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Nile Treasure Gate denies conspiracy over worker’s missing kidney

The family explained that while in Saudi Arabia, Nakintu underwent an ‘unexplained surgery’ procedure. She suffered a stroke that paralyzed her and...

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Tycoon Sudhir Hits at Bank Of Uganda after Court Victory – You People stole my Bank

KAMPALA, UGANDA: Businessman Dr. Sudhir Ruparelia has hit at certain Bank of Uganda officials after flooring them in court battle accusing them...

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Supreme Court dismisses BOU appeal against Sudhir, Meera Investments – Ordered to cough billions & return his bank

In a ruling delivered no Friday, February 11, 2022, Supreme Court ruled that BOU reverts Crane Bank to the owner(s) and also...

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93% of Ugandans have less than sh1million on bank accounts

This means when a bank is closing down, anyone with 10 million shillings will be fully paid their deposits back, while the...

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ICJ orders Uganda to pay DRC UGX 1 Trillion in War Reparations

The Congo demanded 11 billion dollars in damages from a war that left hundreds of thousands of her people dead and millions...

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SEACOM acquires Africell Uganda assets as it expands East African footprint

This latest expansion comes on the heels of SEACOM’s recent acquisition of Kenyan service provider Hirani Telecom’s metro fibre network.

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Newly discovered HIV variant highly infectious and severe – Scientists

The new strain, called the VB variant, damages the immune system, weakening people’s ability to fight everyday infections and diseases much faster...

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Parliament paid Shs 1.7bn for Oulanyah’s chartered flight to USA

According to sources attached to aviation security, Oulanyah was flown out in the early hours of Thursday, February 3, after discharge/referral from...

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How the Uganda Airlines Airbus was secretly chartered to Seattle

The arrival of the plane in the USA was noticed by aviation enthusiasts, who were wondering on what mission the flight was...

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EDWIN MUZAHURA: Why Crane Bank Should be Reopened Immediately!

With the great news of the Final Investment Decision being concluded this week at Kololo Airstrip, we must have already a fully...

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Seyani Brothers in deep trouble over Shs256bn fraudulent JLOS contract

The Contracts Committee at the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs has cited illegalities and gross fraud in the process employed in...

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Museveni calls for mandatory death penalty of rapists

Museveni while opening the New Law Year 2022 said people who rape women and those involved in extra judicial killings are supposed...

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BIG STORY: Gov’t Proposes Shs4m fine for unvaccinated persons

A proposed amendment to section 47 of the Act seeks to penalise parents by way of six months in jail and Shs...

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Police recover two bodies from septic tank in City businessman’s home

Owoyesigyire noted that the two suspects (Naomi Tumwine & Norman Muhangi) earlier arrested are still in police custody whereas efforts are underway...

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Auditor General queries non-recovery of UGX 24.7Bn from corruption convicts

Officials from the Inspectorate of Government recently told MPs that recovery of proceeds of corrupt practices is challenged by limited financial resources.

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Grief as another Ugandan woman mysteriously dies in Saudi

Zawedde was announced dead two hours after she spoke to her sister in Uganda. This left the family in utter shock!

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Seyani Brothers Ltd on spot over alleged Shs 1billion fraud

Two missing pages in the bid documents and alterations of figures that initially read Shs725 million to read Shs1.725 billion raised MPs’...

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Audit Report Reveals Rot In Covid-19 Funds Expenditure

According to the report, whereas medical workers requested to be given Shs150,00 per day as risk allowances, this was not possible and...

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Uganda seals $10bn Mega FID Oil deal with Chinese, French Companies

The Completion of the pipeline, planned in 36 months’ time, will also give way for the commercial production of oil, which has...

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After coups in Mali and Burkina Faso, will Niger be next?

Some scholars predict that Niger could go the way of its neighbours and others are going so far as to urge the...

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‘Strange’ disease hits Kyotera district, 10 dead

According to Dr. Janefrancis Zalwango, the Masaka Regional WHO epidemiologist, they initially thought it was Ebola, Marburg, Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF),...