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Surviving Covid-19: Victoria University Hosts Real Estate Players To Discuss Impact, Solutions
When the countrywide Covid-19 pandemic inspired lockdown was eased, many tenants couldn’t afford to pay rent. This meant that they had to vacate the premises. Even those who had desired to start-up businesses that required property space, they quit because the pandemic had depleted their finances. Some landlords in an attempt to retain their tenants…
Police Chief Roots For New Community Policing Tactics To Curb Modern Crime Wave
The head of Community Policing Department in the Uganda Police Force, ACP Anatoli Muleterwa, has called upon local authorities in Kigezi region to work hand in hand with security agencies as one way of fighting against the spread of #COVID-19 along border lines. Muleterwa, who was in the company of SP Cyprian Okiino, made the…
Kampala NRM Boss Succumbs To Covid-19
National Resistance Movement ‘NRM’ is mourning the passing of one of their member, Christopher Ronald Kaweesi. Kaweesi had just been nominated by the NRM to contest as Local Council III councilor for Banda 4, 5, 6 and 7 to Nakawa Division when he succumbed to Covid-19 last Saturday. As of yesterday, Uganda had recorded 7,530…
Gen Muntu Awakens West Nile ANT Coordinators
Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) coordinators in West Nile met to draw up a mobilization strategy for both local and national level candidates. “We are encouraged by the enthusiasm with which our message is being received at the grassroots,” said party presidential flag bearer Maj Gen Mugisha Muntu. It’s from there that change will come,…
Equal Opportunities Boss Ntambi Fixes Anti-Corruption Court Officials To Secure Quick Bail
Troubled Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) boss Sylvia Muwembwa Ntambi, who was recently arrested and arraigned before the Anti-corruption Court with several of her staffers, is reportedly hatching a plot to get off the hook. Ntambi was netted by the State House Anti-corruption Taskforce headed by Lt. Col. Edith Nakalema last week, after a Whistleblower penned…
FDC Eulogizes Sebaggala,Raps EC Over Brutal Police Officers
Opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) expressed its deepest condolence to the family of Al-Hajj Nasser Ntege Ssebaggala upon the demise of the former Kampala Mayor. “Our condolence to the whole nation,” said party spokesperson Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda on Monday. Ssebaggala will be remembered for inspiring the urban poor and uneducated to participate in the…
President M7,Oulanyah Mourn Late Statesman Francis Odida
President Yoweri Museveni and the Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah, have celebrated the life of the late Francis Odida, a journalist, playwright and statesman. In a message delivered by Oulanyah, President Museveni described the late Odida as an industrious person who lived a full life to the benefit of his community and country. “President…
Police Arrest Entebbe ATM Fraudster
Police at Entebbe are holding one Wandera Geoffrey , 39 , a fisherman resident of Abaita babiri in entebbe municipality. The suspect was arrested by stanbic bank security officers and handed over to Entebbe police. According to deputy Kampala metropolitan police spokesperson Luke Oweyesigyire revealed that the suspect joined an old woman in an ATM…
UPDF Defence Attaches Trained In Diplomatic Course
The Permanent Secretary Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Patrick Mugoya, has officiated at the opening of a two days’ workshop for the induction of newly appointed Defence Attachés (DAs) from the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF). The function was held at the Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs Headquarters, Mbuya. Amb. Patrick Mugoya welcomed the…
Troubled Equal Opportunities Boss Sylvia Ntambi Fakes Sickness, Camps At Speaker Kadaga’s Office To Skip Anti-Corruption Court Tomorrow
The Equal Opportunities Chairperson Sylvia Muwebwa Ntambi is planning to skip court appearance tomorrow Wednesday on grounds that she is sick, this website has learnt. Sylvia Ntambi was directed to appear before the anti-corruption court tomorrow Wednesday September 30, 2020 at 9:00 am to answer 25 graft charges. She is the accused number 10 on…