead of referring the matter to police, he started beating and kicking the 14 year old victim. He then dragged him into his car and continued beating him as they drove to the mother’s home at Namugongo-Janda in Kira Municipality, to recover the money. It took the intervention of the landlady, who rescued the victim and rushed him to Nuwa Hospital, Nabusugwe-Mukono, ...

The residents of Pio village and other neighboring villages in Nyadri South Town Council mobilised themselves and resources to reconstruct a Bridge that sunk on one side after a heavy flooding Five years ago. The Residents affirmed that, they drafted and submitted to the district a letter to help them with  a budget of 1.8 million Shs only to reconstruct the Bridge with local materials but out of that, the District only helped them by offering a Lorry to transport four Logs of timber they bought in a distance little far away from Rini bridge. They said, they collected money from home to home, market to market and they also raised their concerns to the MPs in Maracha District, out of which, it's only Hon Driwaru Jennifer the District Woman MP who heed to their cry and gave them money, bags of cement, bought logs of tree and also bought for them two goats 🐐 to feast on while doing the work of the bridge. The com...

                       Charlie Chaplin. The Great Dictator 1940. ............................................................................................................................................ I'm sorry but I don't want to be an Emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to  rule or conquer anyone.  I should like to help everyone if possible. We all want to help one another -- human beings  are like that. We all want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.  We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone  and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped  us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in:  machinery ...

 National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) says it is in the process of recovering some of its critical data lost last Thursday after hackers gained access to their IT system.   Addressing journalists in Kampala yesterday 24-8-2022, Mr Silver Mugisha, the corporation’s managing director, said their servers were disabled by malware (malicious software) affecting their operations. Mr Mugisha said they last week discovered that their internally-developed ICT systems for human resource management, customer care, procurement and inventory management were attacked. “We carried out an initial assessment and the immediate findings revealed that some of the servers had been affected by malware and could not function as required. We reverted to the data recovery site for business continuity of the critical systems, especially customer services,” he said. He said they have also engaged an independent ICT forensic security expert to establish the cause of the mishap. “Their find...

The Resident District Commissioner for Maracha District, Mr Festus Ayikobua has condole with the family, relatives, friends and in-laws of the Police officer who shot his wife dead and later killed himself too using the same gun assigned to him at duty station. It's alleged that, the Couple have being having misunderstandings and quarrels over a range of issues and the latest being a quarrel on Tuesday morning 23-8-2022 over a phone. Mr Festus, while speaking with this online publication site condemned the approach the Police Officer at the rank of Police Constable (PC) Alioma Isaac used to solve the misunderstanding. The RDC asked each and everyone who may encounter misunderstandings with their family members or relatives, to approach Religious leaders, cultural leaders, counselors or even government officials for advise before a situation worsens to that extent. Mr Festus has urged Families of the Couple not to fingerpoint at any member or party being responsible for ...

  WordPress sites are being hacked to display fraudulent Cloudflare DDoS protection pages that lead to the delivery of malware such as NetSupport RAT and Raccoon Stealer. "A recent surge in JavaScript injections targeting WordPress sites has resulted in fake DDoS prevent prompts which lead victims to download remote access trojan malware," Sucuri's Ben Martin  said  in a write-up published last week. Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection pages are essential browser verification checks designed to deter bot-driven unwanted and malicious traffic from eating up bandwidth and taking down websites. The new attack vector involves hijacking WordPress sites to display fake DDoS protection pop-ups that, when clicked, ultimately lead to the download of a malicious ISO file ("security_install.iso") to the victim's systems. This is achieved by injecting three lines of code into a JavaScript file ("jquery.min.js"), or alternatively into the active the...

