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By Peter Ssuuna | Miracle Center Cathedral, Rubaga. There was drama, power and prophecy at Miracle Center Cathedral, Rubaga last night when Minister for Local Government, Hon. Balaam Barugahara Ateenyi, abandoned protocol and rushed to the altar for divine empowerment. The Local Government Minister, stunned the congregation when he walked straight to Nigerian Apostle Dr. Paul Enenche during the ongoing Big Fix Holy Spirit Global Conference and asked him to lay his healing hands on him. Balaam, dressed casually but visibly burdened, told the mammoth crowd that he had come for one reason to receive anointing to execute his mandate from the President. "I came here to be fixed so I can fix Uganda," Balaam declared.  "Transform life, strengthen good service. I thank Pastor Kayanja for praying for me to fight corruption. The President told me to FIX everything. And since this conference is called THE BIG FIX, I have come to be fixed so that I will fix everything that has not b...

By Peter Ssuuna | Miracle Center Cathedral, Rubaga The Miracle Center Cathedral in Rubaga was on fire last night as the highly anticipated 7-day Big Fix Holy Spirit Global Conference roared into life. Thousands of believers packed the cathedral to capacity, flooding the altar with prayer requests, pain, and expectation for a touch from the Holy Spirit. Host Pastor Robert Kayanja opened the conference with a powerful charge on the Holy Spirit, leaving the congregation charged with joy and anticipation for what God is about to do this week. Then the atmosphere changed. At exactly 8:50 PM, Nigeria’s fiery revivalist Dr. Paul Enenche stepped onto the pulpit and the entire cathedral erupted in a thunderous shout. In a moment of deep honor, he first anointed the chair where he would sit, then moved along the front row, warmly greeting believers before taking the microphone. What followed was pure worship. With his deep, resonant voice, Dr. Enenche led the massed congregation in intense Holy...

By Peter Ssuuna, Kampala The Holy Spirit conference *The Big Fix* has started powerfully with believers from different parts of world having flooded Pastor Robert Kayanja's Miracle Center Cathedral Church in Lubaga, to present their problems for the Holy Spirit to touch and heal their pain. Pastor Kayanja opened this confverence with a sermon preaching about the Holy Spirit, and people were filled with joy.  Believers have been seen filled with the Spirit, and many in tears amid powerful worship. These came from Kenya, China, Zambia, Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda, and other countries. Internationally renowned televangelists Dr. Kenneth Copeland, Pastor Benny Hinn, and Dr. Paul Enenche alongside Pastor Robert Kayanja are set for this Big Fix Holy Spirit Global Conference. Several other international guest ministers, as well as leading Ugandan men and women of God, have come to minister during the conference. BACKGROUND OF THE GUEST PREACHERS Dr. Kenneth Copeland is an American televangeli...

By PETER SSUUNA-KAMPALA Kampala is once again preparing for one of the biggest Christian gatherings in East Africa as internationally renowned televangelists Dr. Kenneth Copeland, Pastor Benny Hinn, and Dr. Paul Enenche headline Pastor Robert Kayanja's Big Fix Holy Spirit Global Conference at Miracle Centre Cathedral in Rubaga. The seven-day conference will run from September 21 to 27, 2026, and is expected to attract hundreds of thousands of believers, pastors, ministers, and pilgrims from Uganda, across Africa, and beyond for worship, prayer, healing, teaching, miracles, and Holy Spirit ministry. Organisers say several other international guest ministers, as well as leading Ugandan men and women of God, will also minister during the conference. BENNY HINN RETURNS TO RUBAGA MIRACLE CENTRE CATHEDRAL. Pastor Benny Hinn is among the world's most recognised healing evangelists. Born in Israel and later based in the United States, returns to Uganda months after his historic ...

BY PETER SSUUNA The water shortage at the government school of Busaawula Primary School C/U in Katale, Seguku has prompted members of the Nalumunye-Katale Rotarians to fundraise to at least turn it into a well in order to help pupils study comfortably. They vowed this during the installation ceremony of their first ever President Derrick Kalungi and said this will be their first project after being formed. Kalungi emphasized that as members, they have a responsibility to help their community where they grew up from by helping residents with challenges they face, as the Rotary principle states. At the ceremony which was held at Lavena Hotel in Seguku, Kalungi said; "Because it is from these schools that future leaders come from, and because children are the young trees that sustain the forest, our Rotary has decided to construct for them a well from where they will get water." He says they will add a water tank where the water will be stored to end this problem. He a...

