Ugandan businessman identified as Andrew Leju, who is a business associate of popular events promoter Balaam Barugahara, was on Monday afternoon allegedly kidnapped by gunmen in Juba, South Sudan. Sources reveal that Leju was picked up by gunmen on Saturday night and taken to an unknown destination. All his mobile phones have since been switched…
City businesswoman Maria Prossy Namwanje has been fined sh30m by the Standards Utility Court after she pleaded guilty to five counts of dealing in counterfeit products. Namwanje popularly known as Aunt Lususu on Friday pleaded guilty to the charges before Buganda Road Court Grade One Magistrate Marion Mangeni. Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) senior…
Panic is mounting among residents Ndorwa West in Kabale District after two of their colleagues were arrested in Rwanda. Mr Gilbert Beingana, 24, and Mr Amos Tibesiga, 50, both from Butanda Sub-county, Kabale District were reportedly arrested by Rwanda security officials on November 11. Mr Gideon Turyatunga, a brother of Mr Beingana says that his…
The police are hunting down unknown assailants who gunned down an engineer with MBW at 9pm Friday night. Well-placed sources say the incident in which Daniel Nguudo was killed happened at Namwendwa, southern division in Kamuli Municipality when unknown men riding on motorcycle hijacked his car, registration number UBD 653Q, confiscated his phone before shooting…
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…
