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With Less Than 200k! Here Is Why You Should Not Miss Halloween Weekend Plot at Speke Resort Munyonyo on October 30
With the Covid-19 curfew, this year’s Halloween celebration will not be the same. The bars are closed and people are supposed to be home by 9pm. In, comes Speke Resort Munyonyo with a Halloween Family Fun weekend “staycation”. According to the event organizers at Speke Resort hotel and Munyonyo Common Wealth Resort hotels, there are…
Mbarara To Rename Over 400 City Roads, Buildings
Mbarara City Council has started the process renaming and naming of 400 old and new roads and buildings within the city. Mbarara City has 330.19 kilometres of roads. Current roads have a diversity of names include Marknsighn, High-street, Mbaguta road, Independence road, Victor Bwana, Ntare Road, Bananuka, Buremba, Garage street, Bishop wills Street, Galt road,…
Anger In Napak As Contractor Hands Over Dry Boreholes
Napak district local government has given Sumadhura Company limited a week’s ultimatum to drill two new boreholes, or refund Shillings 48 million they received for the work. It all started after the company drilled two boreholes in the district two weeks ago, but they did not produce any water. The company drilled one of the…
Panic As FPU Commander, Attorney General Are Sued Over Impounded Fish Trucks
Fish traders whose trucks are being held by Uganda government authorities have sued the head of the Fisheries Protection Unit-FPU on Lake George and Edward, the Director of Fisheries Resources in Entebbe, and the Attorney General for illegally confiscating their fish. On October 3, 2021, Uganda Revenue Authority together with FPU impounded five fish trucks…
BIG STORY: COSASE Probes CAA Top Bosses Over Shs10Bn Handshake
The top management team at the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is on the spot for hastily sanctioning a Shs10 billion project to expand the passenger terminal at Entebbe Airport, even when the Board had frozen the construction projects. According to the chairperson of Parliament’s Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities, and State Enterprises (Cosase), Mr Joel…
Just In! Ex US Secretary of State ‘Powell’ Dies Of Covid Complications At 84
Former secretary of State and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Colin Powell has died from Covid complications at the age of 84, the Capital Times have learnt. Powell was previously diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer that hurts the body’s ability to fight infections. “General Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Secretary…
Big Story: Chinese Firm CCCC On Spot As Corruption Allegations Mar Masindi-Buliisa-Paraa Oil Road
KAMPALA – A red flag has been raised on the ongoing construction of the Shs 770 billion 159-kilometre of Masindi – Kisanja -Tangi -Paraa -Buliisa road, being undertaken by Chinese firm China Communications Construction Company Ltd (CCCC), with serious issues emerging after the termination of the contract of the external consulting engineers. In the fall-out,…
13 Rebel Collaborators Arrested Over Subversive Activities
Joint Security Task Teams, actively involved in countering all acts of subversive behavior, conducted three separate operations in Njeru Municipality, in Buikwe district, as well as in Zombo and Kasese districts respectively, where a total of 13 suspected rebel collaborators were arrested. Police spokesperson Fred Enanga revealed that the operation carried out in Njeru Municipality,…
MPs Introduce New Bill For Uganda Crude Oil Pipeline Project
A Bill that will allow for the development and implementation of the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline Project (EACOP) is before the House. The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (Special Provisions) Bill, 2021 presented by the Minister of State for Mineral Development, Hon. Sidronious Okasai seeks to facilitate the full implementation of Uganda’s obligations under…
MP Nambooze Cheats Death As Panga Wielding Assailant Accesses Bedroom
Mukono Municipality member of parliament Hon Betty Nambooze has claimed this morning an invension by a panga-wielding man who found her in bed and ordered her to say the last prayer before being chopping her head into pieces. In the video clip circulating by on social media timid Nambooze is covered by buckets of tears…