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Kawempe Muslim Cleric Arrested For Defiling 15-year-Old Girl
Residents of Kawempe, a Kampala suburb have arrested and handed over to police the Imam of Bilali Mosque in Bwaise for allegedly defiling a 15-year-old girl. Sheik Muhammad Abdullah Kefeero, 42, a resident of Nabukalu zone in Kawempe division, was arrested by the residents and taken to Kawempe police station after they allegedly found him…
M7 Meets Kagame In London To Resolve Border Tensions
President Yoweri Museveni and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame are expected to meet in London on the sidelines of the UK-Africa Investment Summit 2020 which starts today. If it goes ahead, this will be the first meeting for the presidents since last August when they met in Luanda, Angola and signed a Memorandum of Understanding…
High Court Allows MPs Ssebulime, Babirye To Officially Quit Troublesome Marriage
High Court Family Division presided over by Justice Olive Mukwaya Kazaarwe has allowed the dissolution of a 17-months marriage between Members of Parliament (MPs) Judith Babirye and Paul Musoke Ssebulime on grounds of cruelty. Justice Mukwaya heard the divorce application filed by Buikwe North MP, Mr Ssebulime against his partner Babirye, who is the Buikwe…
Rwanda Authorities Shot Dead One Ugandan, 2 Rwandese
A Ugandan national, resident of Kabingo Village Chahafi parish Murora Sub-county in Kisoro District was on Saturday night shot and killed at Kumugu Trading Centre, Musanze District in Rwanda, about three kilometres away from the Ugandan border. Mr Hadard Nkunzimana, the sub-county chairperson, identified the deceased as Teojen Ndagijimana, 26, who was shot together his…
Former Deputy Governor ‘Kasekende’ Finally Bids Painful Farewell To BoU
Kampala: The Former Bank of Uganda deputy Governor Dr. Louis Kasekende has finally tailed down and bid farewell to the central bank staff after his contract expiry. In his letter, Dr Kasekende expressed his gratitude to staff and to the appointing authority for according him the enabling environment to serve the central bank for all…
Why MP Ogwang Celebrated ICT Ministerial Post On A Dilapidated RoofTop
He was an example of Jesus’s personal, earthly mission to bring salvation to the lost, since tax collectors were despised as traitors, and as being corrupt. “Today, my youthful voters who were exceedingly excited lifted me on the roof of one of our staunch NRM supporter’s house.” He added: “He had painted it yellow &…
Pictorial As Specioza Kazibwe’s Son Is Laid To Rest In Wakiso
Former Vice President, Dr Specioza Wandira Kazibwe, on Saturday laid to rest her son John William Bomboka Kazibwe at her Kayebe home in Gayaza, Wakiso District. The burial was conducted by Curious Funeral Services which said on its Facebook page that the family was in mourning and in grief. It was a sad for Specioza…
Police Foil FDC Meeting In Meeting
Police commanded by ASP Ssekalema Shaban, the OC Station has blocked and dispersed an FDC Leaders meeting that was organised at Gwaniika Village, Nabingola Sub County, Kasambya constituency at Home Land Organic Gardens. Deputy President Owek Joyce Nabbosa Ssebugwawo had led a delegation of leaders from Buganda Region including Vice Chairman Kibuka Mukalazi, Mrs. Ssebuwufu…
MP Owino shoots DJ With A Pistol In Club B,Arrested
Embakasi East MP Babu Owino will be charged with attempted murder, the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) George Kinoti has said. This comes after the legislator allegedly shot and injured a DJ at a popular night club in Kilimani, Nairobi, in the early hours of Friday morning. “We will charge him with attempted murder. It…
96 Middle East Bound Ugandan Girls Arrested In Kenya
A total of 96 Ugandan girls have been intercepted in Kenya en route to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The girls aged between 14 and 18 years were intercepted at Jomo Kenyatta international airport in Nairobi, Kenya where they were due to board a flight to the Emirates. The girls believed…