The Inspector General of Police Martin Okoth Ochola has condemned the brutal killing of a policeman and injury of another in an attack at a roadblock in Luwero district along the Kampala-Gulu highway. On Monday at around 12.30pm, assailants armed with machetes emerged from both sides of the checkpoint and attacked the two field force…
Juliet Najjuma Senkoole, the Resident District Commissioner of Kalangala has blocked the eviction of over 100 residents on a contested piece of land in Bujumba County. Senkoole made the directive on Saturday during a meeting between the affected residents and Nsamba Lubega, who claims ownership of the land. The disputed land covers 61.256 hectares in…
Most of opposition politicians in parties like Forum for Democratic Change ‘FDC’, Democratic Party ‘DP’,Jema and National Unity Platform ‘NUP’ have distanced themselves from fueling a section of excited Ugandans engaging in demonstrations over high fuel and commodity prices. This comes after several messages have been circulating on different social media platforms from yet to…
Earlier this year, Dfcu Bank announced that its shareholders will have to wait longer before they think of getting dividends for the year 2021 as the bank struggles to preserve capital. According to the bank’s latest audited financial results published recently, the bank’s overall profitability for 2021, was considerably affected by the loan impairments, which…
American Actor Terrence Howard has held a closed-door meeting with city businessman Sudhir, Ruparelia, Frank Tumwebaze, the Minister For Agriculture, Animal Industries and Fisheries at Speke resort Munyonyo. Although we are yet to reveal the details of the meeting, our sources confirmed that the two business giants are likely to ink a business partnership that…
Up to now, nothing has been heard or seen on this chief lesbianism and gays city activist Mr Moses Kirwana. Most of his former cronies in favor of these resistable same sex practices have since disappeared. Uganda being a religious and culturally conservative country, LGBT practices are abominable and punishable by society that tends to…
The head of the High Court Commercial Division Justice Stephen Mubiru literally threw under the bus a bank client one Aida Atiku when he absolved Centenary Bank of any liability of fraud occasioned to Ms. Atiku’s account. On July 18th 2022 making a ruling in a case in which Aida Atiku had sued Centenary Bank…
Bank of Uganda (BoU) had a torrid 2017 as the Crane Bank saga weighed on the country’s central bank. What began as an everyday activity to supervise and regulate the banking sector when they took over and subsequently sold Crane Bank to DFCU turned out to be a big speck in the late Emmanuel Tumusime-Mutebile led…
Victoria University Kampala, East Africa’s pioneering provider of experiential & authentic learning and the leading technologically-enabled university in Uganda has yet again unveiled a special package targeting teachers who want to upgrade their education levels. This new offer targets teachers from Grade III to V to enroll for the Bachelor Programs the university offers without…
