All posts tagged "Latest-News"

Kayunga: Museveni defends govt on unfulfilled pledges, praises Nantaba

KAYUNGA, UGANDA: President Yoweri Museveni today Tuesday defended his government over the unfulfilled development projects in Kayunga district. Mr. Museveni was in...

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COVID-19

High Court suspends govt mandatory COVID-19 vaccination order

High court judge Antony Mrima put a hold on a government directive that would have denied services to unvaccinated persons beginning next...

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Teargas, bullets in Kayunga as police disperse NUP supporters

KAYUNGA, UGANDA: Police on Tuesday fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of National Unity Platform (NUP) supporters who had organized a procession...

Crime

KIBALE: 16-year-old girl accuses her father of violating her sexual rights

KIBALE, UGANDA; A 16-year-old girl in Kibale district is accusing her 60-year-old father of allegedly abusing her sexual rights after a divorce...

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Boda Boda cyclists storm Kagadi CPS over unexplained release of two Motorcycle thieves

KAGADI, UGANDA: Boda Boda riders in Mabaale and Kagadi Town council in Kagadi District have stormed the district police station protesting against...

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Africa

Koffi Olomide sentenced in France over dancers’ kidnapping

Congolese singer Koffi Olomide has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for the kidnapping of his former dancers. But the sentence was...

Join hands to fight hatred against Buganda Kingdom: Kabaka

KAMPALA, UGANDA: The Kabaka of Buganda Kingdom, Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II has tasked the Lukiiko and subjects to strongly speak out against...

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Africa

Experts warn Africans to brace for more COVID-19 variants

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA: Experts have warned that Africa will continue seeing a cycle of new COVID-19 variants if more people are not...

Bunyoro Kingdom Officials accused of deforestation activities at Bugoma Forest

KIKUUBE, UGANDA: Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom Officials have been put on the spot for the increased illegal lumbering and charcoal burning activities in...

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Africa

34 suspected ADF Rebels captured in ongoing Military Operations in DRC

KAMPALA, UGANDA: The Uganda People’s Defense Forces -UPDF and Congolese Forces have captured 34 Allied for Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels in joint...

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Business

Ruparelia Group rubbishes claims of endangering Lake Victoria in construction of Entebbe Speke Resort Hotel

ENTEBBE, UGANDA: In the wake of false allegations of pouring soil in Lake Victoria in the construction of Speke Resort Entebbe project,...

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Museveni warns IGG Kamya to go slow on lifestyle audit of govt officials

KAMPALA, UGANDA: President Museveni has cautioned the Inspector General of Government (IGG), Ms Beti Kamya, to go slow on the planned lifestyle...

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Nabbanja rallies residents to vote for NRM in Kayunga LC5 By-Elections

KAMYUNGA, UGANDA: Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja has rallied Kayunga residents to vote for the National Resistance Movement candidate Andrew Muwonge for the...

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Kiira police embarks on registration of pastors after gruesome ritual murder

JINJA, UGANDA: Police in Kiira region on Friday embarked on a campaign to register all Born Again faith pastors in both Jinja...

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Education

Education ministry to release school reopening calendar next week

KAMPALA, UGANDA: The Ministry of Education and Sports will release the new school calendar on December 14th, 2021. But as the government...

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Pius Bigirimana wins defamation case against Monitor Publications

KAMPALA, UGANDA: Pius Bigirimana, the Permanent Secretary of the Judiciary has won the defamation case against Monitor Publications Limited and the latter...

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Featured

BEN SSEBUGUZI: Kololo SS Should not fight but harmonize with the Investor

When computers started being imported into Uganda in late 1990, I think the government gave a window period to all civil servants...

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Byabashaija promotes 2,700 prisons officers

KAMPALA, UGANDA: Dr. Johnson Byabashaija, the Commissioner General of Uganda Prisons Services-UPS has promoted 2,755 junior officers. They include 106 Chief Warder...

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Court

Legal Brains Trust petitions DPP over tax evasion trial against Basajjabalaba

KAMPALA, UGANDA: Legal Brains Trust has petitioned the Director of Public Prosecutions-DPP Jane Frances Abodo demanding explanations why the tax evasion case...

Court

DPP withdraws appeal in case against lawyer Paul Wanyoto

KAMPALA, UGANDA: The Director of Public Prosecutions Jane Frances Abodo has withdrawn an appeal challenging a decision by the Anti-Corruption Court that...

Businessman Hamis Kiggundu Petitions CJ Owiny over alleged Supreme Court bias in Sh120bn DTB Fraud Case

City Businessman Hamis Kiggundu alias Ham has petitioned the Chief Justice of Uganda’s Judiciary Alfonse Owiny-Dollo to intervene in his scandal with...

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