Military personnel on Sunday morning sealed off the offices of Nation Media Group (NMG) Uganda, effectively disrupting operations at NTV Uganda, the Daily Monitor newspaper and the company’s other media outlets.
The operation came hours after the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, posted a series of messages on social media announcing that the media house would be shut down after being authorised by his father, President Yoweri Museveni.
In a post published at 1:07 am, Gen Muhoozi wrote: “NTV and Monitor are being shut down from today!” He later added, “Both NTV and Monitor will not reopen without my permission.”
In another post, he stated: “In Uganda, I DO NOT believe in a free press! The press should be guided by cadres of the revolution.”
According to staff members, military personnel were deployed at both the Kampala Serena Conference Centre, which houses NTV Uganda and Spark TV studios, and Nation Media Group’s headquarters in Namuwongo, where the Daily Monitor, 93.3 KFM and 90.4 Dembe FM operate.
A staff member told URN that by 5:00 am, the Serena premises had been sealed off, preventing employees from accessing their workplaces.
Another senior staff member, who requested anonymity because they were not authorised to speak publicly, said security personnel had switched off both the main electricity supply and the backup generator at the facility.
“You can go there, but you should be cautious. From the outside, the entrance looks normal, but they are not allowing anyone in. Management is expected to issue a formal statement in the coming hours,” the source said.
At the Namuwongo offices, staff who reported for duty early were also denied entry by security personnel. The security deployment followed a series of online posts in which Gen Muhoozi accused NTV Uganda and the Daily Monitor of persistently insulting him and President Yoweri Museveni.
Nation Media Group Uganda operates some of the country’s largest media platforms, including the Daily Monitor, NTV Uganda, Spark TV, 93.3 KFM, 90.4 Dembe FM, Ennyanda and other publications. The company employs more than 500 people in Uganda.
By the time of publication, Nation Media Group Uganda had not issued an official statement on the operation. The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF), Uganda Police Force and Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) had also not publicly explained the reasons for the deployment.
The incident adds to a history of confrontations between Nation Media Group Uganda and state authorities. In 2013, police raided the Daily Monitor and Dembe FM offices following the publication of a letter linked to Muhoozi succession politics, keeping the premises closed for more than a week.
In 2007, NTV Uganda was temporarily taken off air months after its launch following government criticism of its coverage.
Over the years, President Museveni has also publicly criticised the Daily Monitor, at one point describing it as an “enemy and evil newspaper” because of its reporting.
At this rate, we are all destined for trouble, you cannot not treat a country like a personal property.
Mr Wadada, we were already in trouble the moment this regime shot itself into power 40 years ago. And most likely, the worst is yet to come.
Wadada, where are you? It’s looks like you crewless of what is going on in Uganda for over 40 years. M7 has been and still is, treating Uganda as his property. He owns it outright and does whatever he wants. We, Ugandans, have ourselves to blame because, we’re so divided to the extent that you’re talking about our destination to “trouble,” yet we already arrived and been in trouble for over 40 years but have done nothing. We enjoy trouble M7 has imposed on us and love it with a passion to the extent that we keep recycling trouble every 5 years and expect different results. In over 40 years, M7 has abducted, tortured and killed countless innocent Ugandans, simply because they have a political difference and need a fundamental change in our country. WAdada, that is trouble, not destined for trouble. M7 has done all that because he owns Uganda as his personal property, and indeed it is.
Fallen and bed-ridden is Sevo’s family state right now. I smell the end of Museveni regime. As I told you earlier in January/February 2026, that Sevos is in a “state” of mourning, it’s unfolding. The path his son & himself has taken is irreversible. It’s going to get worse before it gets better-Good news, this time around Museveni and his family will be gone. It’s going to end in Glory. What is happening in Iran could end up in Uganda or the Great lakes region too. In order to destroy “Baal” worshippers you have to destroy its sources. I sense a sign of a curse over Sevos’s family. Muhoozi is demonstrating how a tormenting spirits unfolds. A wise family or leader would seek for forgiveness, and prayers of deliverance. Ugandans should learn to discern how God fights his battle to people who self confess to believe in God, then misuse his name. Deuteronomy 4:24 says, “For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God”. Tears of Ugandans(Matembes,Besigyes, Lukwagos, Waiswas, Oppressed, deprived, exiled, etc) have filled God’s cup and now dropping back down to earth/Uganda.
It is ok for Gen MK and his father, our 86-years-old BOGUS PROBLEM OF AFRICA, Gen Tibuhaburwa to insult innocent Ugandans. But it is not ok for Ugandans to insult them back.
NYET! The measure you give is the measure you get!
MK should be reminded that his father referred to his predecessors: Dr. A M Obote, Gen iddi Amin Dadda and Gen Tito Lutwa (all RIP) as swine. But he has turned out to be the worse self-evident swine/hog!
In other words, closing all the Media Houses in the country will not make Ugandans love or respect them more. NOR make him and father the best leaders that Ugandans have ever had, but the worst, diabolic and abominable.
We are Back to the Drawing Board! NRA (Notorious Robbers Army/Movement)Camouflaged to PLU (Popular Leeches United) With Aim to Sustain the Status Quo of Death and Destruction!!..Over the Teller Rand in Equatorial Guinea, The Whole Government has Resigned! Not in Uganda Where Everybody Hopes not to be the next Victim until The Drone Parks outside the Gate!Ugandans, Time is UP! Tewakyaali Kulanga kulala!!The Constitution was Toppled in 1986!!40 Years Down the Road We have been Terrorized by Gunmen with aim to Kill and Destroy!The Devil has been Telling You All along that There is No Case to Answer! He is a Curse, Kisiraani and Enemy of Humanity!
Uganda belongs to the Rwandese family, so Father & son are running the family business as they wish!
Museveni, you don’t need tribal leaders in posts any more as Ugandans just want, look up to you & your family?
Why still pay tribal leaders in posts & payed for doing WHAT?
Indeed that is what happens to these third world military trainees! Especially those ones trained in the famous American military of West Point at a greater cost to their countries. They are indoctrinated in the democracy of Republican dictatorship as a force to reckon with. Indeed human rights is a side issue to their point of veiw. One hopes they are directed to visit that famous USA institution of the CIA before they are sent back to their relative countries to preach the disturbing gospel of USA military empire! One wonders what sort of international help can the opposition struggling electoral candidate of Uganda receive unless he too can enlist into such a modern brutal war machinery!