Author: Peace Lawrence Ayesigwa

The state minister for public service, Mary Grace Mugasa, on Friday flagged off the distribution of bicycles to the leaders in Hoima city to facilitate them in their work. A total of 146 bicycles were distributed to LCI chairpersons and 16 to the ward councilors at a function held at Hoima City offices. The 16 wards whose councilors received the bicycles include Kibingo, Kiduma, Kamsingo, Kihuukya, Central, Western, Northern, southern. Others are Kihomboza, Bujumbura, Karongo, Kyesiiga, Bwiikya, Kicwamba, Kyentale and Nyakambugu. To avoid impersonators, each chairperson had to first present the village stamp before receiving the bicycles. Mugasa urged the…

Inadequate funding of Hoima City by the central government has left the road network outside the central business district in a poor state. This was revealed during the Hoima City budget conference held at Kitara Senior Secondary School on Thursday. Jacob Kiiza, the chairperson  of Kibbati-Katuugo cells names the 8 kilometre road network connecting the villages of Kiryatete East, Upper, Lower, Kigaragara, Busiisi East, Kibati I, Kibati II, Kibati-Katuugo and kyabahesi as being in a terrible state since it was rehabilitated five years ago. “Whenever it rains, the Kiryatete stream overflows, the road becomes slippery and the vehicles overturn or…

Hoima authorities have gazzeted a place where students coming for holidays from Ebola hit Mubende district will be tested from as a measure of combating the ongoing epidemic in the country. Speaking on Monday, the district Health Officer, Dr. Lawrence Tumusiime, said students are expected to start arriving in the district on Tuesday (November 15) and will be received by the ministry of Health team at Boma play grounds in Hoima City where a tent for screening has been gazetted. Badru Mugabi, the Hoima Resident City Commissioner said the ministry for Education and Sports in collaboration with UNICEF, an agency…

The judiciary has opened up a high court circuit in Hoima bringing the number of high courts in Bunyoro sub-region to two. The court was launched on Tuesday by the Principal Judge, Flavian Zeija at its premises in Kijungu cell, Hoima city. Zeija said the creation of the High Court was necessitated by the need to reduce the distance people especially those with capital offences have been traveling to the neighbouring Masindi district to access justice. He said it was also meant to reduce the case backlog at Masindi high court. The operationalised Court circuit is to have 8 divisions…

The Archbishop of the church of the province of Uganda Stephen Kazimba Mugalu has called upon Ugandans to work hard towards ending the dependency syndrome. Kazimba made the statement while speaking at the golden jubilee celebrations for Bunyoro-Kitara Diocese at St. Peters cathedral Duhaga in Hoima city on Sunday. Extracting his sermon from the book of Luke 4:18, archbishop Kaziimba said that jubilee is about setting people free, renewing of life, reconciliation, forgiveness, recommitment and hard work. He therefore tasked Ugandans to use the next 50 years to end their dependency on other countries. The archbishop believes that Uganda is…

Hundreds of participants have graced Bunyoro Kitara diocese’s golden jubilee marathon. The marathon which was organised by Bunyoro-Kitara Diocese in celebration of 50 years of its existence was flagged off by Rt. Rev Samuel Egesa Bogere, the Bishop of Bukedi Diocese at St. Peters Cathedral Duhaga in Hoima city on Saturday morning. The marathon held under the theme “Healthy body Healthy mind,” attracted an estimated 400 participants from all walks of life including, women, old and young who participated in the 6km and 2km races. The activity which fetched sh80m shillings, was organized to raise funds to support the golden jubilee’s…

Bunyoro Kitara Diocese has finalised preparations to mark its golden jubilee celebrations. The celebrations marking the diocese’s 50 years of existence will be held at St Peter’s Cathedral Duhaga in Hoima City tomorrow (Sunday). The celebrations will be marked by among other a thanksgiving and the inauguration of the Bishop’s House by President Museveni who is expected to be the chief guest and later be blessed by the Archbishop of the Anglican Church the Most Rev. Dr. Steven Kazimba Mugalu as the jubilee’s Main monument. The diocese’s Bishop Samuel Kahuma while addressing the media on Thursday in Hoima City listed…

This year’s football world cup is already around the corner. It will be the first tournament of this scale to be played in Qatar, a peninsular Arab country whose terrain comprises arid desert and a long Persian (Arab) Gulf shoreline of beaches and dunes. Known for its state-of-the-art skyscrapers and other ultramodern architecture inspired by ancient Islamic designs-are expected to use the 2022 global football showpiece event to further market their country as a great tourist destination. The climate has forced the event to be moved to autumn-November 20 to December 18, 2022. Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) worked…

The Daily Monitor Report dated July 25, this year, indicated that eight in every 10 Karimojong households had no or limited food. Leaders claimed that hunger-related diseases had killed more than 900 residents since the start of the year, with the misery made worse by an increase in raids and massive crop failure as a result of drought. Insecurity caused by raids blamed on local warriors prompted a counter-operation by Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF), Uganda’s army, which said it had taken 400 suspects into custody since May 16, 2022. The report also observed that it was majorly the youth affected…

Police in Hoima are holding Prophet Denis Kintu after a video circulated online showing him apparently flogging his church ushers. Kintu of the Empowerment City Church located along the paved Hoima-Kaiso-Tonya road in Kyesiga cell, West Division, Hoima city was arrested on Wednesday evening. In a video which The Albertine Journal has obtained, Kintu is seen holding a cane in his right hand and a microphone on the other hand. He is then overheard ordering all church ushers to move forward and be punished. “Every minister (usher) come forward…go down…..very fast” ordered Kintu who was donned in a red shirt…