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Police Plan Raid On Money Lenders Who Confiscate National IDs
The National Identification Registration Authority (NIRA) and Police have started operations against money lenders confiscating National Identify Cards. Osborn Mushabe, the NIRA spokesperson said many money lenders have continued to defy warnings and have continued taking National IDs as security for loans. Mushabe said a decision to raid money lending shops has been taken after…
Museveni Disappointed By Delayed Construction of Gulu University Teaching Hospital
President Museveni has questioned officials at the Health Ministry over delays in finalizing the signing of a memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with an Austrian firm for the construction of a specialized Teaching Hospital at Gulu University. Early last year, a team from VAMED Engineering Gmbh from Austria during a meeting with President Museveni proposed to…
Big Boost! NSSF Declares 10% Interest Rate For Savers For the FY 2022/2023
The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) hosted its 11th Annual Members’ Meeting, an event that showcased the Fund’s outstanding performance, the challenges it overcame, and its vision for the future. The meeting brought together key figures in Uganda’s financial and social development sectors and provided an opportunity to reflect on the achievements of the past…
URSB Targets 870,500 New Business Registrations By 2026/27
Uganda Registration Services Bureau – URSB, the national business registry, has this morning launched its mass business registration campaign aimed at promoting formalization among entrepreneurs and small business owners. In a news release dated Sept.26, the bureau said this initiative seeks to simplify the registration process, raise awareness about the benefits of formalization, and drive…
3 Suspected ADF Rebels Nabbed Over Police Station Attacks
The Police Crime Intelligence (CI) task teams carried out operations in Mbale City and Bukedea district from September 17, 2023, to September 19, 2023, where they arrested three ADF suspects highly linked to the attacks on police stations in December 2022. According to a statement made by SCP Enanga Fred, the police spokesperson, on September…
M7 Calls For Emergency NRM Caucus Meeting At Statehouse Entebbe
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni who also doubles as chairman of National Resistance Movement (NRM) has summoned the NRM parliamentary caucus on Thursday 28th September 2023 at State House Entebbe. In the letter signed by the Government Chief Whip Hamson Obua, all NRM MPs who will attend have to undergo a COVID-19 test at the parliament…
Police Guns Down Notorious Gang Leader Maboni In Mbale
Police in Mbale have shot dead a suspected gang leader who was behind many robberies in Mbale and surrounding areas. The deceased has been identified as Ibra Maboni, alias Kadanke, 25, a resident of Obuyonjo Cell, Nkoma Ward in Mbale City, Northern City Division. Maboni was put out of action in Soweto, Busia District, where…
To Be Exposed: IGG Kamya Roots For Publication Of Top Ugandan Corrupt Govt Officials World Wide
The Parliamentary Commissioner, Hon. Esther Afoyochan has on behalf of the Speaker, Anita Among received bi-annual reports of the Inspectorate of Government (IG). The reports cover the period, January-June 2022, July-December 2022 and January-June 2023. This is in fulfillment of Article 231 (1) of the Constitution which mandates the IGG to submit to Parliament at…
UPC Tasks KCCA To Implement City Drainage Plan To Avoid Loss Of Lives,Diseases
Uganda Peoples Congress’UPC’ has asked Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) to urgently take attention and go on ground as quickly as possible to study the water flow in Kampala during rains which culminate into floods. UPC’s head of communication,Muzeyi Faizo has revealed that most of the pit latrines in the city are being washed away…
Ghetto Youth Lashes At MP Ssemujju Nganda Over Allegations Of Attacking FDC Delegates
The Ghetto Structure, Kampala Metropolitan, has responded to Kira Municipality Member of Parliament (MP), Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda, over his earlier remarks in which he alleged that attackers of FDC delegates were known to the Ghetto Structure, Police leadership, and AIGP Christopher Damulira, the Director of Crime Intelligence. In a statement on Wednesday, Shafik Kalyango, the…