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Simbamanyo Saga: Court of Appeal Issues Express Order Halting Case Proceedings
The Court of Appeal has temporarily halted proceedings in the case in which Simbamanyo Estates Limited is challenging the sale of mortgaged property by Equity Bank, pending the determination of the substantive application for stay of the same. The court issued the express order stopping the Commercial Division of the High Court from proceeding in…
Simbamanyo Estates Withdraws Case Stopping The Sale, Takeover Of Its Multi-Billion Property In Loan Dispute
City architect Peter Kamya, who is the proprietor of Simbamanyo Estates, has chickened out on his fight to rescue the building called Simbamanyo House, which houses the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development. The building was a few days ago bought by tycoon Sudhir Ruparelia’s Meera Investments Limited, at USD5m, about Shs18.5Bn, after it…
Simbamanyo Estates Loses Another Afrique Suites Hotel Over $10.8 Million Loan
Simbamanyo Estates Limited has lost another property, Afrique Suites Hotel over a $10.8 million loan acquired from Equity Bank. Recently, the Estate lost Simbamanyo House located on plot 2 Lumumba Avenue after it failed to service the loan. The building had been mortgaged by its owners with Equity Bank but after failing to pay, the…
Silent Rage: Imoratok Clan Members Petition Lands Minister After Soroti Catholic Church Merciless Snatched Their Land
Members of the Imoratok Clan in Ogolai Sub-county, Ococia parish in Amuria district are under untold suffering at the hands of Orungo Catholic Church under the jurisdiction of Soroti Catholic Diocese. In a Save-our-Souls (SOS) petition to the Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development (MoLHUD), these clan members narrate the harrowing tale of how…
Silent Rage As Bobi Wine Drops LoP Mathias Mpuuga
The National Unity Platform party President Robert Kyagulanyi also known as Bobi Wine has dropped John Baptist Nambeshe as Opposition Chief Whip to the Public Accounts Committee and Mathias Mpuuga from Leader of Opposition (LOP) to Commissioner of Parliament, replacing Francis Zaake. According to sources NUP’s leadership held a meeting during the weekend and notable…
Signs Out: Tamale Mirundi Takes A Journey Of No Return
Former press secretary to President Museveni and a prominent political commentator, has passed away at the age of 60. His death occurred on Tuesday evening, as confirmed by those close to him. Mirundi, widely known for his fiery and often controversial political commentary, was a staunch supporter of the National Resistance Movement (NRM). In recent…
Sierra Leone Leader Maada Bids Farewell To M7 after A Three Day State Visit
Presidents M7 and Maada at State house Entebbe President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has met and bid farewell to President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone Julius Maada Bio who is on a 3-day visit to Uganda at the invitation of the hosting president. This visit further strengthened the warm and cordial relations existing between…
Sickly Gen.Tumukunde Discharged From Kololo Hospital, Whisked Back To Military Detention
Lt Gen Henry Tumukunde who was admitted on Sunday afternoon to Kololo Hospital after he collapsed in police custody has been secretly discharged on Monday evening by a team of medics .The highly guarded General was again whisked to yet to be identified detention center by mean looking security operatives. According to our sources at…
Shut Up: Deputy Speaker Tayebwa Hits Back At Minister Otafiire
Deputy Speaker of Parliament Thomas Tayebwa yesterday condemned Internal Affairs Minister Kahinda Otafiire’s selfish and hypocritical attacks on the institution of parliament. In a no nonsense response to the bush-war hero who on Monday this week questioned the size of parliament and it’s relevance, Mr Tayebwa reminded Otafiire that he is one of the beneficiaries…
Shunned: Investors Abandon Busoga’s City Due To Poor Road Network
In 1907, Sir Winston Churchill, then UK Premier visited Jinja and impressed by the beautiful scenery of the source of River Nile, opted to write a book titled “My East African Journey” where he genuinely decreed that Uganda was indeed “the Pearl of Africa”. However, this has since changed. It’s a thing of the past…