UPDF General court martial sitting at Makindye in Kampala has remanded three security officers for spying for Rwanda. The accused officers have been identified as Lt.Philip Ankunda, ASP Frank Sabiti and ASP Benon Akandwanaho. According to prosecution led by Captain Ambrose Baguma, between February and May this year, the accused persons and others still at…
President Yoweri Museveni has ordered the state house anti corruption to arrest the acting director of planning at KCCA Ivan Katongole for issuing a demolition order for St. Peter’s church in Ndeeba. The head of state house anti corruption unit Lt. Col. Edith Nakalema revealed that when President Museveni was briefed that the church was…
Police in Kampala Metropolitan area is investigating circumstances under which St. Peter’s Church of Uganda, Ndeeba, was demolished this morning disregarding government directives that stopped all evictions during this COVID19 period. Katwe Police Station got information of the demolition at 0100 hours and a team was dispatched to the scene. Police were not informed about…
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has confirmed charges against the former Deputy Governor Louis Kasekende, former Director of Commercial Banks Supervision Justine Bagyenda and the central bank’s Director for Financial Markets Development Coordination (FMDC) Benedict Sekabira. This has been confirmed after landing on an August 4 Letter from the DPP Jane Francis Abodo titled: Prosecution…
Christians with strongest emotional ties to St Peters Church Ndeeba were saddened to see the piece of history demolished in wee hours of Monday in presence of heavy police deployment. St Peters has been one of the oldest churches in Uganda, however it was maliciously and callously brought down deep in the night by some…
In the midst of global uncertainty due to COVID19 pandemic, Kabira Country Club has used the force lull in the hospitality industry to be innovative and creative in the products they offer to their clients. Located in posh Bukoto area, Kabira Country Club suites are the addition to the wide range of accommodation services. And…
Did businessman Karim Hirji’s late wife, a propertied woman in her own right, leave all her properties in Uganda and London to the three children she bore with the businessman and none to the three she had in her first marriage? This is the question over which the deceased’s first children are making a lot…
The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) and Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) are on spot for allegedly abetting and or colluding with businessmen who are smuggling tonnes of Kenyan salt into the country and reaping abnormal profits after evading taxes worth hundreds of millions of shillings. Our sources reveal that licensed dealers of salt in…
Two people died and three others sustained critically injuries following a nasty road accident at Nabajjuzi swamp along Masaka-Kyotera Highway on Friday. The accident involved tipper truck Reg. No. UAR 487M which collided head on with lorry Reg. No. KCH 262Z. Police identified one of the deceased as Sowedi Kalanzi, a mechanic at Naludugavu Garage…
Traders and residents of Wantoni trading Centre in Mukono town were engulfed with Shock on Friday August 7, 2020 after men said to be working with Power Distributor Umeme Limited got electrocuted to death on top of an electric pole. Eye witnesses revealed that the deceased, identified as Moses Kasiita and Jacob Mutalaga had climbed…
