The leader of opposition in Parliament Betty Aol Ocan, who doubles as the Gulu district woman Member of Parliament was on Monday morning involved in a road accident along the Gulu-Kampala highway. Aol Ocan was travelling in her official vehicle registration number UG 0346H when it knocked a pickup truck registration number UAX 888V from…
Kampala Socialite Shanita Namuyimbwa alias Bad Black has written a notice to the Attorney General threatening to drag the Ministry of Health before court over an unpaid Covid-19 sensitization advert. In an intention to sue, seen by this news website, Bad Black through her lawyers of Musangala Advocates say, she was approached by one Ronex…
Health workers in the Ankole region under the Uganda Medical Association-UMA have petitioned the office of the Chairperson Covid-19 Taskforce over repeated incidents of arrests and harassment by security personnel during curfew hours. In a petition letter dated June, 11, 2020 signed by the UMA President Ankole region Doctor David Agaba Collins and addressed to…
The Joint Security Taskforce has said they are going to crackdown traders in Kikuubo and other densely populated areas in Kampala and other towns. This was revealed by the Police Spokesperson Fred Enanga at the Uganda Media Centre in Kampala during the daily security briefing on Friday. Enanga, appealed to Ugandans to follow Ministry Of…
Uganda Wildlife officials have arrested four people over the alleged poaching death of Rafiki, a well-known silverback whose name means “friend” in Swahili. Rafiki, a member of the Nkuringo gorilla group in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, was first reported missing on June 1, 2020 however, the searchers found the body of Rafiki in Hakato area…
Former Sanyu FM Employees who were recently fired by the station’s management after they protested a 25% salary cut, have confiscated the official Twitter handle for Sanyu FM and are using it to pass their grievances claiming they were unfairly dismissed by the management when they staged a seat down strike since last week. The…
Police at Old Kampala have arrested one suspect for impersonating as a Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) official and defrauding over UGX 80 million. Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson SP Patrick Onyango said the arrest follows a case that was reported at Old Kampala police station on September 12, 2019 by one Kyanda Godfrey aged 42, a…
Untold shame has engulfed the Uganda Police a senior officer was convicted by the High Court for car theft, and ordered to pay over Shs 282 Million in damages to the owner of the stolen vehicle. The senior cop who brought shame unto the Police Force has been identified as Anatoli Muleterwa, who is the…
Former Operations Wembley boss Major General Elly Kayanja is cursing like hell after High Court Civil Division ordered him to pay businessman, Gerald Batte Shillings 255 million arising from a bogus land deal. The orders were issued by Justice Lydia Mugambe on Wednesday June, 10, 2020 in her judgment on an application filed by Batte against…
Two men in Fort Portal municipality have been arrested for selling a purported cure for coronavirus disease- Covid-19. The suspects have been identified as William Isingoma and Abdullah Gumisiriza, both residents of Hakibaale sub county in Kabarole district. The Rwenzori West region police spokesperson, Vincent Twesige says the duo was picked up on a tip…
