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UPDF To Accord Gen.Biraaro 17 Gun Salutes At The Burial On Sunday
Former Presidential candidate, Maj Gen Benon Biraaro, will be buried on Sunday with military honours. Biraaro died of colon cancer on Wednesday at Kampala hospital. His cousin Arthur Tumwine revealed that the army had offered to honour Maj Gen Biraaro, who participated in the National Resistance Army (NRA) war, which brought President Museveni to power…
15 Passangers Perish In Mayuge Road Accident
Fifteen people travelling in a Kampala-bound taxi have been killed in a road accident in Imanyiro village along the Musita-Lumino highway in Mayuge district. The deceased who were vendors from Namayingo town council were travelling to Kampala in a taxi registration number UBD 089A. The accident occurred at around 5:00 am according to police. James…
4 Chinese To Be Deported For Assaulting Kenyan Employeer
Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i has ordered the deportation of four Chinese involved in the caning of a Kenyan at Chez Wou Restaurant in Kileleshwa. The four were arrested by the DCI detectives following a viral video showing a Kenyan employee being whipped for arriving late to work. Matiangi’s orders on Thursday came hours…
Gen.Kyanda Passes Out 500 UPDF Commandos
Five hundred ninety soldiers have graduated from the Non-Commissioned Officers’ Academy (NCOA) at the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces’ (UPDF) Gadaffi Garrison. The Chief of Staff Land Forces, Maj Gen Leopold Eric Kyanda presided over the pass out ceremony of 467 militants who completed six months Senior Non-Commissioned Officers’ (SNCO) Course Intake 16/19-20 and 123 who…
Why Is It Still Vacant? Kadaga Petitions Finance Minister Over Failure To Appoint New BoU Deputy Governor
The Speaker Of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Rebecca Kadaga has petitioned the Finance Minister Matia Kasaija to explain why the Ministry is keeping silent and taking long to appoint a new deputy Bank Of Uganda (BoU) Governor following the departure of Dr. Louis Kasekende. Furious Kadaga has called upon Mr. Kasaija to appear before Parliament on…
Senior UPDF Soldier Arrested For Killing 3 People In Gulu
Corporal Geoffrey Okello, a Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) soldier has been arrested in relation to a shooting which claimed three lives in Gulu town on Monday evening. Okello was arrested in the wee hours of Tuesday and is now detained at the 4th Division barracks in Gulu. Okello is accused of gunning down 52-year-old Beatrice…
Police, Thugs Armed Thugs Exchange Bullets In Foiled Bukoto Robbery
Police at Kiira road Station received a disturbance call about a robbery that was taking place at the home of Natif Nicholas located along Matayo close Kigowa II Zone in Bukoto II Parish . It is alleged that about four unknown thugs had attacked and seriously assaulted private security guard and also intercepted the owner…
Archbishop Ntangali Grills Found Reverend Mwesigwa Over Kidnap
The missing Anglican priest, Reverend Isaac Mwesigwa who was allegedly kidnapped on Sunday night from Mukono was found alive after being abandoned last night by his alleged kidnappers in Soroti district in eastern Uganda. Rev Mwesigwa was reportedly taken to the Archbishop Church of Uganda, the Rev Stanley Ntagali who had spent the night at…
Panic As Dfcu Top Management Ploy To Involve Museveni In Internal Quandary
It has emerged that Dfcu bank shareholders plan to approach President Yoweri Museveni on their fact-finding travel to Uganda causing panic to DFCU Top Management. According to an insider, the meeting with President Museveni will trigger an investigation into DFCU troubles that are believed to have caused millions of losses to the Bank. DFCU in…
Breaking! Former Kamwenge Town Clerk Arrested For Swindling Millions
The Inspectorate of Government (IG) has has on Wednesday February, 12, 2019 arrested the former Town Clerk of Kamwenge Town Council, Mathew Tumushabe Atwiine, for misappropriation of UGX 4,450,000 (Four million four hundred thousand only). Atwiine has been charged with one count of Embezzlement contrary to Section 19 of the Anti-Corruption Act, 2009 and an…