At least two people have been killed and several others severely injured in a land fight involving family members in Aloc ‘A’ Village, Aromo Sub- County Lira District. The dead have been identified as Ketty Akwero, 41 and her 2-year old daughter, Dolly Akullo. They were killed on Friday night. It is alleged that Akwero…
Gayaza High School has issued a statement on fire that gutted two dormitories; Kennedy and Corby at Gayaza High School. The school headteacher in a statement said that the fire that broke out at Corby House one of the dormitories at about 7:40PM but “it has been contained by police and the situation is under…
A joint security team led by the Commander Kampala Metropolitan Police , CP Moses Kafeero last night carried out an intelligence led operation along Northern bypass and arrested several hard core criminals. KMP Boss CP Moses Kafeero briefing his officers during operation. This operations comes after complaints from the public of…
Lawmakers on the Public Accounts Committee gave grilled the former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Justice, Kagole Kivumbi over a Shs343 million payment to the Chief Justice, Bart Katureebe and Deputy Chief Justice, Alphonse Owiny Dollo meant for foreign travels in the financial year 2018/2019. The Committee chaired by Hon. Nandala Mafabi was Wednesday,…
Metropolitan Police in Kawempe, have arrested a bricklayer on accusations of killing his seven-year-old daughter over failure to do homework. The suspect, who is a resident of Jinja–Karoli in Kawempe Division in Kampala, allegedly returned home from his bricklaying routine on Monday at 7pm and asked his daughter Irene Nambalirwa whether she had done homework.…
The Inspector-General of Police, Martins Okoth Ochola has ordered all installed CCTV cameras to be in operational after a fatal accident that claimed Ritah Nabukenya’s life. Ochola’s directive followed police’s failure to provide footage of an accident which the police say was caused by a motorcycle trying to overtake a police patrol vehicle hence ending…
Street mobile phone snatchers have broken a four-month lull of peace that Kampala City dwellers have been enjoying since President Museveni directed the deputy Inspector General of Police, Maj Gen Sabiti Muzeyi, to come up with a security plan to deal with increasing crime. The goons attacked motorists in a jam on the Northern by-pass,…
Russia on Friday announced it had dispatched two state-of-the-art warships to the Middle East after an attack in Syria killed 33 Turkish soldiers. Videos posted on social media showed two of Russia’s newest guided missile frigates, the Admiral Grigorovich and the Admiral Makarov, making their way through the Bosporus, a Turkish-controlled chokepoint that runs…
At least eight people were killed on spot and scores seriously injured in a Friday head-on collision in the central district of Luwero, according to the police. Abraham Tukundane, Luwero district police commander, revealed that the fatal accident occurred after a truck collided with a passenger commuter taxi at Kibisi, along the Luwero-Kampala Highway. Tukundane…
The mother of a 22-year-old Ugandan student who died in China on Thursday has said she had been communicating with him daily and would have told her if he was troubled. Shafiq Mbogo, a fourth year private student pursuing bachelor’s degree in International Business and Trade at Shenyang University in Shenyang City, the capital of…
