New Vision (newspaper) government kept the name of its daily publication as "Uganda Argus". Following the rise to power of Idi Amin in 1971, the government paper was renamed "Voice of Uganda". When Amin was deposed in 1979, the second Obote government named its paper "Uganda Times". When the National Resistance Movement seized power in 1986, the name of the daily newspaper was changed to "New Vision". The "Uganda Argus" and its successors always presented as the "official" newspaper of the regime in power. The Vision Group incorporated as the New Vision Printing & Publishing Company Limited (NVPPCL), started business in March 1986.
Idi Amin estimated by international observers and human rights groups to range from 100,000 to 500,000. Amin did not write an autobiography, and he did not authorize an official written account of his life. There are, therefore, discrepancies regarding when and where he was born. Most biographical sources claim that he was born in either Koboko or Kampala around 1925. Other unconfirmed sources state Amin's year of birth from as early as 1923 to as late as 1928. Amin's son Hussein has stated that his father was born in Kampala in 1928. According to Fred Guweddeko, a researcher at Makerere University, Amin