The territorial police of Maracha is investigating an incident of murder and suicide by shooting which occurred on 23rd August 2022 at 11:50pm in Yiba village, Robu parish, Oleba Sub county, Maracha District. This incident was reported to police by the LC1 chair man of Yiba village one Alia John 65 years old. It's alleged that on 23rd August 2022 at around 6pm one Alioma Isaac an SPC attached to Kijomoro police station in Kijomoro Sub county signed for a gun ready for night duty at the station. He escaped from his beat in Kijomoro Sub county at unknown time in the night, and went to his village home in Oleba Sub county for reasons not yet known. At around 11:55pm, close neighbors heard gunshots from SPC Alioma's home. When they rushed to find out what happened, they found two dead bodies lying in a pool of blood with injuries on their heads.  Police acted quickly by registering a case under Oleba police station SD reference 02/24/8/2022, they visited, examined and d...

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At least 14 technical and support staff of Kitgum District Local Government spent the night in custody at Kitgum Central Police Station on allegations of squandering the Parish Development Model (PDM) funds.   The suspects include Joel Musisi, the Chief Administrative Officer, Alex Opira the Principal Commercial Officer, Michael Ogweng, the Senior Probation and Welfare Officer, Denish Ocira the District Agriculture Officer and Dr. Alfred Kinyera, the District Veterinary Officer.   Others are Stephen Omwony Lakwonyero, the Principal Assistant Secretary to the CAO, Alfred Omony the district Production Officer, Juliet Akello an Office attendant, and Alex Otim the Chief Finance Officer.   Others are Paul Nyeko, the district commercial officer, Atwom Morris the Assistant Commercial Officer, Christopher Kilama, the District Planner, Samuel Komakech, a driver, and Gaudensio Ogal, the Community development Officer.   The suspects were picked up yesterday, 22nd August, 2022 o...

Whether your trade show setup requires big screens with cool videos or just a couple laptops, you’re going to need internet access. At Hyper Networks, we get asked all the time: do I need static or DHCP IP? The short answer is that DHCP is usually the best way to go for trade show internet needs. Here’s why, how IP addressing works, and when you might need static.  What’s the difference between static and DHCP IP?  An IP (internet protocol) address is a number that identifies each device on a network. With a static IP address, this unique number stays the same. With a DHCP (dynamic host configuration protocol) address, this number is automatically assigned to each device from a pool of available numbers on the network. Just like it sounds: static is permanent; dynamic is temporary.  There’s a reason it’s called an address. The internet works a lot like a postal system. Just like street addresses identify where mail should be delivered, IP addresses identify wh...

Deputy Speaker of Parliament Thomas Tayebwa has directed the Minister of Finance Matia Kasaija and his Agriculture counterpart Frank Tumwebaze to present to Parliament an action taken report on funds for the purchase of coffee seedlings to be supplied to farmers. This directive followed a petition about the plight of the coffee nursery bed operators around the country who are stuck with seedlings after the government failed to buy them for supply to the farmers this season. The petition from Devoted Coffee Farmers Initiative Uganda was presented by Sheema District woman legislator Rosemary Nyakikongolo and Mwenge North’s David Muhumuza during this afternoon’s plenary sitting. Tayebwa said that many farmers across the country cannot afford to buy seedlings and have been waiting for government support after Parliament appropriated funds in the current financial year’s budget. He wants the two Ministers to study the petition and report jointly to the House on Wednesday next week. “I refer...

24-August-2022. Below here are the excerpts from the Facebook Account of Hon Oshino Rashid, Councillor representing Bazaar Ward in Central Division Arua City. ………………………………………………………………………..…..……………………………………… Arua city this morning,,Last evening 23-8-2022 Heavy down pour in Westnile destroyed properties worth millions the worst affected was Gurua cell Bazaar Ward. Where 24 house holds were affected, people's items and food were washed as a result about 200 people slept hungry,, I want to thank The area youths for the quick emergency exercise they offered to the vulnerable people,the pregnancy, the elderly and the children. I also want to thank the DPC Arua central and Red cross Arua for the efforts they made to minimize the hazard created by disaster, we thank God that no life Lost. The flooding in Gurua cell Bazaar Ward was basically Engineering disaster which is man made and such happens due to negligence, error in engineering which leads to improper selection of materials and site...

