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Spice Up Your Weekends With Speke Resort’s “Beer & Pizza” Combo At Discounted Price
Speke Resort & Conference Centre in Munyonyo, popularly known for endless fun-filled weekends has unveiled a Crazy Beer & Pizza combo running this month of January in which it is offering loyal clients and guests to pay less but drink much enjoying the locally made Ugandan beer and Pizza. Announcing via its socials, Speke Resort…
Panic As Bobi Wine, 2000 Others Residents Face Eviction From Magere After Court Order
More than 2,000 residents in Magere, Wakiso District are on the verge of being evicted from their homes after losing their bid to block the hearing of a case filed by Ms. Justine Nakamatte accusing them of illegal stay on the 640 acre land. The land in question comprises Block 190 and Block 191, which…
Court Convicts Two For vandalising Electricity Transmission Lines In Kamdini
The Standards, Utilities and Wildlife Court, which doubles as the Electricity Court, On January 18th, 2022, convicted Abiiti Isaac and Asiku Sunday for Tampering, theft and conspiracy to vandalise power transmission lines in Kamdini District. The accused were sentenced to 20 (Twenty) months in prison for tampering with power transmission equipment, 20 (Twenty) months for…
Brig Felix Busizoori Takes Over As Acting SFC Commander
Brigadier General Felix Busizoori has taken over the Command of the elite Special Force Command. He replaces Brig Gen. Peter Candia who has been sent on course as the National Defence College by the Commander in Chief, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. Brig Busizoori was handed over the office on Wednesday by Brig Candia during a…
MPs Approve 6.4Bn Budget For Capital Market Authority
Members of Parliament on the finance committee have approved the Shs6.4 billion budget for the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) for the Financial Year 2022/2023. Led by the Minister of State Finance (Planning), Hon Amos Lugoloobi, the CMA leadership appeared before the committee on Wednesday, 19 January 2022 to present the authority’s budget priorities for the…
Ex Ministers Asked To Return Diplomatic Passports
The Directorate of Citizens and Immigration Control has asked former Ministers and Members of Parliament to return the official and diplomatic passports. Without revealing names, Jacob Siminyu, the Ministry of Internal Affairs spokesperson said several former ministers and MPs are illegally holding diplomatic and official passports yet they lost such statuses. Siminyu explains that an…
Family & Friends Reduced To Tears As Leg Of Traffic Police Officer Shot By UPDF Soldier Is Amputated
The family, friends and relatives of the Uganda Traffic Police Officer who was shot by a Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) soldier, was reduced to tears after learning that their son’s leg has been amputated. Robert Mukebezi was shot in the leg on Sunday by Major Alfa Okua who is attached to the Chieftaincy of…
Min.Otafiire Blasts UPDF Soldiers Over Shooting Of Traffic Officer
Internal Affairs Minister, Maj Gen (Rtd) Kahinda Otafiire has condemned the shooting of a traffic police officer by a UPDF soldier still at large, saying the perpetrator will face justice. Otafiire said having been part of the National Resistance Army that shot its way to power in early 1986, incidents such as those shock him…
Gen Kayanja Inspects Construction Of Ferry River Similiki Linking Uganda To DRC
Maj Gen Kayanja Muhanga, the UPDF overall Commander Operation Shujaa, on 17 January 2022 inspected the on-going ferry construction works at Hayibale landing site on river Semuliki in Rwebisengo county – Ntoroko district. Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) is working to install the ferry on river Semuliki that will connect Uganda and Eastern Democratic Republic…
Min.Adoa Distributes Motorcycles,Surveillance Kits To Locust-Affected Districts
The Minister of state for Fisheries Hon. Hellen Adoa represented Hon. Frank Tumwebaze, the Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries at the handover of 23 motorcycles and 106 surveillance kits to 23 District Local Governments in Northern and Eastern Uganda. The project targeted areas that were affected and at risk during the Desert Locust…