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Crown Beverages LTD Injects 500M In FUFA Partnership Deal

Crown Beverages Limited (CBL), the bottlers of Nivana Packaged Drinking Water, Pepsi Cola, Mirinda, Mountain Dew, Evervess as well as Sting Energy Drink and The Federation of Uganda Football Association (FUFA) have today officially signed a memorandum of understanding in which Nivana

September 14, 2021

Crime

Three Arrested Purchasing Baby For Suspected South Sudanese Trafficker

The Special Investigations Unit-SIU Kireka is holding three suspects on allegations of attempting to buy a two-month-old baby for a suspected South Sudanese trafficker in Kampala. The suspects are Gerald Akankwasa, a Wakiso based medical doctor, Kenneth Kayondo and Christine Nambi. Police

September 14, 2021

Security

Corpse Found In Septic Tank Is Not mlMy Wife – Onebe

Detectives investigating the kidnap and murder of Muyenga businesswoman, Immaculate Mary Blessing Onebe, have decided to conduct DNA tests after her husband, Francis Onebe, insisted that the body picked from the septic tank at their matrimonial home is not for his wife.

September 14, 2021

Sports

Big Hearted: Ruparelia Group, Victoria University Donate Ambulance to FMU

The Federation of Motorsport Clubs of Uganda (FMU) has received a Medical Ambulance from Ruparelia Foundation and Victoria University to help them facilitate their activities. The Federation received the state of the art ambulance as a donation from Victoria University under Ruparelia

September 14, 2021

Business

Ex Simbamanyo Owner ‘Peter Kamya’s’ Troubles Not About To End As He Loses Another Multi-Billion Fraud Case

Troubled Ex Simbamanyo building owner has lost another fraud case in which he sold the property in Munyonyo, took deposits and then sold the same property to a third party and refused to refund. According to the latest judgment by Justice David

September 14, 2021

Crime

DPP Withdraws Money Laundering Charges Against Lawyer Nicholas Opiyo

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Jane Frances Abodo has withdrawn charges of money laundering against human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo. Opiyo, the Executive Director of Chapter Four Uganda, was violently arrested on 22nd December 2020 by plain-clothed law enforcement officers. He

September 13, 2021

Crime

Disgrace: Kapchorwa Magistrate Arrested With A Pistol In Moroto Bar Fight

Scuffle ensued Moroto town as police tried to arrest Chief magistrate of Kapchorwa court, Godfrey Teko on the allegations that he pulled a firearm and threatened to shoot dead one Mathew Lorika on Sunday evening. Mr Teko,a son to State minister for

September 13, 2021

Education

Schools Will Reopen Soon After Securing Learners From Covid-19- Janet Museveni

In the past weeks and even months, I have seen many of you, my friends and children, asking me why we don!t reopen schools. Therefore, today, I thought that perhaps it is time we discussed this subject instead of keeping silent about

September 13, 2021

Crime

Police Warn Ugandans Against Touching,Circulating Dropped Criminal Leaflets

Police has released a statement warning the public against a number of the widely spread threatening leaflets are alert and only intended to cause fear and panic. Following the murders in Masaka in which 26 people were killed in one month, cases of

September 13, 2021

Health

Health Ministry Reassures Ugandans; AstraZeneca Vaccines Valid, Safe & Effective

The Ministry of Health has reacted to a vial/ bottle of the AstraZeneca Vaccine being circulated on WhatsApp to mislead the population about the the shelf life of the vaccines. The Ministry of Health would like to clarify as follows; The AstraZeneca

September 13, 2021