Entebbe Grade One Magistrate has remanded Mr Abdul Karim Agaba, a businessman in Wakiso district to Kigo prison battling charges of masquerading as a State House staff and using the impersonation to obtain money through dubious land deals. Presiding over the court on Monday, the acting Principal Senior Magistrate Grade One Stella Okwong Paculal sent…
Police in Buikwe district has arrested one Mugerwa Muhammad on charges of aggravated torture after he poured hot water into his wife’s genitals she suspected her of making out with another man. Mugerwa, 29, a boda boda rider, of Bulenga village, Kikwayi Parish, Ngonwe sub-county, in Buikwe district inflicted the torture on the victim identified…
The resumption of heavy fighting between the M23 rebels and DRC government troops in Rutshuru territory, North Kivu province has created panic in the area. The fighting which had ceased for more than two months resumed on Thursday afternoon in Rangira, Rutshuru territory. Later in the evening, M23 rebels released a press statement signed by…
At least 22 people have been hospitalized at Butiaba health center III in Buliisa district with suspected food poisoning. The patients, 19 children, 2 women and a man whose particulars were not readily available were rushed to the health facility after they were served with food which locals suspect to have been laced with poison.…
Former Spenah Beach ‘errant’ tenant John Asiimwe must be going through horror dreams after all his hopes have been dust binned by the rule of law! Earlier this week, Asiimwe ran to court seeking for an Interim Order Injunction restraining his landlord, his agents, representatives, or appointees from evicting him, an application that was yesterday…
Security personnel on Wednesday arrested seven suspects in two separate foiled robberies in Entebbe and Bweyogerere areas. Patrick Onyango, the Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson said the Entebbe incident, happened at Abaita Ababari where three suspected thugs, Peter Can Onen, Samuel Lokori, and Calving Orio, were arrested trying to rob a gun from a GKO security…
Security in Hoima have arrested two Uganda Peoples Defense forces-UPDF soldiers for putting Hoima Deputy Resident District Commissioner-RDC, and the LC5 chairperson at gunpoint. The soldiers whose names have been concealed by security for fear of jeopardizing investigations are alleged to have committed the offense on Monday this week. The incident happened in Butema village,…
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni directed the Minster of Works and Transport Gen. Edward Katumba Wamala to disband the entire Uganda Railway Corporation (URC) Board and Managing Director, Stanley Sendegeya who he says is unqualified, inexperienced and was irregularly recruited as a result of influence by a board member Ben Twodo. In a letter dated 3rd…
Entebbe Deputy Resident District Commissioner (D/RDC) Jacqueline Kakunda and other area security officials have maintained their Friday resolution where they agreed that Spenah Beach boss John Asiimwe should respect Court, Police directives and vacate former Entebbe Mayor Stephen Kabuye’s land by Thursday this week. Kabuye had rented the said land which has been housing John’s…
More than 70 suspected criminals have been arrested in a joint security swoop in Mbale city. The suspects who were arrested on Friday were picked from Half London, Mooni, Senior quarters, and Nkonkonjeru by the police and the Uganda People’s Defence Forces-UPDF soldiers under the command of Samiel Abed Aliria, the Mbale District Police Commander.…
