Buganda Road court has granted Kawempe North MP-elect, Muhammad Ssegirinya alias Mr. Update a Shs3m cash bail. Ssegirinya appeared in court through video conferencing and his sureties have each been bonded Shs50m, not cash and ordered to leave the original copies of their national IDs in court. Ssegirinya was arrested on March 22 for allegedly…
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has seen through the interdiction of two senior officials of Rural Electrification Agency (REA) with immediate effect in a Presidential order through the Anti-Corruption Unit led by Lt. Col. Edith Nakalema. According to a letter dated April 12th 2021 and signed by President Museveni, the two officials John Turyagyenda and Godfrey…
The Prime Minister, Dr Ruhakana Rugunda, has told MPs that the night time curfew put in place to stem the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic remains in place. Last week, Parliament asked Premier Rugunda to present an update on the need to continue having the curfew, with the hope that government could after all end…
Masaka High Court has dismissed a case against Lwemiyaga County legislator Hon. Theodore Ssekikubo where he had been accused of inciting violence. Prosecution alleged that the legislator led herdsmen on January 3, 2020 to take cattle to Lwemiyaga Market which had been reportedly closed following the outbreak of foot- and -mouth disease in the area.…
Akandida Joshua a senior six student at Seeta High School has gone missing days before sitting for the Uganda Advanced Certificate Examinations (UACE) exams. Akandinda was returning to school from home on April 6th 2021 but never made it to school. Relatives say he has not been spotted in school and has neither phoned them-…
The Uganda Development Cooperation (UDC) the body that controls all Government industries and factories in Uganda has appealed to the Constitutional Court challenging the ruling of high court judge Ssekaana Musa that favored Tumuhimbise Hellen Hannah the former senior procurement officer of Uganda Development Cooperation. Hellen had sued UDC for delayed renewal of her contract.…
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Press Secretary Don Wanyama has been appointed as the new Vision Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO), replacing embattled Robert Kabushenga. Mr Wanyama was officially announced by Vision Group board chairman Mr Patrick Ayota on Tuesday morning as Kabushenga vacates office for other greener pastures. It is said Kabushenga was forced to…
Police have arrested six people suspected to have taken part in the robbery of a Chinese national at his home in Kyambogo after disguising as National Water and Sewerage Corporation workers and stole an estimated UGX 100M. The three people who were captured on CCTV camera donning in NWSC overalls and helmets are currently in…
Uganda Cranes captain and goalkeeper Denis Masinde Onyango, 35, has announced his retirement from the international football effective April 12, 2021. The player confirmed this through a letter he addressed to Federation of Uganda Football President, Moses Magogo on Monday evening. “This letter represents my official notice of retirement from the Uganda National Football Tea,…
Rajiv Ruparelia, the managing director of Ruparelia Group of Companies, and his rally team, dubbed ‘The Rajiv Ruparelia Rally team” on Saturday donated items to Sembabule Hospital as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility move. The move, intended to give back to the community saw the Rally team give away goodies such as home utensils,…