  Noah Luggya left and Ttabula who have been sentenced to death By PETER SSUUNA The High Court Criminal Division in Kampala has sentenced two men to death by hanging after finding them guilty of the murder of Eng. Daniel Bbosa Kakeedo, the former head (Lwomwa) of the Ndiga Clan. Justice Daniel Matovu on Tuesday sentenced Bbosa Tabula Luggya (principal offender) and Noah Bbosa Luggya (co-accused) following their plea of guilty to murder contrary to Sections 188 and 189 of the Penal Code Act. The court entered a conviction on their own plea after the accused persons reaffirmed their guilty plea and admitted to all facts as presented by the State. Prosecution's case Led by the State Attorney, the prosecution told court that the convicts, along with others still at large and one deceased Enock Sserunkuuma   conspired to murder the deceased between November 2023 and February 2024. Court heard that between November and December 2023, the convicts held several planning me...

By PETER SSUUNA; MENGO Drama erupted at the Nateete-Lubaga Chief Magistrates' Court in Mengo on Monday after the State challenged the competence of a key defense witness in the case against nine men accused of falsely accusing Pastor Robert Kayanja of sodomy. The witness, Dr. Phenehansi Bwambale, 44, a police officer attached to the Police Training School in Kabalye, told court he is a forensic pathology expert with two degrees and five years of experience. He said he had come to testify for the defense after examining the young men who allege they were sodomized. Bwambale stated that in addition to being a pathologist, he is also a qualified dental surgeon. However, State Prosecutor Jonnathan Muwaganya objected to his testimony, arguing that Bwambale lacks the legal capacity and experience to testify in such a case because his background is in dentistry. Muwaganya told court that a check on the Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council website shows Bwambale is reg...

By PETER SSUUNA Residents of Kitovu Village in Kajjansi, Wakiso District, have appealed to the Government to bring a health facility closer to their community, saying the nearest one is four miles away and they cannot afford the journey, as they have little money. Together with their Village Secretary, Ssaalongo Robinson Nsiko, the residents joined their voices to plead to the Government to at least provide them with a nearby hospital to save them from the long trek. They say private clinics in the area are too expensive and they cannot afford treatment there. They made the remarks during a medical camp organized at Tuzukuke Primary School by the Rotary Club of Kitende Breeze in partnership with the Ministry of Health, which screened residents for various diseases and provided treatment. Residents were screened for high blood pressure, diabetes, malaria, eye problems, dental issues and other illnesses, and were also educated on family planning methods. The organizers also taught ...

By; Admin. Willy Ssonko, 48, a resident of Kiyanja Zone in Kawempe, in a distressed state, struggling to breathe, said one of his relatives tried to poison him to take over his mother's land that was given to her by his late grandfather Luka Lunninze. The person he accuses of these acts is Andrew Baasi, whom he says sold off part of his mother's land while pretending to be the administrator of the late Lunninze's estate, and now he has been left with nowhere to stay. He showed the will of the late Lunninze which distributes his wealth, including the plot of land that was given to his late mother Melda Nambi which she left to him, but now Baasi allegedly wants to take it from him as well. Ssonko explained that when his grandfather died in 1976, he left each of his children with their share, including Baasi's father the late Ssemugooma, and he wonders why Baasi is targeting his mother's plot and leaving his own father's share. He accused Baasi of having gr...

By our reporter Residents of Ssembabule have praised the legacy left by former Minister of Foreign Affairs Sam Kuteesa in their District in politics and in developing their area. They said this at a thanksgiving function organized to thank him for what he has done for them, which was held at the district grounds, where different people spoke highly of his good deeds. They went as far as naming a road after him called 'Sam Kuteesa Road' as well as naming a building at the district headquarter after him, and they gave him various gifts including 12 cows which they collected from the 17 sub-counties that make up Ssembabule and other things. Almost everyone who got the microphone praised him for the service he has rendered in developing Ssembabule including starting their District which they are proud of, building them schools, roads, churches and mosques as well as grooming various people in politics and other things. This thanksgiving was led by Rev. Can. Enock Muhanguz...