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Interpol,Gender Ministry Cited In Labour Extortion Scam
Exporting labour is perhaps one of the most delicate undertakings any country can indulge in, especially if its policy makers appreciate it from the purview of a quick fix to the biting unemployment ravaging impoverished countries in the third world. It is, for all intents and purposes, modern day slavery euphemisms as human trafficking and…
Three Year Boy Abandoned Along Mbarara-Masaka Highway
A notice of an abandoned child by unknown individual along the Mbarara-Masaka highway at Akagate trading centre, Kiruhura has been received by Rwizi Regional Child and Family Protection Unit Officer. He is believed to be between two and three years. He was found on Saturday and is suspected to be from the areas of Greater…
Bunamwaya Police Officer Kills Two,Commits Suicide Over A Case File
Police in Kampala Metropolitan (KMP) has started investigating circumstances under which a police attached at Bunamwaya community police post were bonkers on Tuesday afternoon and shot dead his fellow investigative officer. According to Deputy KMP Police spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigyire, revealed that police officer PC No. 53443 Ben Ojilong had a bitter exchange with CPL No.…
Leave ‘Pulling’ Or Else We Will Not Vote For Museveni – Senga Nantume Blasts Minister Mutuuzo
Renowned Media personality and bedroom lecturer Ssenga Justine Nantume is up in arms following the statement made by Peace Mutuuzo over genital elongation in young girls. Last week, Mutuuzo, the State Minister for Gender and Culture claimed that this practice (genital elongation) doesn’t add value on anyone’s health but rather prepares young girls who are…
Shameless 70 Yr Old Hoima Man Arrested For Defiling 5yr Granddaughter
Police in Hoima have arrested a 70-year-old man on allegations of defiling his 5-year-old granddaughter. The suspect is Keya Kafeero, a resident of Buhirigi LCI in Buhirigi parish Bombo Sub-county Hoima district. Kafeero reportedly grabbed the child after she had been sent by the mother to collect plates from Kafeero’s house on Monday afternoon at…
MP Karuhanga Cites His Mother’s Death To M7’s Shambolic Health System
Ntungamo Municipality Member of Parliament Hon.Gerald Karuhanga while eulogising his fallen mother Mrs Jova Kafureeka (55) told the mourners that his mother and other Ugandans will continue to die young because President Museveni has one of the worst health care systems in the world. mourners attending a requiem mass The opposition leaning legislator painfully voiced…
Grief As UPDF Officer Shoots Three Dead, Scores Injured
It was a shock and grief on Monday February 10, 2020 evening when a UPDF soldier attached to Gulu Military Baracks took a gun and Shot dead three people in Gulu town. The incident that claimed lives of Beatrice Ajok, 52, her two sons; Owen Norman, who has been a Senior Six student of St.…
UPDF Soldier Shoots Dead Three Family Members In Gulu Land Raw
A UPDF soldier is on the run after shooting three people dead in Gulu town. The Monday incident occurred in Vanguard Sub-ward, Pece Division, Gulu Municipality. Those killed in cold blood are Beatrice Ajok, 52, her two sons; Owen Norman, who has been a Senior Six student of St. Pope John Paul II SS, and…
Don’t Trust Your Memories If You’re High On Weed, Study Says
A new study published Monday, February 10, 2020 found people who took just one hit of weed doubled their number of “false memories” in a virtual reality scenario compared to those who puffed on a placebo said study author Johannes Ramaekers. A false memory is a recollection of something that didn’t occur or a memory that…
Uganda Sprays Locust Swarms To Protect Coffee Crop, Livestock
Uganda has started to spray swarms of desert locusts that invaded over the weekend, posing a major threat to livestock and key crops such as coffee, a government officials has confirmed. The plague of locusts has already caused extensive damage to pastures and crops and threatened food security in several countries in the east and…