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Museveni Donates Shs 100m To His Village Primary School
As schools financially struggle to reopen after seven months of lockdown, President Yoweri Museveni has donated 100 million Shillings to a primary school in his village of Rushere in Rwakirura district. In a press statement issued by the presidential press unit, Museveni on top of giving the money to Rushere Primary School also gave 50…
Police To Recruit 50,000 Special Police Constables Ahead Of 2021 Elections
With the 2021 general elections fast approaching, different security authorities are preparing themselves to make sure there is nothing like election violence like it was in the National Resistance Movement (NRM) primaries or if it is there, it is kept at the very minimum. One way of preparing for this is to recruit more law…
Kadaga Tasks ULS Leadership To Deliver Justice
The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has congratulated the all new female leadership of the Uganda Law Society (ULS), a body uniting advocates in the country, upon being elected into office urging them to be impactful and deliver above their responsibilities. The Speaker said female lawyers have come a long way in as far…
M7 Speaks Out On Annoying Bribery,Violence In Recent NRM Primaries
The recent shameful conduct, in some cases, during the recent NRM primaries is most annoying to the patriots. However, it is, nevertheless, a great success, historically speaking. Why and how? It is because Africa has been misgoverned and misdirected for the last 500 years, to its peril and huge losses. Let me start with the…
Simbamanyo Estates Loses Another Afrique Suites Hotel Over $10.8 Million Loan
Simbamanyo Estates Limited has lost another property, Afrique Suites Hotel over a $10.8 million loan acquired from Equity Bank. Recently, the Estate lost Simbamanyo House located on plot 2 Lumumba Avenue after it failed to service the loan. The building had been mortgaged by its owners with Equity Bank but after failing to pay, the…
Judge Asked To Step Aside In Simbamanyo House Case
Equity Bank Uganda denied having ever facilitated or engaged in facilitating any illegal cover to have Equity Bank Limited and Bankone Limited engage in financial institutions business in Uganda. Peter Kamya, an architect, has asked Justice Boniface Wamala to disqualify himself from hearing Simbamanyo House cases, citing bias. “The judge has not conducted himself in…
Sad: Police Kills Kisasi Crafts Man In Child Sacrifice Scare
Kira Road Police Station has rescued a five-year old child, who was about to be sacrificed by his father using a machete over unknown reasons. During the rescue, the officer discharged a bullet to disable the father, Suleiman Male, 28, but it fatally injured him. The incident happened on Saturday at around 11am in Kyebando,…
Covid-19: University Students’ Leaders Ask Govt To Pay Private Teachers
Student leaders from public and private universities have called on government to pay salaries for teachers in private schools for at least a year after re-opening academic institutions for only finalists due to Covid-19 pandemic. The guild student leaders from Makerere University, Kyambogo University and Uganda Christian University who presented a joint petition to Speaker…
Ex ISO Boss Kaka Bagyenda Appointed Uganda’s Envoy To Angola
Sacked Internal Security Organisation (ISO) Director General, Col. Frank Kaka Bagyenda has been appointed Uganda’s Ambassador to Angola, this website has learnt. According to sources at Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Col. Bagyenda was posted to Luanda as the pioneer diplomat after Uganda decided to open an embassy in the central African country previously occupied by…
2021 Elections: Kateshumbwa Breaks Ice After Nomination, Calls Supporters To Double Efforts
By Nayebale Syrus Sheema Municipality National Resistance Movement (NRM) Frag bearer Dickson Kateshumbwa has called upon his supporters double efforts in hunting Elections upto the last voting day. Kateshumbwa made a call on Thursday October 15, 2020 at Sheema District Electoral Commission headquarters after being nominated as a contestant in the 2021 Parliamentary race. Kateshumbwa…