Aviation police with sister Security agencies at Entebbe International Airport have arrested one of the Richest Ugandans under 40 over embezzlement of public funds. John Abouf Turyagyenda Aka (JAT) was apprehended at Entebbe International Airport while escaping the country to Morocco trying to chicken out on fraud charges that he has orchestrated within Rural Electrification…
President Yoweri Museveni has assured the French business community of abundant investment opportunities in Uganda. “We have got several business opportunities. Uganda is endowed with phosphates and iron ore,” he said. The President was meeting a French Business delegation, led by the Chairman of the Confederation of French Companies, Mr. Momer Nguer, who called on…
President Museveni Friday morning left for the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, where he will join other regional leaders for the 13th ordinary summit of the Inter-governmental Authority on Development (IGAD). On the agenda is the IGAD Treaty, IGAD Organisational structure and nomination of IGAD chairmanship.These were endorsed by the ordinary council of Ministers, and will…
While bidding farewell to different Government agencies, the out going USA Ambassador to Uganda H.E Ambassador Deborah Malac has applauded the able leadership of president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni ,who is the commander in chief alongside chief of defence forces Gen.David Muhoozi and entire Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) family for the different roles that are…
The Speaker of parliament of republic of Uganda, RT.Hon Rebecca Kadaga, has promised to lobby Government to support the local film industry in Uganda. Hon.Kadaga said all this while officiating at the 2019 Uganda Film Festival held at Acacia Mall, Kampala on Wednesday 27, November 2019. The Speaker said that she regrets the fact that…
The Minister of State for Finance, Hon. David Bahati, has assured legislators that Uganda will not lose its properties in Kenya following the enactment of a new law limiting foreign ownership of property in the country. Bahati said that Ugandan owned property in Kenya is managed by either Uganda Property Holdings Limited (UPHL), Uganda’s embassy…
Tooro kingdom princess Elizabeth Bagaya Akiiki is currently bedridden at International Hospital Kampala (IHK), where she was rushed early this week in critical condition. Although it is not yet clear what her health problem is exactly as it’s being kept a top secret so far, close family sources revealed to our reporter that Akiiki Bagaya…
he former bodyguard to Amama Mbabazi, Christopher Aine, has been arrested together with his three colleagues for blocking traffic flow this afternoon on Kampala Road. Aine and three others stormed Kampala Road with one holding a machete protesting for the lack of jobs in the country. Before officers from the Central Police Station (CPS) intercepted…
Members of Parliament have condemned the Police for the way they brutally handle Opposition politicians citing the recent arrest of Dr Kizza Besigye. This followed a statement by the Minister of State for Internal Affairs, Hon Obiga Kania where he said that the former Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) deserved to be arrested on 4th…
The sour relationship between the governments of Rwanda and Uganda have worsened after President Paul Kagame reportedly issued a blockade on Ugandan media houses. We have learnt that the first media house to suffer the brunt of Kagame’s wrath us Nation Media Group’s Daily Monitor, which has since been banned from circulation in Rwanda. It…
