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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…
Dont Use UPDF Devt Funds In Buying Lipsticks -M7 Warns Soldiers’ Spouses
The President and Commander –in-Chief of the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) H. E Gen Yoweri Kaguta Musevevni recently announced the provision of a Presidential Support Fund for organized and registered UPDF spouses’ groups. The Chief of Defence Forces Gen David Muhoozi in a meeting with UPDF senior leaders at the UPDF General headquaters in…
MPs Demand Gov’t To Evacuate Ugandans From China Over Corona Virus
Lawmakers have appealed for evacuation of Ugandans especially students in China in the midst of the deadly coronavirus in Wuhan province. Hon. Latif Sebaggala (Indep., Kawempe North) raised a matter of national importance during a plenary sitting on 11 February 2020, saying that he has received messages from students who are concerned about their plight.…
Former Presidental Candidate Gen. Benon Biraro Succumbs To Cancer
Former Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) army Commander and Presidential Candidate Maj. Gen. Benon Biraro has Passed away this Afternoon At Kampala Hospital, a family member has confirmed. According to close friends, the former UPDF bush war Gen had been in a special isolation room for weeks after developing difficulties in breathing until God called…
Interpol,Gender Ministry Cited In Labour Extortion Scam
Exporting labour is perhaps one of the most delicate undertakings any country can indulge in, especially if its policy makers appreciate it from the purview of a quick fix to the biting unemployment ravaging impoverished countries in the third world. It is, for all intents and purposes, modern day slavery euphemisms as human trafficking and…