Victoria University, one of the many education investments made by the Ruparelia Group, has announced that aspiring students can now get fully funded scholarships to study courses of their choice at the Jinja Road-based institution. Victoria University Vice-Chancellor Dr Krishna N. Sharma said students applying will, however, be mandated to pay a small application fee. The university…
The Inspector General of Police, Martin Okoth Ochola, has made several changes in the force’s leadership, transferring and appointing more than 124 senior officers from different police departments. Ochola wrote in the internal Memo informing all affected police officers that transfers are normal and take immediate. These fresh deployments, transfers and appointments affected officers from…
Police has released a preliminary investigation into a video that has been trending on social media, where a mob is seen beating someone dressed in a yellow t-shirt. The evidence gathered so far, it has emerged that on Wednesday January 6th, 2021, two (2)criminal gangs commonly known as “kifesi” and “Bigali” were mobilised in Kisenyi…
The Inspector General of Police Martin Okoth Ochola on Friday cautioned Ugandans against electoral violence saying the perpetrators will suffer the consequences, especially during and after the January 14, 2021 polls. “I would like to assure the whole country that whoever causes trouble will regret why his or her mother gave birth to him…
Lillian Keitetsi, the Isingiro District National Unity Platform woman MP flag bearer has thrown in the towel to join the ruling National Resistance Movement days to the elections. Lillian who joined Bobi Wine’s People Power three years ago has been the district NUP party chairperson and a senior mobilizer for western region. She left NUP…
Former Minister for Agriculture Dr. Wilberforce Kisamba Mugerwa has died of deadly coronavirus at Mulago Hospital where he was a few days ago with chest complications . By the time of his death, Dr.Mugerwa was serving as the Chairman board of directors for National Planning Authority. He has been a Ugandan agricultural economist, politician and…
Retired High Court judge, Vincent Kibuuka Musoke 71,has passed on. It has been established that the retired judge Musoke succumbed to liver kidney disease on Thursday at Nsambya Hospital. It said that fallen Justice Musoke was rushed to Nsambya Hospital at the end of last year when his health conditions had deteriorated. Masaka district Chairperson…
City businessman Sudhir Ruparelia, who is the chairperson of Ruparelia Group of Companies, has petitioned the U.S embassy in Uganda to investigate socialite Sheila Nandege aka Don Zella, over allegations that she might be involved with an international cartel to deals in the circulation of counterfeit dollars. The petition comes after Don Zella, who rented…
Police at Abaita Ababiri have arrested Margaret Kawambu on allegations of Rush and Neglect Penal Code Act Section 227. It is alleged that on 05/01/2021 at about 7pm the community of Abaita Ababiri cell Katabi Town Council reported sighting a body of a Juvenile that had been abandoned in a house. The police responded and…
Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobiwine, the National Unity Platform presidential candidate has revealed the reason why he took his children to America before Uganda goes into polls. Bobi Wine said that got credible intelligence that state security agencies were trying to abduct his children and cause grave danger. “You have seen this that for months,…
