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Five Private Security Firms On The Spot For Deploying Guards With Faulty Guns
The Police Alert Squad has named five private security firms for allegedly deploying guards with faulty firearms. Police spokesperson Fred Enanga identifies the implicated firms as Vision Security, Pinnacle Security, Ndugali Security, Premier Security, and Donward Security. He explains that they decided to name and shame the companies deploying guards with faulty weapons because it…
COSASE Rejects Uganda Airlines Plea To Bar Media From Meetings
The Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) has rejected a request by Uganda Airlines to bar the media from covering its proceedings. The national air carrier, through its Manager, Corporate Quality, Michael Kaliisa, also requested the committee, without revealing details, to reschedule their ongoing meetings to the second week of September 2022…
Two Ugandans Arrested For Dropping Coffin At Saudi Arabian Embassy
Police have arrested two members of Torture Survivors Movement Uganda after dropping a coffin at the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Kampala, while protesting the continued torture and killings of Ugandan migrant workers in the Middle East. The protest on Tuesday, followed the reported cases of torture and subsequent death in Saudi Arabia, of another…
Fighting Corruption: Over UGX 526 Million Kitgum PDM Bonanza Crashed By Massive Anti-corruption Inter-Agency Units
Operatives from various security agencies led by the PDM National Secretariat Deputy National Coordinator Hon. Jovrine Kallisa, ISO Anti-Corruption Operations Unit, and the CID of Uganda Police Force raided the office of the Chief Administrative Officer, Kitgum seeking an explanation on how money for the Parish Development Model commonly known as PDM was spent after…
Over 800 Residents Face Eviction In Kyankwanzi
Residents of Kitwala West Village in Muwangi Sub County Kyankwanzi District are up in arms against the National Forestry Authority– NFA for evicting them from their Bibanjas without following the due process of the law. It is alleged that on August 6 this year, NFA officials guarded by armed security personnel stormed Kitwala West Village and razed…
Ugandan businessman murdered in South Africa
Unidentified thugs have brutally murdered a South African-based Ugandan businessman for unknown reasons. The assailants kidnapped Fred Galiwango, who has been running a vehicle mechanical workshop in Lancaster Soweto on Sunday last week. His mutilated body that was chopped into pieces was discovered at the start of this week. South African authorities repatriated Galiwango’s body…
Kitagwenda, Health Bosses sued Over Medical Negligence
Kitagwenda district and two health workers have been sued at Fort portal High court over Medical Negligence that reportedly occasioned death of one Tracy Biryomumaisho at Ntara Health Centre 1V on March 29 2022. Information attained by this website indicates that Biryomumumaiso reported to Ntara Health Centre IV at 11:00Am on March 29th, 2022 with…
Banger: Bebe Cool’s New Afro Dancehall Song,’Boss Lady’ Hits Airwaves
Ugandan music giant Bebe Cool- real name Moses Ssali- has released a new Afro dancehall single titled Boss Lady. And this new single is proof that the superstar has mastered the art of evolution. Boss Lady is continued proof that star Bebe Cool knows how to evolve and keep in touch with majority music fans;…
Retired Archbishop Orombi Hails WENRECO For Solving West Nile Power Problems
The retired Archbishop of the Church of Uganda His Eminence Luke Orombi has hailed power distributors WENRECO for doing every thing possible to ensure steady power supply in West Nile. Orombi, who was speaking to journalists at his retirement home in Goli village, Kumi District revealed that the power problems currently being faced by people…
Parliament Approve UGX 266 Billion Loan For Heart Institute
Parliament has approved a US$70 million loan for the construction of a state of the art facility to house the Uganda Heart institute. A loan request brought by government to collectively borrow US$70 million from the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa, Saudi Fund for Development and the Opec Fund for International Development sailed…