Fire has gutted one of the oldest dormitories at Kings College Budo secondary school in Wakiso District. According to one of eyewitnesses Benja Mukasa revealed that fire started at around 7am from the roof of Grace dormitory which houses girls destroying properties worth millions of shillings. The time,a team of police fire brigade officers reached…
The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) has revealed that there are groups of people plotting violence, threatening to disrupt President Museveni’s inauguration on May 12. While addressing journalists at Police headquarters in Naguru on Monday, UPDF spokesperson, Brig Flavia Byekwaso said they have got “credible information” about a section of Ugandans planning to disrupt the…
Police Authority and the Police Council Appointments/Promotions Committee (Subordinate officer), that are respectively responsible for overseeing the Police Disciplinary Complaints system, have dismissed, and also recommended for dismissal, officers found to have breached standards. The Disciplinary Complaints against Senior Officers and all officers charged in the criminal courts of law, are dealt with by the…
There is alot of fear and anxiety in public after President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni said that the government will implement the Bamugemereire land commission Report once it is well studied and approved by the next Cabinet. Recently,Gen Museveni who was speaking to NRM MPs- Elect in Kyankwanzi shortly after Justice Bamugemereire’s presentation into land matters,…
The Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Rebecca Kadaga has said that parliament is concerned about the continued human rights violations by security agencies. Kadaga made remarks while responding to a petition presented to her by the newly elected Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) councillors. The Speaker said Parliament had tasked the government to release all…
A man has killed his wife by slitting her throat, accusing her of cheating on him with a richer man. God Lwampala, a boda boda rider and resident of Buwekula in Bugembe a Jinja city suburb allegedly slit the throat of his wife and fled the house. The deceased was identified as Betty Namukuve, a…
The Uganda Police Force has released the Annual Crime and Traffic/Road Safety Report for 2020. This report follows the 2019 crime report detailing the crime trend, patterns, and ratios of crime/population taking into account the contemporary challenges and efforts by the Uganda Police Force to reduce crime generally towards a safe and crime-free society According…
Premier Recruitment Limited, one of the most reputable labour export agencies in Uganda has yet again unveiled an extreme offer for its clients dubbed the “Premier Ramadan bonanza” as a reward for the continued trust and support from the public. The Capitaltimes have learnt that the new offer will see every Ugandan aiming to secure jobs abroad…
Uganda Police are investigating circumstances where a number of yet to be known thugs broke into the ancestral home of the Late Archbishop of Kampala Dr Cyprian Kizito Lwanga. According to Luke Owoyesigyire the Kampala Metropolitan deputy spokesperson, the incident took place on Friday, April 16, 2020, around at 1 am. “The territorial Police of…
The services of the National Identification Registration Authority-NIRA have been hijacked by brokers who are now making millions off Shillings from unsuspecting Ugandans. Although the process of registering for a national ID is supposed to be simple and straight forward, several Ugandans try to avoid the processes and opt for the services of brokers who…
