In a gruesome incident, a 35-year-old woman was found dead after being raped and killed. According to authorities in Kigezi, the deceased was identified Aharimpisa Justine 35, a resident of Nyakiharo village in Kitojo Parish, Bubaare Sub County in Rubanda District was found in the wee hours of Sunday May 30, 2021. This website leant…
High Court has authorized human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo to travel to the United States of America for high-level human rights meetings. The Anti-Corruption High Court Judge, Jane Okuo Kajuga allowed Opiyo to travel following a successful application by his lawyers led by David Mpanga to court to relax his bail terms. Court confiscated Opiyo’s…
Court has once again dismissed the suit in which one of the former owners of the liquidated National Bank of Commerce (NBC) sued Bank of Uganda, Crane Bank, and former owner Mr Sudhir Ruparelia as well as Kenyan tycoon Rasiklal Chhotal Kantaria. Mr Amos Nzeyi ran to court to challenge the takeover of NBC by…
The case in city tycoon Hamis Kiggundu of Ham Enterprises accuses Diamond Trust Bank of illegally debiting over USD34M from his company’s accounts has taken another twist after the Financial Intelligence Authority (FIA) grilled officials of the bank on Monday, about their roles in the matter. According to a letter seen by this website dated…
The Ruparelia Group of Companies, a privately-owned conglomerate in Uganda has joined a couple of other organizations, companies, and Ugandans to congratulate Omoro County MP Rt. Hon. Jacob Oulanya upon being elected as the speaker of the 11th parliament. Mr Oulanyah was declared winner of the heavily contested speakership race trouncing his former boss Hon.…
By Sam Evidence Orikunda On Sunday evening, I watched the Right Honorable Rebecca Kadaga addressing the media and declaring to run as an independent candidate. I immediately started making an audit of the NRM’s strength in the 11th parliament but the results I was getting were giving me headache and stomache at the same time.…
President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni is on a warpath in his renewed fight against corruption, warning that whoever is involved is going to ‘face my full force’. A tough-talking Museveni said corruption was failing the country’s development agenda and asked the newly elected Members of Parliament to support the fight against corruption over the next…
The NRM second top organ Central Executive Committee (CEC) on Sunday morning declined to support Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga as the Party’s flag bearer in race for Speaker due Monday 24th. CEC favored former Deputy Speaker Oulanyah Jacob for the coveted job, and it it is reported CEC based on the following 6 grounds to kick…
The Directorate of Crime Intelligence conducted an intelligence led operation following numerous attacks on people in their homes at night by pangas and knives wielding thugs in the areas of Nansana, Namugoona and Kasubi. A team of officers was dispatched to the areas of Kasubi and Kawala. They arrested a group of criminals whom we…
Nigerian Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has been seriously wounded after trying to kill himself to avoid capture during clashes with rival Islamic State-allied jihadists in the north of the country, two intelligence sources said Thursday. Shekau’s Boko Haram faction and fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province had been battling in northeastern Borno…
