Preliminary investigations according to the DPP suggest that these devices may have been used in the commission of the offenses and could contain relevant data to help in the prosecution of Besigye and Lutaale. The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has filed an application before the Nakawa Chief Magistrates Court seeking to access, analyze and […]
Angry residents have set ablaze a section of Jozan Nursery and Primary School in protest against the failure to physically produce suspects in court. The suspects were arrested in connection to the death of a pupil, Joan Faith Apio. Apio, (5) was only two days old in the school when she was reportedly killed inside […]
Mukono district council has expressed concern for the over three-year silence of the district Public Accounts Committee (PAC), despite the alleged continued release of allowances to the committee members. Lauben Ssenyonjo, the district male youth councilor has tasked the district chairperson, Rev. Dr. Peter Bakaluba Mukasa to explain reasons why the PAC has taken this […]
As unrest rages in the National Unity Platform (NUP) camp since campaigns for Kawempe North parliamentary by-election were flagged off last week, party members continue to cry out over alleged irregular arrest of their members, whom they claim are taken to unknown places. In the latest of such developments, Ssentongo Shakur was on Wednesday picked […]
Jinja Police are searching for the driver of an ambulance registration number UBR 148W who drove recklessly from Iganga to Jinja carrying a dead body and ten relatives of the deceased. According to the Traffic Police publicist, Michael Kananura, the unidentified driver was signaled to stop at a checkpoint but declined to comply, and drove […]
The Police have identified the two people who died in the Wednesday fire that gutted the Sunrise Hotel Building in Kampala. Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson, Patrick Onyango, has identified the victims as Akot Akol Arop Chan, a South Sudan national and Shineni Mwinsadi, a Tanzanian national. Police say that among the 17 injured victims, 9 have […]
The Buganda Road Chief Magistrates Court has remanded two leaders of the Uganda Liberal Teachers’ Union Members’ SACCO on charges of obtaining money by false pretense and conspiracy to defraud. The leaders are Evans Mutesasira Kaganizo, the SACCO Chairperson who resides at Katanga Zone in Bushenyi District and Esiingwa Hassan Maganda, the General Secretary and […]
The Kenya High Commissioner to Uganda Joash Maangi has apologized to the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) General Muhoozi Kainerugaba for last week’s publication of an article in a Kenyan newspaper, The Standard, which was disrespectful toward him. The story last week titled “Four-star brat: Why Muhoozi, tweeting General could fuel anger and division in DRC talks“ questioned […]
The March 23 Movement (M23) have dismissed accusations against them of raiding hospitals in Goma city, North Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. On Monday, Vivian Van De Perre, the Deputy Special Representative for Protection and Operations in United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) released a report […]
Parliament has approved a proposal to borrow $18.09 million (sh66 billion) as additional financing for the expansion of the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI). The government argues that this investment would save Ugandans from spending over sh1.094 trillion annually on seeking cancer treatment abroad, particularly in India, the United States, and other nations. The approval followed […]
