The extension of Kabira Country owned by city tycoon Sudhir Rupaleria has redefined the skylines around Bukoto-Ntinda areas with the new leisure facility imposing a magnificent image in the area. The leisure facility, once complete, will be East Africa’s biggest leisure hotel with more rooms than any other facility. According to sources, City business magnet…
Seven people have been confirmed dead while thirty are severely injured in an accident that occurred the morning of December 30th 2022, along Ntungamo-Kabale Highway. The incident follows a head-on collision between two buses. The accident involved Volcano bus reg. no. RAD CO 798B that was coming from Rwanda and Oxygen bus reg. no. KCU…
Brazil football legend Pele, one of the greatest players of all time, has died at the age of 82. The former striker, who is the only player in history to win three World Cups, passed away at the Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo following a battle with cancer. Pele, who is Brazil’s joint all-time…
Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has directed all individuals earning from entertainment activities to get Tax Identification Numbers (TINs), failure of which could result in fines or imprisonment. Bbosa Ibrahim Kibuuka, the Assistant Commissioner Public and Cooperative Affairs and URA spokesperson said that the TIN is what identifies an individual or business with the tax body.…
One of the babies previously dumped at Mbarara Referral Hospital by an anonymous mother has passed on. This was confirmed by Mr. Halson Kagure the Mbarara Referral Hospital Public Relations Officer on December 29, 2022. Kagure informed this website that a four months baby girl was picked by a hospital cleaner while collecting garbage around…
Kampala: A top Kampala software engineer has come out to share with Ugandans his ‘frustrating and exploiting’ experience with Airtel Uganda Data bundles alleged ‘fraud’. Mr Tito [not real name, prefers anonymity] who was once Airtel Uganda’s proud customer is now spitting venom after company allegedly chopped his Ugx 750,000 via multiple monthly data bundle…
The appointment early this month of Patrick Ayota as caretaker Managing Director at the National Social Security Fund (NSSF), was supposed to be a temporary measure to allow the board and appointing authority to conclude on either reinstating Richard Byarugaba as head or name a new chief. A decision on the appointment of (the) Fund’s…
President Yoweri Museveni last week received a Special Envoy from the President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, His Excellency Brahim Ghali who paid a courtesy call on him at State House Entebbe. The Special Envoy, His Excellency Mohamed Salem Ould Salek conveyed to President Museveni warm greetings from the President of the Sahrawi Arab…
By Denis JJjuuko Kampala: A friend always prefers to support small businesses in his neighbourhood near Kampala. He shops from small shops and kiosks. Many times, he patronizes the small bar near his home. When a somewhat modern salon opened up in his neighbourhood, he ditched the guys who had cut his hair for more…
By Andrew Mwenda: Kampala: There has grown and consolidated a depressing mindset in our country that for anything good to happen, government must be the one to do it. This mindset is most pronounced among the educated who have been fed onto this ideology of the state as Santa Claus. Visit social media and you…
