Embakasi East MP Babu Owino will be charged with attempted murder, the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) George Kinoti has said. This comes after the legislator allegedly shot and injured a DJ at a popular night club in Kilimani, Nairobi, in the early hours of Friday morning. “We will charge him with attempted murder. It…
A total of 96 Ugandan girls have been intercepted in Kenya en route to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The girls aged between 14 and 18 years were intercepted at Jomo Kenyatta international airport in Nairobi, Kenya where they were due to board a flight to the Emirates. The girls believed…
Four more bodies have been recovered from the rubbles of the two-storied building that collapsed in Jinja town in eastern Uganda on Wednesday. The dead have been identified as Dennis Muhoofa aged 28, Saad Basalirwa, 18, and Joseph Isabirye while the identity of the fourth victim is yet to be established. The building located on…
Clashes between Sudanese security forces in the capital this week have raised questions about loyalty and stability in the military and the country’s transitional unity government, with some Sudanese seeing the violence as a serious threat to the nation’s security and its move toward democracy. The ongoing violence in Khartoum, coming on the heels of…
The attorney general William Byaruhanga is seeking Shs 24bn to facilitate negotiations between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over the settlement of a $10 billion plunder case. In 2005, the United Nation’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Uganda violated the sovereignty of the DRC and is responsible for human rights abuses…
Mukono general hospital has halted treating suspects brought in by Mukono police division over lack of facilitation. The division usually takes the suspects to the hospital for examination treatment and other related medical care services. However, the medical officers claim that the suspects spend long hours at the hospital on ’empty stomachs’ since they are…
Global paints has been one of the leading partners with the UPDF during the Tarehe Sita celebrations as the Army carries out various outreach activities to the communities. Mr. Bashir Lweese the production Manager of Global paints has handed over eight hundred liters (800) of paint to Col. Twaha Kanyoma to help them in renovating…
Former Vice President of Uganda, Dr Specioza Wandira Kazibwe is in deep pain after losing her last born one John William Bomboka Kazibwe who drowned and died in a swimming pool in Nairobi, Kenya. Bomboka’s body landed Entebbe airport from Nairobi aboard Kenya airways KQ 416 at 7.50pm on friday. The young shining star had…
Kampala Parents School has yet again marched to a top notch performance in the just-released 2019 Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE), with excited candidates, staff and parents storming the head teacher’s office to check results. The Naguru-based school owned by tycoon Sudhir Ruparelia registered 171 First Grades where 15 candidates had aggregates 4, 16 with aggregate…
