The trial judge of the High Court Steven Mubiru has called for the trial within a trial in Kanyamunyu’s case following the discovery of uncoordinated request forms which the defence side called forgeries. Matthew Kanyamunyu the businessman and his fiancée Cynthia Munwangari are accused of shooting a child rights activist Kenneth Akena in November 2016.…
President Museveni has appointed Dr Flavian Zeija as the new Principal Judge replacing Justice Yorokamu Bamwine who is retiring. Justice Zeija has been serving as the Mbarara Senior Resident Judge. Justice Zeija was first appointed judge of the High Court in 2016. Justice Bamwine will leave judicial service on December 25 upon clocking the retirement…
There was drama at Buganda Road court in Kampala yesterday when music promoter, Andrew Mukasa alias Bajjo, who is facing charges in connection with disturbing the peace of President Museveni protested his trial. Comedian Bajjo had appeared before the Buganda Road Chief Magistrate’s court with the hope of having the charges against him dismissed due…
Aviation police with sister Security agencies at Entebbe International Airport have arrested one of the Richest Ugandans under 40 over embezzlement of public funds. John Abouf Turyagyenda Aka (JAT) was apprehended at Entebbe International Airport while escaping the country to Morocco trying to chicken out on fraud charges that he has orchestrated within Rural Electrification…
President Museveni has launched the process of consulting on the viability of an East African Political Federation, which is being undertaken by a committee of experts led by Chief Justice Emeritus Benjamin Odoki. “Whereas prosperity can be achieved through economic integration, strategic security is difficult to achieve when we stay as separate countries,” said Museveni…
The chairperson of the Uganda Human Rights Commission, Meddie Kaggwa has passed on this morning. Sad news of Kaggwa’s death was pronounced by doctors at Case Hospital where he was rushed on Wednesday morning. He is said to have fainted in his official car this morning around 8:00Am along Mulago Road as he was heading…
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…
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…
