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Supreme Court Set To Hear Arguments On Activists’ Bid To Recover UGX 169 Billion From Four Commercial Banks
Supreme Court set to hear arguments on activists’ bid to recover UGX 169 Billion from four commercial banks “The Constitutional Court failed in its duty to provide an effective remedy which, in our view, would comprise a refund of taxpayers’ money by the foreign banks, interest, damages and costs,” said advocate Isaac Ssemakadde, who is…
Love Wins: Princess Set To Give Up Royal Title & £730,000 So She Can Marry University Classmate
A princess is set to make a £730,000 payment to give up her royal status in order to marry her university classmate. Japan’s Princess Mako, who is the granddaughter of then-Emperor Akihito, announced her engagement to college classmate, Kei Komuro, back in 2017 but the wedding has been delayed for years because of controversy over her fiancé. The wedding…
School In Bukedea Shifts Office To Pit Latrines
The administration of Acomai Primary School in Kamutur sub county in Bukedea district, currently operates in a pit latrine after rainwater washed away the existing structures in the school. Founded by the community in 2008, the government took over the school in 2012 after Bukedea District Local Government posted teachers to the school. The school…
Kibaale RDC Faces Jail Over Commissioning Incomplete UGX 700M Maternity Ward
Kibaale Resident District Commissioner Deborah Mbabazi, is in trouble for commissioning an incomplete maternity ward at Matale health center III in Matale sub-county worth Shillings 700million. The maternity ward also has various defects, an indication of poor workmanship. The State Minister in Charge of Economic Monitoring in the Office of the President, Peter Ogwang detected…
Priest Arrested For Feasting On 16-year-old Girl
Uganda Police in Mitooma district have arrested and detained a Church Of Uganda Priest on allegations of defiling and impregnating a 16-year-old girl. The 56-year-old whose names have been withheld for security reasons was a Reverend at Nyarutuntu Church Of Uganda in Mahungye Parish, Mitooma district. Mitooma RDC Adah Nansiima said at the time of…
LIST: IGP Ochola Knifes Top Police Chiefs
The Inspector General of Police (IGP) John Martins Okoth Ochola has made new changes in the Police hierarchy with Ben Mubangizi appointed new Deputy Police Commander Kampala Metropolitan Area. He replaces Dennis Namuwooza who has since been moved. Mubangizi who worked as head of security for the former Premier Ruhakana Rugunda’s will now deputize Kampala…
VIDEO: Tenants in Panic as TWED Plaza Leaks During Downpours
Tenants at Twed Plaza Building on Plot 22 Lumumba Avenue are in total panic as their offices drip like gutters every single time it rains down in the Kampala skies. In a video that has gone viral on social media, an alarming heavy down pour penetrated through the walls to the offices of the Uganda…
MP Ssegirinya Re-arrested At Kigo Prison Over Treason Charges
Member of parliament for Kawempe North Honourable Muhammad Ssegirinya has been re-arrested outside Kigo Prison. Ssegirinya’s bail papers were confiscated as soon as he stepped out of Kigo prison in the same manner as MP Allan Ssewanyana. He was also re-arrested and taken in a drone. “We want to inform the public that Hon Ssegirinya…
Lt Gen Elwelu Calls For Integration Of Africa Security Forces
The Deputy Chief of Defence Forces Lt Gen Peter Elwelu has implored African nations to integrate so as to solve the global security challenges. Lt Gen Elwelu said this while addressing a delegation of visiting students from the Zambian Defence Service Command and Staff College. The Lecture of Opportunity at the Ministry of Defence and…
Police Vow To Crush Political Instigated Protests
Police is closely monitoring plans by selected criminal elements who include; boda boda and youth gangs instigated by politicians, to hold illegal protests and unlawful demonstrations, within Kampala, and Masaka, over the re-arrest of Hon. Allan Ssewanyana. “We want to inform the public that the Hon. MP was arrested on fresh charges of treason and…