The police and sister security agencies has conducted a total of 11, separate but well conducted raids targeting stolen items within the Kampala Metropolitan area. The raids covered 184 shops and yards that were selling suspected stolen items. 230 arrests and several recoveries were made. The operations were based on intelligence, following several thefts from…
Gulu municipality member of parliament Lyandro Komakech has raised fears that endless power outages in northern Uganda have hampered the development of the most districts in the region even after the end Lord’s Resistance Army insurgencies which left a lot of people in internally displaced camps. Legislator Komakech blamed electricity supplier UMEME for causing a…
His Holiness, Pope Francis, has appointed Fr Joseph Kizito, as the new Bishop of Aliwal in South Africa. Msgr. Joseph Kizito had been the Vicar-General for the Diocese of Aliwal for many years. He had also been responsible for efforts to help stateless children, in the same diocese, acquire their identity documents so that they…
Police in Kampala are hunting for NBS TV Uncut presenter Zahara Toto’s Dinka boyfriend King Solomon Muleesi AKA Big Papa for issuing a bounced cheque of ten million shillings. Big Papa a self proclaimed Tycoon has been going around night clubs and other posh places around Kampala splashing dollars as if is a son of…
Muhoozi with Gilad and Omri First son Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba last week visited the sons of former Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at the family’s ranch in Negev Desert. The Negev is a desert and semi desert region of southern Israel. The region’s largest city and administrative capital is Beersheba, in the north. At…
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on saturday has held a lengthy meeting with the European Union Delegation to Uganda, during which he discussed various issues, among them climatic change, environmental degradation and the 2021 general election. Shortly after the meeting, President Museveni tweeted thus; “Met with the European Union delegation in Uganda led by the EU…
City businessman Desh Kananura’s marriage is soon hitting the dead end after being accused of allegedly turning his wife Sheila Taratibu into a punching bag of sorts, because he clobbers her whenever and wherever he feels like. The shocking revelation was made by Desh’s brother-in-law Emmy Kwizera Taratibu, who assured him to stop brutalising his…
Richard Okello who was teaching at Seeta Junior School, in Mukono district, owned by the Minister for Higher Education Dr Chrysostom Muyingo has been missing for nine days now, after being abducted from the school’s teachers quarters on November 6, 2018 minister Muyingo’s bodyguard. According to his lawyers of Alliance Advocates, Okello was allegedly arrested…
All government run health centers operating without latrines should close, the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has intimated. During the opening of the inaugural parliamentary symposium on water and sanitation at Parliament on Friday, 15 November 2019, Kadaga said she was disgusted to learn that a big number of government health centers in Uganda do…
Winnie Byanyima was Thursday sworn in as UNAIDS Executive Director by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during an oath ceremony at the UN headquarters in New York. On Friday, Byanyima attended her first meeting of the Committee of Cosponsoring Organizations and spoke about the next UNAIDS strategy and the need to work together across the…
