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Court Rules Ex Uganda Airlines Boss Muleya Has Case To Answer
The Buganda Road Magistrates Court has ruled that the former Chief Executive Officer of Uganda Airlines Cornwell Muleya who is accused of disobedience of orders requiring him to record a statement has a case to answer. On Friday, the court presided over by Grade One Magistrate Asuman Muhumuza ordered Muleya to prepare his defense over…
SEK Security Guard Brutally Murdered In Kireka
Unidentified assailants have killed Bernard Nalulu, a guard from SEK security services limited in Kireka, Kira municipality in Wakiso district. Residents found Nalulu’s body outside the perimeter wall of Hajji Medie Ssebunya, a resident of Kamuli-C zone in Kireka town on Thursday morning. Some of the residents ably identified the deceased, saying that he was…
IGG Commends ISO Leadership, Other Anti-Graft Agencies for Partnership In Fight Against Corruption
The Inspector General of Government (IGG) has lauded the Internal Security organization leadership for being among the leading partners in the fight against corruption in Uganda. This was revealed by the Deputy IGG, Dr. Patricia Achan Okiria while delivering a lecture to ISO trainees at Entebbe on the 22nd September 2022. Dr. Achan who was…
Confession: How I Got Millions of Counterfeit Money and Exchanged It In Banks Without Being Detected
My name is Agatha; I am making this confession because I left this risky work that I was doing. A few months ago, a friend of mine got me a job in Malaba, a few weeks into my job, two men approached me with this lucrative offer. They asked me how much I earned from my…
NSSF Unveils Its Mixed-use Affordable Temangalo Housing Project
The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has unveiled its mixed-use affordable housing project located at Temangalo, in Wakiso district, 17Kms from Kampala city centre. When completed, it will comprise 3,500 houses of various types, retail and commercial spaces, community amenities including education, health and social facilities, a large neighbourhood green park, associated infrastructure including roads,…
OP-ED: Let Us Have Coffee Over Affordable Housing
By Denis Jjuuko Kampala: There are skits on social media of a landlady called Nakayiza. She can visit her tenants at any time and if she finds them eating chicken or meat, she wonders how they can be enjoying expensive foods while still renting. She castigates them for being such poor planners who enjoy life’s…
Gen. Isoke Lauds President Museveni For Intensifying Fight Against Corruption Through Inter-Agency Cooperation With State House & ISO Anti-Corruption Units
The Head, State House – Anti-Corruption Unit (SH-ACU) Brig. Gen. Henry Isoke has on Wednesday September 21, 2022 visited the Internal Security Organisation (ISO) training unit in Entebbe where he presented a lecture on the fight against corruption to the new recruits of the highly secretive but very effective intelligence gathering organisation in the country.…
Dishonourable: Lydia Wanyoto Sued By 8-Year-Old Stepdaughter Over Father’s Grave
Florence Wanyenze Mutende, 8, a daughter to late James Shinyabulo Mutende has dragged Lydia Wanyoto to Court alleging that for 7 years she has not been allowed to allow the graveyard of her father. Mr Mutende died on October 3, 2015 and was buried in Mafudhu, Sironko District. In a civil suit number 395 of…
Hope Restored! Victoria University Signs Loan Scheme MoU With HESFB To ‘Financially’ Aid Struggling Students
Victoria University (VU) Kampala, Uganda’s leading transformational university has inked a Memorandum of Understanding with Higher Education Students Financing Board on the Students Loan Scheme to enable less-privileged students complete their studies. The MoU which was signed on September 19, 2022 at Victoria University Main Campus covers students enrolled in selected universities and tertiary institutions…
Some Relief For Consumers As Fuel Prices Slightly Drop
Businessmen and experts have expressed optimism that the continued drop in fuel prices in Uganda will help to lower the cost of doing business. In the past two months, there has been a drop in the fuel pump prices from an average of 6,800 Shillings a litre of petrol to about Shs5,800, and diesel from…