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Investigation: URA, UNBS On Hot Spot For Allowing Smuggled Kenyan Salt Into Uganda
The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) and Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) are on spot for allegedly abetting and or colluding with businessmen who are smuggling tonnes of Kenyan salt into the country and reaping abnormal profits after evading taxes worth hundreds of millions of shillings. Our sources reveal that licensed dealers of salt in…
Grief As Two Perish In Masaka-Kyotera Road Accident
Two people died and three others sustained critically injuries following a nasty road accident at Nabajjuzi swamp along Masaka-Kyotera Highway on Friday. The accident involved tipper truck Reg. No. UAR 487M which collided head on with lorry Reg. No. KCH 262Z. Police identified one of the deceased as Sowedi Kalanzi, a mechanic at Naludugavu Garage…
Bullets, Teargas In Mbale As Police Blocks NUP’s Bobi Wine From Appearing On A Radio Talkshow
Police in Mbale City on Saturday morning fired teargas and live bullets to disperse the supporters of National Unity Platform (NUP) party led by the Kyadondo East Member of Parliament, Mr Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine. Mr Kyagulanyi was scheduled to appear on one of the local radio stations for a talk show from 9am…
Shock As Two Umeme Employees Are Electrocuted To Death On Electric Pole
Traders and residents of Wantoni trading Centre in Mukono town were engulfed with Shock on Friday August 7, 2020 after men said to be working with Power Distributor Umeme Limited got electrocuted to death on top of an electric pole. Eye witnesses revealed that the deceased, identified as Moses Kasiita and Jacob Mutalaga had climbed…
New Hope As Russia Creates World’s 1st Covid-19 Vaccine
Moscow’s Gamelei Center will register the world’s first coronavirus vaccine on August 12, Russia’s deputy health minister has revealed. Oleg Gridnev says medical workers and the elderly will be given priority for immunization. The senior minister at the department, Mikhail Murashko, announced last week that a nationwide mass vaccination program is planned to begin in…
Uganda Registers Sixth Covid-19 Death As Cases Shoot To 1,254
Uganda has registered another Covid-19 death, bringing the total to six. According to the Ministry of Health, the deceased is a 70-year old Ugandan male, resident of Natete, Kampala. “On 24th July 2020, he presented at Lubaga Hospital with signs and symptoms consistent with covid-19 which include:mild fever, cough and difficulty in breathing. Further investigations…
Court Martial Overturns Bodaboda 2010 Boss Kitatta’s 8 Year Jail Sentence, Sets Him Free!
The founder of Bodaboda 2010 Association Abdallah Kitatta has been released from Luzira prison after the Court Martial yesterday reduced his 8 year sentence, following his appeal. The six-member court chaired by a civilian advocate, Elly Turyamubona sitting in Makindye, delivered its verdict on Friday August 7, 2020. The court also deducted the time the…
Jose Chameleone Terribly Sick, Battling With Kidney Infection
Ugandan Afrobeat singer and Kampala City Mayor hopeful Joseph Mayanja popularly known as Dr. Jose Chameleone is critically sick and battling a kidney infection, this website has learnt. According to reports, the ‘Baliwa’ singer has been bedridden at Nsambya hospital for last five days nursing a strange illness that is still unknown to the public…
BoU Saga: DPP Orders Police To Arrest Kasekende, Sekabira, Bagyenda & Search Their Homes For Defrauding Defunct Banks Properties
The days of running for former Bank of Uganda Deputy Governor Louis Kasekende, former Director Compliance Justine Bagyenda, Ben Sekabira, the Director for Financial Markets Development Coordinator and other Central Bank officials who were involved in the fraudulent sale of Teefe Trust Bank, Greenland Bank, Crane Bank and other defunct commercial banks are over. This…
Just In: Court Of Appeal Acquits Former OPM Accountant Kazinda
The Anti-Corruption Court in Kampala has set free former Principle Accountant in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) Geoffrey Kazinda of all offences levelled against him. A panel of five justices led by Stephen Musota has also granted all the declarations Kazinda sought in the petition. Others on the panel are Kenneth Kakuru, Geoffrey…