Residents of Kawempe, a Kampala suburb have arrested and handed over to police the Imam of Bilali Mosque in Bwaise for allegedly defiling a 15-year-old girl. Sheik Muhammad Abdullah Kefeero, 42, a resident of Nabukalu zone in Kawempe division, was arrested by the residents and taken to Kawempe police station after they allegedly found him…
A Ugandan national, resident of Kabingo Village Chahafi parish Murora Sub-county in Kisoro District was on Saturday night shot and killed at Kumugu Trading Centre, Musanze District in Rwanda, about three kilometres away from the Ugandan border. Mr Hadard Nkunzimana, the sub-county chairperson, identified the deceased as Teojen Ndagijimana, 26, who was shot together his…
Embakasi East MP Babu Owino will be charged with attempted murder, the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) George Kinoti has said. This comes after the legislator allegedly shot and injured a DJ at a popular night club in Kilimani, Nairobi, in the early hours of Friday morning. “We will charge him with attempted murder. It…
Four more bodies have been recovered from the rubbles of the two-storied building that collapsed in Jinja town in eastern Uganda on Wednesday. The dead have been identified as Dennis Muhoofa aged 28, Saad Basalirwa, 18, and Joseph Isabirye while the identity of the fourth victim is yet to be established. The building located on…
Mukono general hospital has halted treating suspects brought in by Mukono police division over lack of facilitation. The division usually takes the suspects to the hospital for examination treatment and other related medical care services. However, the medical officers claim that the suspects spend long hours at the hospital on ’empty stomachs’ since they are…
Former Vice President of Uganda, Dr Specioza Wandira Kazibwe is in deep pain after losing her last born one John William Bomboka Kazibwe who drowned and died in a swimming pool in Nairobi, Kenya. Bomboka’s body landed Entebbe airport from Nairobi aboard Kenya airways KQ 416 at 7.50pm on friday. The young shining star had…
Kampala: The government of Uganda has suspended labour export company ‘Middle East Consultants’ license for allegedly flouting labour laws, extortion, forgery, and violating human rights. State House head of Anti-Corruption Unit Lt. Col. Edith Nakalema and the Director for Labour at the Gender, Labour and Social Development Ministry Hon. Martin Wandera, announced the suspension on…
Jinja Road police has arrested a woman identified as Evelyn Nandutu on allegations of killing her husband Justus Okumu, a security guard attached to Saracen during a domestic brawl for denying him sex for so long. Kampala Metropolitan deputy police spokesperson Luke Owoyesigyire said Okumu’s body was found about five metres from the couple’s home…
Police at Kampala Metropolitan Police East has arrested two suspects in connection to the murder of Mukono Businessman. Mutebi Ggugwa Ronald a businessman and a resident of Walusibi in Mukono was strangled to death, after thugs struggled to rob him money. According to police spokesperson Fred Enanga revealed that after killing him, they threw his…
Lwemiyaga County Legislator Theodore Ssekikubo has been released by Masaka Court on a Shs10m non-cash Bail after being charged with attempted murder, assault, illegal possession of firearms, among other charges. However, Ssekikubo’s release was overshadowed by police firing teargas to prevent his jubilant supports carrying the MP through Masaka town. However, eyewitnesses and victims has…
