All posts tagged "National News"

150 police officers fired over corruption, indiscipline

Uganda Police has announced that over 150 officers have been dismissed from the force over corruption and indiscipline. In his address to...

Current Affairs

Government To Register all Herbal Medicine Practitioners

The National Drug Authority-NDA is in the process of registering all herbal medicine practitioners across the country in a bid to ensure...

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Court

Justice Mike Chibita Named New Head the Judicial Training Institute

SUPREME COURT | KAMPALA: Justice Mike Chibita has been appointed as the new chairperson of the governing council of the Judicial Training...

Election Watch

Another NUP MP risks losing seat over lack of Academic documents

2021 ELECTION WATCH: The Rubaga South elected Member of Parliament Mr. Aloysious Mukasa is likely to lose his parliamentary seat over lack...

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NTV Journalist speaks out after being battered by security operatives

MITYANA: NTV Uganda Journalist in Mityana District, Mr Enoch Matovu, has spoken out after he was on Thursday night battered by security...

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Gov’t drops proposed tax on vehicles, adopts shs100 increment on Fuel

PARLIAMENT: The government has scrapped the proposal Shs 200,000 annual license on vehicles, and instead introduced Shs 100 tax per litre of...

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Police adds white sleeves to its new traffic uniform

The police administration has added white sleeves on its new uniform for the junior traffic police officers after members of the public...

Crime

Headteacher arrested for defiling his own 13-year-old daughter

WEST NILE: Police in Terego District have arrested a Primary School Headteacher for reportedly defiling his own daughter. The suspect, Tom Amayo,...

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Tooro kingdom deputy prime minister resigns

Tooro Kingdom 3rd Deputy Prime Minister who also doubled as Security Minister, Patrick Muganzi has resigned. In his April 20 letter to...

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Parliament approves Govt request to borrow Shs 200bn for ‘Strategic Development’

Parliament of Uganda has approve Government request to borrow sh234.78bn through Uganda Development Bank (UDB) from various international financial entities. The breakdown...

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Just In

Lord Mayor Lukwago returns from Nairobi in good health

JUST IN: Kampala City Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago has returned to the country after undergoing treatment in Nairobi. Lukwago was rushed to...

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COVID-19

Gov’t moves to make Covid-19 vaccination compulsory

This comes at a time when the country is struggling with vaccine hesitancy, a situation being worsened by increasing cases of adverse...

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National

Grief as 92-yr-old woman dies in church

“The church wardens picked her and took her outside the church where she breathed her last” he said.

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COVID-19

Museveni: Uganda will fully reopen after 4m people get Covid-19 jabs

President Museveni said only 200, 000 people have been vaccinated out of an estimated 5.5 million that are to benefit in the...

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Kadaga orders probe into sh5bn land compensation fund

The money was recently approved by Parliament to compensate landowners, including Dodovico Mwanje, who owns land that housed an Anglican church in...

‘Don’t accept Museveni’s cash handouts’, Bobi Wine tells NUP MPs

The National Unity Platform(NUP) party president Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine has told newly elected party MPs not to fall prey...

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Features

New Nebbi Diocese Bishop, Rev. Fr. Wokorach to be consecrated in June

By Francis Thomara | Nebbi Rev Fr Raphael p’Mony Wokorach, the newly appointed Bishop of Nebbi Catholic diocese will be consecrated to...

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Crime

KABALE: Woman arrested for hacking husband to death

Police in Kabale are holding a 45-year-old woman suspected to have cooperated with her children to kill the husband by hacking him...

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Crime

KISORO: Teenager arrested for raping 65-year-old

It is said that the victim was coming from the bar at around 11:15 pm on April 15, in Nyaruyaga village Kisoro...

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