Arua police are holding Sharon Amaniyo, a resident of Koo cell in Yivu ward, Ayivu division for allegedly strangling her two-month-old infant to death. One of the residents identified as Tabu Albino found the minor’s lifeless body lying in the suspect’s doorway around 6am on Monday. She was intercepted by residents at around 9am, who…
Jailed lawyer Male Mabirizi has today failed to continue with the offensive communication case against him before Buganda Road Magistrates Court citing hunger and persecution in prison. This case was instituted against him by lawyer Robert Rutaro Muhairwe as a private prosecutor. The case was instituted a few days after the High Court Civil Division…
SP Martial Tumusiime, the Greater Bushenyi Police spokesperson is being hunted on allegations of impregnating a suspect and neglecting a child. Jane Asiimwe Muhindo, the Bushenyi District Resident Commissioner says that SP Tumusiime impregnated Phoebe Katusiime, 31, a resident of Katanda Village, Katanda Sub County in Rubirizi District. Preliminary investigations indicate that Katusiime met Tumusiime…
There is a new form of fraud in Kampala which is being perpetrated by revellers at bars that accept payments for services using Airtel money. Our investigators reveal that these fraudulent revellers enjoy services at bars, then pay for the same using Airtel money but later reverse the transactions after leaving the bar, thereby causing…
Detectives from flying Squad in Kampala Metropolitan Police (KMP) South and Nansana Division have arrested a notorious gang leader, identified as Lubowa Geofrey alias Jeff, who was behind the wave of armed robberies, sexual assaults against women, burglaries, and swash-and-grab attacks in Nansana Division. Police spokesperson Fred Enanga revealed that Jeff and his other accomplices,…
Police detectives in Crime intelligence department have arrested the main suspect who was behind the torture of a plumber one Njuba Brian who was captured in video while being tortured that went viral on social media platforms. The Victim was seen tied with barbed wires and was burnt with a burning Jerry can while in…
M23 rebels have declared a unilateral ceasefire to pave way for dialogue with the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo-DRC. This comes after a week of heavy fighting between the rebels and government troops on Rutshuru Territory, North Kivu province about three kilometers to the main border of Uganda-DRC. The rebels captured three military…
Fire has gutted the agri-chemicals and equipment central store of the Ministry of Agriculture, Animals Industries and Fisheries along Buganda road in Wandegeya in Kampala. The store shares the same compound with the Uganda Trypanosomiasis Control Council and Uganda Veterinary Board offices. Eyewitnesses say the fire spread from a small heap of garbage that was being burnt behind…
At least 140 motorcycles have been stolen in the greater Gulu in the last three months. Statistics from the different Boda-boda associations in Gulu district and City indicate that the motorcycles, all Bajaj models were stolen by thugs between January and March this year. Some of those recently lost to thugs are motorcycle registration numbers…
Legislators from Karamoja sub-region have accused the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) of refusing to hand over 17,706 heads of cattle that they recovered from rustlers. The lawmakers made the accusations while responding to an earlier statement by the UPDF that the security situation in the region was ‘under control.’ The area which is inhabited…
