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Byabasaija Orders Prison Warders To Stop Using Phones While On Duty
In the wake of increasing attacks on security personnel, the Commissioner General of Uganda Prisons, Dr. Johnson Byabasaija, has ordered warders and wardresses not to use their mobile phones while on duty. “Staff must not report for duty with phones, for they distract attention and interfere with the level of alertness. The safety and security…
Inside The Supreme Court Decree That Directs Helpless BoU To Pay Costs To Sudhir, Meera Over Bogus Crane Bank Case
Last Month, the Supreme Court of Uganda issued an official decree directing Bank of Uganda to pay costs to businessman Sudhir Ruparelia and his Meera Investments Ltd following its February 11th 2022 landmark ruling in the Crane Bank case. In the 1st July, 2022 order, the Supreme Court also told Bank of Uganda to return…
OP-ED: Those Playing Double Standards In Ham Vs Buganda Case Are Costing Our Kingdom Goodwill
By David Serumaga Kampala: Land disputes in Uganda are escalating every day and are causing a negative impact on our society and the people. One of the major factors fueling these land wrangles are the land professionals in central government and cultural leadership who use their offices to cause confusion in land matters. On 16th…
Big Story: Serena Kigo In Hot Soup! Risks Losing It’s Land Title Over Illegal Trespass
Businessman Hamis Kiggundu alias Ham through Kiham Enterprises, has run to court seeking for the cancellation of a land title created on the contested Kigo land by Buganda Kingdom in favor of Pearl Development Group. The petition addressed to the commissioner land registration looks forward to seeing the contested land titles cancelled claiming that they’re…
OP-ED: I Urgently Need To Inherit Dr Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere’s Big, Black Book
OBITUARY | Alfred Geresom Musamali | Now that former Democratic Party (DP) President-General Dr Paul Kawanga Ssemogere is dead, I urgently need to inherit one of his intellectual property items – to wit, the Big, Black Book in which during the 1980s he conceptualised recording the names of all the perpetrators of human rights abuses in…
Police Fires Teargas At NUP Supporters As They Remember November 2020 Victims
The Police on Friday fired teargas to disperse supporters of the National Unity Platform-NUP political party who had gathered at their party headquarters to remember those killed during the November 2020 riots. Today marks two years since at least 54 people were killed as police and the army tried to quell protests in Kampala and…
“Business Opportunities Are Many In Uganda”- Says Museveni As He Welcomes More Indian Investments
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has requested Indian business people to invest more in Uganda, saying the East African country has several investment opportunities in different sectors. While officiating at the opening of Afro Indian Investment Summit 2022 and the centennial 100 years celebration of Indian Association Uganda on Thursday at Munyonyo Commonwealth Resort Hotel in…
Sad News! Former DP President Dr. Paul Kawanga Ssemwogerere Is Dead
The former Democratic Party President Dr Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere is dead. The 90+ year old man breathed his last at his home. According to Wakiso District Chairman Mr Bwanika, Ssemogerere died in the wee hours of November 18, 2022. “Dr. Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere : (11 February 1932- November 18, 2022). KITALO NNYO,” reads a message…
MPs Want Presidential, Parliamentary Polls Conducted Last
Parliament has adopted a recommendation from its Committee on Human Rights that tasked the Electoral Commission to conduct presidential and parliamentary elections last in the cycle. Committee Chairperson, Fox Odoi Oywelowo said the changes will guarantee interest in the local government elections which have historically suffered notoriously low turnout. “The Electoral Commission should organize general…
Good Gesture! Min. Janet Museveni Orders UNEB To Set Special Paper For ’23 PLE Candidates’ Who Missed Paper
First Lady and Education Minister Janet Kataaha Kainembabazi Museveni has directed the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) to set a special Mathematics Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) paper for the 23 P7 candidates of St. Christine Primary School who missed the exam over transport challenges. The PLE set of national exams, comprising four examination papers, was…