Israeli Organizations for Espionage A suspected Iranian threat activity cluster has been linked to attacks aimed at Israeli shipping, government, energy, and healthcare organizations as part of an espionage-focused campaign that commenced in late 2020. Cybersecurity firm Mandiant is tracking the group under its uncategorized moniker UNC3890, which is believed to conduct operations that align with Iranian interests. "The collected data may be leveraged to support various activities, from hack-and-leak, to enabling kinetic warfare attacks like those that have plagued the shipping industry in recent years," the company's Israel Research Team noted. Intrusions mounted by the group lead to the deployment of two proprietary pieces of malware: a "small but efficient" backdoor named SUGARUSH and a browser credential stealer called SUGARDUMP that exfiltrates password information to an email address associated with Gmail, ProtonMail, Yahoo, and Yandex. Also employed is a ...

23-8-2022. Deputy Speaker, Thomas Tayebwa has asked for immediate action by the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) and the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) to ban media advertisements of substandard products that have flooded the market. Tayebwa, while presiding over this afternoon’s plenary sitting, noted with concern that, much as substandard products continue to pose a risk to the lives of Ugandans, manufacturers are always accessing the media to advertise. “If it is illegal to have a non certified product on the market, then how do you allow it to be advertised?” Tayebwa wondered. The Deputy Speaker’s concern followed a matter of national importance raised by Arua Central legislator, Jackson Atima, who informed Parliament of the death of 14 people in West Nile after allegedly consuming a locally manufactured alcohol called City 5  (See photo below 👇). Atima informed Parliament that survivors of the alcoholic drink are being treated at Arua Regional Referral Hospi...

The Ministry of Information, Communication, Technology and National Guidance wants the Computer Misuse (Amendment) Bill 2022 withdrawn. The Permanent Secretary, Dr Aminah Zawedde said that her ministry is in the process of bringing a holistic and encompassing bill that will address gaps in the Acts governing the ICT sector including the current Computer Misuse Act 2011. “We recommend that we halt the Computer Misuse (Amendment) Bill, 2022 and we await the Information and Communications Bill, 2022 that will incorporate this bill as well,” Zawedde said on Tuesday, 16 August 2022 while meeting MPs on the Committee on ICT. On 17 July 17 2022 Hon. Muhammad Nsereko (Indep., Kampala Central) moved a private member’s bill intended to curtail cyber bullying and fake news. Once implemented, the law is envisaged to limit dissemination of unauthorized digital content and information while fostering online protection for the general populace. Dr. Zawedde said that whereas Cabinet advised that the m...

The Territorial police at Rwizi Region in Mbarara has suspended 4 of its officers, who caused a public nuisance act, after they barged into the wedding reception at Kakyika Technical Institute, on the 20.08.2022, and arrested the bride at around 8pm, on a sanctioned charges of theft of Ugx. 8 million. They drove her to the police station in Mbarara, where she was detained. The facts gathered indicate that on the 06.07.2022, a one Mirembe Henry, the former employer of the bride called, Christine Natuhwere, who was working for him as a bank agent, for Centenary Bank, at BNK building, high street in Mbarara city, opened a case of theft of Ugx. 8 million against her. The matter was investigated and the case file submitted to the Resident State Attorney, Mbarara on the 18.07.2022, who advised the parties to seek a civil remedy. However, on the 5.08.2022, the file was called by the Regional DPP, following a petition from the complainant. He re-perused the casefile and sanctioned the charges ...

This is the story of the first oil war, which was fought in the 19th century, in the area that became Nigeria. All through the 19th century, palm oil was highly sought-after by the British, for use as an industrial lubricant for machinery. Remember that Britain was the world’s first industrialised nation, so they needed resources such as palm oil to maintain that. Palm oil, of course, is a tropical plant, which is native to the Niger Delta. Malaysia’s dominance came a century later. By 1870, palm oil had replaced slaves as the main export of the Niger Delta, the area which was once known as the Slave Coast. At first, most of the trade in the oil palm was uncoordinated, with natives selling to those who gave them the best deals. Native chiefs such as former slave, Jaja of Opobo became immensely wealthy because of oil palm. With this wealth came influence. However, among the Europeans, there was competition for who would get preferential access to the lucrative oil palm trade. In 1879, G...