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No Visitors! – Nakaseke District COVID-19 Task Force Blocks Patient’s Attendants
The Nakaseke District Task Force has restricted attendants to patients and banned visitors in hospital wards across the health centres to stop the spread of COVID-19. Nakaseke district registered a fifth COVID-19 case on Sunday after a health worker from Kiwoko hospital tested positive of the virus. It’s reported that the health worker contracted the…
LDUs To Resume Operations To Curb Increased Urban Crime
The Uganda Defense Forces (UPDF) with other security agencies have resolved to redeploy the Local Defense Unit following an increase in night crime around the country especially in the urban centers. Brig.Flavia Bwekwaso , UPDF Spokesperson has released a statement revealing that due to public demand, UPDF has to redeploy LDU officers to combat the…
Arch Bishop Kaziimba Condemns Sinister Demolition Of Ndeeba Church
The Most Rev Dr. Stephen Samuel Kaziimba, Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, has released a statement strongly condemning the sinister demolition of St. Peter’s Church, Ndeeba The Anglican Church in Ndeeba was demolished after a longstanding land wrangle between the church leadership and a businessman Dodovico. High Court judge Mr Eudes Keitirima had last…
UPDF Pilot,Two Police Officers Remanded Over Spying For Rwanda
UPDF General court martial sitting at Makindye in Kampala has remanded three security officers for spying for Rwanda. The accused officers have been identified as Lt.Philip Ankunda, ASP Frank Sabiti and ASP Benon Akandwanaho. According to prosecution led by Captain Ambrose Baguma, between February and May this year, the accused persons and others still at…
KCCA Director Arrested Over Demolition Of Ndeeba Church
President Yoweri Museveni has ordered the state house anti corruption to arrest the acting director of planning at KCCA Ivan Katongole for issuing a demolition order for St. Peter’s church in Ndeeba. The head of state house anti corruption unit Lt. Col. Edith Nakalema revealed that when President Museveni was briefed that the church was…
High Court Dismisses Application Against Attorney General, NAGRIC ED
The High Court Civil Division has dismissed an application filed by Dr. Wilberforce Wandera Kifudde, the former Technical Manager Production of National Animal Genetic Resources Centre and Data Bank (NAGRC & DB) against the Executive Director and Attorney General. Through his lawyers, Crispus Ayena Adongo and Gordon Kifudde, Wandera sued the NAGRIC ED, Dr. Charles…
Three Senior Police Officers Arrested Over Demolition Of St.Peter’s Church Ndeeba
Police in Kampala Metropolitan area is investigating circumstances under which St. Peter’s Church of Uganda, Ndeeba, was demolished this morning disregarding government directives that stopped all evictions during this COVID19 period. Katwe Police Station got information of the demolition at 0100 hours and a team was dispatched to the scene. Police were not informed about…
DPP Confirms Prosecution Of BoU’s Sekabira, Bagyenda & Kasekende
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has confirmed charges against the former Deputy Governor Louis Kasekende, former Director of Commercial Banks Supervision Justine Bagyenda and the central bank’s Director for Financial Markets Development Coordination (FMDC) Benedict Sekabira. This has been confirmed after landing on an August 4 Letter from the DPP Jane Francis Abodo titled: Prosecution…
Breaking! The Anglican St Peter’s Church Ndeeba Has Been Demolished
Christians with strongest emotional ties to St Peters Church Ndeeba were saddened to see the piece of history demolished in wee hours of Monday in presence of heavy police deployment. St Peters has been one of the oldest churches in Uganda, however it was maliciously and callously brought down deep in the night by some…
Umeme Seeks Review Of Free Electricity Connection Policy
Uganda’s Power Distributor, Umeme Limited has proposed a revision of the Electricity Connections Policy (ECP) to allow capable customers shoulder the full payment for connection since government ran short of funds for the policy. Speaking during a briefing organised by the power distributor, Mr Selestino Babungi, the Umeme managing director, said the energy sector is…