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Igrid, 6 FDC Activists Remanded To Luzira
Forum for Democratic Change mobilisation secretary Ingrid Turinawe has been remanded to Luzira prison following her arrest on Sunday. Ingrid was arrested at Central Police Station where she had taken food to FDC suspects accused of throwing a water bottle at magistrate Gladys Kamasanyu. The Iron Lady said the six suspects were starved since Saturday…
Messi Suspended Three Months Over Corruption Rants
Argentina’s Lionel Messi was banned for three months from international matches and fined $50,000 on Friday after accusing South America’s governing body for football of “corruption” during the Copa America. Messi criticised the officiating and members of CONMEBOL last month following Argentina’s semifinal loss to Brazil and after the third-place match against Chile but later apologized. CONMEBOL…
Busted!URA Raids Nasser Road, Nets 3 In Forgery Of Govt Stamps
Three suspects, among them two women, were detained in connection with forging URA documents and those of several other government institutions, bank stamps and international agencies. The trio, namely Ali Kimera Ssajjabi, Amina Nambalye and Hadijah Nakitende are said to be based along Nasser Road, Kampala. For days, we trailed the suspects until they were…
UPDF Mesmerize Moscow In Russia Army Games
Uganda People’s Defence Forces [UPDF] soldiers are in the Russian capital Moscow to participate in the 2019 Fifth Anniversary International Army Games. The event has been happening every year since 2015 with over 30 countries taking part in a number of games. UPDF spokesperson, Brig Richard Karemire, said the games aim at strengthening friendship, fellowship…
We Are Hunting For Ziggy Wyne Killers-Enanga
A team of police detectives from the Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) has commence the probe on circumstances under which a local musician Michael Kalinda aka Ziggy Wyne was kidnapped, beaten and left for dead a couple of weeks ago. Ziggy Wyne breathed his last on Sunday evening at Mulago National Referral Hospital where he was…
Ex-TV Star Justine Nameere’s Husband re-arrested, remanded
Raymond Kagimba Mugimba, the former head of sales and marketing at Buganda Broadcasting Services (BBS) Television and partner of former television personality Justine Nameere, had been released after paying shs200,000 for bail in forgery case. Unknown to him, court bailiffs were lurking in the compound waiting to pounce on him and they struck with surgical…
Luweero Land Rover Business Man Captured on Camera Faces Arrest .
The territorial Police in Bombo, is actively investigating a traffic incident of reckless and dangerous driving, that was caught on video and widely shared. The incident occurred on Saturday, 27th, July 2019 at around 3PM, along the Bombo – Luwero Highway, where the driver of a Land Rover {old model} under registration number UXW 839,…
FUFA Super League Holds Emergency Assembly Over Governance
The Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA) Super League members held a successful extra ordinary General Assembly at Mandela National Stadium . The well attended assembly saw 15 out of the 16 members convene. Only newly promoted Kyetume FC missed with an apology. The well attended assembly saw 15 out of the 16 members convene.…
Pastors In Toxic Miracle Cure Charged To Court-Enanga
The Territorial Police in Rwenzori West Region have charged more suspects to court, linked to Global Healing Christian Missions, a purported Charity Organisation, that was actively involved in supplying born again Christians, in Kyenjojo and Kabarole Districts, with a Miracle Cure, claiming it healed Cancer, HIV/AIDS, Malaria and many other diseases. The Charity was partly…
Tunisia bids farewell to president Essebsi at state funeral
CARTHAGE, Tunisia (Reuters) – Tunisians bid farewell to their first democratically elected president Beji Caid Essebsi at a state funeral on Saturday attended by foreign leaders including French President Emanuel Macron and Qatar’s Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. Essebsi, who helped guide the North African country’s transition to democracy after the 2011 revolution,…