Mukono Municipality member of parliament Hon Betty Nambooze has claimed this morning an invension by a panga-wielding man who found her in bed and ordered her to say the last prayer before being chopping her head into pieces. In the video clip circulating by on social media timid Nambooze is covered by buckets of tears…
Joint Security Task Teams, actively involved in countering all acts of subversive behavior, conducted three separate operations in Njeru Municipality, in Buikwe district, as well as in Zombo and Kasese districts respectively, where a total of 13 suspected rebel collaborators were arrested. Police spokesperson Fred Enanga revealed that the operation carried out in Njeru Municipality,…
KAMPALA – A red flag has been raised on the ongoing construction of the Shs 770 billion 159-kilometre of Masindi – Kisanja -Tangi -Paraa -Buliisa road, being undertaken by Chinese firm China Communications Construction Company Ltd (CCCC), with serious issues emerging after the termination of the contract of the external consulting engineers. In the fall-out,…
The top management team at the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is on the spot for hastily sanctioning a Shs10 billion project to expand the passenger terminal at Entebbe Airport, even when the Board had frozen the construction projects. According to the chairperson of Parliament’s Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities, and State Enterprises (Cosase), Mr Joel…
Fish traders whose trucks are being held by Uganda government authorities have sued the head of the Fisheries Protection Unit-FPU on Lake George and Edward, the Director of Fisheries Resources in Entebbe, and the Attorney General for illegally confiscating their fish. On October 3, 2021, Uganda Revenue Authority together with FPU impounded five fish trucks…
Napak district local government has given Sumadhura Company limited a week’s ultimatum to drill two new boreholes, or refund Shillings 48 million they received for the work. It all started after the company drilled two boreholes in the district two weeks ago, but they did not produce any water. The company drilled one of the…
Police in Rubanda District is investigating circumstances where a twenty year old disgruntled youth committed suicide by hanging. This website has identified the deceased as Ayebare Celestine a resident of Mumparo cell Nyarubanga Rubanda Town Council. Elly Maate the Kigezi Region Police Spokesperson said the deceased spent Saturday evening drinking alcohol from Nyamiyaga trading center.…
Kampala: Uganda Police Force with sister security agencies are investigating the mysterious death of a prominent lawyer, Kanalo Ngobi Tony, whose death is linked to a bar brawl. According to sources, Ngobi a resident of Lungujja, Rubaga, in Kampala city, and a partner at WAGABAZA & CO. ADVOCATES, passed on in the wee hours of…
French industrial group Bollore on Friday reached a settlement over a decade-old corruption case in Togo, prosecutors said, but a separate plea deal with three top company executives was thrown out by a judge. The company agreed to pay 12 million euros ($14.5 million) as part of the deal with financial crime prosecutors which was…
The Court of Appeal has ordered Patrick Ssentongo, the former Finance Manager at MTN Uganda Limited to compensate his former employer 5 billion Shillings. A panel of three judges, Kenneth Kakuru, Muzamiru Mitangula Kibeedi and Irene Mulyagonja have also ordered Ssentongo to continue serving his 10 year sentence for embezzlement. In 2012, Ssentongo, Joan Nabugwawo,…
