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The Likely Benefits Of a Scientific Election In Uganda
By Steven Masiga The Electoral commission is awakening many political actors out of the Covid-19 slumber to participate in an election that many of them had hitherto written off as postponed to 2023 or even 2026. Uganda might not be the only country in the world preparing for presidential, parliamentary and local councils election in…
Angry Lawyers Demand Urgent Elections In Bid To Replace Uganda Law Society President Kinobe
Ugandan lawyers have said that they are tired of being ‘COVID-19 Orphans’ and they want elections held urgently so as to replace the leadership of the Uganda Law Society (ULS), starting with the current president Simon Peter Kinobe. In a petition delivered by Advocate Isaac Ssemakadde to the Uganda Law Society secretariat at Buye, Ntinda…
Shocking Secrets Behind Journalist Nahabwe’s Illegal Detention, Torture Emerge
It is now exactly 4 days since Ronald Nahabwe, a journalist with The Capital Times, an online news publication, was arrested and detained at the Special Investigations Division (SIU), Kireka, where is he has been in detention for days without the police pressing any charges against him. We have established that Nahabwe was arrested on…
Ugandan Banks Blacklist Britania Allied Industries Boss Elmajee Over Lack Of Work Permit
We recently revealed on this website how Ahmed Elmajee, the Managing Director of Britania Allied Industries, and his colleague Ali Yousef Ebraik Ohaida, the Group General Manager, are illegally operating in Uganda because they have not yet secured work permits that allow them operate in the country. Following our first story, we can reliably confirm…
Scandal As NWSC Directors Share Shs 17Bn In Fake Water Billing Meters Procurement
By Isaac Nabimanya Officials of the National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) have come under fire after allegedly procuring a large consignment of water supply meters which have since turned out to be fake, yet they cost government hundreds of millions of Shillings. According to documents seen by this website, the prepaid meters were procured…
In Uganda: Coronavirus Cases Rise To 797 As 23 Test Positive
The Ministry of Health has confirmed Twenty three new COVID-19 cases. This brings the number of cases confirmed in Uganda to 797 as of June 23rd, 2020. According to the health ministry, the new cases were from 2,219 samples tested, 5 of them were from 1,308 samples tested at points of entry while 18 were…
Gen. Muhoozi Gains More Popularity Ahead Of Bobi Wine Despite Not Showing Interest In Politics
The First Son Lt. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who is also the Presidential Adviser on Special Operations, is fast gaining popularity among Ugandans ahead of People Power leader Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bob Wine, as Uganda braces for future political leaders. Although he has not yet shown any interest in running for political office, analysts contend that…
KCCA Councilors Endorse Tycoon Basajjabalaba’s Reappointment On District Land Board
Several Councilors at the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCAA) on Monday June 22, 2022, warmly accepted Hon. Nasser Basajjabalaba’s reappointment on the Kampala District Land Board, which will see him serve for another five years. The move came after Councilors unanimously approved Hon. Basajjabalaba as a member of the District land board for another term…
Court Of Appeal Dismisses BoU Appeal Against Dr. Sudhir, Orders Troubled Bank To Cough Shs397Bn
The Court of Appeal in Kampala has dismissed an appeal filed by Bank of Uganda against an earlier judgment that had dismissed a shs397 billion commercial dispute between Crane Bank in receivership and businessman Sudhir Ruparelia. The Panel of Court of Appeal judges led by Deputy Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny- Dollo upheld the judgment of…
AU Suspends South Sudan Over $9m Membership Debt
The African Union (AU) has suspended South Sudan from the continental body over failure to honour its financial obligations over the past three years. A letter from the country’s mission in Ethiopia to the Foreign Affairs Ministry confirmed the development saying the amount in question came up to over 9 million dollars. The Xinhua News…