Kampala news
Legislators have tasked government to increase efforts to end Female Genital Mutilation, warning that the practice will persist, if not addressed. The MPs called on government to put emphasis on setting up a special fund for women involved in the practice as a way of having them leave it, fast track strategies to address FGM…
Representatives from the Military, Police, Prisons, civilian components and other stakeholders from all the six East Africa Community (EAC) partner states are meeting at Silver Springs Hotel in Kampala to discuss modalities of conducting the 12th Edition Command Post Exercise (CPX) codenamed Ushirikiano Imara 2019 in Uganda. The main planning conference (MPC) is chaired by…
Ndorwa East MP, Hon Wilfred Niwagaba has sought the leave of Parliament to table a Constitution Amendment Bill which seeks to scrap the position of Vice President and Prime Minister, among a cocktail of other proposals. The objects of the Constitution Amendment Bill 2019, outlines its ambitious intentions. Key in the proposed amendments is the…
Three suspects, among them two women, were detained in connection with forging URA documents and those of several other government institutions, bank stamps and international agencies. The trio, namely Ali Kimera Ssajjabi, Amina Nambalye and Hadijah Nakitende are said to be based along Nasser Road, Kampala. For days, we trailed the suspects until they were…
A team of police detectives from the Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) has commence the probe on circumstances under which a local musician Michael Kalinda aka Ziggy Wyne was kidnapped, beaten and left for dead a couple of weeks ago. Ziggy Wyne breathed his last on Sunday evening at Mulago National Referral Hospital where he was…
Raymond Kagimba Mugimba, the former head of sales and marketing at Buganda Broadcasting Services (BBS) Television and partner of former television personality Justine Nameere, had been released after paying shs200,000 for bail in forgery case. Unknown to him, court bailiffs were lurking in the compound waiting to pounce on him and they struck with surgical…
The territorial Police in Bombo, is actively investigating a traffic incident of reckless and dangerous driving, that was caught on video and widely shared. The incident occurred on Saturday, 27th, July 2019 at around 3PM, along the Bombo – Luwero Highway, where the driver of a Land Rover {old model} under registration number UXW 839,…
The Territorial Police in Rwenzori West Region have charged more suspects to court, linked to Global Healing Christian Missions, a purported Charity Organisation, that was actively involved in supplying born again Christians, in Kyenjojo and Kabarole Districts, with a Miracle Cure, claiming it healed Cancer, HIV/AIDS, Malaria and many other diseases. The Charity was partly…
The former Minister of State for Local Government, Hon. Ahabwe Pereza, is the Chairperson of the Board while other members include; Rehema Mutazindwa, Catherine Asinde, Charles Hamya, Steven Aziku Zuwa, Benon Kajuna and Godfrey Semugooma. Ntege Azuba said the selection was made based on experience and qualifications of successful candidates in transport planning, business administration,…
The Ministry of Public Service has presented a supplementary request to the Finance Ministry aimed at reducing the salary disparity in the Uganda Police Force. According to the Minister of State for Public Service, Hon. David Karubanga, the approval of the request will see the rise in salary of police officers with different qualifications. “The…
